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| Disneyland |
| 04.30.08 (11:35 pm) [edit] |
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Before we went to Disneyland, I had my Clear Channel interview. I unfortunately don't think it went very well. We left about 11. We usually leave about 10. Leaving that extra hour later was enough to make us arrive two hours later. (Lousy LA). We got there early enough to go Downtown Disney, do most of my shopping, have garlic knots at Napolini, and swam at our hotel. The park was open on Tuesday, our one and only day from 10-8. Everyone said, "You're only going to all of Disneyland for one day?" and I was worried that we wouldn't have enough time in those short hours to do everything in both places I wanted. As it turned out, not even the big E-Ticket rides ever had more than a 20 minute wait, and even with a FastPass during summer, I've never gotten on the Tower of Terror in Disneyland so quickly; by 5:00 we were doing our favorites again. At 7:30, we couldn't think of anything else we just had to do, so we waited in the 45 minute line for the new Submarine ride, which on a busy day can be 2 or 3 hours long. Today we came home via 101, stopping in Solvang briefly (don't tell my mom!). We had a lot of fun. It's good to get away to an enhanced reality once in awhile; it's expensive, but probably good. Tomorrow I return to my lousy job. And I unofficially passed my CBEST. |
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| Today. |
| 04.27.08 (5:11 pm) [edit] |
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Today I worked the earliest possible shift, had a 5/3 split, and I found $10 in the parking lot. It was a mostly awesome day. Tomorrow I have my Clear Channel interview, and after that I will leave for Disneyland. I hope I can do the grocery work and the radio work. I am too nice sometimes, especially in my thinking about work. My original work thinking was, "If I ask for anything special off, I am being an inconvenience to work." My new work thinking that I am trying to keep in mind is, "While there are certain obligations that go along with being employed somewhere, I am helping them. And I have got to do, what is best for me." Working as a bagger in a grocery store for slightly more than the state's minimum wage watching a high school dropout make more than $200 a week more than me, is not what is best for me. Working for an radio company that exists all over the country may not be the best thing for me, but it is a much better thing. And I worked out a major plot point in a feminist fairytale I've had in the back of my mind for sometime. This point will probably make it look more like a commentary on the music industry than a twist on fairy tales themselves. |
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| "Idiocracy" Happens |
| 04.25.08 (8:57 pm) [edit] |
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As always, reality catches up with satire; you've probably already seen that commercial or some variation it.
I saw an article in the paper today (it was top fold news which says something else very telling about the nature of "news" and the gradual dumbing down of society). It's about how high school students are starting to let texting/IM phrases like LOL, OMG, G2G, or putting 2 or 4 when they mean "to" or "for." It has been predicted that e-mail and texting would make us lazier writers. At one point will it just be incorporated into our speech? I was taught in a formal English paper one shouldn't even use contractions let alone slang or smileys. So the upcoming generation gets a little dumber. Idiocracy suggests that American English evolves into a blend of "redneck, ghetto, and valley girl" this list should include text slang. Although the film also suggests that it's because of dumb poor people that society gets to the point it does; maybe the Mike Judge didn't think poor people could afford cell phones/computers and therefore wouldn't be perpetuating this particular dumb language. |
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| Jack and Sally's Wedding |
| 04.24.08 (9:24 am) [edit] |
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No, not really. But I have been toying with the idea of making a wedding card with Jack and Sally (from Nightmare Before Christmas, just in case you didn't know). Jack already wears a tuxedo. But Sally's dress is not very fancy at all. However, I thought I would post my idea for what she might look like on her day for the entire tBlog community to pass honest judgment upon:  She won't be this stiff in the final. I just wanted to draw the dress. In an interesting side note, i happened to be using a scholarship website in another window, and happened to glance over at the banner ad, which seemed to have something oddly familiar on it:  The top image was taken at Sunset Ranch in the MGM Studios in Disney World. That is the outfit the boys The other girls on the bottom are outdoor foods at MGM. Just felt like sharing. If you want to get a better idea of what those costumes really looked like, click on the "My Walt Disney World College Program Website" on the side under the archives. |
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| Things that have been happening: |
| 04.24.08 (12:01 am) [edit] |
