Okay, so catch up of what I did the week in between getting back from Prague and the SF trip. That seems like forever ago already, so this will probably be a short recap. I’m so glad I wrote down on paper before I left everything I did, cause honestly….I wouldn’t remember!
Sat., Jul 31st-Okay so I flew back from MN to SD, sick of planes and airports at this point. I wrote something down about time zone differences...the extra 2 hr difference must have really thrown me off or something (actually yes it did…just when it came time to going to bed…so lovely wanting to go to bed at 9pm, but fighting that off and getting up at 5am, joyous). Went to a surprise 40th birthday party for Karen. It was fun, she was indeed surprised. Food was catered from this Iranian restaurant I believe…it was pretty good, especially the cherry rice.
Sun., Aug 1st-Only thing to note: went to listen to music in the park at La Jolla. Got really bad blisters on my pinky toes too from the shoes I was wearing, probably some of the worst blisters I’ve ever had, ouch!
Mon, Aug 2nd-Went to work and was bored out of my mind cause I was done with everything they had asked me to do. Had my last meeting with my boss, she confirmed this, so I just had a few things here and there to clean up and then I could be done. Went running, frustrated cause my leg still hurts from whatever I did to it on the 4th of July run. I haven’t really given it the chance to recover though. Sigh.
Tues, Aug 3rd-Due to lack of work, took a few half days here and there. Today was one of them. My aunt and I drove up along the coast in the northern county of SD, so went through all the beach towns and such(though now they are more commercialized beach towns). It was fun. We had desert before dinner at Pannakin, a coffeehouse. We both got a slice of pie and something to drink. I had a slice of raspberry pie which was very, very good and a chai latte (which was very watery and not that great). We then had dinner at Double Happiness and had honey walnut shrimp-yummers! Then we saw A Midsummer’s Night Dream at the La Jolla Playhouse and it was AWESOME! Especially the set design, reality was set in a Victorian style house but when they went into the forest, everything turned upside, including a grand piano and the chandelier which turned into a tree. It was very, very good. Great theater venue too!
Wed., Aug 4th-I have nothing written for this day so apparently not much happened?
Thurs. Aug 5th-Went to work for like 2 hr. and then tried out Lestat’s coffeehouse cause it looked like a pretty cool place online. The atmosphere was great, it was a perfect blend of electric, artsy and cool. There was even a guy there with a macaw on his shoulder, surfing the web which I found super amusing. My drink was not so awesome though which kinda bummed me out, but eh…it was worth the visit. At night, my aunt planned this huge event for her friends where they ate dinner at the house and then we all went to an outdoor movie theater in Mission Hills called, Cinema Under the Stars because Harold and Maude was playing. I hadn’t seen it before but definitely knew about this movie as it’s just referenced so much in film and animation. Everyone else who went loved the movie…I thought it was meh, okay. I don’t know if was the hype around it or what, but I wasn’t in love with it like everyone else. And why is it that most cult movies that they tend to have the same feel to them?
Fri Aug 6th-Just didn’t go to work today, there was no point. My aunt took the day off too. So all of us from the house went to Mission Beach because my aunt had wanted us to go out to eat at World Famous. Things were okay until we got in the car and I could just tell there was growing tension in the air. Friday is the day that Laurie and Gladys have to work with Colleen and there is some extreme disliking from both sides (I won’t get into it as to why, just that these two ladies don’t like working together). And it only got worse as the outing went on, the tension that is. We got there, were told we had to wait so we went walking down the boardwalk at Mission Beach. Got back went into the restaurant and Colleen said she didn’t want to be there, so we got back into the car and oh boy, that’s when the tension really escalated and we all were trapped in the car in it. One was blaming the other for various things and the other one wasn’t taking that verbal abuse but decided to be passive aggressive in response which just resulted in a lot of passive aggressive comments and arguing with nothing being resolved. During the middle of it, I just put on my sunglasses, just to disassociate myself from the drama and you bet I was glad to get out of that car and go straight to Starbucks to escape that for awhile. While it was not fun to be around that, the whole situation just makes me laugh a bit because there is just so much man bashing that goes on in this house between the workers and my aunt and yet, there’s all this passive aggressive drama, control issues, being overly sensitive, not taking blame issues ect. amongst the women here and yet they all still think that women are perfect compared to men. Yeah right; we both have our issues.
