Just Don't Know

I wasn't intending to have a blog to be all emotional about things, but in these circumstances, I say screw it.

The girl I mentioned? I got into a weird situation. She's from Connecticut. Three days ago, she broke up with her boyfriend of two years. She had a slight attraction to this guy Jared (which is totally unrelated to the boyfriend break-up). And she trusts me above all others to talk to about all of this. So I was in this delicate situation because I wanted to help her and I had to somehow stop myself from not giving her advice that would advance her vision of me. Somehow it worked...well, half-way. Tonight, we talked for two hours (she just left) and we got really in depth; she knows nearly all of my darkest secrets and vice versa. She got into all the things she looks for in a guy, each of which I know I have, but she doesn't really seem to notice that I possess them all. I don't want to say much else for now...

Longer Days

Gah, so sorry I haven't updated much; my schedule ended up being incredibly ridiculous. I have friends who are taking 16 hours worth of classes and they have classes every weekday from 10-2. I, on the other hand, picked an Engineering major, while also taking band; I have 31 hours of class a week. I'm doing nearly double the work for the credit I'm receiving. I have a Physics Lab every Monday and Wednesday night from 7:30-9:30 PM, a class I had no idea about until my first day of college. I have 9 hours of class on Monday, between 7:30 AM and 9:30 PM and 7 hours of class between those same times on Wednesday. Friday is slightly less evil. But, thank God, Tuesday, my first class is 12:30 and, even better, tomorrow (today, technically), first class at 2:30, and then I'm done by 5:30.

Well that's enough of my class complaining. Next post should be soon; there's a girl...well, sorta not...

Long Days

This is only my fourth day here, and it already feel like so much more. We've been doing band things for most of the day, 5.5 hours of it out in the sun with triple digit temperatures marching on pavement. The good news is that the people in our mellophone section are wonderful. Ok, I'm tired; I go back to sleep for a little bit.

Moving In

In less than seven hours, I will officially be moved into my dorm room. I was one of many who had to go a week early for marching band, which will suck...a lot. We practice three times a day for three hours each time on pavement in 100ish degree weather. Hooray.

And There It Wasn't

For some reason, Youtube just doesn't feel like uploading my video correctly, so I'm resorting to Photobucket, which also will upload videos. Don't expect a super-pretty video here; this was pretty much just what I had learned after a couple of days of teaching myself and has a...weird feel to it.

And Here It Is.

Sight and Sound

I finally finished it. It's about 2:33 long, and it works perfectly...on my computer. When I convert it, however, the audio and video no longer match up.

Update: Somehow, I got it to work near perfectly. The video slows down a bit as it goes, but the music still ends up working. I got extremely lucky. If any of the 1 of you want to see my first flash film (where I used absolutely no code and pretty much just taught myself), go here

Late Mornings

Ever since I stayed up all though the night to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, my sleep schedule has been out of whack. I've been going to bed at 5am and waking up at 1pm. I'm getting my eight hours of sleep, but I think those are the wrong eight. It's not like I haven't tried to sleep; I have, and it didn't work. So to occupy myself, I took up Flash. I'm getting better than I was before, and now I have the trailer about half-way done and a one minute short done for another couple of friends. I would think about doing that for a living, but I already have goals; I needn't be setting lower ones.

Flash Before My Eyes

Most of you don't know this, but about a year and a half ago I got two of my good friends together, Daniel and Elise. We call them Danielise for short. Well, I would get bored in class, and I would make this short comic about the two of them doin' stuff; it was basically a satire on them, as the characters would say things like "Where he go?" and the real Danielise is incredibly smart. Anyway, I've been pretty bored this summer, without another Lost experience to enjoy, so two days ago, I decided to make an animated version of The Adventures of Danielise. So I decided to learn Flash.
I've been teaching myself. So far, I've worked about 7.5 hours on it, and I have 33 seconds done on this Danielise Trailer. It'll be a total of about 2:30 when I'm done, so I still have a couple days of work left on this baby. I'll probably continue updating my progress on here. If you want to see the first 33 seconds, it's here http://youtube.com/watch?v=T-c2BqkVqxo.

The First One

I haven't used a blog for quite a while; I'm not even sure what I'm going to use it for. Well, um...I'm pretty much a normal guy. Wait, scratch that, I'm not a normal guy; I'm one of those "nice guys" who has a bunch of girl friends but no girlfriends. Yeah, that's closer to the truth. So that'll be enough for the first post...yeah.