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1. I attempted to fix Sven and correct the problem and maybe get it burned onto some DVDs and off to festivals before uploading it you YouTube. Long story short: The computer didn't want me to have an electronic video that works. There are two more things I will try, otherwise Sven might just never be good enough forever. 2. My in-laws were here from Thursday to this morning. Hence the light posting. We 3. Another girl in the store got the bakery job. I am glad. First off, it was someone with more seniority who deserves more than me. If Goldie had gotten it I think I would just have to quit right then and there. Plus I know that something better is out there for me than a small promotion within a store I wanted to leave sometime between immediately and the next 5 months. Hopefully, this will mean the end of my 12/3/9 days. I'm also not terribly bitter because I have an interview at Clear Channel Radio on Monday before I go to Disneyland. |
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| editing error |
| 04.17.08 (10:55 am) [edit] |
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I was attempting to look over my latest draft of Sven's Adventure and I realized somewhere in the process (and I think I know exactly where, damn slip editing) the sound got off by several seconds. I have to be at work from 10-7 tomorrow. But I think I know where I will be from 8-9:20... Hopefully, it will be a quick fix and I can also get it on to a DVD and get the animation sequences into another movie for YouTube. Yeah, we'll see. damn, damn, damn, damn, damn |
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| YouTube Account |
| 04.17.08 (12:16 am) [edit] |
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Welp, I finished Sven's Adventure as good as it will ever possibly be. I am really happy I re-did it. I figured out how to make the random widescreening go away, the animation is smoother, cleaner, brighter, better. However, now I have to figure out how to use iDVD to burn it and ship it out to festivals. No, you can't see Sven just yet. I need it to be rejected by festivals before uploading it to the Festivus for the Rest of Us (aka YouTube). But I did upload my first, and really bad, hence why I didn't bother cleaning it up, claymation ball bounce. It's here, check it out. I will put a montage of my newly edited animations from Sven on there as soon as I can. And probably another ball bounce or 2. What else? I guess that's it. |
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| Almost Done |
| 04.15.08 (11:05 am) [edit] |
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Every time I have a day off, I swear that "Today might be the day that I finish editing all my animations and then can take it down to the editing thing and put it all together and let Sven's Adventure rest in peace so that I can buy a movie camera and do a movie trailer, a PSA, a documentary..." Today might actually be that day... I a trying to eet with a former teacher. And shtuff keeps coming up; she can't accommodate me, and I can't accommodate her because my lousy soul-crushing job doesn't believe in letting people know what their schedule is for the coming week more than three days in advance. It's so frustrating. She's trying to do me a favor, and I can't help her to help me. I also can't believe I am making plans for May already. |
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| Movie t-shirts |
| 04.14.08 (2:05 pm) [edit] |
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Apparently, it is perfectly acceptable to make a t-shirt ripping off an idea or quote from a movie without giving it a second thought. Anyway, here are shirts I would like to see. 1. The People's Front of Judea 2. "I am a Golden God!" 3. "I am not the Messiah!" 4. Mount Rose American Teen Princess Contestant (Sponsored by Sarah Rose Cosmetics) 5. Communists are trying to steal my precious bodily fluids. 6. "Don't Fuck with the Jesus!" 7. "Hail Freedonia! Land of the Brave and Free!" 8. Blaine, Missouri: the Stool Capitol of the World 9. "I'd probably feel worse if I wasn't so heavily sedated." 10. #1 Proust Scholar in the Nation 11. Brawndo: The thirst mutilator. It's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes. 12. If you want an easy job, work for the Red Cross. Holy Grail is so popular it overshadows Life of Brian. Most of the shirts out there are from the more recent movies like everything Judd Apatow seems to associate himself with. I think I would be most likely to buy 1, 4 and maybe 11. |
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| Stuff on my mind |
| 04.12.08 (10:41 pm) [edit] |
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In no particular order: 1. I am getting excited about Disneyland. But the great deals on eBay I found out are actually people renting out their annual pass. That wouldn't be so bad, if it didn't mean having to meet them before and after. They all have 100% feedback but I still don't trust it. Fortunately, there are some real tickets one can buy on eBay for a comparable price. 2. I am a little paranoid about getting off work for it; buy the tickets, then, "Oh, sorry! We don't want to give you 3 days off; we gave them to Goldie instead." 3. I took the CBEST this morning. I'm glad I didn't bust my ass over studying for it. Especially since nothing on the website I studied from was on it. The math part was really easy. Studying really hard for the GRE put me off from more studying. 4. We need to plan our trip to Kentucky. 5. I need to be off as early as possible next Sunday. We'll see if it happens. 6. I really really really need to finish Sven so that I can move the hell on to "movie trailers" PSAs, and Barely Legal documentaries (if they will let me). 7. I can't beleive it's 10:30 already. 8. I want to buy some microphones, and a video camera. I want a video camera like this:  but I think I can afford one like this:  "I've come to hate my own creation. Now I know how God feels." --Homer Simpson |