~Lauren
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Day 42: A lot of has happened, so an update was needed....
Saturday: Walked up to Starbucks real early in attempt to write my paper, though I ended up more just finalizing my thoughts. In the afternoon, went on a day trip out to Rancho Sante Fe. It’s a part of San Diego, but it’s about 30 min. away. It was quite gorgeous and quiet. It was also cool because so many places in it reminded me of other parts of the US, but with a California spin on it. There was an area that reminded me of Minnesota, another that reminded me of Colorado and another that reminded me of Georgia. It was also one of those places where the landscape was just so gigantic and breath-taking, a camera could never really capture it. Anyways, it was a lot of fun. Plus the sun finally decided to come out after a week of overcast and yuckiness. On the way back, we drove down the coast and I got to see all the beach towns, the scenic route is always so much better than the highway. Paula picked up really delicious Chinese food in Del Mar (I believe it was called Double Happiness). Best Chinese food I’ve ever had, delish. At night attempted to write my paper again, absolute fail. I’ve had such a hard time with this paper purely because I have no motivation to write it, I have everything thought out and organized, it’s just writing it that’s been such an issue. Finally gave in and just complained to my mom about it. I really, really dislike complaining, especially over something so petty as a paper, but it had come to that point and sometimes I just need to complain about it and then I can get my head in the game. And it helped…a lot as much as I didn’t want to do it.
Sunday: Went to another Starbucks to get some paper writing done. And wham, wrote over half of my paper. Got home in time to watch the World Cup and yay, Spain won! After, everyone in the house went to La Jolla park b/c there was an outdoor concert going on. I was told it was a jazz concert but when we got there it was 60’s/70’s rock, which was fun. We met up with some of my aunt’s friends and we just hung out for about 2 hrs and listened to good music. Colleen really enjoyed going to it, so it looks like we’ll be doing that again, they have these concerts there every Sunday. I really wish I would have been with friends because I wanted to dance and no one else wanted to. Guess I will have to do that when I get back to good old Minneapolis. Then went out to eat with some of my aunt’s friends in Little Italy, I know the place was called Fantastico….something. It was really good…seriously the food out here is so great and so inexpensive for the quality one is getting. It’s a good thing I don’t live out here permanently cause otherwise I’d be so tempted to eat out all the time! And that was it….I had a very full and well-rounded weekend.
Monday: Woohoo, another work week. I must say, this week I wasn’t all excited to come in….I think mostly because I know that after this week I get 2 weeks off to go on a family vacation, so I’m just counting down the days I have left until I get to take a break (not that I need a break, I’m just excited about this vacation and seeing my family). It was fun though cause since Javier(one of my bosses) is from Spain, he treated the whole lab for lunch to celebrate Spain's win! Then after work, we just chilled at home. The new disk of The Thorn Birds came in, so we watched the next episode. It’s such a good mini series! Truthfully, I’m kind of sad that the next episode is the last. Guess I’ll have to read the book it’s based off of to enjoy it again! Wrote more of my paper and have one section left to write, then I just have to submit it and then take the final then DONE! Oh and the night before we bought some desserts from Little Italy. We had tiramisu....it was delicious and left me wanting more. I'm so going to try and make that when I get back in August.
Tuesday: Today I woke up and was like “ugh, don’t feel like working” and so did my aunt. We decided to take a half-day, which was a good plan cause now I’m totally ready and motivated for the last 3 days before my family vacation. We went to La Jolla because I needed to get a pair of walking sandals for the trip and my aunt needed to get some new summer clothes. It was awesome because I found a pair at the first store we looked at:
yay for new shoes that actually support one's foot
My aunt had a successful shopping trip as well. We went out to eat at Roppongi’s (La Jolla), it was really good, had some Indian Fried Bread and a delicious spinach salad. Found out I don’t like Keffir cheese….though I’m realizing I don’t like a lot of dairy products very much outside of cheese and ice cream.
