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Meh

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Despite today having its high points (unofficially official Pi day, Mark party, finding out we did fairly well on our networks lab, some nice new scores in ITG including my first sightread star, doing stuff with Ben), the weather seems to generally be matching my mood… which is to say, crappy.

Work continues on CMU Adventures. The puzzle to unlock Wean 4 is implemented (even if Wean 4 itself isn’t) which means that Doherty is fully implemented from B level to 2nd floor, and Wean 5 and 7 are both fully implemented. Whee.


Me wants a 10-20 lens…. oh god wide angle sexiness.

I should probably head to bed early, as I’m ready for today to be over.
Blah bad moods.

Random updates

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For people who are interested in Student Wars, the second-to-last expansion (Internships) has been uploaded for your playing pleasure. I’ll work on Loose Ends eventually and wrap up the game.
In related news, work on the graphical cards for the STD Card game, work on the base sets for the Supernatural card game and RPG Get! card game system, and work on Student Wars v2 have all been delayed because I’m busy with school and other life stuffs.

I photographed Tom and Car yesterday as the first part of my next assignment for portrait.
Feedback on these would be helpful, as I don’t want to do horribly on another portrait assignment.
Bleh.
Most of these have been slightly cropped, but the framing still bothers me (if anything, the recropping to try and confirm to what the professor considers “good” is what bothers me, since I like the full frames on many of these)… not sure what to do about that.
Meh.
How is it possible to hate photo so much, given that I immensely enjoy photographing?

In the full version, part of her elbow is still out of the frame. I tried cropping it down, but it still looks weird. Bleh.

Cropped too close to her head, maybe?

I like this more than the full one, where she is more centered in the frame.

Not sure about the cropping of this.

I’m torn about this one, because I really like it, but I feel like my professor won’t.

I like this one.

Once again, arms being partially out of the frame, and unsure how to fix it…

God, what is it with me and partially cutting arms out of the frame? It’s not something I’d normally notice, except it was one of the (few) things specifically pointed out to me… but the thing is, it doesn’t bother me that they’re cut off, and so it’s not something I think about while photographing. If anything, it bothers me when you see the entire arm in the frame, because it looks weird.
Is it my fault that my artistic sense doesn’t conform to the general sense? Things that I find artistic never match what other people like. And if it wasn’t for the fact that it affects my QPA, I wouldn’t care.
I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate photo -_-
I just want to go out and take photos and not have to care about this stuff, because I enjoy it, and the stuff comes out good *enough*. Why am I spending time stressing about this? Grargh.
I swear, if I was less anal about losing half a semester of work, I’d drop this class and be so much better off for it.

Content is continually being added to CMU Adventures. I’m currently working on the Doherty 1/B content, and will start on Wean 4/NSH soon. If you haven’t yet, creating an account and playing would be much appreciated, as the game could use all the testing it can get.
…
At least there’s something I’m good enough at.
*sighs*
*stabs photo with a big stabby stick*

Busy, busy, busy

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Let’s start off on a good note…
I played lots of ITG today.

This makes me very happy (my first ever double star).

Academic things are slightly less good…

Worked a ton on our Networks project today. It is now 3:30 AM and I’m still coding. I probably won’t get to sleep tonight. Meh. I keep feeling bad, like Mike is doing all the work and I’m just writing bad stuff that he has to go back and fix later. I dunno.
I did write various tree-construction functions though (with Dijkstra’s, which is a pain to implement in C, especially when your graph is implemented as a linked list of nodes with ints of destination ids), and I suppose they work, but coding past midnight is probably never good for writing sane code.
Note to self: start the next project sooner, dammit.
I also need to finish up graph theory homework (a rather difficult set) and develop the two rolls of film I shot today. All of this must be done tomorrow (networks is due Thursday, graph theory and film are due Monday).

On top of that, Casino Royale at McConomy was cancelled today. ‘Tis a shame… I was looking forward to it too. At least there was still a bunch of yummy free food at the UC.

Backtracking a bit, I shot flashlight portraits of Alisa and Valerie today in the studio. The digitals came out decently (could’ve been better), but I don’t know how the film came out yet (I have to develop it; see above). Alisa and Val are awesome subjects, and have good suggestions too.


Lots of other stuff has happened since the last post that I’ve wanted to post about, but I can’t seem to remember any of it right now except that my new (awesome) flip phone is here and it makes me happy. It replaces my old phone (alluded to in the previous entry), which was awesome but too small, which was inconvenient for loud rooms (since my mouth was 4 inches away from the bottom of the phone). Whee.
You should poke me for the number, if interested.

There was a Pittsburgh job fair logical yesterday. I went. Not many people seemed interested in me, as usual. Meh. I feel like I have so much potential as a potential intern…. I wish companies would give me a chance. This doesn’t bode well for my getting a job after graduation in under a year.

