Shoes, Animation, and Life

I love these shoes. I think they are SO cute Link And they are only $30 bucks. I really want to get them Maybe I will. I need some shoes that color since I had flats that were that color, and I totally walked a hole in them. It makes it hard to match with a couple of my outfits without those shoes. ModCloth.com is a truly great website. If anyone wants to make me very happy, just get me a gift certificate for that store. Oh My gosh. Mom. PLEASE tell me you want me to buy these shoes. I haven't gone shopping in SO long. I haven't set foot in a mall since December. My wardrobe is boring, and I don't have shoes that go with the springy weather, since I was a fool and only brought winter clothes. Not that its really warm here. But still.

Animation. Well, my animation portfolio is due on Wednesday. It is kind of freaking me out. I kind of have this feeling/fear that I won't get in, and that will be really sad because its A) The only job I think I would be happy doing, since I get impassioned easily. When something interests me I glom onto it like no other, but I also get bored of things really quickly. I am involved in a project now and I'm still fully invested in it which is rare for me, because usually when I get really into things, I loose interest and move on. That is different for this project. I still am really interested. And B) I know tons of people in the animation program, and people always mistake me for being in it. And it would be SO sad if I didn't get in.

Hm I'm being really whiny right now. but I am seriously freaked out.

Life. Well, the other day they showed Dean Duncan, the guy that teaches my film class, and one of the faculty members that is in charge of this project, the credit plates that I did for the blind men and the elephant, and he was so impressed. He was like "You did this?" And he really liked the storybook quality that it had. He even asked if I would still be interested in doing more of these Children's Media Initiative films because he said they had another one they were planning on doing, and he liked the style I did the credits in and thought that style would be good in this other movie. He told me to keep in touch with them if I didn't get into the program. Yeah! I'm so thrilled about that!

Here's the Video


Its funnier when you watch this one with it

I HATE Tuesday

So I REALLY abhor tuesdays. And this one is going especially bad. Actually Yesterday is the root of my problem. Actually make that Sunday.

Sunday: I wasn't feeling super great because, well, I am a girl, if you get my drift, and I was really fatigued and in pain. So I felt really badly when I was at the temple dedication broadcast and I sort of kept drifting in and out of sleep. The dedication was pretty great, President Monson is pretty awesome. I liked the part at the end where we got to wave hanky's around and then sing.

Anyway, when I went back home a. I had No food since the Cannon Center Closed at 3, and thats when church got out, and our ward was the only one that was in session for the whole 3 hours. and b. I still felt wretched and couldn't concentrate on anything. So I didn't really get started on any of my homework. I felt that ill. Unfortunately for me, I got dreadfully behind in my homework.

Monday: Because I got so behind on sunday I had a ton to do last night. In the form of writing a paper that was 5-7 pages long. I could only use 2 online sources. I went to dinner, Skipping FHE and, oh thats right McKay sees me walking in and is like "Oh you're going to eat? I'll be right in" And I'm kind of like, no I don't really want to sit by you thanks so I sit down with Cami and Chanel and I can see him cruising around the cannon casually getting food and I get up to get some cereal and he finds me, and this is our conversation, Him "Hey where are you sitting?"
Me. "over there with those twins"
Him: "Oh Is there room"
Me: "Uh I dunno.."
And then he follows me over to the table and sits there and we chat for a bit, and then, I leave and I went back to my dorm to write my paper.
Then I realized that the books I had were not adequate to answer my prompt for the paper so I high-tail it to the library at like 9:00 to get information. I involved a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, and ALL of the books about the man were in a FOREIGN LANGUAGE! HOW am I supposed to get information from a book that is in GERMAN? I was so annoyed, So I had to fluff up the little information I got online. Anyway push comes to shove, after the library closes at 12 I went back, I finished at 3. and went to bed. Good thing it was only a rough draft that had to be turned in, and only one of my peers will be proofreading it.

Then, after I was snug in my bed, I got one of those excruciating leg cramp things, and had to ease my leg back into a comfortable enough state to sleep.