Sunday: Went to another Starbucks to get some paper writing done. And wham, wrote over half of my paper. Got home in time to watch the World Cup and yay, Spain won! After, everyone in the house went to La Jolla park b/c there was an outdoor concert going on. I was told it was a jazz concert but when we got there it was 60’s/70’s rock, which was fun. We met up with some of my aunt’s friends and we just hung out for about 2 hrs and listened to good music. Colleen really enjoyed going to it, so it looks like we’ll be doing that again, they have these concerts there every Sunday. I really wish I would have been with friends because I wanted to dance and no one else wanted to. Guess I will have to do that when I get back to good old Minneapolis. Then went out to eat with some of my aunt’s friends in Little Italy, I know the place was called Fantastico….something. It was really good…seriously the food out here is so great and so inexpensive for the quality one is getting. It’s a good thing I don’t live out here permanently cause otherwise I’d be so tempted to eat out all the time! And that was it….I had a very full and well-rounded weekend.
Monday: Woohoo, another work week. I must say, this week I wasn’t all excited to come in….I think mostly because I know that after this week I get 2 weeks off to go on a family vacation, so I’m just counting down the days I have left until I get to take a break (not that I need a break, I’m just excited about this vacation and seeing my family). It was fun though cause since Javier(one of my bosses) is from Spain, he treated the whole lab for lunch to celebrate Spain's win! Then after work, we just chilled at home. The new disk of The Thorn Birds came in, so we watched the next episode. It’s such a good mini series! Truthfully, I’m kind of sad that the next episode is the last. Guess I’ll have to read the book it’s based off of to enjoy it again! Wrote more of my paper and have one section left to write, then I just have to submit it and then take the final then DONE! Oh and the night before we bought some desserts from Little Italy. We had tiramisu....it was delicious and left me wanting more. I'm so going to try and make that when I get back in August.
Tuesday: Today I woke up and was like “ugh, don’t feel like working” and so did my aunt. We decided to take a half-day, which was a good plan cause now I’m totally ready and motivated for the last 3 days before my family vacation. We went to La Jolla because I needed to get a pair of walking sandals for the trip and my aunt needed to get some new summer clothes. It was awesome because I found a pair at the first store we looked at:
yay for new shoes that actually support one's foot
My aunt had a successful shopping trip as well. We went out to eat at Roppongi’s (La Jolla), it was really good, had some Indian Fried Bread and a delicious spinach salad. Found out I don’t like Keffir cheese….though I’m realizing I don’t like a lot of dairy products very much outside of cheese and ice cream.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Day 21: 3 weeks already? Man time flies by!
Saturday: This was a busy day of meeting lots of new people and also doing a whole lot of eating. Met two of my aunt’s friends at their house (which was the most interesting house I have ever been in, if we go back, I’ll definitely bring a camera. As my aunt said “you’ll never see a house like this again” and she was totally right) and then we went out for lunch at a great restaurant in Hillcrest(didn’t catch the name) and had some yummy Pho soup, oh and it had green tea I actually liked, a first, I usually can’t stand green tea. Then we went back home shortly before we went to a dinner party where I met more of my aunt’s friends. We ate good food and talked, you know, you’re basic dinner party stuff. My aunt has nice friends.
Sunday: Finally found a church out here, called Kaleo Church. Very happy to finally find a church to call home out here. Hrmmmm what else did I do? Had a tasty summer lunch on the grill and……oh yeah I went hiking with my aunt’s friend, Pina that I met at the dinner party the night before! It was so much fun! We went hiking at Torrey Pines which is this “mountain” right by the ocean with all these funky desert plants. It was beautiful! It was great to go hiking with Pina and get to know her more, she’s awesome. Plus she treated me to Roberto’s, this Mexican restaurant right by Torrey Pines. It was both delicious and incredibly inexpensive. We had this crazy burrito thing(she made me try it because it was their specialty), in that it had French fries in it. Definitely not healthy but it was good, happy we split it though! Hoping to hang out with her some more this summer, which I think will definitely happen. Here’s some pictures from the hike.
