Weekend Update
Haven’t updated in about a week, so I guess I should take the time to update folks on what’s going on. Let me go grab Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler.
Let’s see, what’s happened recently that’s really important… oh yeah, that presidential thing. Obama beat out McCain in electoral votes badly. But seriously… did people actually suspect McCain was going to win? I called this a month or so before it happened. I never doubted once that Obama would lose, I knew he had the support of a majority of the country. Personally, I absolutely hate (read: hate) politics and prefer not to get involved, and I would’ve stayed out of it if it wasn’t for a new underlying, unspoken rule. If you don’t vote, there are some people that straight-up hate you. Really! I can’t quite understand the logic here—I know it’s a ‘privilege’, an ‘honor’, and that I should exercise my right to vote, but what if I just don’t want to? Oh, I know I could take the time to find out about the candidates, but I just don’t care. I don’t think that makes me selfish, I just choose to be uninformed because when it’s all said and done I can stand back and continue to not care like I did in the first place. That doesn’t make me stupid, irresponsible or any other word synonymous with ‘careless’ or ‘dumb’. It’s my choice, darn it. But this election employed the ‘if you don’t vote, some of your friends will hate you’ rule. Bullcrap.
So, I registered to vote. Barely. I dropped it in the mailbox at 3pm the day it was due. I figured ‘you know, if I don’t get it in time, so be it’. But it came, and I had registered to vote. Since my roommate Alex had pressured me into it thus far, I decided I would even bother to watch the debates and read up on issues. I didn’t do this very often, but since he was watching, I had to anyway. My mindset was still mostly ‘I don’t care’, but I did come to some conclusions, not really enough to pull me strongly in either direction. When November 4th rolled around, I voted regardless, if only to be able to tell ‘those people’ that I voted. The people that would hate me if I didn’t. Hey, you people! You suck! Stop forcing me to care!
So yeah, I voted. At least when people ask I can be like ‘yeah, I voted’. If they ask who I voted for I just tell them it’s none of their business. The wise ones leave me alone after that.
Aside from the political crap (you have no idea how thankful I am that I can turn on the TV without hearing ‘socialism’ or ‘90% of the time’), everything has been going pretty great. School is finally winding down (I’ll be heading home this time 2 weeks from now, and won’t be back till January 5th), and soon I’ll be with Mal again. School hasn’t actually given me all that much trouble this quarter, except maybe the Maya project (no grade yet, but I’m expecting a big fat C- on that one). I showed my animation on Monday, though (a few posts down from this one) and it was met with overall positive responses (and one ‘awww’ from some girl who apparently liked Yoshi). We started to do gesture sketches the other day (drawing naked folks, for the uninformed) and I think I did alright, which is odd since I’ve never been able to really accurately draw a human body. Apparently the only thing I’ve ever really had a problem with was clothes, because once they come off I’m a drawing machine. Sort of. I’m also really comfortable around naked folks (and also being naked myself… but that’s another story), so no odd experiences here, expect maybe for the one male model who was like, “any requests? Need a particular pose? How about the Guitar Hero?” then proceeded to act like he was playing a guitar. Amidst my giggling like a schoolgirl at the video game reference, I accurately depicted his penis. Ah, the wonders of art school.
Speaking of video games, I’d be a complete liar if I didn’t say I wanted to say some things, so I will. Fallout 3. Good lord, it looks so fun. Looks. I chose not to buy it yet (Alex is already 40 hours into the game) since I was concerned that if I did, schoolwork wouldn’t get done. Well, that was definitely a good decision since last weekend was madness in terms of workload. But this weekend, however, the load is much, much lighter. It definitely makes me want to buy the game. Mallory has advised against it, saying that while this weekend may be easy, I might be screwed next week, and I’m already so darn close to the end. I know this, but maaaaan do I want to play it! I’m still on Chapter 4 of Mother 3, too, so maybe I’ll do the game a great justice by choosing it over Fallout.
Another random tidbit: apparently I’ve been being a good, responsible adult with my credit, since they recently raised my credit limit. Score! Now to go out and buy a new TV!
…that was a joke.
Dan recently came into the good fortune of an xbox 360 as well (for a super awesome cheapo price). Speaking of which, I decided that for my persuasive speech, I’d talk about how much better the xbox 360 is than the PlayStation 3. I started doing research and realized that I had to completely go against everything I believed… the PlayStation 3 is a better long-term investment than the xbox 360. There, I said it. And it’s true! Right this second, the games on 360 seem like gifts from the gods. However, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, illuminated by the PlayStation 3. And while I don’t know how long it will take to get to the end of that tunnel, I know that the winner of the console war is the PS3. And I don’t have one :(
That’s it for now. I’m just waiting for the school year to end, so I can continue to wait for December 21st. I’ll be with Mal again in 45 days, and I can’t wait. And I’ll be out of here in 14! Woohoo!
