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| Eat, sleep, work, game... |
| 04.28.04 (6:55 pm) [edit] |
Yeah, that pretty much sums up my last couple of days. Note to self: Gaming three nights in a row makes Lina very sleepy...
I worked all day Monday, which is odd, because technically I'm still only working part time, and am only scheduled to work M/W/F from 1-5. But, my boss was leaving for two conferences on Tuesday, and I was the lucky person who got to:
1) Pack the brochures/give away items/promotional items
2) Prepare her 10 minute Powerpoint Presentation
3) Pack up her office because it's being painted and recarpeted on Thursday.
After work, I swung by home, changed, and headed over to Carrie & Cory's. (Are you sensing a trend here?) We played our Elder characters again, and got royally worked over by Lilith. My char was fused with Carrie & Ryan's chars, and made into a living barrier protecting Lilith's garden, where our werewolf characters are trapped. Confusing, I know.
I had Tuesday off work, which was great, because I was pretty wiped out from lack of sleep. I ended up sleeping until 11, and then relaxing for most of the day. I tok my dog out for a walk at Cranberry Flats and enjoyed the warm, though windy, weather. He managed to climb through every single burr patch he could find, and I spent about an hour picking them out of his ears. Poor poochy... Every time he rubs against me, I get scratched by the hundred or so burrs on his head.
Then, we gamed again. It was the last chapter of the Gehenna campaign. Our 13th gens were the ones who ended up saving the world. (Though we came [i]so[/i] close to destroying it...) All in all, it was an interesting campaign. Cory has a great way of screwing your chars over in such an inventive way that you don't really mind the fact that you've suddenly turned to ash. All in all, it was a lot of fun.
I was going to work this morning so that I could take the afternoon off to visit some friends who are back from college, but I was way too tired and slept until 10:30 instead. I spent the afternoon packing up my office so that they can recarpet & paint tommorow. Though the actual cleaning aspect of the day sucked, it does mean that I can take the next two or three days off. I mean, I can't work with no computer...
Maybe I'll actually get some sleep tonight...Nah, I'm heading out for supper with Tonia & Cammer. Hah! Who needs sleep!
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| Week-end rundown. |
| 04.26.04 (3:08 pm) [edit] |
Jeez, I haven't posted in a few days. No, no, I wasn't sucked into an alternate dimension and forced to build Escher-esque monuments. (Though, that would have been fun.) So what [i]have[/i] I been up to, you ask?
Friday evening, straight after work, I went over to Carrie & Cory's for another round of Gehenna gaming. Ahh, that was fun. Though a strange turn of events, I wound up playing the part of Malkav. Yes, [i]the[/i] Malkav. It was definately worth staying up till 4:30 a.m. for!
After that, I was pretty wiped out for all of Saturday. I slept until 11:00, then took my brother to see The Punisher. I was pretty dissapointed. The emotions behind the story fell pretty flat, which totally ruined it. By the end, I actually felt sorry for whoever Frank Castle was beating on. (Travolta's char. I can't even remember his name, that's how unimpressed I was...)
Sunday I went out to Little Pine for my aunt's wake. (I'm going to write more about that in a seperate blog post...) The wake was held at the veterans hall, and there was a bunch of people there I didn't know. Most of our side of the family was over at Poundmaker for a feast. They started showing up just as we had to leave, which was too bad. I'm overdue for a good visit with my relatives.
My Pop stayed out at Little Pine, and I took the car and drove Mom, Jordan & Tara back home. Mom has some sort of flu, so she slept most of the way back. Then, as soon as I got back into Saskatoon, I unloaded everything from Mom's car, jumped into mine, and headed back to Carrie & Cory's.
Yes, more gaming. This time it was a werewolf campaign, but still in the same timeline as the Gehenna campaigns we've been playing. I got to play a partly-collie Ragabash named Scamp, who talked whenever she was nervous. That was fun to play, especially after a caramel espresso or two...
And now it's Monday. I've been at work since 8, finishing up things for my boss so that she can go to conferences for the next two weeks. Sure, I only slept 5 hours last night, but I still had enough mental capacity to talk my way into two days of holiday this week. I get tommorow and Friday off. WOOT!!! :D
So, yeah...That was my weekend. How was yours?
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| Nothing matters but the weekend... |
| 04.23.04 (1:32 pm) [edit] |
Just when you all though, "Oh, good! Alina's done exams now so she can't whine about being so busy anymore." I go and do something crazy like let my boss know that I'm finished school for the summer.
Wham. Instant full-time job. In a way, it's nice, cause that means I'll be able to save up for 3-D animation training (tuition is $12,000.00, I'll be saving awhile...), but not so nice because I still have no life. Right now, from the bland view of my cubicle, I envy the unemployed.
If I had my choice, I'd be designing 24 hours a day. Come in to to work, talk to the producers about a great story idea I just had for an animated feature, go down to the design department and create whatever they needed for the current project, then head home and work on my comic. I dream in illustrations.
I'm a creature of simple needs. I don't want to be director of the free world or anything. Just give me some paper and a little bit of free time. I'll come up with something.
But, the reality is, art is not a 9-5 job. You work project to project, not year to year. No guarantees. No pensions. No dental plan... So, until I make it in the art world, I suppose this little cubicle is where I'll call home.
