It's been an... interesting week. Having less hours at work means that I'm not crazy-tired when I get to school. It does mean, however, that I have more time to play City of Heroes and be crazy-tired at school. I can't help it, the Issue #2 update is active and Paragon City is under a full-scale invasion!

This biking around is good because it's good for my health and saves money on parking blah blah blah... but let me just say this, it sucks. I mean, it's cool to be travelling around this great coastal city using only the power of your God-given legs and whatnot, but in reality, it sucks, too. I don't like exercise, I don't like getting sweaty, and I don't like how I can't look girly because the sweat would just mess it up or else you can't wear such outfits on a bike. So why do I do it? Cuz it's good for my health and it saves money on parking blah blah blah. One of these days, I plan on exploring the city on my bike. Perhaps then I'll be less bitter. (Maybe it's just that I don't like having to leave for work a half-hour before my shift when I used to leave only 10-minutes before.)

Meanwhile, I've been lazy about homework and not doing it fully. So the third week's passed and I'm behind already. Erg. I may be biting off more than I can chew, though, since in addition to classes (whose units do not reflect the true workload, as always when it comes to art classes) and work, I'm also doing stuff for the Animation Club and for my church's Tech Team. Reminds me of my Berkeley days, actually. I suppose I could always drop a class, but I need three of them and the fourth I don't want to drop, as frustrating as it is.

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Speaking of which, my classes for this semester:

Character Animation -- the 3rd level 2D animation class where we focus not so much on the hows of animation but the hows of interesting characters

Storyboard 2 -- as it implies, it's the 2nd level storyboard class where the teacher is the guy who founded the Academy and therefore is a bit of a hardass and has a tendency to insult you if you don't give the answer he's looking for

3D Animation 2 -- it'll focus more on modeling and rigging

3D Effects -- learning to use SideFX's Houdini, one of the industry's leading software on visual effects, and dang hard to learn!
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One of my reasons for moving to Santa Monica was to get close to the industry and get an internship. I'm wondering when I'll have to time to research that.

On a side note, I'm starting to feel tingling and a bit of numbness in my right elbow, wrist, and ring and pinky fingers. From what I remember of my Mom's visits with a orthopedist, those are symtoms of carpal-tunnel syndrome. If that's the case, that just sucks. Mainly cuz, I'm an artist and the two things we cannot lose is our eyesight and the use of our hands. I think I should shell out the $25 to go see a doctor.