notes from underground

Back on campus, as of late Saturday night. Took me a while to actually make contact with Techhouse people, I spent most of Sunday cleaning and shopping. Somehow, leaving my room clean when I left still meant I had a mess to deal with when I returned… now everything is (mostly) put away, and I’m moving on to thinking about classes.

Shopping period is looking like it’ll be fun this year. Three courses are pretty set, two of which I’m excited about and one of which I’m resigned to… Japanese History with Kerry Smith looks like it’ll be wonderful, and the new Anime & Manga course in the MCM department should at least be interesting…. for god’s sake, it’s an ANIME COURSE! Japanese 40 is going to be hard, but if I work hard I should hopefully improve more than I did last semester. Not that that’s hard, necessarily. Last semester turned out OK, but it was still… unfortunate.

The other courses I’ll be shopping are varied and sundry, but look to be interesting. I am signed up for a Visual Art course on “digital imaging” (I expect this to mean digital photomanipulation, but either way I get to learn photoshop), and also one on Russian Science Fiction that has a cool reading list. I’ll either settle on one of those, or see how shopping Econ 11 and an anthro-linguistics course go… Anthro-Linguistics is the part of linguistics I like, and Econ’s something ir eally ought to understand, but I really hope the VA course turns out well.

Got a call from Joey in Rome today. Sounds like he’s having a good time, although he implied classes weren’t great… too bad, but at least it sounded like the food was divine.

Personal projects for the coming semester:
-Model and Rig an anime-style character
-Learn to cell-shade it
-Play around with Photoshop and Alias Sketchpad; make cool shit
-Read more
-Survive

ttfn, I go to read the complete Calvin and Hobbes! (christmas was GOOD this year)

Bunny.
Mac Hall.
Applegeeks.
I don’t think I need to say anything else.

Went to Andy Zhang’s house today, where people were helping Stina with some english project where they needed to film her glowsticking. It was fun to see people again–I haven’t seen Stina or Meli in ages, missed them a lot, much fun to finally get to say hi–and I also got to try out my new soundcard in action. I figured out how to monitor the active channel of virtual dj using my headphones, while the final mix was sent to Andy’s speakers. Much fun.

Because Stina needed higher sound quality than the camcorder could provide, I ended up recording an hour-long set… there are a lot of glitches, but in my defense most of the glitches match up to points where people came up and distracted me with questions! ^_^

The mix is being uploaded now, it’ll take a little while to finish uploading but it should be available at the link below by 11pm central time.