Graphic Design Is My Passion {Week 41}

Wah my Luigis! So, so late. I know, just when I promised things would get done around here the entire foundation goes crumbling down. For anyone keeping up with my blog, yes, this entry comes a whole 2 week late... life ain't easy or convenient and sadly is not structured around my blogging which it really should be. Everything would be serene and super slow-paced. It's been a little rough, there's been a lot to do in my personal life and in relation to starting work soon. So I've been a mess, never been a multitasker and now that I know that actually multitasking, i.e. doing two demanding things at once, is impossible, I'm not even going to try. Without further ado, here's some pics and text.

Start of the week...

Monday was a nice and sunny day. In the morning I went to our outlet store and found a number of cute things that I blogged about today on finnymemo. Spent time by the river in the town where I have classes. There were many people out and about. Fishermen, cyclists, a dog. Got some really nice pics of the place:

 

Very nice underpass.

Tuesday I got all dressed up with my polka skirt and totally overestimated the cold. I was way overdressed. Stopped by a random store where I wanted to buy a key chain but didn't have a euro in cash and they didn't accept card. Some lovely gent offered to pay for it but I said I could always just come back. Turns out they do accept card so I just bought it then. Some people are really nice though, it's pretty reassuring. Spied some ugly Halloween decor there too and had my lunch on my fave bench.

Spooks.

What was I thinking?!

Wednesday I spent most of the day finishing the Deftones fanlisting. I've tried many options and couldn't' settle til the last minute. Finally I did and finished it up, not totally happy with the results but it's alright. 

On Thursday I had a really long ass day. As many of you know it's breast cancer awareness month and our teacher did warn us ahead that we'd be making some posters for the event and the building in general. So it was the day. It was pretty easy to work with everyone, everyone chipped in but as soon as I started drawing and people saw my ability I guess something weird happened. They kind of kept asking me what to do at every step. I was always telling them to do whatever they wanted or felt would be best. Like when they couldn't decide what colours to use and stuff but everyone hesitated. Felt sad that adults are so reserved in creative expression. Anyone can draw or colour, we're not doing brain surgery or something. Mistakes won't cost lives. I almost want adult art classes to be available for everyone now.

Planning stage.

Working hard or hardly workin'?

I had a ridiculous lunch. So I've gotten really lazy lately and I just buy one of those microwaveable pastas, specifically the cheese and chicken variant. It's cheaper and tastes better. But they didn't have it today! So I ended up buying chicken ham and just a three cheese pasta. Then I microwaved it and torn up way too much chicken ham into it to create my monster hybrid lunch. It tasted fine but felt like a crime somehow. I did get everyone jaffa cakes though so that was good.

Cursed lunch.

On Friday we finished up our posters and put them up in the hallway. Everyone was very impressed. I think we did a really good job, especially working together. Even Veronika who often slacks off a little did her part and helped a lot with colouring. It was a good time. And obviously if you have free healthcare and check ups, please go and use that shit up! Girls, transfolk, enbies, go get your titties checked!

How I woke up.

Fishin'.

I helped to draw the girl on this one.

Poster I mostly worked on.

Saturday I was just unproductive but it must have been in part because I was getting sick as by the evening I felt like shit. I'm almost half way through the season 2 of Buffy. I watched season 1 ages ago and for some reason I didn't really like it but season 2 is soooo good. I love Kendra and Oz, they are probably my faves.

On Sunday I got really busy trying to figure out how to make the BadUpdate exploit work on our Xbox. See, we got a Winchester model: good thing is that it won't overheat as much as the original slims, bad thing is we can't hardmod it. Honestly, I really didn't want to anyway. I don't have any soldering equipment and I don't know anyone who has some I could borrow. We're a big power tools household right now. Either way I will just wait for a permanent softmod to eventually develop and just do that. The BadUpdate exploit has been made leagues more efficient sometime this summer and while I wasn't checking up some legend from the Nintendo hacking scene made the exploit run through the avatar screen instead of RockBand Blitz. A real hero.

Anyway, after a billion attempts I got the exploit to run and we were able to load into whatever CFW we wanted, I chose Aurora like most. We had a new problem where something was really fucked with the formatting and I couldn't read my drive on PC. Sucks. I'll work on that. Anyway, I did manage to test out Forza Horizon on it as it's one of my brother's fave Xbox 360 games. We played it all evening and even had fun dressing him up as like a really broke version of Ryan Gosling from Drive.

He drives.

So that was my week. In between all that I was also juggling weird appointments that kept getting cancelled and re-instated and so on. I'll also be working at the kiwi farms on the 30th and 31st so I had to tell Aicha that I would be finishing the program up earlier. 

End of week 41.

This Week I'm Excited For...

To get some damn games on the 360 and start playing them! We'll finally try out Halo as long time Halo shit-talkers. I mean that mildly, we just find Halo to look kind of generic next to other sci-fi franchises but I'm sure we're going to like it anyway. Also I want to get Bullet Witch and maybe DarkSector or something like that. 

Song Of The Week...

Alice sent me a super cute quiz map thing about throwing the perfect house party and I got Milky's Just The Way You Are. I was literally looking for this song because I couldn't remember the name! I think it's only fair to make it my song of the week and thank you, Alice!