Another day in the life.

Well its been another day complete with both annoying and happy moments... Though more annoying than happy i guess.

The past few days i have been keeping busy, i made a day trip home to visit my family, and help my sis with her move... Though i couldn't do much, then i came home to see my Love for a day before i had to return to work. Now two days into work tomorrow is my wednesday and this week has been ok. However as a project i have started something new, kinda randomly. Im modeling my girls old phone. Its a Sony Ericsson T610, its a brick from yesteryear but its an interesting looking phone... Not like an Iphone witch i could model in about 45seconds... Ok not really but its a really simple and boring design, anyway i figured i would post a few work in progress shots of this phone. It still needs a lot of work (i always say that...) But i think its coming together quite well... Better than i had though it would at least. This all started with a tutorial on said phone but it was so badly written that i got tired of it and ended up just scraping the model from the tutorial and starting my own. Anyway here are the shots of it so far. Now im going to bed before it gets much later... im getting old going to bed before 1...

-Nick

The time.

So i had time and it was quiet so i figured i would write another blog... I wonder if anyone actually reads these... Ether way for my at least one reader i shall continue to write and share what little thoughts my brain can muster.So i covered in my last blog the basics of whats been going on the past few months now i guess i will open up as to how i fell about everything.

Next semester is going to be the hardest semester of my life most likely. I will be taking speech, comp II, Fundamentals of art, Lightwave modeler, and advanced Photoshop. at the same time i will be attempting to continue to work at wal mart though in much smaller capacity, as well as spend time with Andi who will be living in a town house with a bunch of friends that will all what to do stuff... I have no idea how its all going to fit, My weeks are fairly simple, Monday through Thursday i am booked straight though till 4pm. After that comes fitting in work and life... Im really nervous about Speech and Comp II, both of those will require quite a bit of writing about as you have probably figured out from this blog, that is not exactly my area of strength, it will also involve well... giving speeches which i utterly hate doing but i have to get over. Also Lightwave is going to be a key class in my academic carrier, if i do badly in that class... I don't know what im going to do, I love to model but i never really felt that good at it, I have always chalked that up to just never being taught, other than briefly by Dustin. Which though he was a good teacher we never got very deep and i just feel some times as if im going to fail in my desired profession.

Other than next semester a few things have happened this summer as well, ive made a few friends and i know i will lose them as soon as summer ends and im kinda really sad about it, Paul and Keven have been good for days when im down, though neither of them are Christian i can be honest with them and they don't judge me for my faith with is nice as well. So after summer ends it will just be Brian and me again, Which at least i have him to keep me company, he surprisingly good at encouraging me when im down due to work. But its nice to have other people to hang out with for a change.

On happier note (and i really am happy about this) Jami and Dustin are moving back! but more impotently than that, Jesse and Brea are moving back! :P Ok Though i love Jesse and Brea, Jami is really the one i have missed the most, shes always been my best friend though all my teen years and i was really sad to see her go, but i tried to always be happy for her because she was doing what she wanted and i didn't want to tie her down.(not that i could anyway)But im really looking forward to spending a little time with her next weekend, Andi is coming too and i always like it when Andi and Jami get to talking. It makes me happy to see my big sis who i admire and my girl who i also admire get along. There was a time when i was afraid that wouldn't happen, but Andi and i have grown up a little since then and things have all evened out.

And lastly i came up with some interesting concept ideas in the shower yesterday, I should get a water proof computer and just work in the shower... Anyway, i was remembering a character Dustin had made named Space man Earl! And i always had loved this character and i had the idea to make my own space man Earl, but i didn't want to just copy Dustin, however i liked the name, so i decided i should make a space man named James Earl, James is not only my middle name but about my favorite game developer ive ever read anything about. (Go watch Extra Credits) So i decided i would make him a space Robin hood-ish character, other than he would consider himself "the poor" at times I know the idea has probably been done a million times over but it sounded good to me so i may give it a shot... Not sure with what... Maybe i will give writing a short a try! and then as my final project i can use that short! ... Yeah...

Ok enough daydreaming about when im a good artist, i guess i better get back to the present and Andi. Hope you enjoyed reading and i will continue to attempt to post on a fairly regular basis.
-Nick

Every week... HA!

So i said i would do this once a week... i said that like four months ago... and i have posted a grand total of 4 times when this is up... Oh well i guess you get what you get.

As for whats been going on, The semester ended i got all As and Bs and then i got to undergo the wonderful operation of getting my teeth pulled. It really wasn't so bad other than missing out on steak for Mothers day, but i got over it rather quickly and wasn't totally stuck in bed for longer than about 18 hours, after that i just got up and walked around for a few hours, It was kinda nice having all that time to relax, even though i did NOTHING constructive.

After coming home (Brian's house) I knew i needed to get a job to make money so i could survive another school year. The first thing i needed to do however was to get information from my earlier jobs so that i would have people to use as references and i would know who to use as my supervisor in any applications, It took awhile but i got it all together in about a day. After getting it all i decided to use it all in my first app to make sure i had everything i would need. so i applied at wal-mart as my test app. They had never so much all called me back before so i figured i wouldn't wind up getting a job there but it was best to apply anyway just incase. Well it was good i did because i got a call back the very next day to come in for an interview. two days after applying i was hired. Now several weeks later... i hate walmart... Not really surprising that that happened because they are a large company with somewhat stupid management but what ever, its there company to run as they wish.

During the time i have worked at wal-mart i have gotten to know a few of my coworkers Paul mainly, hes an IT guy so hes even more of a geek than i am, which makes for some interesting conversations. But being that he almost has a bachelors degree in IT hes not all that happy working at a job like wal-mart, i don't blame him. But he gives me an interesting person to talk to... even if our conversations grow more and more towards the insane... such as voodoo shelves attacking us and how best to cook said shelves to eat, and how to make home made alcohol in a prison cell using nothing but fruits and a toilet... He says it would help you survive the years of incarceration... I say If your that desperate you should just ask for the chair... its a lot more humane than his idea... but what ever the case we have fun during extremely boring days... which most are.

As for my home life Andi has been working just like me and our weekends only somewhat line up so we don't get to spend a ton of time together but we still get to see each other so we have been surviving, lots of talk of marriage the past few weeks I have been saving up for a ring and Andi knows it, I told her at some point i want to go out looking for said ring with her and see if i can find a better deal than what i find online, Perhaps not but who knows. I feel rather cheep but i really am rather poor, and i want to get her the best ring possible so looking for a good deal is part of that. I just hope shes not annoyed with my thriftiness.

Tomorrow is Friday! not for you but for me it is! its actually Thursday but my set up lets me off Friday Saturday so i get a partial weekend with Andi, which is nice. im going down to stillwater tomorrow night probably so that i can spend as much time with Andi as possible. I really miss her when shes not around so i do my best to see her when ever and for as long as possible.

well thats about it for now i guess, my life is rather boring right now, just working all day and sleeping the rest of the time. I have been trying to eat better than i used to, by way of drinking lots of smoothies and eating more protean and i think its helped but im really tired at present so i guess its time to call it quits on this blog, hope you enjoyed reading my ramblings about my life.
I Love you Andi!
-Nick