Just taking a few minutes to make a little note

Today it was hard to get out of bed. I wouldn't have if it hadn't been for that I have stuff to hand in. But yes here is todays todo list

Must do:
-Go to MTH 153
-Go to CSC 106
-Work (at least I believe I have work still)
-Read The Time Machine and that other short story
-Moodle posting, at least one
-Start working on take home (will probably do this during work)
-Read Processing for class
-Hand in spec fic paper
- Work on art piece

Oh about the art piece, Jax and Aurelia were very nice yesterday and did some recordings for me. Anybody else? Just say hi sometime when I have my computer with me. Thanks

Bad Weekend

So.. I don't like this weeks programming homework. I went to work on it, but the TA didn't show up, so I didn't get very far, since this was one of those hard ones where I would need help. And that just makes me feel unproductive. On the other hand I did start the Engineering homework and it does only have five questions this week, a bit different form last week where we had 16. And you know that homework I said I wanted to get more than 50% on? 58/90, that is 65%. Combined with a quiz of 11/10, I think we can say I am really doing better.

On the other hand I have done art. I have been in an real arty mood. Two character portraits and a comic page colored. And uploaded to dA.

Yesterday was D&D day. I went to Modern Myths with Sibs, and we gamed. The GM was hilarious, the game fun (classic dungeon crawl, little story, tons to kill), and we got loot. Three minis, two d20s. And yeah it was well worth it, will do that again next year.

I also talked to my advisor. I am looking at ENG 208 Spec Fic, EGR 260 Mass and Energy Balances, EGR 320 Signals and Systems and MTH 204 Numerical Methods for Engineers. Only the math class has a lab and that is a one hour thingy. So this is looking better already. I am hoping to have time to upgrade to Conbust Staff and join Hells Bells. And have Tuesday and Thursday free before lunch..

My advisor also wants me to intern with Google... Or at least interveiw and apply next time they are on campus. Sounds interesting, but I want to do some more research on what it actually entails before I apply.

Finally on top of things.

So homework is no longer this scary bugger treating to kill me. One problem set all done, one halfway, one test taken, the other one in about an hour, one edited lab report done, two interfaces implemented and the last problemset might not even be a problemset at all. Still got the quiz on friday and readings to be done, but I feel so good.

So, spring break plans, Iceland, 700 bucks, one week, get to see Bunny, worth it? HELL YEAH.

Art is still going, I still want a tablet. But I like working with art, must not go into a art blackhole again. My corset arrived yesterday and I tried it on, and I loved it. Real leather and buckles, what can be better? I might go to Holyoke Mall on Saturday, anybody wants to come with me? I need some more clothes and it is fun to go shopping.

Oh and Leonard Nimoy has an exhibition in Noho soonish, I really wanna go.

Comic, Mountain Day and Parry 4

So, this weekend (i.e. Sunday and yesterday, which was Mountain Day) I spent 5.5 hours coloring the first page of the comic Sibs, Claire and I are working on. And I still got about 2 hours to go, not counting how long it will take me to get the text in. Yay for time consuming hobbies. But I want a wacom, more spesifically I want a blue, medium sized Bamboo Fun, if anyone feels like spending two hundred bucks on me... Nah, I think that will be my first spending of the Norwegian Convarsation Partner job. God, I like jobs that pay well.

So Mountain was yesterday, didn't do much, slept in, read a bit of d20 Modern (like it so far), had a outdoor lunch with the Table (which is kinda like the couch, only more people), did some poi, amused Sibs by failing at Hapkido (I think it is spelled), did art, took a math test (and failed) and did more art. Nice and easy.. A lot of people were complaining about the weaher (cloudy), I don't mind, but I would have prefered a sunny day.

In Fencing just now, we learned Parry 4. And that name won't make any sense to anyone who doesn't know fencing, but I failed anyway. I move my tip too much, so I can't repost properly. Damn.. Need to work on that.

"It's story time...and I promise you it's true"

Lately I have been into others' creativity as much as my own. As some of you know I have been gaming a lot, which is a sort of collective creativity. But more than that, I have been drinking in others'. Bunny's story, fanfiction, deviantart, webcomics and last but not least escapepod and pseudopod. Those two are podcasts that every week presents you with a story, escape pod is SF&F and pseudopod is horror. Some of these stories are really really good. Some of the horror stories makes me want to curl up in a corner and hide, which is exactly what a horror story should do. I was recently pimping pseudopod to Derek, and I figured I could do some pimping to other people as well.
Here is some of my favorite stories:
Goon Job (Pseudo Pod) - I think this could be an amazing Shadowrun adventure
What you wish for (Pseudo Pod)
We are all very lively (Pseudo Pod)
Some things don't wash off (Pseudo Pod) - A must hear, just plain amazing.
I have some catching up to do on escape pod, but I'll give you a list there later


In slightly more my creativity lane, brother agreed to model for a shadowrun shoot and we'll do it tonight. I have some ideas, and I'll run then by him and figure out what he wants as well. I think we'll include Tita as well, yes my brother and I named the gun for fun, and because it is a Tikka rifle, it is named Tita. We also have some other props where that I don't have access to at Smith, like a safty vest. It is not kevlar, but it looks it. So I am thinking a military/security style thing. And I think our basement should be a cool place to do it.

