December 15th, 2004

Well, I sup­pose a lot has changed in the past week or so. If noth­ing else, it’s been eventful.

Firstly, my birth­day came and went Monday (the 13th) with much fan­fare (okay, the stan­dard fan­fare). 25 is a strange age to be, as it truly is one of those years where you feel torn - you’re still young, but you feel your­self being slowly pulled into the vortex that is the big 3-0. I sup­pose pres­sures, or maybe expec­ta­tions is a better word, begin to mount now to “make some­thing of myself” and to “grow up”. A lot of that may be self induced, but it’s real nonethe­less. In spite of all of this, how­ever, I am still not in a hurry to get the whole matu­rity thing going full steam. Maybe I can hold off for another 5-10 years.

Today is the last day of classes for this month, which means a couple of things. Firstly, sleep will once again be one of my friends for the next 2.5 weeks. Also, Christ­mas time is flying up - I’m yet to being shop­ping! I’ll be head­ing back to Atlanta this week­end, and plan on doing most, if not all, of it in a day. I hate shop­ping, but some­thing about shop­ping during the hol­i­days excites me. I sup­pose it’s the music and the atmos­phere. Also, the older you get, the more …. excited … you get about get­ting a gift for some­one, not just what you’re going to receive. This real­iza­tion has noth­ing to do with my land­mark birth­day, how­ever. I’ve felt this way for some time now.

I fin­ished up my latest After Effects project last night (or this morn­ing … what­ever time you con­sider 5am), and while I think it looks pretty good, it is not up to snuff in my opin­ion. I’ll be work­ing on it over the hol­i­days and re-​submitting it, but feel free to check it out (requires Quick­time for all you non-​quicktime weirdos out there) and all of the work I’ve done in CG class over in my art­work section.

I’m frus­trated I didn’t have more time to learn the ins and outs of After Effects, but this short­ened month kind of screwed things up for myself and my entire class. Every­one was rather demor­al­ized by the end, with myself espe­cially being burnt out from the hectic sched­ule and lack of real instruc­tion in the last week or so. Oh well, I did learn a ton, and plan on apply­ing a lot of that to a few ideas I have in the very near future. Also, I’m sure we’ll get lots more work with AFX later on this year.

I could ramble on about other things that have been going on - the sudden cold snap down here (what the hell is that about? It was 40 degrees here last night!), my recent pur­chase of a Nin­tendo DS (which will con­sume my every waking moment for the next few months), but I’ll spare you. I’m going to pre­pare myself for my final tonight, and then the free­dom that comes after it.

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7 Responses to “Update!”

1. liz says:
   December 16th, 2004 at 12:17 am

   dont forget to call when youre back in the ATL, although, its very pos­si­ble I’ll be busy… but call anyway!
2. Daniel says:
   December 16th, 2004 at 3:33 pm

   You got it - I’m look­ing for­ward to seeing as many of my friends as humanly pos­si­ble during those 2 weeks.
3. BicMan says:
   December 16th, 2004 at 5:26 pm

   Happy Birth­day!!! You’ve made it into my illus­tri­ous cal­en­dar, so you’ll receive timely birth­day wishes from me every year until I don’t like you any­more. =) Btw, I agree. 25 is a very weird age. I don’t feel like I’m old, but I’ve been alive for a quar­ter of a cen­tury. What’s that about?
4. Ali says:
   December 19th, 2004 at 11:00 pm

   i didn’t get to give you your present!

   daggum.

   oh well - next year :)
5. Daniel says:
   December 20th, 2004 at 9:51 pm

   Wait, you had a present for me! Drat! May I pick it up after the holy days?
6. Ali says:
   December 25th, 2004 at 4:54 pm

   duhhhhh….

   i’ll have to bake..er..i mean REbake the cook­ies too.
   :)
7. Daniel says:
   January 4th, 2005 at 11:16 pm

   Sugar Cook­ies, por favor.