This morning I woke up totally exhausted because of my late night + the freak leg cramp (which happened in both legs) and I got up to go to class. I got ready in less than 10 mins, even though it hurt to walk around since every time my legs do that thing it hurts the next morning. and I shuffled off to class and was early for once in my life. Then we learned about post-impressionism.

Then I sat in the Wilk, being angry that everything closes for devotional and I can never get anything to eat on tuesdays. I saw McKay in the distance. I am pretty observant since back in middle school I wanted to be a spy and so I learned to observe my surroundings. Usually I see a lot of people I know in any given place when they don't notice me. I was glad he didn't see me at any rate. Then I did my french homework.

I looked at my phone and it was freaking out. The screen turned pink and blacked out. Then I looked later and it was fine. and later it freaked out in different ways. Its busted.

Then I went to french. Then went directly to film class, and looked up french recipes during that. The best clip in that was this one from a B movie called "The Leopard Man" in which this white girl, pretending to be hispanic was like "Mamacita I can't go out and get corn meal for you a leopard escaped yesterday and they haven't caught it yet" And the mom was like "Have you ever seen a leopard before? No. Now go!" So the girl goes to the close by store and they are closed so she has to go far away to this other store where se has to go under this dark bridge. She goes through ok and gets the corn meal and on the way back she goes under this other section where its lighter, and she sees 2 glowing eyes. Rather than turn back like a sane person, she thinks she imagined it or something and she walks in and SURPRISE! the leopard is there. Next thing we know, she's banging on the door, screaming "Mamacita the leopard is following me! Let me in!" this whole shot is from the inside of the house and the mom is like "stop that screaming you better have the corn meal bla bla bla, the mom doesn't let her in. Then we hear the leopard scream and attack her and the mom freaks out but the door doesn't open and the mom and the brother try to break it down but it was too late, and we see a trickle of blood under the door.

I also discovered in that class that Buster Keaton was built.

Then I finally went to taco bell and got some food. Then I went home, and then went to the Creamery on 9th and got ingredients to make some Madelines, this french cookie-type thing, and went over to Kelli's apartment to make them. After I made them, thy were decent by the way a little toasted since I didn't have a madeline tin, I went to get my figure drawing stuff, and ran to figure drawing class, where this dude named Dallon, who I met the past week since he was friends with my friend Thomas, was the model. It was sort of funny.

Then I went home and worked on french.

I'm sort of writing this from hindsight, I started this at the height of my stressful day, but now I've mellowed out and I'm not so stressed.

Oh wait. I have a French test tomorrow. :(

So I was sitting in the HFAC drawing people, and In the glass I saw the reflection of Barney that was playing in the lobby of KBYU studios. I turned quickly around only to see this creature dancing around with Barney, and Baby Bop. What on earth kind of dinosaur is that thing supposed to be anyway? I feel like Barney has gone downhill from when I was a kid. Baby Bop used to be as tall as Barney. Uh In other news, it was my birthday on monday. I got these sweet headphones. a photo will be up here as soon as my acne clears up. Hmm, what else... I went on a date with this boy named McKay. By all rights, I should totally love him because he likes all the same music as me and jeez he is part polynesian and part chinese, and I have always said I wanted to marry someone that was half asian and something else so my kids could be 4 different races and be super cool. And he also knows about Dave Chappelle, and not that many people here know who he is/appreciates that humor. But really, I find him sort of boring. Maybe its because I'm sort of hung up on someone else, but I dunno. This is the second date I've been on with him, but like, talking to him isn't really that interesting. But he really likes me. I'm not just saying that either. He keeps being like "I tried to get tickets for Divine Comedy, but I guess we'll just have to go to the next show then. And I'm like "Yeah!" But on the inside I'm more like "ehhh I don't really want to go with you" So conflicted. I mean, I think he's moderately fun to be around, and I like him well enough, so I don't want to be mean and like, I was also made assistant producer on The Blind Men and the Elephant (see the blog at http://theblindmenandtheelephant.blogspot.com) Pretty sweet huh? Looks like all my hard work is paying off. Hopefully it gives me an edge on my competition... We'll see. Its getting close to the time where I have to apply. It kind of freaks me out. I need to finish my sketchbook really bad. I foresee a trip to the bean museum in the near future. 