Creative

"Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide

At a higher altitude with flag unfuried
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world

Eneumbered forever by desire and ambition
Theres a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many time"
-High Hopes by Pink Floyd (though I prefer the Nightwish version.)

Work was fun today, had an amazing 10 people (only 8 paying though), two of them French actually. Which means the museum made 240 NOK (42 USD), which is about half of what they pay to keep me there today. Talk about throwing away money. Not that I complain. I love my job. Today I read through a short story Bunny wanted my opinion on, it is only a first draft and I am looking forward to see what she does with it. I also listened to Dragon's Landing, I quite like their new segment 'pimp my campaign'. It is really good for coming up with ideas for games. Also they talked about getting inspiration from songs (Episode 82, if you are wondering). Personally I think one great band for roleplaying ideas is Nightwish. I have once heard their music described as epic, and I agree. Songs like the Wayfarer, Over the Hills and far Away, and the Riddler, have all inspired D&D campaigns for me. But thanks to Buns and her story, which I am pretty sure originated in a rpg session, I have gotten some inspiration to do some writing myself. Probably game related, I have some ideas that could be fun, based on my Hong Kong Shadowrun game. For those of you who knows the characters, what I am thinking is Neculai's capture and training. But I might also do some Ning and Wu (NPC no-one has met yet). Both of which means I'll get some training in writing action. Which can only be good, right?
In Shadowrun related stuff, I have an idea for a series of photos. The grand idea: Shadowrun. A dark and gritty world in 2070, where magic have come back and elvs, dwarfs, orks and trolls walk among us. The Wikipedia article (see above link) have a pretty good overview. For this I am going to need models, I am going to need character ideas, I am going to need costume ideas. I have some of the two last. I don't want to take pictures of runners only, but also Johnsons, deals being made, maybe action shots, whatever comes to mind really. Wanna help out? Drop me a line, either a comment, on my facebook, or email me. I'll be forever grateful for help, and when I am grateful there is chocolate. Other than that I can promise a free print for models, if I ever decide to have the stuff printed, that is a general rule I have for model work.

Random update on life

I am sitting in the Campus Center Cafe, listening to Dragons Landing. DL is a good podcast about roleplaying. I get tons of ideas when I listen to them, not to mention that their webpage have a ton of links for anything you might need. I have given up homework for the day, after all I am going to be in class from 7PM to 10PM, it is snowing tonight so we are going to stuck in the room and not the roof.
I have been bad about writing, but when I am done with this post I am going to go write. I also found consceptart.org which I am considering joining, I want to do more art, I just need to find time and insipration. I plan to start with getting my drawing skills back up, and then when I get home work with watercolours, I love working with watercolour, but it is a hard media to master, so that is one thing to work on this summer.
In gaming news I have cancelled the larp I was going to run this summer, I was feeling that I would not have enough time to deliver a good enough games. During springbreak I plan to start working on the pirate larp, along with all the other stuff going on.

Art-trip to Bergen.

As the title say, today I want on an art trip to Bergen city... As some of you might know I take art, first year IB art. And today the class was in our 'local' city and visited 3 galleries in 3,5 hour. Not engough time and the trip itself was utterly boring. We were looking at Norwegian art and since I am a Norwegian I had seen all of it before. But we got to shop, now I have the complete chronicels of Narnia and two more volumes of Sandman. I love that comic.
Now Cheryl is sleeping and in a couple of hours I am going to help her work on her world litt. I am doen with mine. I should just get someone to proof read it. But I have to ask one of the Norwegian first years since I am taking Norwegian A1.
I am sorta noticing that I am utterly random here... Hehe. Have mercy on me, I woke up at 06.30 this moring and have spent 6 hours in a tiny bus with 10-13 other people, using Anton as a pillow. And Cherly and Salome being perverted, not that that is a big surpirse, sometimes find it very stage that Cheryl is older than me, she doesn't act that way a lot of the time. But who cares, I know I don't act my age a lot of the time