Because if they do, I certainly need one.
I feel like I have so much stuff to do and i'm forgetting about all of it and I can only think of one thing.
I finished my website today which was something that I was freaking out about finishing before the weekend. It's much more simple than desired but it's a pass and that's all that's important.
The only thing I can think of that I have to do is my newspaper spread. I started it but the formatting that's on the files we received is all different and for some reason my style sheets aren't doing anything and i'm getting very frustrated. I hate Quark. I never used to hate it. When we started with it I didn't mind it. But it's just not Adobe and the fact that even the most recent edition of it can't handle .docx files is just ridiculous. Sorry Quark. You fail.
If I can manage to get that assignment over with, i'll have a test in Quark to look forward to on Monday. Yeah. A test in Quark. It better not be written like the last one was.
I think once I finally do my business card imposition i'll feel better but I keep forgetting and I don't have InDesign at home.
*sigh*
Song of the Day: "Join Me" by HIM. Yeah it's kinda sad but it's nice and mellow.
<3
Friday, March 26, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
The "New Press Party"
Tonight was pretty neat.
After school, I picked up the time cards I needed for my taxes from my old office job (oh how I miss thee $1000 pay checks!) and then Gabe and I went to the car wash and washed my car finally! We had about 3 hours to kill before the "Press Party" started. So I went back to Okotoks, dropped my flash drive off at the work-place of the lady i'm doing that website for, then went back into Calgary.
OH the press party....
When Gabe, Sarah and I arrived, they were doing the presentation of the new press, ie: talking about it, running it, showing it off to all the industry people that were there. Gabe and I were the only first years in the place so it was kind of cool to be surrounded by so many people who knew so much and were as interested in the press as we were.
Jim, Brenda, Jeanne, Tyler, Danny and Luda were there as well as Willem and a bunch of grads & other surely important people. It was pretty much just a ton of fun and after the presentation was over, everyone was just kind of wandering around talking.
A guy with a video camera came up to me and Gabe and pretty much just decided he was going to do an on the spot interview, like a legit one, and told us we would be on YouTube/Facebook. Uhhh....Okay! So basically we just talked about how the press is awesome and it's so much easier than the one color and it's revolutionary and what not. I'm pretty sure I sound like a dumb blond the whole way through but whatever! I was nervous okay?!
We kinda just hung out with Brenda, Jeanne and Jim after that since they were taking it a little easy after the stress of the presentation and the hand-shaking and such. Brenda bought me and Gabe a beer each and we ate snacks and chatted and laughed and it was a grand old time.
In return for the beer, i'm bringing donuts in tomorrow. Not sure how i'm going to manage that with no money but i'll figure something out haha.
Song of the Day: "Rock and Roll" by Led Zeppelin. It's classic, I love it.
<3
After school, I picked up the time cards I needed for my taxes from my old office job (oh how I miss thee $1000 pay checks!) and then Gabe and I went to the car wash and washed my car finally! We had about 3 hours to kill before the "Press Party" started. So I went back to Okotoks, dropped my flash drive off at the work-place of the lady i'm doing that website for, then went back into Calgary.
OH the press party....
When Gabe, Sarah and I arrived, they were doing the presentation of the new press, ie: talking about it, running it, showing it off to all the industry people that were there. Gabe and I were the only first years in the place so it was kind of cool to be surrounded by so many people who knew so much and were as interested in the press as we were.
Jim, Brenda, Jeanne, Tyler, Danny and Luda were there as well as Willem and a bunch of grads & other surely important people. It was pretty much just a ton of fun and after the presentation was over, everyone was just kind of wandering around talking.
A guy with a video camera came up to me and Gabe and pretty much just decided he was going to do an on the spot interview, like a legit one, and told us we would be on YouTube/Facebook. Uhhh....Okay! So basically we just talked about how the press is awesome and it's so much easier than the one color and it's revolutionary and what not. I'm pretty sure I sound like a dumb blond the whole way through but whatever! I was nervous okay?!
We kinda just hung out with Brenda, Jeanne and Jim after that since they were taking it a little easy after the stress of the presentation and the hand-shaking and such. Brenda bought me and Gabe a beer each and we ate snacks and chatted and laughed and it was a grand old time.
In return for the beer, i'm bringing donuts in tomorrow. Not sure how i'm going to manage that with no money but i'll figure something out haha.
Song of the Day: "Rock and Roll" by Led Zeppelin. It's classic, I love it.
<3
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
So tired...