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| Books & Bicycles |
| 04.11.08 (8:37 pm) [edit] |
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I rode my bike to my husband's work today. I had other plans for the day. But after riging to my husband's work (only 2.5 miles away). I was so hot, sweaty, and thirsty by the end I didn't go anywhere else. It is really sad. I want to not drive my car so much, but it's going to be hard. I was reorganizing my bookshelf the other day, instead of doing homework. And I noticed that there are a lot of books that I have that I have barely looked at. It makes me sad; books about drawing, animation, movie making, fiction. And I am thinking about buying more on Amazon about movie making and writing and stuff. I need to read the books I have. Even though I don't draw anymore I should still doe those exercises and stuff. The CBEST is tomorrow. I haven't studied too hard for it. After studying for one standardized test, another sucks. And I got my acceptance from SFSU. The other one was from the department. They were the ones I was trying to impress. I wonder if a person ever agrees to write a letter for someone and writes, "If you accept this person you are morons! This was the biggest jerkoff in my recent years..." |
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| 04.10.08 (9:37 pm) [edit] |
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After over a month of having every Friday off without requesting, the one time I actually want a Friday off (which I didn't request because this thing just came up) I don't get it. awesomeness. lousy soul crushing job. |
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| Outrage or Anomie? |
| 04.10.08 (1:05 am) [edit] |
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I don't think my hours are going to get cut...probably. I say this because there is a position open in bakery. No really this time. I applied for it. I really did. Now, let's see who is going to get the position? 1. The person who has the most seniority 2. Me, with the second most seniority but a very hard worker, smart, good attendance 3. Goldie (or is it Eve?), with the least seniority, but is openly doing a manager, and never bags anymore because they let her do everything else, and she's cute and blonde. I know where my money is going. It's definetely not on number 2. I'm not exactly sure how I will react when it happens (notice, not "if"). I want to get the union involved and make things really ugly so they know they can't get away with it. At the same time, I think I just want to get another job, any job, so that when the "Fuck you" happens, I can immediately say, "No, fuck you!" and leave quietly but not silently. I was thinking about it; what if that is what happens? After thinking about the situation with my left brain, I can be OK with it. Goldie needs that promotion to work under an asshole boss, with an unpleasant bakery manager, in a shitty union contract more than I do. Yesterday, I was worried about how going to a different department would make me less motivated about getting ahead in the world. But I could pass a drug test right now, I am not dating anyone in the store (especially someone who... well, with a reputation) who is 14 years older than me, I'm smart, creative, and no matter what I have said about my college degree in the past, that is still one thing I have that most people at Nob Hell don't. So, Nob Hell and I may soon be parting ways sooner than I might have initially thought. I'm good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! |
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| i have nothing to say |
| 04.08.08 (12:23 am) [edit] |
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but I'll write anyway. I can start looking for jobs again today. And probably not a minute too soon. I feel tense there; I'm afraid to do anything wrong when my boss is around. And I've got a funny feeling my hours will be cut. I base this on them hiring this flaky stoner-looking girl (I don't want to get into why I think that). She is also cute and blonde, just like Goldie*. On the one hand, it gives me a nice warm Schadenfreude feeling to know that Goldie's storewide lust factor may go down some (although I have to keep reminding myself it's not directly her fault I get shitty schedules). However, I sense that based on the previous pattern of her getting better hours, that my schedule will be cut in favor of hers. I'm not sure if I will greet this situation with outrage or Anomie. On the one hand, I want them to suffer for screwing me. On the other hand, I hate being there and want to leave anyway. I sometimes wonder if they are purposely trying to get me to leave. They know I'm not living up to my full potential there, and not planning on staying there forever. I doubt it's as conspiratorial as I make it out to be in my mind. However, they are doing a good job of pissing me off and wanting me to leave. *Goldie is what the cute girl who has less seniority than me but continues to get better hours than me shall henceforth be called. Not so much because she has natural mozzarella blonde hair, more because she is like the cute, giggly, dumbish Goldie Hawn of Laugh-In |
