56 Days

I just woke up from 18 hours sleep. That felt very good. Why? Well...

I have had a few deadlines the past couple of days. Monday and Tuesday, to be precise. Monday, my Development Project had a massive essay to be handed in, and yesterday was my 3D Animation. Needless to say, of course I handed both in on time and perfected.

But I have been working almost solidly the past week. Rendering is hard to do, especially when people keep turning off your computers, but that's what happens in public computer rooms. Plus, security lock up the only room you can use, because "there aren't security cameras in it". That makes getting a degree far easier, guys. Thanks.

But aside from fighting with security guards and battling my tiredness, I worked almost solidly from Wednesday to 18 hours ago. I worked everyday until Saturday, which was my father's birthday party, and I refused to miss his 60th birthday, even though I did leave early to go and write another 2000 words, but since 1PM Sunday until 2PM Tuesday, I only slept 4 hours. I spent the rest at Southlands trying my hardest to finish my work. I didn't sleep Monday night. And you know what? I finished it brilliantly.

My 3D Lecturer came to my animation's premiere, as well as a couple of other people. I showed it on a projector in an unused classroom. The animations were defined as "at least 10 seconds". Mine was 2:44 in total. As soon as I recode it into another bitrate (it's 500MB as is), I'll get it onto YouTube, so everyone can see. Just as the credits finished, my lecturer turned to me and said, totally deadpan, "I'm going to have to fail you on that.". I feel I might be on to a first.

Aside from having to work really hard, last week was one of the worst weeks I've had in a very long time. For various reasons. I won't go into details, but I quit my authoritative position at the JCS. As well as that, all of my housemates have managed to hurt and alienate me in several other ways. But now that I actually have some time to think, whereas I have been working solidly since the beginning of the month, I can actually react.

Luckily, I got to speak to Sarah about this. She called at the perfect time. I think I missed her yesterday though, as I was sleeping. If you tried to contact me, I'm sorry. You would have had more luck waking somebody in a morgue.

My father also had a wonderful party, where I met almost all of his friends I knew growing up. I've never seen a more profound collection of people I knew from being a child. And Ray played a fantastic Blues set with his band. I filmed it on my phone. The sound isn't great, but it never is, but I'll put them on YouTube too at some point. I also had a fun day with Imogen and Becky. LOL.

Completing such an arduous task has left me feeling very satisfied. I have to get going, since I'm usually asleep at this time of the day anyway, my body clock is telling me to rest. I'm also going to comment that ClassicFM played some amazing music to work by, with two Christopher O'Riley songs from True Love Waits. I was very happy to hear those.

I'm going to browse the net briefly, shower, and then see what the day is like from 8:30AM. Good day to you all.