An Idle Man's Brain is the Devil's Workshop

So as of late, I have had to go to the animation lab basically with all my free time and work on animation stuff, and all the free time that I had not doing animation stuff, I have been using to do my actual homework. However, when I went down there at like, 10:00 yesterday, (Thats right 10:00 at NIGHT) The producer told me she had no work for me for the time being, and that I could go home. Then she gave me a ride home. I didn't have any work today either.

 And you know what I did with my free time? Thats right, I spent hours on facebook playing tetris marathon in the futile attempt at beating my best score. After that got boring I ichatted with Ji-Hye for a long time. and tried to make my blog better looking. What do you think by the way? Is it good? I don't know about the picture at the top, but I had to have SOMETHING. I'm going to try to fix more of it in the near future. But you wouldn't believe how long it took me to get to the point it's at now. AKA FIVE HOURS! I switched templates like 3 times, changed the background on the previous 2 templates a million times, had to learn CSS so I could change the backgrounds find background images, you get the point. Plus, I was looking at blogs from disney animators. And guess what its 10:42 and I still haven't started cracking on my French. 

(Mom if you are reading this, my homework will be completed tonight. I don't have a lot)

Ooh tomorrow after Art history (which I must have hallucinated dreamed up an e-mail that the TA's they would be starting the class late since the teacher wouldn't be there.) I have to go to a thing about Moliere, this old dead French guy, and write a thing about him and what he teaches me about french culture. 

Ah obviously I need work to do in order to manage my time properly, because otherwise I will just waste my time doing pointless stuff. like I am right now.  

The End. 

Time for French

The busy life

Ah life has been extremely busy for me lately. Monday was a great day since it was the second of 2 three-day weekends. It was gorgeous outside, and I walked around campus with my FHE group, taking photos for the photo scavenger hunt. Then I went to the animation lab, and worked on stuff for that. Then I saw Twilight at the dollar theater with Tanner and Thomas and some other girls. The 7:30 showing was sold out so we waited to see the 9:30 one. It was great because we walked around ShopKo and I cranked down a "Minimal" which is a tiny plastic toy of an animal. Tanner also stuffed a giant gum ball in his mouth. That was funny. So we were messing around in the ShopKo for a while, and then we went to Cold Stone and I got this big ice cream. No one thought I would be able to finish it, but I dominated it. Then was twilight, where we got the most buttery popcorn conceivable. It was great. 

Tuesday, I can't even remember. I had monday classes. I dunno. It was probably a great day. 

Wednesday, AKA the longest day of my life. First was social dance. We did the cha cha. Then I had a break in between that and french in which I did my french homework, because I hadn't finished it the day before on account of staying until like 12:30 at the animation lab. Then I played tetris when I was done for like 10 minutes. Then French. Then there was an hour break in between that and my Book of Mormon test, so I went down to the cannon center and it was like chocolate day there or something. There was a big chocolate fountain and tons of chocolate desert. It was great! Tanner was there and I talked with him for a bit, but he had to run to work. I went to book of mormon, and felt really bad cause I fell asleep. I was so tired. Then I went to the animation lab, where we had gotten told off for being in there and being 'disruptive' or something so I had to give my picture and lots of other stuff, and now I feel wierd about going in there. I left, went to the social dance lab, which was a lot more fun than I expected, I danced a lot with Tanner and Thomas, but they left and I danced with some other people. A girl stepped on my foot with her heel and now its bruised. I was kinda gimpy when I got up this morning. Then I went to the animation lab again, and worked on some stuff, and got home at 1:30. There were some girls on the floor who looked at me still in my dress from the dance lab, who were like "Oooh Meredith where have you been?" As if I had been on a date or something. Nope. I was coloring in some eyeballs and elephant legs. 

Today, I am tired, and I have no idea when I'm going to go to bed tonight.  

