One year ago...
So, about a week ago, I got a letter in the mail. The address was in my own handwriting, and I was a bit confused. I opened it up and realized that it was an assignment my Speech professor had given us all at the end of the semester a whole year ago. He told us to fill out this paper thing he gave us, and seal it in an envelope with our addresses on it, and that he'd mail it out in a year's time, so we could see how we've changed and all that. We were supposed to fill out a bunch of questions, but I decided they were kind of lame, and since I knew he wouldn't be reading it, since it's in a sealed envelope, I just wrote this on the paper:
(My handwriting is shitty, so if anyone can't read it, it says, "I just started Squiggly Comics! I wonder if I'll still be doing it in a year? We'll see!)
And there's a little horrible doodle of someone with lots of chins on there or something.
So, the point is, I *haven't* been doing any comics. Not because I don't want to or anything, but I think I've done like 2 all year, and it's what, May? Maybe I've been busy with school, or maybe I'm just horribly unmotivated. I'm not really sure.
This letter thing also got me thinking about what has happened since a year ago? Is my life all that different really? Let me recap from summer '06 to now:
- I tried to move out of my grandparent's house a few times, but it wasn't ever going to work out because I don't make enough money.
- I bought a video camera with GRAND intentions of making funny videos with it, but have yet to do anything really constructive with the damn thing.
- I went through, like, 4 phones and now I have a Mint Chocolate (yay!).
- I figured out Bittorrent (yay again!).
- I took a whole bunch of video media classes (what I'm completely passionate about), and in two semester's time, made a short movie that I wrote, directed and edited, made a short documentary about a street faire in San Francisco, edited a whole bunch of stuff in my advanced editing class, and am currently in the process of burning my DVD demo reel (it looks awesome!).
- I'm also starting to get people to pay me to do video things, which is REALLY awesome, cuz that's what I'd like to be doing ultimately.
And uh... I can't really think of anything else. Basically a lot happened this year, but right now I'm pretty much at the same point I was a year ago... which isn't really... good...
But... I'll try to make more comics. I just have finals next week and then summer vacation will be upon me, so I'll have more time to do comic-y things. Thanks for reading my long ranty thing.
(My handwriting is shitty, so if anyone can't read it, it says, "I just started Squiggly Comics! I wonder if I'll still be doing it in a year? We'll see!)
And there's a little horrible doodle of someone with lots of chins on there or something.
So, the point is, I *haven't* been doing any comics. Not because I don't want to or anything, but I think I've done like 2 all year, and it's what, May? Maybe I've been busy with school, or maybe I'm just horribly unmotivated. I'm not really sure.
This letter thing also got me thinking about what has happened since a year ago? Is my life all that different really? Let me recap from summer '06 to now:
- I tried to move out of my grandparent's house a few times, but it wasn't ever going to work out because I don't make enough money.
- I bought a video camera with GRAND intentions of making funny videos with it, but have yet to do anything really constructive with the damn thing.
- I went through, like, 4 phones and now I have a Mint Chocolate (yay!).
- I figured out Bittorrent (yay again!).
- I took a whole bunch of video media classes (what I'm completely passionate about), and in two semester's time, made a short movie that I wrote, directed and edited, made a short documentary about a street faire in San Francisco, edited a whole bunch of stuff in my advanced editing class, and am currently in the process of burning my DVD demo reel (it looks awesome!).
- I'm also starting to get people to pay me to do video things, which is REALLY awesome, cuz that's what I'd like to be doing ultimately.
And uh... I can't really think of anything else. Basically a lot happened this year, but right now I'm pretty much at the same point I was a year ago... which isn't really... good...
But... I'll try to make more comics. I just have finals next week and then summer vacation will be upon me, so I'll have more time to do comic-y things. Thanks for reading my long ranty thing.