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| Tapioca Brain... |
| 04.20.04 (6:57 pm) [edit] |
Don't ask me any tough questions. Ok, don't ask me any easy questions either. I'm amazed that I actually have enough mental capacity to have turned on the computer, let alone to write in my blog.
Right now, my brain is about the consistency of tapioca pudding. And not the good kind, either. I'm talking that slimy, mushy stuff with lumps of unidentifiable goop holding it together.
Lovely mental images aside, I should mention thhat today was the day of my Macroeconomics exam. Why did I take that class in the first place?? I must have some strange masochistic side to my personality that enjoys 8:30 a.m. lectures by stuffy business profs, three times a week, topped off by the Multiple Choice Exam From Hell. *que the scary music...*
100 questions. 45 of these require calculations to solve. All 45 take at least ten minutes to solve, and that's assuming you can remember one of the 28 different equations. I would calculate how long that would take to solve, but I shudder every time I glance at my calculator. I think I have brain-scars...
On the bright side, I only have one exam left now. I will write my Nehiyawin exam tommorow. (That's Cree, for all you non-Cree speakers...) It's been my favorite class all year, and even though it's a 6-credit, I'm not stressing too much over it. The only part I'll really need to look over again is the verb conjugation charts. There's about six of those, but as long as you remember the patterns, they're pretty simple.
However, I also have to write a report in Cree...I probably should have started this one sooner, but I was cloisered in my room, beating my head against my economics text in dispair. I am so very glad that I am done that exam...
Now, if only my mind would re-congeal, I [i]might[/i] actually be able to pull off another hour or two of studying before I short-circut a neuron or two. One day left, one day left...
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| Home at last... |
| 04.18.04 (9:50 am) [edit] |
Ok, when I say that I'm very busy, I don't mean just a little 'oh, no, i have lots to do' kind of busy. I'm talking about a full-out, haven't-been-home-except- to-sleep, and-even-then-not-for-lon g sort of busy.
Take Friday for example. My boss had called me into the office for Friday, even though she knew full well that I was in the middle of exams. She's leaving for a conference on Monday, and needed me to work on her powerpoint presentation. So, I went out to work at 8, got futzed around with it for a bit and worked on my shiney-new blog, and then took off at two.
Then, I picked up some lunch, wolfed it down, and picked up Ratzlaff. We met Tonia & Elmer at 2:45ish, and waited in line so that we could get prime seats for Kill Bill.
It was worth the wait! There were some amazing shots in that movie, and even though it didn't have as much action as the first one, it was a lot more psychological, which I love. I won't spoil it for any of you, but there's one scene where The Bride is being buried alive that still makes me feel slightly clausterphobic. It was beautiful...
After that, I dropped Ratzlaff back to at his house and headed over to Carrie & Cory's place for the Gehenna RP. I missed the last couple of times they've played because I was out of town. (Or the country, really, but that's another story altogether...)
It was way too much fun, as usual. All our chars realized that human blood wasn't nourishing anymore, so we grabbed our guns and headed for El Paso for some good ol-fashioned Texas Kindred huntin'. (Weeee're gonna go huntin, gonna kill somethin', don't care what it is....) Vanessa, my spacey Toreador lady, ended up diablerizing a redneck Brujah guy. You know that's not going to turn out well...
Anyway, we played until 4:30 or so, which was way later than I had expected to. I got home around 5, and collapsed. I slept until 1:00 on Saturday, which is unusual for me, because I don't often sleep past 10:30. I had just gotten up and dressed when the phone rang. It was Elmer, calling to tell me that Tonia's sisters baby shower was at 2:00...
So, I grabbed some toast, jumped in my car and headed over to Toys R' Us to get a present. I was going to get Kiera (Tonia's neice) some baby moccasins, but they didn't have any out at Wanuskewin, so I got her a soft, fleecy blanket instead. Everyone needs a good blanket.
I hung around with Tonia the rest of the day. We worked on invitations for her wedding, and I studied a bit of Cree, but mostly we just talked about different story ideas for our respective comics. It was nice to do something creative for a change, instead of studying for exams.
Speaking of which, I probably really need to study...I guess what they say is true. There's no rest for the weary...Or is that wicked?
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| All hail the mighty BLOG!! |
| 04.16.04 (10:05 am) [edit] |
So, I've sucumbed to yet another web-fad. All hail the web-blog community! Now the world can read my innermost thoughts, re-live all of my crazy adventures, and see all the intimate little details of my life.
(Don't get yourself all worked up. It's probably not [i]that [/i]exciting.)
So where, praytell, does a busy gal like me, in the midst of exams and other everyday chaos, get all this free time to work on her blog?? Well, that's easy. I'm at work. :wink:
There's really nothing like being confined to a cubicle to make one feel like procrastinating. Even though I have a mountain of work to slog through, my mind is wandering to strange places. You know you're really bored when you start redesigning obscure comic book superheroes costumes in your head. (I'm talking Shark Man and the Moon Knight here...) I'm going to chalk that one up to exam stress, rather than admit my insanity.
So, I'll leave you with my thought of the day:
Is it possible to say "Blog" without making it sound like a belch? Try it. I still can't say it with a straight face.
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