No matter how much I sleep I'm still exhausted. Just lately. Like what the fuck is wrong with me? I just need a summer break I think to make me feel better. Not drinking and not staying up all night might help too...
So tomorrow night i'm going to the Press Party at school which is so so so so lame but also so cool at the same time hahaha. It's to celebrate the new press (it was $800,000.00 ... yikes). From what I hear it's in the press room and it's cash bar (ie. theres alcohol but you have to pay full price for it)....What I don't understand is how a bunch of rowdy teachers & students are going to handle having drinks with open tops around an almost million dollar press. It can only end one way and that way is not a good way.
It should be fun though. It's the kind of thing where you can get to know your teachers on a different level in a different atmosphere and see them more as friends and peers than as teachers. I think it would be fun and hilarious to see Jim & Jeanne drunk in the same room.
Other than that, I rented Battlefield Bad Company 2. Not to be confused with Battlefield 2 (apparantly). The graphics are amazing and i'm sure i'll get used to the controls. The only thing I don't like is that the size of the maps and the rate of play, although more realistic, is really slow. I've become accustomed to the fast, cut throat rate of Modern Warfare 2 where if you stop moving, you stop breathing. In BC2, you can take things at pretty much your own pace (I mean...within reason of course) and just enjoy the (beautiful) scenery.
I also downloaded the demos for Bayonetta, Splinter Cell (the new one) and Just Cause 2. I haven't gotten around to playing the Just Cause 2 demo yet but from the other two:
I love Bayonetta but I found I play it a lot like I play Super Smash Brothers...BUTTON MASHING. Which to a point is fun but that kind of game loses it's appeal to me very quickly. I'll probably buy it when it goes on sale since it's still so expensive. As for Splinter Cell, I had that game on my phone like two years ago and I loved it but again, it's not my style of game. I'm really not a Single Player person. I like communicating with people when I play. With the few exceptions of Silent Hill, Assassins Creed, Dead Space and a few others...
Anyway, this is getting REALLY long so i'll just end it here.
Song of the Day: "The Last Firstborn" by Celldweller. This is absolutely my new favorite song. Absolutely.
<3
So tomorrow night i'm going to the Press Party at school which is so so so so lame but also so cool at the same time hahaha. It's to celebrate the new press (it was $800,000.00 ... yikes). From what I hear it's in the press room and it's cash bar (ie. theres alcohol but you have to pay full price for it)....What I don't understand is how a bunch of rowdy teachers & students are going to handle having drinks with open tops around an almost million dollar press. It can only end one way and that way is not a good way.
It should be fun though. It's the kind of thing where you can get to know your teachers on a different level in a different atmosphere and see them more as friends and peers than as teachers. I think it would be fun and hilarious to see Jim & Jeanne drunk in the same room.
Other than that, I rented Battlefield Bad Company 2. Not to be confused with Battlefield 2 (apparantly). The graphics are amazing and i'm sure i'll get used to the controls. The only thing I don't like is that the size of the maps and the rate of play, although more realistic, is really slow. I've become accustomed to the fast, cut throat rate of Modern Warfare 2 where if you stop moving, you stop breathing. In BC2, you can take things at pretty much your own pace (I mean...within reason of course) and just enjoy the (beautiful) scenery.
I also downloaded the demos for Bayonetta, Splinter Cell (the new one) and Just Cause 2. I haven't gotten around to playing the Just Cause 2 demo yet but from the other two:
I love Bayonetta but I found I play it a lot like I play Super Smash Brothers...BUTTON MASHING. Which to a point is fun but that kind of game loses it's appeal to me very quickly. I'll probably buy it when it goes on sale since it's still so expensive. As for Splinter Cell, I had that game on my phone like two years ago and I loved it but again, it's not my style of game. I'm really not a Single Player person. I like communicating with people when I play. With the few exceptions of Silent Hill, Assassins Creed, Dead Space and a few others...
Anyway, this is getting REALLY long so i'll just end it here.
Song of the Day: "The Last Firstborn" by Celldweller. This is absolutely my new favorite song. Absolutely.
<3
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Cowboy Creations Update
I haven't heard anything back from the lady who asked me to do this for her yet but I decided I was going to play around with it a little bit since I was bored anyway. So I changed the colors a bit & added some stock/sample pictures to make the page a little more interesting.
