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I can't wait for summer, blahblah busycakes.
We're adding our most regular houseguest to the family and thus we are moving in five days. Given that there are only about 4 weeks left in the semester, this makes for extra busycakes. The house we're moving to is awesome though, and a lot closer to both bart and work for J and I, so any anxiety is being beaten down by the excitement. The place has a huge backyard with fallow plots that we can till and plant veggies in and a huge balcony/deck that offers a gorgeous view of all the trees in the neighbourhood. The downstairs flat is currently being renovated, so no neighbours to worry about for a while, which also means that I won't have to feel weird about claiming half of the backyard for new plants and flowers. The common room is even larger than our living room now and my mom has decided she's sick of having a huge couch, so that means a new hardly used couch for us! I'm hoping to have everything non-essential packed up in the next couple days and head to the post office with the stacks of Things I've Been Needing To Send Forever.
Aside from that, working on my final is claiming almost every scrap of free time I've had recently. Even though I'm a lot faster modeling now, trying to do character design on top of modeling was a poor choice. I really should have recruited someone else's design again so I had a clear goal to work towards. My demo reel is shaping up nicely at least. I'll have several strong pieces ready for it and next semester I'm going to try and get in the advanced texturing and lighting course since I probably know enough to skip the pre-req.
Not having a chance to finish some of the fannish images I have in progress is driving me a little crazy. That'll be my light at the end of the tunnel. I'm very inspired though by J, who has been doing a drawing each day, even if its something quick and sketchy. I remember when I used to draw a bit every day and I think my skills are suffering from not making that a part of my routine anymore. I don't know if I'm ready to commit at this point, even to something small, but it's been on my mind a lot so if I spent the time /doing/ instead of /thinking about doing/ it might balance out just fine.
DW is all over my flist these days, and I've been intending to join since they first were getting the project off the ground. I'll be having an account there. I'm not dropping this space in any sense, so it's permanently temporary status will continue on as usual.
In other news, I have been reading again. Most recently I picked up Night Watch (hence icon). For all the talk I expected the storylines to be radically different from the movies, but maybe if I had read the books first, the visual leap on top of the plot changes would seem more drastic than it does. On the shipping angle, Anton/Kostya seems more angsty to me now. Mmm delicious.
ETA: After much deliberation whether or not to keep the 121... @DW. I'll figure the rest out later. :3
We're adding our most regular houseguest to the family and thus we are moving in five days. Given that there are only about 4 weeks left in the semester, this makes for extra busycakes. The house we're moving to is awesome though, and a lot closer to both bart and work for J and I, so any anxiety is being beaten down by the excitement. The place has a huge backyard with fallow plots that we can till and plant veggies in and a huge balcony/deck that offers a gorgeous view of all the trees in the neighbourhood. The downstairs flat is currently being renovated, so no neighbours to worry about for a while, which also means that I won't have to feel weird about claiming half of the backyard for new plants and flowers. The common room is even larger than our living room now and my mom has decided she's sick of having a huge couch, so that means a new hardly used couch for us! I'm hoping to have everything non-essential packed up in the next couple days and head to the post office with the stacks of Things I've Been Needing To Send Forever.
Aside from that, working on my final is claiming almost every scrap of free time I've had recently. Even though I'm a lot faster modeling now, trying to do character design on top of modeling was a poor choice. I really should have recruited someone else's design again so I had a clear goal to work towards. My demo reel is shaping up nicely at least. I'll have several strong pieces ready for it and next semester I'm going to try and get in the advanced texturing and lighting course since I probably know enough to skip the pre-req.
Not having a chance to finish some of the fannish images I have in progress is driving me a little crazy. That'll be my light at the end of the tunnel. I'm very inspired though by J, who has been doing a drawing each day, even if its something quick and sketchy. I remember when I used to draw a bit every day and I think my skills are suffering from not making that a part of my routine anymore. I don't know if I'm ready to commit at this point, even to something small, but it's been on my mind a lot so if I spent the time /doing/ instead of /thinking about doing/ it might balance out just fine.
DW is all over my flist these days, and I've been intending to join since they first were getting the project off the ground. I'll be having an account there. I'm not dropping this space in any sense, so it's permanently temporary status will continue on as usual.
In other news, I have been reading again. Most recently I picked up Night Watch (hence icon). For all the talk I expected the storylines to be radically different from the movies, but maybe if I had read the books first, the visual leap on top of the plot changes would seem more drastic than it does. On the shipping angle, Anton/Kostya seems more angsty to me now. Mmm delicious.
ETA: After much deliberation whether or not to keep the 121... @DW. I'll figure the rest out later. :3
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