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Hey-ohhh!

Jittery

Just so you know...drinking coffee while trying to draw, not a good idea. I can't draw a smooth line at the moment because I'm so jittery from the coffee I drank over an hour ago. This sucks.

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Let's take our shirts off and wrestle.

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What if you're afraid of someone with arachnophobia? Would you call that arachnophobia-phobia?

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She can ban, ban you so hard.

You're Appointed

YAY! I have a boss again, and he can be my buffer from getting too overwhelmed with work while I've got school crap to do. That means good news for me. New boss used to work as a technical writer (was my coworker) at my company, but him and old boss didn't get along and tended to butt heads, or was it be buttheads to each other? A little of both I believe. Anyways, I got along with (now) new boss fine and since old boss is gone, I don't really foresee any personality conflicts this time around. Should be good fun.

I think I may actually be getting somewhere on my marks. I think I'll post some up here within the next couple of days, show you crazy people what the hell it is I've been complaining about. Or maybe I'll show scans of all the pages of thumbnails and maybe you'll groan too. I will make you all suffer with me. HAHAHA!

Ahem...so anyways, I'm slowly getting things accomplished. I even got a dentist appointment scheduled for tomorrow! Whoopee! because my stupid wire retainer has popped loose from one of my teeth. Always fun. My years of braces will never stop haunting me, never. I just hope something actually gets done tomorrow so this wire will stop irritating my tongue. It would suck if they just go, "Hmm...yeah it is broken, make another appointment" and not even temporarily fix the problem. I really don't like my expensive teeth, because they still suck. Stupid sucky, expensive, 7 year braces wearing, cavity riddled teeth. Yeah, I'm bitching about you crappy teeth. Making me drink diet soda and eat less cookies and floss and stuff. Maybe I'll just get dentures or get wooden teeth and become the first president of the United States of America...

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...Or maybe I'll just go to bed.

Boten Anna

And this is just weird and doesn't make any sense, but the guy is kind of goofy and Swedish.

Ultimate Showdown

So this might be one of the funnier videos I've seen in a while: Ultimate Showdown. Obscure references, random acts of violence and bad animation can always bring a smile to my day.

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So I crawled from the twisted, burnin' wreckage. I crawled on my hands and knees for three whole days...draggin' along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag and my tenor saxophone and my twelve-pound bowling ball and my lucky, lucky glow-in-the-dark snorkel.

2006: Not a Space Odyssey

Hmm...maybe I'll actually get to bed early tonight. Boscoe's been so squawky he's forced me to turn off the TV and most of the lights. He really may not be getting enough sleep which might explain why he's been so grouchy and immensly squawky the past couple of days. Too much noise for my small apartment.

I do need to try and think up some more layout ideas and headlines for my group's poster thingy. So I'll try to get more work done for tomorrow. It's kind of hard to draw or think up good ways to layout Greek pottery looking posters. At least a little harder than I thought. My team has decided to try and equate "Primal Quest" with the "Odyssey" (except we're also throwing in other Greek myths and epics) as the new epic and personifying nature and all the challenges that are in "Primal Quest" with Greek gods and monsters and stuff. Then we're going to borrow from the Greek pottery look and draw events with modern looking guys (on mountain bikes, kayaks and what-have-you) faced against Hydra and Cyclops and Harpies or what ever else we fancy.

I think this is a good idea, let's hope we can pull it off because that would be great. Except right now I'm having a hard time coming up with decent headlines and subheads and stuff. Need more brainstorming.

Anyways, off to thinking up stuff and doodling.

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I'm Gumby damnit!

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And then everybody died!
Except for me...you know why?
I had my tray table up, and my seat back in the full upright position.

Love, Peace and Chicken Grease

So this is a nice end to a quasi productive weekend. Perhaps I'll be able to post some decent logos soon since I did try and "flesh out" a couple today. I also think my group has got some good ideas going on our Primal Quest campaign. We each (there's 3 of us) have to do a poster and some literature (pamphlet, flier, etc.) promoting the event, but it all has to look like it goes together. So we can't each just do our own thing, a lot of group togetherness time must utilized.

I also finished putting together some painting canvas this weekend...BIG PAIN IN THE ASS! A giant pain. It was fairly difficult and time consuming for me to stretch the canvas properly with my puny arms. I guess it's a good thing I gained 10 lbs, helped me put more weight into stretching the damn canvas.

I'm also fairly surprised I don't have a giant headache right now after dealing with Squawky the Bird today. I have no idea what his problem was, I was home pretty much all day and it's not like I neglected him completely. Quite the opposite because of all the squawking he insisted on doing. Eventually, and I know this sounds mean, I put him in the closet (with the light on) because that's the only separate area I can put him in other than the bathroom for some timeout. He actually quieted down within 5-10 minutes, and I took him out once he stopped yelling for a while and was then pretty good the rest of the night. I still have no idea what his deal his was, other than that he's a crazy ass bird.

