A True Flash of Insanity And Other Things

Next time my instincts tell me to stay home, I'm staying home!!! (Told you it was a flash!)

ION (In Other News):

1. The Emilie Autumn concert rocked my provebial socks off. No, really. Check my FB for some fantastic pictures. Within the next week (and by next week I mean THURSDAY!) I will try to get those pictures up on here as well. If you are unfamiliar with Emilie Autumn, I highly recommend that you become familiar. Even if you aren't into goth rock/ industrial music, she is extremely talented and worth a listen (or two...give her two listens because she might scare you a bit on the first go-round).

2. I had a realization...it is very hard to end a parenthetical expression () with an emoticon (as seen in this beautifully demonstrated example ;-) ). <-- See?!! You see what I mean??? Sigh...

3. I've been spending a lot of time in Swain recently, working on things, etc. I wanted to share with all you lovelies one of my recent projects. It's due Monday so if you want to leave comments (YES PLEASE DO!!!) as to how to make it better/ what you think, let me know! It's for my motion graphics class and is a mash up of two of my favorite things ever: Hamlet and Emilie Autumn.


Now, this project has given me a new understanding of my professor's favorite phrase: What New HELL is this?!

See...we use this nifty program called After Effects (which I love and adore), but for some reason, no matter what I did, it crashed on me a lot! And it wouldn't load my footage when I would re-open, despite reconnecting the lost footage. The footage still played in other programs, but AE was just not having it at all....thus, the project took forever to complete (the worst part is I lost six hours the first night because I didn't figure out how to beat AE at it's own twisted game). Add to that my own personal insistence that this project be as close to perfect as I could get to the image I had in my head of this, and you're in for one long night.

Hell Week(s) are going well...I already have one of my papers turned in, and I still have to finish the History Paper, which is going...not at break-neck speed, but it isn't dragging. We are (according to the syllabus) in competition with one another for grades in this class, so I'm trying my best to crank out a really amazing paper. I'm learning from this semester that I have become one extremely competitive person. Hopefully this is a good thing because I'm going into an extremely competitive field when I graduate.



Oh, and expect a semi-deep post soon about my views on life, the universe, and everything (but no, really).