Schools Out, Now So Am I

It's been a long day, all 24+ hours of it, but I'm finally done with this quarter. My final project for Studio II didn't turn out exactly as I had hoped it would. Richard left me somewhat stranded as my fears had predicted, but I bounced back with plan B and managed to get enough done to satiate my professor's needs. That is, despite my horrible run in with technology and printing.

My printer was running low on black ink (shocked, I know), and so I had to venture to Target when it opened this morning at 9 to purchase the ink required to print out my final. Got home, put the new cartridge in, set the printer to grayscale and began to print my work. Minutes later, out comes 32 pages of purple text and images. "WTF!?" you ask? That's what I said. So I tamper with the settings and finally give in and set everything to best quality (read: snail speed printing). This time, I get black on the first few pages...then dark green...then bright green...then LIME GREEN!!! Again, I look at the paper in disbelief and ask myself "WTF?"

Taking this little adventure to it's next logical conclusion, I yank out the colored ink and proceed to print out my project. Except, now the printer is mad at me for ruining it's fun and requests that I put in a proper working color ink cartridge. Guess what? I don't have one! APPARENTLY my printer requires colored ink to make a grayscaled print on paper. Go figure... So I went to class with a mixed bag of black, purple, and green pages from my project and managed to get my professor to laugh at my pain. Hopefully he understands enough to give me a B.

However, I more than made up for all this crazy technology trouble with my Portfolio. So in all it wasn't a bad quarter for me. The work wasn't terrible, at least not until the end, but that's always expected. No matter how ahead you are, no matter how confident you are that you can whip out the rest in forty-eight hours, there is always something that you will forget and have to make a mad dash to finish. This inevitably leads to a lack of sleep and membership to the dark circles club that all SCAD students join at the end of the quarter. Let me tell you, a more interesting and exciting set of presentations there is not! So full of life on the last day of class!

So now I can finally rest and enjoy the three weeks I have off, right? WRONG!

I have rehearsal tomorrow afternoon, then graduation Saturday morning where my whole family is coming up for 4 days, not to mention the usual distractions from normal life. I'd imagine about the time my family leaves, my boss will be calling me into work next week and I won't get any R&R until next weekend at the earliest. As is my life. I deal. I move on.

On a sad note, John is only going to be around for another week or so. He's hanging around to take care of Richard's new kitten, Arnold, while Dick and Jacob go to Italy for a cool contest thingy they won. Then next week he is going to start moving his stuff out. I sad. I'm going to miss the little guy and his random late night cravings for a snack. I hope we get to do something meaningful and cool before he goes home for good.

In gaming news, Issue 15 is on test server, and thus far it's...lacking. It's to be expected, so I can't complain. It's just frustrating to think about the long wait between this little update and the Going Rogue expansion which looks to kick some serious ass. Hopefully the Devs reveal a little something else about it to keep our appetites whet. I'll be around either way, enjoying my time with the BFF and our SG.

I have inFamous sitting on my desk, starring at me, taunting me to play it, but I have so much stuff to do over the next few weeks, I know I won't get the chance to start it. Something to do on my big break next weekend no doubt. I still have that and two RPGs to play. So many new games not getting the love. I've failed as a gamer. I have to remedy that over the break, I have to!

Luckily, there are only two hours left before the gang goes out to its quarterly "yay, school is over again!" dinner. Long Horn, Vortex, or the Highlander? Choices, choices. All of it sounds good to me. I honestly just love hanging with the guys for a nice evening of food together, talking about the last quarter, and our futures. We've grown so much over the last two years. It's funny to think about the first dinner we all had together and which faces have come and gone. College really is the best years of your life.

Get some rest guys, I know I will...eventually!

~Jman