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This is cross posted from my MySpace blog. o noez..
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So, I think I did like.. One blog post on here? Something like that. I haven't done post on my LiveJournal in a long time either, and Facebook is.. Well. Facebook. So I don't use it for stuff like this.
Anyway, I'm procrastinating about getting ready to head up to school on this glorious, windy, cold Saturday to work on projects for school, so I figure I'll post an update on my life and my mood. Oh, and on what I'm going to make for dinner tomorrow if I can get to the store to get the ingredients.
So how is my life after I've been out here in Washington for more than a year? I don't know really. Better? Harder? It's really a tough thing to decide. I love what I'm doing, but it can be really stressful sometimes. I know that if I was going somewhere else for my education and I wasn't being challenged I'd be complaining that I didn't feel like I was earning my education, so I figure it's a good thing that this school keeps me on my toes and in motion most of the hours of every day, including weekends. It also means I'll appreciate the down time over Christmas break more. I'm looking forward to going to home to visit my family and friends and to meet my new niece, Autumn, for the first time. Family is super important to me. I wouldn't have made it this far without my family and I love them for that.
As for now, I'm sort of caught up on homework and working on getting "ahead." You never really get ahead at DigiPen. Every time you think you are, you realize there's a half dozen things you could be working on, and if there isn't that there's always your game project hanging over your neck like a guillotine on a hair trigger. The "free time" you have you need to divvy out between rest and relaxation, to reduce stress and encourage a healthy body and mind, and dedicating more time to your game. For instance, this week my only due assignment is a SparseVector class programming assignment building off our prior assignment in CS225, but I also need to be working on our "midterm" assignment for our game class, making a Bejeweled clone, as well as working on my next graphics assignment, a triangle rasterizer, and also learning to use TinyXML so I can write the XML parser for our game since all our data is stored in XML sheets. I also have calculus homework due on Friday and I'll get a new physics assignment on Tuesday. So, busy busy busy. I'm spending too much free time on R&R, so I need to fix that. Part of that is because..
.. With all the storms and bad weather we've been getting, I've been getting really bad headaches. They range from a dull ache to painful throbbing, and tylenol does very little to help. They only go away completely after the weather has passed, but since we've been hit by the constantly the last couple of weeks I've been living my life with a perpetual headache. It's made it hard to concentrate on homework and on being productive. I'm managing, but it's a challenge. Also, it'd be nice to see the sun sometime. Too bad such instances will be incredibly rare until about March or so.
With all that said, I've got silver linings that will help me make it through the semester. Hellgate comes out soon and I'm looking forward to allocating some free time to running around on there with my friends that are also getting the game. Issue 11 of City of Heroes is in testing and will definitely own a sliver of my free time/soul when it goes live as it adds a Dual Blades powerset and weapon customization. Lastly, I'm still considering grabbing Pirates of the Burning Sea when it launches. It's a bit more time consuming than Hellgate or CoH, but the economy looks to be deep and satisfying and I do love those kinds of games. The fact I already made a personal flag for my French privateer should be evidence enough of that.
Anyway, think I've talked enough. I'll just close by saying that while I'm not sure I want to work here when I graduate, staying in the Seattle area wouldn't be all bad. The more I talk to people outside the school here the more I realize that this area has a lot to offer, and I'd love to go out and do things with people here. I think actually having a social life here would be enjoyable and entertaining.
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Forgot to mention what I was making for dinner tomorrow. I got a bunch of slow cooker recipes and this one looks simply delicious. It's a cheesy slow cooker chicken recipe. If I try it and it's as good as it sounds I'll post the recipe or something. Or just send me a message asking for it.