I'm going to head to bed now. Goodnight to all you crazy people you.

Can I Get a Witness?

It's so easy to waste time on the Internet, especially when there's online forums to entertain me. I've been trying to think up more ideas for the damn Witness logo, but it seems to enjoy kicking my ass. I'm determined use an image of an eye in a new and interesting way and perhaps make the eye(s) "peer" through something without looking like ninja eyes. I don't need no stinkin' ninja eyes in my logo, not really appropriate for the client. Superhero masks are also inappropriate and cyclops' eyes that look like the Monster's Inc. movie title don't work either. Damn you Witness. Damn you.

In other news, I was able to make two canvas frames today and on Thursday I get to actually put canvas on the frames and then, maybe, I'll actually get to start painting in my "beginning painting" class. It would be nice to actually paint in there for a while at least, could be fun.

Work is somewhat strange without the old boss there anymore, it was kind of fun to talk with him since I got along with him fairly well. Though he was/is rather pessimistic, which may be the cause or result of problems he's been having. I just hope the new guy doesn't end up being kind of a hard ass and take away my rather free form schedule I've got going at the moment. Free form is nice, makes it a little less stressful knowing it's not the end of the world if I can't be at work as long as I really should. You know, because of school and stuff.

Anyways, I'm quite tired, I've work in the morning and a group meeting and class and all sorts of fun stuff going on tomorrow. Night night.

Eh...

I feel like I should update, but I don't have much to say. About ready to go to bed, just submitted and assignment for my online class, watched new Simpson's and Family Guy earlier. You know, all that jazz.

Yeah, that's pretty much all I got right now. I'm quite tired. Sorry this isn't more entertaing for me or you, oh well.

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I'm like the white Larry Byrd.

M.I.A.

My boss sort of went "missing" for the past couple of days. Tuesday, not there. Wednesday, not there. Today, there. Without any contact.

Now he had submitted his resignation a couple weeks ago. So technically he's given his two weeks notice, BUT he was supposed to stay on until the end of this month. Well, apparently he's on medical leave now as we (me and tech-writer-chick) heard from one of the other higher ups. So, now we're kind of confused and a bit disordered now without our head honcho anymore. This was supposed to be a much smoother transition, with a week of overlap with both old honcho and new honcho. But alas, it will not work out that way.

I'm pretty sure he's kind of had an emotional breakdown, a lot of stress in his personal life from the little bits I've been able to glean here and there. I really hope everything turns out alright for him. I think he really just dealt with everything as long as he could and couldn't quite deal with another 3 weeks at his fairly stressful job. Understandable, and fortunately I'm not in a position that anyone would expect me to compensate too tremendously. I don't think I could handle that stress combined with my 75 thumbnails.

My 75 thumbnails which are now COMPLETE! and it's not 4 in the morning, sweet. All I had to do was work on them since about 4:30 today, such fun.

And since I'm done, I'm headed to bed. So that I can sleep. And rest. And dream wonderful, beautiful dreams. It will be great.

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You're a
Heart-Breaker.
Dream-Maker.
Love-Taker
Don't you mess around with me.

Lucky 75

Le sigh.

So instead of doing thumbnails (like I should be doing) I've decided to bitch about them. I'm just not in the mood to draw little doo-dads right now and my brain's already quite tired AND it's only the SECOND week of school. What I'm really mad about is the fact that I have 2 days to complete another 75 thumbnails (just had to show 75, but we've had since LAST Wednesday to do those). Now take in mind that it takes me about an hour to do 10, but I cannot keep up this pace for more than two hours. Brain breaks are a must when doing thumbnails otherwise you just end up staring into the abyss of blank paper that you're supposed to be drawing on.

75 thumbnails! In 2 days! How shitty is that?

I'll tell you how shitty that is...it's REALLY shitty. But I can't really complain too much, there's another 40 people having to do the same crap I am. That fact doesn't change that it still sucks though. Not one bit.

So...designing marks/logos for three different companies Lumenis, Maxtor and Witness (which I really like as it is). This helps divide up the atrocious 75 thumbs into 25 per client, but again, this is still shitty. Plus I don't think I've come up with anything terribly innovative, some cool ideas, but kind of far and few between.

You know what also sucks? 75 thumbnails really doesn't look like much when you lay them all out, mine fit onto 9 pieces of paper. Doesn't look very impressive when all's said and done.

Anyways, I should try and get a few more done tonight, I've only got about 15 done so far. Also, I can't seem to look at my blog from my browser anymore, I know it still works (I've checked from other computers), BUT not on my home computer. This is weird and strange and has anyone had this happen before?

Good night and good coffee.