Back to coding…

Whee

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Finished the Internships expansion for Student Wars yesterday. The tenative card list for the final expansion, Loose Ends, is also posted. I hope to have those finished, and to have Student Wars v2 started, by the end of next semester. Whether that’ll happen or not is anyone’s guess.

Also, as a note to myself, I need to work on graphical cards for the STD TCG, and also to make more cards for the Cluster card game.

Last night was a good day in KoL. I managed to get to level 11 in 2 adventures (I just needed 2 clover adventures + stat script) and beat the sorceress with no problems (had over 150 HP left; her first form only dealt 15 damage the entire time). Then I power levelled to level 15 in about 110 adventures while simultaneously building my NPZR (keep in mind a lot of those adventures were spent at the shore getting the toaster), then farmed for clockwork keys for my remaining 160 adventures. Then I ascended as an AT and got to level 4. So yeah, it would have been a sub-1000 turn run if I hadn’t wanted to level to 15 to perm pulverize. With just the levelling, its around a 1000 turn run. The only thing that made the turncount so high was my farming.

Yesterday Kat and I went to see Victor and Leon’s puppies. Oh god, they’re so cute!
Er… Oh god, there so cute! Their cuter than you’re puppies, and they have the affect of making you go “awwwww”. Your weak for puppies, you know you are.
That was painful >_<


In other news, my new memory card makes my camera say there are 1.2K available pictures… but the battery is on its way out (already :-\ although given how much I use it I guess it’s not a big deal) so I only get enough power for a couple hundred (on a full charge, although it’s stopped charging correctly, so that doesn’t mean anything).
Wheee!

Life is amazing and awesome and makes me happy.

New Year’s Meme

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First off, because I’m a moron and forgot to thank people…
Thank you to everyone for the Christmas gifts!
Thanks to Apphia for the packs of UFS cards. Maybe we’ll actually make a play session next semester :-P
Thanks to Mars and Dan for the candy. Yum yum. I still have a bunch left for when I get back.
Thanks to Judith for the mug and cocoa. You didn’t have to get me something… after all, you overpay me for the work I do for you. But thank you very much.
Thanks to Ev for Battlestar Galactica season 1. We’ll have to watch it together or something when I get back.
Thanks to Vicki for the Geek book. It’s amazing. Yay equations for calculating if you should date or not!
Thanks to David for the box of Bunny Suicides. It’s also amazing. Yay cute bunnies killing themselves in weird ways!

Also, thanks to a certain someone for all the good times and experiences over the past 2 and a half months. I’d say it’s been like a roller coaster, except it hasn’t. It’s been more like an elevator to the top floor, where you get off and are exhilarated by the sights and experience. Thank you for everything. Most of all, thank you for making me feel the way you do… you make me unbelievably happy, and I hope that I do the same. <3

Wow, that was horrifically, unbelievably corny.
*ack*
*dies*

Meme going around, yeah yeah…
First sentence of each month (along with commentary):

Jan: I fail at social stuff. *sigh* It feels like I never get to see friends here and, despite, everything, I’m growing apart from them.
Still feel that way, somewhat. Bleh.

Feb: No really, this post is all about me.
Moreso than other entries, even…

Mar: The prints for my documentary assignment came out pretty well. Hopefully I did a better job on this assignment than the abstract photography one, so whee.
Well, I got A’s on both, so I guess I did do well.

Apr: Well, I’m posting this from New York… finally decided to spend the stupid $15 to get internet my last night here because I needed to confirm my flight tomorrow and such.
New York was so awesome… I wish I could go back sometime.

May: I havn’t updated in forever. This still isn’t a real update. Wheee.
Wheee!

Jun: My desk area r teh photo-y! :-D
This image was actually the first thing in the entry, but it wasn’t a sentence, so meh.

Jul: Played something like 5 rounds of DDR/ITG today. The guy I played with (Dan) was trying to add new songs to the ITG machine. It didn’t really work, unfortunately (can you imagine playing neoMAX on the machine? droooolllll), but whatever.
Well, now neoMAX is on the machine, so we can play it, and it is all kinds of awesome. Whee!

Aug: Home has been full of busy and lazy.

Sep: Yeah, so… classes have been inte You know, it’s 1 AM… this homework can wait until tomorrow, as can writing a real journal entry.
Zzzzzz

Oct: I should just walk away. Walk away and never look back. But I can’t, and I won’t. Oh well.
And then, 11 days later, we entered a relationship. Amazing how things worked out :)

Nov: I. Hate. Graphics.
I. Still. Hate. Graphics.

Dec: It seems I’m writing in here more and more sporatically. This is probably a good thing.
Eh, I guess it’s a good thing.