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Alright. Classes are finished, I've submitted my semester project and GDD for GAM100, and I should be studying.. .. But I'm not. This is the part where I suck. I have so much trouble making myself study. I have finals in art and linear algebra tomorrow and I'm writing this rather than cramming. I intend to go cram with Doug later, but I should be at least reviewing something. Bleeeh.. .. However, I can now talk about this semester in hind sight. The ups, the downs, the good times, the bad times, that time around midterms where I was sure I was failing at least two classes. Yeah. Too bad I can't remember any of them. It's like someone took a big sponge and just smeared it all together. Over all I'd say it's been positive, but very few defining moments stand out. The Kamelot concert, deciding on our team project, all those Mondays watching Heroes with everyone. Nothing post worthy, really.. .. But I'll be leaving on Saturday to go home for Christmas. I'm anxious to see everyone. Josh will be home already when I get there. I'm so thankful we'll all be together for Christmas. I think it would have been a little harder on me, a little more sad, if any of us had been missing from this Christmas. It's inevitable that someone will be missing next Christmas, as Josh will likely be deployed, but by then I'll have spent more than a year here at school so maybe it'll be a little easier to get over the idea that we're all doing our own thing.. .. Anyway, going to wrap this up and make myself start going through the slides for art. Three days and five finals until the semester is completely over. I think Abe and I are going to celebrate Wednesday night by going out and having a few drinks. Feeling: thoughtful
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Just a quick update to let folks know I'm not dead yet. Class finally escalated to a pleasantly abusive level. It'll mellow a bit after the next week or so once we clear the midterm hurdle. I almost miss FTCC for its lack of true midterms. So far though I'm managing to hold up well enough. Just wish I had a better idea of what my grades were in my classes, GAM100 especially. So, for those that don't talk to me regularly, I think I'm ready to give an update to things happening with my family. Some of it isn't cool at all, so I'll get that out of the way first. To start with, the day after I got to Bellevue I found out my dad was divorcing my mom again. That was the unhappy family news I was discussing with Angie while I walked to Denny's mentioned in a previous post. I'm not sure how I feel about it, I'm still kind of numb. I'm mostly disapointed. He moved out to some apartment or something, leaving my mom in the house. Except my mom is moving. I spoke with her this week and since Angie is planning to move out in February my mom is going to move up to my grandmother's house. The loan for the house is in my dad's name and she's worried about him doing something stupid. This move is going to be really hard on my mom. She loves that house and the house she's moving to is where my grandfather passed away. I'm going home for Christmas, and that will be the last time I sleep in my house I guess. When I go home next summer I'll be going to stay at my grandmother's house. For some reason that news is saddening. Amy and Eric are doing very well, and my niece, Lydia, is evidently just a bundle of joy. I can't wait to see the happy family at Christmas. Amy and Eric bought a house and I really want to see it. Angie, after a brief stint being single, ended up getting together with one of my best friends, Boo. He treats her well and makes her happy, so I'm happy for them. It'll be a little weird when I go home and hang out with them, but I'll get over it. Josh got back from Jordan okay. He was supposed to be getting promoted to E6 this month, but they botched his paper work, so now it's getting pushed back until next month or so. Which really sucks because he bought a house and his payments were lined up on the understanding he'd be making E6 pay. That's the Army for you, though. I really hope he gets to fly out here to visit some time next semester. I miss hanging out with him and it'll be fun to go have a few drinks, goof off, and swap stories(his are always better, though). Oh yeah, drinking. I actually drink now. I still haven't gotten really drunk, but I got really heavily buzzed Friday and can't say that I cared for it over much. I'm steadily honing in on how much to drink to get a slight buzz, which is right where I want to be when I have some drinks. Well, I think I've babbled enough for now. Going to go get changed so I can go running. I didn't run last week, so today is going to feel great and horrible all at the same time. Feeling: contemplative
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So this week in GAM100 we had to research Angband and variants.. Which is funny because Angband is a variant of Rogue, which I played way too much back when my family first got a PC. Some other folks in that class might be question why we're researching games like that or Hunt the Wumpus, but the simple solution I've come to is that when we start designing our text based games we have to consider those classics as our competition. Speaking of that, my team is formed. Initially I was going to be the Producer but Doug wants to switch so he can save being Designer for next year so now I'm the Designer. I have mixed feelings about this, really, but I guess only time will tell how this plays out. At the moment I think we're still planning to make "Hi! I'm Doug!" for our game, but I need to sit my team down and we need to make the decision -now- if we intend to do something else. So far classes are going well. My quiz grades haven't been so hot, so I need to study more and goof off less. Some how I've found a lot of time to just do stupid stuff, including sitting over at Jason and Doug's playing Guitar Hero or Growlanser. Admittedly, I've managed to stick to exercising, so that's cool. I think I may need to start seriously curbing my procrastinating ways though. We're past the 20% point, which is hard to believe really. At this rate it's going to seem like no time at all before I'm taking my finals and heading home for Christmas. I miss my family something fierce and I'm dieing to see them. I want to give everyone big hugs, I want to give my niece big sloppy kisses, I want to lounge around with the dogs. I may hate Fayetteville but so long as my family is there I'll keep coming back. Think I'm going to go read a bit then get some sleep. Current Location: My bedroom
Feeling: anxious
Jamming to: Breaking Benjamin - Natural Life
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