8 posts tagged “work”
*sings*
...and I pro-cras-ti-nate!
Woke up this afternoon to a tumultuous scattered storm. Played God of War 2 on Titan Mode (Chico finished it on normal on the eve of my senior project presentation). Cleaned my room. Tonight? The paper, and a trip to the art studio to clear it out before the professors check them @9. Good thing its warm outside.
Also, photoshopped a pointless myspace profile pic. I'm not hiding from him. But if I see him, I'll definitely kick his ass for the sixth time. Ya heard, E-WEAPON? Anyway, I've got to go try kicking Theseus' butt butt. I hate those minotaurs.
yesterday morning at 10:40 am I had my final critique with the art department. a solo, one vs. five affair that lasted a clean 20 minutes. they had no band things to say about my senior project (yes!) and were captivated by these tiny collages I made in addition to my cnn drawings (swell!). that is all taken care of. one paper and one final left until freedom (so close).
the rest of the day was spent waiting in a stand-still line for 3 hours to get tickets for the various events during senior week and catching up on lost sleep from the night before. There was a heady heat outside of AC territory, and at times it felt like northern new york had suddenly become kansas.
Our school has this tradition called 'Primal Scream' that happens at midnight the night before finals start. It happens both semesters; students collect around the central quad between all of the dorms, and when midnight strikes everyone explodes in a collective, cathartic scream. If you came upon the scene with no understanding of what was going on, it would probably appear to resemble a campus-wide sacrifice. Not to mention, following all the screaming a herd of naked seniors come running around the dorms. A good handful of my friends decided last minute to participate in the nekkid bits, but I decided to keep it on the down low and just watched them run around instead.
It was a surreal night, followed by a heavy, solid, duration of sleep. I'll be done in a week. Is that scary or what?
(i'll be working on my thesis until it is due at 10 am. chico's been playing GOW2 nonstop since 12-hours ago, and he finally dealt with all of those damned fates.)
Oh internets! How you bring me joy in so many ways!
Things that were accomplished yesterday:
- Attended my very last class of college. It was a lecture on Vermeer. Not bad.
- Collected my final drawings and wrote a final script. Turned in my Media Studies thesis.
- Bought myself (and my house) a congratulatory gift.
- Took a nap.
- Celebrated with said gift in the company of good and great friends.
- Took a hardcore sleep.
- Finish my Studio Art thesis.
- Finish a 10-page paper on Tank Girl.
- Take a Dutch and Flemish painting final.
- Party hard.
- Graduate.
If there is one thing I fervently believe in it is the fruitful benefits of procrastination. Procrastination doesn't always leave you with the most comfortable situation at the end of the rope, but the key is to make your procrastination productive. What you end up getting is hours of constructive, meaningful activities while putting off that one thing that you really don't want to do. How about that!
Naturally this comes to mind in the wired 5:30 AM brain of a second semester senior trying to finish her paper on Dutch and Flemish painting, but hey! Here are the top 10 steps that will ensure the most productive procrastination possible, give or take a few moments of "there is no way I can finish this by tomorrow". Huzzah!:
1. Do 50 Jumping Jacks
2. Floss your teeth!
3. Make a cup of coffee and pretend like you woke up early to see the sunrise.
4. Write e-mails to long distance friends that you miss, and if necessary, call them and 'squee' to them how much you miss them (if it's not too late at night)
5. Check AIM to see if anyone else is even alive at this hour
6. Eat a piece of cold pizza that you found abandoned in the living room
7. Clean your room to create a more viable 'thinking space'
8. Listen to Seu Jorge, the Amelie soundtrack, and Kings of Convenience to retain a calm state of mind
9. Reassure yourself that in a week and a half, it'll all be done. It'll all be over.
10. Take three confident sips of coffee, put on your bear hat, and work till its done!
Oh, and its not like I need to make a point of this any longer, but re-blogging is absolutely too convenient:
But, it always helps to have a bit-astic music to accompany the struggles of stress.
I have good friends who give me good music. Hats off to them.
I just wanted to briefly share some of the frames from one page of my senior project for media studies. The sequence is inherently simple, but you'll probably ask "Hold on a second, uh...how does this relate to media". And then I'd say "You'll just have to wait and see!".
So yeah. Wait and see! It's a work in progress! Right now these are all being drawn by hand with a pilot precise V5, a japanese mechanical pencil, and some sharpies. Really high tech over here. I've scanned the pages in at a high resolution with the intention of working it them into flash somehow. I still need to play around with things, but enjoi regardless, plz.
This is me in my thinking-bear-cap giving academic papers a big thumbs down.
check in: 2:19 am
status: 4 pages complete, 1 more (the toughest page) left
bonus: noodles for my noodle (har har)