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| Best Month Ever!!!! |
| 04.04.08 (9:52 pm) [edit] |
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Did I mention I got accepted to grad school, and I'm going to Disneyland? Yes. Yes, I did. This is the best month ever!! w00t!! I am listening to Disneyland soundtracks. Small World will be closed because "it's not a small world after all" But I am so happy. And I finished the animation I had to give up on yesterday. And I'm off for the CBEST. And I think if John Lasseter is serious about giving the California Adventure the same "emotional appeal Disneyland has" he'll put the Country Bears somewhere into the woodsy lodge area of the California Adventure. You are a true Disney Fan if the Small World theme doesn't annoy you. |
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| ACCEPTED TO GRAD SCHOOL!!!! |
| 04.03.08 (5:37 pm) [edit] |
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My sour morning has been eclipsed by the acceptance letter from the Broadcast Electronic Communication Arts department of San Francisco State accepting me into their graduate department pending the big school's acceptance. I didn't pour over my personal statement or bug former instructors for the university. I did it for the graduate faculty (and myself). I am not too worried about the university acceptance.
I got accepted into grad school!!! My grandma cried, which was really weird. So it turned out to be a great day after all!! And I'm going to Disneyland. And My Name is Earl finally comes back on tonight. Is this the best month ever or what? |
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| Crap update |
| 04.03.08 (1:04 pm) [edit] |
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I went outside and attempted to redo the animation that was too blurry to use. I got about 2/3 of the way done, an hour and a half into it, and my neighbor's car bumped into the tripod, thus rendering all that work useless. Then, I attempted to half-assedly start all over again, and the battery light came on which would have rendered that work useless. So it's been an awesome morning. It looks like I won't be making an April 15th deadlines. |
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| Bad Pictures |
| 04.03.08 (10:29 am) [edit] |
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I found a website with a bunch of pictures of "real" covered wagons. Out of curiosity, why are they all but one that is supposedly in San Jose (which I did not find when I was there) in Southern California? Because when settlers came in Conestogas to California, they were all going to San Luis Obispo, right? Not like, San Francisco or Sacramento where there might have been a rumor circulating about some gold or something.
I have to do all the pictures from my last animation all over again; the subject came out blurry whereas the little thing I put into the background came out perfectly clear. And such is the life of a stop-motion animator. At least it's a nice day. Also, if double-sided duct tape already exists, why isn't it more widely marketed? I like animating, but I really want Sven to be done so I can move on. |
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| Too much stuff |
| 04.03.08 (1:37 am) [edit] |
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There is really too much stuff to think about in my life. I am worried about getting next Saturday off for the CBEST. A teacher said she would meet with my next Monday, when I most likely have to work.
i just really want to do a project; any project. I don't have a camera; that is the first problem. The second is I want to get Sven as good as it will ever be and send it out to be rejected by numerous festivals before buying a video camera that will be hopelessly out of date in a few months. The third issue is time; I need to get people together to do all the stuff and I need to do stuff on my days off instead of... yeah. Sometimes, when I think about all the choose-your-own-adventure type possibilities it makes my head hurt. It's like when you think about the universe, and God, and existence, and time, it is so much and there are so many things that could be happening it's just too much. |
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| Rejection Dream |
| 04.01.08 (12:22 am) [edit] |
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I had a dream I was rejected from Grad School. I got a paper in the mail. Of the three judges 2 gave A's, one gave a D each with an explanation. (I don't think that's really how it works). And somehow, they made all these judgments about me just based on my writing. I can't remember if they were accurate or not.
I had to convince myself it was not real...yet. It has officially been a month now. I should get a letter (I think?) anytime now. I hope that it is not a prophetic dream. Even if at the last minute I change my mind, I would like to reject them, not they me. It doesn't matter. I'm still going to Disneyland at the end of the month anyway!!!! I can't wait!!! |
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