Homeward Bound
Cue Simon and Garfunkel, please.
Well, that’s it. I’m finished. As I type this, I’m sitting in my old office chair in the office of my house. Being home feels amazing, and while I love SCAD to death and wouldn’t mind being with my friends at school again, it’s nice to finally chill out and take a break.
Projects, projects, projects. For my final in Advanced Computer Art Applications, we had to create a web site and incorporate Flash in some way. I figured now would be a perfect time to finish the domain I purchased 9 months ago, StephenGeorg.com. So I did! The domain isn’t up at the moment since I’m having some problems with my server (Dreamhost is on this, no worries), but you can view the same site at my backup located here.
For Drawing 2 we had to do this. Not really much to say about that.
And for Speech I gave a critique of Crooked A’s. She thought the speech was great and gave me a 96, which ended up being the highest score I had gotten in the class so far.
I’m unsure of my grades, but I’m pretty sure I wound up with an A and two B’s. I should know within the next few days, hopefully.
Last update I mentioned wanting to buy Fallout 3… so I did. I think I put in about 12 hours or so on it, but I haven’t played it in about a week or so. Dan borrowed it and put in about 15 hours in two days or so—he actually gave it back to me at one point but then re-borrowed it again later that night. He’s addicted, so I’m assuming by this point he’s probably purchased the game. Even Alex bought the game, and he beat it around the 45 hour mark, just in time for him to go pick up the new WoW expansion. Crazy addict.
We’ve also started on the Fobbies are Borange comic. So far a team of four artists have been assembled and are currently working toward the ultimate goal of recreating the entire series in comic format. It’s a massive undertaking—I’m suspecting that it will take a few years, honestly. One page down. Thousands to go.
My schedule before I left school got a little off track. Alex and myself (who decided to take the same classes this quarter) finished our finals on Monday night, even though we couldn’t leave until Thursday afternoon. Tuesday night, in a fit of awesome (or stupid), we decided (along with Taylor) to stay up all night. That Wednesday morning we went to breakfast (one of the only times we got breakfast that quarter) then off to our 11 am class where we presented our websites. We got back around 2pm and I slept from then till about 4pm. So for those keeping track, I woke up Tuesday at 9:45am and it is now 4pm on Wednesday, with 2 hours of sleep. Anyway, at 5pm we had speech class, so we went to that then came back later. By 8pm I was about dead, so I lied down again, waking up at 10pm. When I woke up I got on Skype to talk to Mal a bit. Time passed quick—suddenly it was 11:52pm and I realized I had missed my opportunity to get some food at the last place on campus to close (the sub shop closes at midnight). ‘Crap’, I thought. Eventually, about 1:30am or so, Alex awoke as well. His car was having problems, Ian needed something printed, and I was starving. So we decided to take a trip to Kinkos/WalMart at 2am.
It was freezing, good lord. It was about 27 °F, which is unbearably cold to a southern boy. (Really, you can’t comprehend the pain that winter weather causes me). Ian used his magical French powers to get the car working again and we headed off to Kinkos.
The problem with Alex’s car was this: apparently his fan was continuing to run when he shut off his car, which killed his battery. Ian jumped his car and took out the fan plug. When we got to Kinkos (about 20 minutes away), Alex kept driving around to continue to recharge the battery. As we left, though, Ian looked up and saw that the temperature gauge was right on H, so he jumped out of the car and quickly put the fan plug back in. The car cooled down and everyone cheered.
Anyway. When we got to WalMart, Dan and myself headed for Subway (open 24 hours!) while Taylor, Alex and Ian went to buy some crap. The lady ahead of Dan and me was taking forever (and not just because there’s only one person working at 2:30am). Apparently she was getting subs for more than just herself: she had a list of 8 subs or so. By the time she had finished, the rest of our group was back and waiting for us. We finally got our subs and left. When we got back to the dorm it was about 3:30am. By the time I went to bed that night it was 4:45am, leaving me with 5 hours of sleep.
Quick recap: woke up Tuesday morning at 9:45am. It is now Thursday morning, 9:45am. I’ve had two 2 hour naps and a 5 hour sleep session. So in 48 hours I’ve slept 9. Not bad, not bad.
Thursday is the day I’m supposed to be finishing up, so I get back from my last class of the year then get started on packing up all of my stuff. My parents and myself don’t leave out until about 7:30pm or so, and embark on the long journey home. I’d say I slept about an hour in the car. When we got back home it was 12:30am. Being the person I am, I got sidetracked and got on Skype. To make a long story short, I went to bed at 8am. So let’s recap:
- Wake up Tuesday 9:45am
- Slept Wednesday 2pm
- Woke up Wednesday 4pm (2 hours)
- Slept Wednesday 8pm
- Woke up Wednesday 10pm (4 hours)
- Slept Thursday 4:45am
- Woke up Thursday 9:45am (9 hours)
- Got an hour of sleep on the road (10 hours)
- Slept Friday 8am
I was up for over 70 hours with 10 hours of sleep. Hmm. I should really not do that. Ever. Ever. Again.
My sleep schedule is all off wack again because of this. I went to bed last night at 11am and woke up today at 6:30pm. I plan on getting this fixed tonight by going to bed around 11pm or so. Unfortunately that means I will have only been up for 4½ hours before I head off to bed, so I may not be able to fall asleep. Oh well, we’ll hope for the best.
To wrap all of this up, I’ll mention again my trip to Wisconsin coming up on December 21st. It’s crazy to think it’s only 29 days away. I’m sure I’ll have all sorts of pictures to post here, so keep on the lookout :)
(and ps: hire me to do stuff since I need money D:)
