*facepalms* I was working on Star Wars-inspired stuff most of yesterday, and I still managed to completely forget.
Belatedly, May the Fourth be with you.
Whew! Just got back from my Virtual World Design presentation, which went swimmingly. Ari and David are programming gods. That is, they are gods of programming, rather than somehow engaging in the act of coding the inner workings of deities. And my artwork and animation went over well, so yay. And I figured out how to compress movies in AfterEffects, so I’ll definitely be able to upload my animation final project when it’s done. One more project out of the way!
Still To Do:
Curse you, deadline elves!
Meanwhile, back in Academia Land, I just reopened I file (for my Virtual World Design project, due tomorrow. Or rather, today) I last worked on two weeks ago. I entertain myself so easily. I set up a makeshift Star Wars crawl, and wrote up some silly dummy text to test it with. This is what I wrote (contains spoilers for Lost 1×20 “Do No Harm”):
Episode XLII
The Fangirl MenaceFnar. The fontmatching isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough for me!
Angst has descended upon the fangirl community. There are another two weeks before the next episode of LOST. Locke is JESUS, Sayid is HOTNESS incarnate, and Claire has just given birth to the ANTICHRIST. If she doesn’t name him BOONE, she should call him ADAM. Or DAMIEN. Damien’s popular.
Procrastination is awesome.
Fandom just makes the world better.
To all the merry browncoated Flans seeing Serenity tomorrow:
*sob*
You spoil me, I whack you over the head with a post-holer.
Love,
Priscilla
Hah! I knew I wasn’t crazy! I stopped by the animation lab this evening to send myself a bunch of files, and I ran into another guy from my class who was also under the impression that the animation wasn’t due until tomorrow. And my teacher didn’t even email him about it, so he was shocked when I told him that everything was supposed to be due Tuesday. I wonder how many other students were under the same impression? After all, only three students turned in revised animations on Tuesday, and there are something like 16 people in the class.
Oh — my socks were calf-length, with light blue, dark blue, dark red, grey, and white stripes. I think Chungy was right, if I remember my sock history. Rebecca gets points for tapping into the knowledge that the socks were acquired in her presence. Dad gets negative points, as I am quite meticulous about my hygeine, thank you very much, and I just did my laundry yesterday. So meh.
Hilarious: George W Bush: The Genius Behind the Stupidity
In real-life news, my animation professor told me that as long as I get it in before the 9th, he’ll still grade it. Seeing as how I leave on the 7th and don’t have the necessary software at home, and how I was originally planning on turning it in tomorrow on the 5th, this will not be a problem. I imagine he’ll probably dock points, but oh well. What can you do?
Hopefully, I’ll have my animation up on my website for download by Thursday afternoon. If not, Friday afternoon. If not, wait longer. :D
This certainly takes the sting off. Graham Norton asks Orlando Bloom: What is your favourite vegetable? Once more, with fangirls!
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHH. My animation professor is officially the most frustrating person on the planet. Last Thursday at our critique, he originally said that because he was leaving town Wednesday (tomorrow), he wanted everything in by Tuesday (today) at 9AM. Then he changed tacks and asked his TA what his schedule looked like, and he said that he wouldn’t be able to get to anything until Friday. My professor then told us that we could turn our stuff in by Thursday at noon.
At least, that’s what I so vividly remember. I just got an email from him asking why I didn’t turn in my final project tape, as apparently it was still due this morning. I’ve emailed him back, explaining my story. There’s no way I can be the only one with this misconception.
I’m particularly upset because if I’d understood that everything was to be due today, I would have had no problem whatsoever in having it done in time. However, because I thought it wasn’t due until Thursday, I’ve been working on stuff for other classes, and I haven’t worked on my animation since the day of our critique.
I don’t get why my professor and I seem to have such a communication block. I feel like I can never fully grasp what he says in class, whether it’s a technique that the entire class seems to have learned in lecture that I completely fail to recall, or stuff like this. I’m paying rapt attention in class, but sometimes it seems like it’s in one ear and out the other.
“What we have is a failure to communicate,” I suggest to myself, then am promptly shot.
I bet you can’t guess what color socks I’m wearing right now.