That's the updated screencap. I'm going to go to her work tomorrow & see if I can find out when the next time she works is since she's been busy in the last couple weeks. I'll just bring the flash drive to her :)
Anyway, this is just an update for that. Not much else to report except that I finished my Heidelberg Speedmaster ad (pardon the compression, it's a Facebook upload)
I also finished my interview. I mean I'd already done the interview I just needed to type it up but it's typed up now and that leaves me with just a few more things to do:
1. Newspaper Spread Layout
2. 4 Page Website
3. Water Bottle Design
I think that's it. God I don't remember anymore. I'm sick of homework!
Song of the Day: "Might Like You Better" by Vaski. It's been playing in my head ALL day.
<3
That's the updated screencap. I'm going to go to her work tomorrow & see if I can find out when the next time she works is since she's been busy in the last couple weeks. I'll just bring the flash drive to her :)
Anyway, this is just an update for that. Not much else to report except that I finished my Heidelberg Speedmaster ad (pardon the compression, it's a Facebook upload)
I also finished my interview. I mean I'd already done the interview I just needed to type it up but it's typed up now and that leaves me with just a few more things to do:
1. Newspaper Spread Layout
2. 4 Page Website
3. Water Bottle Design
I think that's it. God I don't remember anymore. I'm sick of homework!
Song of the Day: "Might Like You Better" by Vaski. It's been playing in my head ALL day.
<3
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Too much wanting...
It feels like there are so many things I want right now that I can't have. And I know it's like 100% selfish to be wanting these silly things when there are people all over the world that have nothing. But just to indulge my own selfishness, i'm going to compile a list of my wants partly so I can get them out of my head, partly so that if anyone rich and famous happens to stumble upon this and feel generous, I might actually get some of these hehe!
So I guess the easiest way to do this is to categorize them:
1. Travel
-Los Angeles
-Las Vegas
-New York City
-Cancun
-Belgium
-Morocco
2. Games
-Battlefield Bad Company 2
-Heavy Rain
-Bayonetta
-Left 4 Dead 2
-Portal 2
-Fallout 3
-Assassins Creed 2
3. Swag
-Playstation 3
-LCD TV
-iPhone 3GS
-iPod Touch
-Xbox Keyboard
-Xbox Wireless Headset
That's about all I can list specifically. In addition to that, I want a $5000 Visa giftcard so I can go on a ridiculous shopping spree and buy tons of clothes and shoes lol. And also like a shit ton of new makeup just cus that's always fun to buy. And I would dye my hair the way I want it to be.
My midterm went decently well today. I was pretty sure I was going to get 100% until the last page came along and ruined my day. I really need to work on homework tonight too but I just can't get motivated. This seriously sucks. At least i'm done everything that I needed to do for tomorrow. So it's not like I need to finish anything tonight but it's seriously impossible to get focused on Wednesdays because I wake up so early.
Anyway, I suppose I should try to get started. Blahhh
Song of the Day: "Gin N Juice" by Snoop Dogg. Again, just cus
<3
So I guess the easiest way to do this is to categorize them:
1. Travel
-Los Angeles
-Las Vegas
-New York City
-Cancun
-Belgium
-Morocco
2. Games
-Battlefield Bad Company 2
-Heavy Rain
-Bayonetta
-Left 4 Dead 2
-Portal 2
-Fallout 3
-Assassins Creed 2
3. Swag
-Playstation 3
-LCD TV
-iPhone 3GS
-iPod Touch
-Xbox Keyboard
-Xbox Wireless Headset
That's about all I can list specifically. In addition to that, I want a $5000 Visa giftcard so I can go on a ridiculous shopping spree and buy tons of clothes and shoes lol. And also like a shit ton of new makeup just cus that's always fun to buy. And I would dye my hair the way I want it to be.
My midterm went decently well today. I was pretty sure I was going to get 100% until the last page came along and ruined my day. I really need to work on homework tonight too but I just can't get motivated. This seriously sucks. At least i'm done everything that I needed to do for tomorrow. So it's not like I need to finish anything tonight but it's seriously impossible to get focused on Wednesdays because I wake up so early.
Anyway, I suppose I should try to get started. Blahhh
Song of the Day: "Gin N Juice" by Snoop Dogg. Again, just cus
<3
Monday, March 15, 2010
Ugh whatever...
I'm exhausted. It took me all night to focus enough to study. At least I finished my presentation. Too bad it's going to be a boring piece of crap haha. A presentation about paper. Joyyyy.
I'm dying for the summer break but I know it's still pretty far away. I watched the Lil Wayne "Behind the Music" special thing tonight and learned quite a bit I didn't know about him. Not that any of it was useful or important but I like his attitude anyway.