Valentine's Day

So yesterday was Valentine's Day. and for basically the whole day, I was holed up in my room writing a book of mormon paper. Then I got out and went to the cannon center with some people. I basically had the option of going and seeing australia, or going to the dance. I chose the dance. It was way fun. I hung out with the boys from Merrill Hall since they are way more fun than the stupid Budge boys I danced two times with Hyrum, and twice with Tanner. (hehe) It was so great. 

It was annoying trying to get there because I saw some girls on my floor who were going, and I didn't wanna show up alone so I was like "Hey can I go up with you?" And they were like "Sure!" and basically, one of the girls had a car and it had snowed earlier and it was super icy, and we were trying to clear the ice off the windows, without one of those scraper things. Then she got in, and tried to start the car for at least 15 minutes. I was dying because A. These girls aren't really my friends and B. I really wanted to go to the dance and hang out with the Merrill people since they are fun. Finally, we decided to forgo the car, and we went to our lobby to get the lame-o budge boys. (ugh) and we caught the shuttle. As soon as I got there, I sort of ditched them, walked around the dance floor looking for someone I knew (feeling really lame since who shows up to a dance alone? Uh no one.) 

Then Hyrum and all them saw me, but they went to go do karaoke so I went with an art friend and her friends. Then I re-found Tanner and Hyrum and a couple of the chipman girls that they were with. I forgot to mention them before. I slow danced with Hyrum, but Tanner was just standing there, and there was totally this other girl who is fully from his home town and he didn't even ask her to dance. (hmm...) then there were the lame-o jumping songs. Swing dancing, with Hyrum again. And Then he left and Tanner asked me to dance on the slow songs. Somewhere in there we got drinks, and I stopped to throw my cup away and looked back

Then the dance was over and they were cleaning up and they had these lamps that looked like Narnia lamps and I was like "Ah these lamps remind me of Narnia" and that Mckay kid was like "I still haven't seen the second Narnia movie," So I jumped at that opportunity and said that I had it and that we should watch it. So we rode back in the shuttle, then I ran in to get the movie, my laptop, and I changed out of my sequin skirt into some pants. Then we went to Merrill Hall so Tanner could get his car keys. Then we ran to his car since he wanted to get to Dairy Queen before it closed and we had like eight minutes. Only his windows were covered in ice and snow too, so he had to scrape it off. Mckay and I sat in there and talked about stuff that only happens at BYU. Like Tunnel singing, and class getting canceled because the T.A. that was supposed to teach got married (that was funny). Then we drove to Dairy Queen and we got there right when it closed and the guy inside looked at us through the window and like, waved his arms trying to tell us he was closed. So I suggested we go to the Malt Shoppe which is this place that has been there since the fifties at least and we got sundaes. It was so great. After that we watched the movie and made jokes about it the whole time. So great. Then it was around 3 or so when it was over, and tanner offered me a ride the really short distance from the parking spot to the door, but I declined since that would be a waste of gas. And that was it. So great.

If he really does like me, which I can't really tell if he does or not, It seems like it, but I dunno, he is probably shy about it or something. 

Gah what is wrong with me? I am starting to sound like my sister, during her Eric phase. What's even worse is that I think that this video is really hilarious. I am obviously a closet Jonas Brothers fan. Ugh. What is wrong with me? 

Spring is in the Air

Ah it's so great the weather has been so nice lately, in the 40's which is pleasantly warm all things considered, Its funny how my perspective changes though. In Maryland, It It got this warm before March, I'd get really angry and I would rant about how horrible global warming is. But here, its been so cold that I can hardly stand it. and the snow is really no fun for me since unlike in the good state of Maryland, you don't get a day off, and BYU sucks at clearing snow away, so you slide around on the compacted snow and ice all the time. So yeah, I love the fact it is a little warm. 

I just had some Jamba Juice oatmeal. the apple cinnamon flavor is sublime. And their fresh squeezed orange juice is fantastic as well. 

The BYU film students made this interactive mystery thing where you find clues on campus, and me and my friend Lauren are into it. Its fun being sleuth-y. Thats all for now. 

peace.