I’m Hearing: AFI - Miseria Cantare (The Beginning)
Ugh, feeling sick. This probably will not come as a shock to you, but it’s like 2:15 AM and I just got back from the computer lab. I was there for 9 hours tonight, trying to finish my polished comp of my uni’s annual report. The good news is I worked steadily and got a LOT accomplished tonight, but it was a huge pain in the ass. I have what I need for tomorrow…err…today…so that’s really all that matters. I actually got to eat some supper tonight, but it was just the other half of the lunch I got this afternoon. Oh well, at least it’s food. But now that it’s nearing 2:30 in the morning, I’m totally regretting that Red Bull I just had about an hour ago. I don’t think I’ll be sleeping much tonight even though I’m exhausted and feel like shit.
The worst part of all of this is that it was a beautiful day out today. Just absolutely gorgeous. The sun was shining and it was somewhere around 80° F. But I had class and work all day, then had to go to the computer lab for the entire evening and night, so I didn’t get to enjoy it. I rolled up my pants legs and took off my sandals and padded around the lab barefoot (which is prolly against the rules, but ehhh…) and it was nice, but didn’t compare to being outside. I was only out there long enough to get all sweaty from all the shit I was carrying to and from the art building. Waaa, I want to have my life back again.
So…what else? Not a whole lot happened this weekend. I pretty much sat around and crocheted and slept and hung out with the guys. On Saturday I went home for a bit as I normally do and got to see the cow that had the C-Section last week. She has a huge row of stitches on her side, which looks freaky and cool at the same time. I’ll put the pictures up sometime when I get them off my camera…I can’t be bothered at the moment. Also, Sat night Jon and I went to Brian’s choir concert. It was this giant gathering of different groups; there were like 4 choirs and an orchestra up on stage, thus by sheer numbers I found I knew quite a few other people up there. Ran into my aunt and uncle in the audience and saw Keith (the flute player) on the way out. He gave me a hug. :3 After that Jon, Brian, and I went out to Applebee’s for supper…at that point I hadn’t had anything to eat that day, and it was about 10 PM…arg. Had a delicious chicken alfredo dish and this Reese’s peanut butter cups cheesecake…mmmmm! Somehow managed to get it all over my pants, and didn’t notice till I got home. Dave came over and we watched some Futurama and he played video games…well actually that might have been Friday night for all I remember. <shrug> All these days are running into one another. At one point on Saturday I also drove up to Appleton and grabbed Red Dragon and the Evanescence CD. Good stuff. Oh yeah, on Fri night I also bought some more crocheting books. This summer if I get a chance I’m going to work on learning other stitches so I can do cool things beyond what I already know.
Turned in an application for a scholarship today…I’m fairly confident I’ll get it because there is never much competition for it, and I’m pretty well-qualified for it. That would be great because none of the scholarships I get now will carry over to next year since they’re all 4-year only. Nurgh.
Oh yeah…more fun…the payroll department screwed up last week and somehow my timesheets got eaten or something…therefore I didn’t get a check this week. Instead today I had to go pick up these contingency checks that are the school’s way of saying "Here’s 3/4 of the money you should have gotten which you can have now so you don’t have to starve for 2 more weeks while you wait for us to correct our fuck-up." Meh. Now I have to find time to go deposit that in the bank. For chrissake.
Ugh, still burping up that Red Bull. That’s going to be with me for awhile yet. And I’m kinda hungry.
Hmm.
Today at lunchtime when I was on my way from class to work I passed by some girls sunning themselves on the grass and I got quite upset in a way. I was jealous that they had that much free time to be able to sit out in the sun and enjoy the nice weather…not that I would necessarily spend my own free time that way, but just knowing that they had that time…arg. I thought "It must be nice to not have to be in class…or at work…or doing homework…" Ack. I’m really getting towards my wits end now with all these ridiculous projects. Thank god there’s only a month left now or I don’t know how I’d possibly survive.
So…yeah…my situation hasn’t changed any, you see. My attitude is souring at a faster rate with each passing day, and I’m getting to the point where I am just hating all aspects of design…to the extent where I’m resenting being expected to be competent, let alone good at it. Fuck. I don’t want to design anything anymore.
The sad and ironic thing about that is, though…whenever I do have free time, all I think about doing is designing things for myself and my friends. My desire is almost always to create beautiful things of my own design. So I hate and resent having to design things, but if I weren’t doing that, I’d be designing other things. WTF???? That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, does it? I guess the main difference there is that when I design things on my own, they have a real purpose and use in my life, and I’m doing it because I want to, not because I have to. I have been wondering a lot lately whether I’m cut out to be a designer because in all honesty, it does not come naturally to me unless I have a concept heavily ingrained in my mind before I even begin. Design is hard, especially when it’s something as damned boring as an annual report. Ugh. I’ve got nothing for that project…I just want it to be over.
Ohhhh, I nearly forgot to mention…on Thursday, after 4 weeks, my Design III prof finally talked to me about that assignment I spent that one entire Wednesday afternoon, evening, and on into Thursday morning working on. Sheesh, took long enough. Now I know what changes she expects me to make…but when will I have time to do it now that I’m already on to the next project???
Oh yeah…and Sunday night in the computer lab, one of the guys blew up this tiny picture of a woman from the annual report to about 6 feet tall then handed it off to me. I promptly sliced the image up and tiled it on 25 sheets of 11″x17″ paper and made this gigantic poster of her. It was quite hilarious. I wasted about an hour and a half and 1/4 roll of masking tape on that thing, but I had a fun time so whatever. :-)
Red Bull still hasn’t worn off…and it’s now 3 AM. Mayhaps I shall have something to eat then try and sleep.