My favorite quote from the whole special is "I don't care if it's heroin in my cup. It's my cup. Fuck you"
I couldn't have put it better myself.
This is probably going to be super short because I don't know what to write but I also felt like I wanted to update.
I have a midterm in my Print Materials class tomorrow. I'm pretty sure it's going to kick my ass but we'll see.
Okay I really dont have anything else to say so i'm gonna try and go to bed early so i'm awake for the test tomorrow :D
Song of the Day: "Mrs. Officer" by Lil Wayne just cus :)
<3
I'm dying for the summer break but I know it's still pretty far away. I watched the Lil Wayne "Behind the Music" special thing tonight and learned quite a bit I didn't know about him. Not that any of it was useful or important but I like his attitude anyway.
My favorite quote from the whole special is "I don't care if it's heroin in my cup. It's my cup. Fuck you"
I couldn't have put it better myself.
This is probably going to be super short because I don't know what to write but I also felt like I wanted to update.
I have a midterm in my Print Materials class tomorrow. I'm pretty sure it's going to kick my ass but we'll see.
Okay I really dont have anything else to say so i'm gonna try and go to bed early so i'm awake for the test tomorrow :D
Song of the Day: "Mrs. Officer" by Lil Wayne just cus :)
<3
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Messssyyyyyy
Last night was fun! For the most part!
I went to Neila's new apartment, conveniently located 5 minutes away from SAIT (jealous!), and stayed the night. We were celebrating her move by having a couple friends over & partying at the Trap & Gill. The Trap is an Atlantic (newfie) themed pub attached to the Days Inn. It's fun if you like getting shit faced and not being able to talk to your friends after an hour.
I mean, I didn't get that drunk but Neila sure did!
Before we even left the house we were pre-drinking & playing drinking games. We even played Sociables Jenga style by writing the "cards" on each of the Jenga blocks and whatever you pulled was what you had to do/drink. We were all pretty much stumbling and mumbling before we even left the house. Then Neila got to the bar, ordered two double vodka sodas, short glasses (one was for me but I couldn't drink it lol), and ended up taking a total of 5 shots in a row, 4 tequila, 1 fruity girl shot.
Annnnnnd then she decided she was going to go home without telling any of us hahahha. So we spent a good 10 minutes wandering the bar & checking the bathrooms to see if we could find her and when she finally replied to my text "where r u?" (i iz gud drunk speelerr), she said "930 nlllll" which was supposed to be her address hahahaha.
Yeah. Good night. Early night, but good night.
Today I'm supposed to go see Shutter Island. I don't really want to go all the way back into Calgary today (i'm just a little bit hungover) but I suppose I am obligated lol.
I still haven't finished my presentation so i'm gonna go work on that now before I get lazy again. It's almost done I just need to put in a few more pictures to make it more visually appealing (since that's what papers all about ;))
Song of the Day: "Chariot" by Gavin Degraw. I don't even like this song but it's in Neila's honor.
<3
I went to Neila's new apartment, conveniently located 5 minutes away from SAIT (jealous!), and stayed the night. We were celebrating her move by having a couple friends over & partying at the Trap & Gill. The Trap is an Atlantic (newfie) themed pub attached to the Days Inn. It's fun if you like getting shit faced and not being able to talk to your friends after an hour.
I mean, I didn't get that drunk but Neila sure did!
Before we even left the house we were pre-drinking & playing drinking games. We even played Sociables Jenga style by writing the "cards" on each of the Jenga blocks and whatever you pulled was what you had to do/drink. We were all pretty much stumbling and mumbling before we even left the house. Then Neila got to the bar, ordered two double vodka sodas, short glasses (one was for me but I couldn't drink it lol), and ended up taking a total of 5 shots in a row, 4 tequila, 1 fruity girl shot.
Annnnnnd then she decided she was going to go home without telling any of us hahahha. So we spent a good 10 minutes wandering the bar & checking the bathrooms to see if we could find her and when she finally replied to my text "where r u?" (i iz gud drunk speelerr), she said "930 nlllll" which was supposed to be her address hahahaha.
Yeah. Good night. Early night, but good night.
Today I'm supposed to go see Shutter Island. I don't really want to go all the way back into Calgary today (i'm just a little bit hungover) but I suppose I am obligated lol.
I still haven't finished my presentation so i'm gonna go work on that now before I get lazy again. It's almost done I just need to put in a few more pictures to make it more visually appealing (since that's what papers all about ;))
Song of the Day: "Chariot" by Gavin Degraw. I don't even like this song but it's in Neila's honor.
<3
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