Monday: NSF refunding site visit started today for the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center(which my lab is a part of). Basically for me that didn’t mean too much though, more for the heads at my lab. I did have to demo my animation and art I have been doing for my internship the past few weeks for this demo/poster session. Unfortunately, there were 46 of these things going on and the site visitors only had 45 min. to get through (and we had 10 site visitors from NSF come). I had about 4 people talk with me (and I believe all of them saw what I was doing). Most of the people I talked with were nice and liked my work and didn’t ask too many questions besides what I was studying. One guy from NSF I guess told the heads at my lab that if I was looking for a job to contact him (hint animation friends, if you are looking for a job, especially if you’re good at Flash, contact research labs….I’m finding a lot of them desperately want animators working for them but don’t know who to contact). There was one guy who was a total jerk though after he found out I was just the artist, tried to belittle what I do (which I was like, “whatever guy, you are obviously just too cool for me and apparently know everything*rolls eyes*”). Afterwards, my aunt wanted me to show her friend Terri(the one we saw The Lottery with a few weeks ago) my animation stuff (both for work and my youtube account). Well, this show and tell ended up with the majority of my lab watching it and them yet again getting amazed. It was good because from this, I ended up finally being introduced to everyone in the lab, so now they all know who I am. My aunt then dropped the hint that I needed a job after I graduate(she forgot about my grad school plans) and both Marni and Javier(the two heads at my lab) said they are going to look into if they have the money to pay me, but they were fairly certain they do, so it looks like I may possibly have a job working here after I graduate if I so choose(and I may be able to work part-time while I’m at school through the magic of the internet). So I have that now to contemplate….which then lead to me just contemplating about many, many things which I don’t have enough room or energy to write about(basically about my life, the future and reflecting on living out in San Diego). It was a deep night of quiet contemplation.
Tuesday-Day 2 of site visit. Listened to my aunt give her 2 speeches which included a Q&A and at the first one, things got really heated between one of the site visitors and the whole TDLC group. I was glad I was sitting next to Judy, one of the scientists who is a part of the center because she was cracking joke after joke about the NSF guy, it definitely relieved some tension for me. But seriously, things got REALLY tense. The guy pretty much disagreed with what the center was doing and considered it “one of the stupidest things I have ever heard”….no worries though, Javier totally changed this guy’s mind by today and he apologized for his comment and admitted he was wrong. By the time that was over, it was time for lunch. The nice thing about the site visit is that both breakfast and lunch were provided. After that, I went back to my lab but no one was there and I worked for a bit before giving myself a half day. I’m happy I decided to do so, I was able to get my first test for the Genesis class I’m taking Distance Ed., get through 2 more lessons, go for a long walk, and catch up with 3 or 4 people via the phone that I had been meaning to call. Poor people at my lab though, they had to pull a very late night answering questions and getting ready to prepare to talk about those answers the next morning. My aunt was a part of this, she didn’t get home until 3am.
Wednesday-Today was relatively boring compared to the past few days….I went to a normal day of work, designed and built racecars in flash for the intro video of this racing game we’re building, got through another 2 lessons for Genesis(over half way done, yay! Trying like mad to get done before the end of the month), called the last person who I had been meaning to call….yeah definitely a more low-key day than the last few have been.
That's all folks!
~Lauren
EDIT: I should probably note something about the potential job opportunity cause some people have been asking about it and I think I was confusing. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it because as of right now, they haven't officially asked me, it's just an idea thrown at them and they seemed favorable about the idea. But that's all it is right now, an idea, a possibility but not a reality as of yet.
Sunday: Finally found a church out here, called Kaleo Church. Very happy to finally find a church to call home out here. Hrmmmm what else did I do? Had a tasty summer lunch on the grill and……oh yeah I went hiking with my aunt’s friend, Pina that I met at the dinner party the night before! It was so much fun! We went hiking at Torrey Pines which is this “mountain” right by the ocean with all these funky desert plants. It was beautiful! It was great to go hiking with Pina and get to know her more, she’s awesome. Plus she treated me to Roberto’s, this Mexican restaurant right by Torrey Pines. It was both delicious and incredibly inexpensive. We had this crazy burrito thing(she made me try it because it was their specialty), in that it had French fries in it. Definitely not healthy but it was good, happy we split it though! Hoping to hang out with her some more this summer, which I think will definitely happen. Here’s some pictures from the hike.
Monday: NSF refunding site visit started today for the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center(which my lab is a part of). Basically for me that didn’t mean too much though, more for the heads at my lab. I did have to demo my animation and art I have been doing for my internship the past few weeks for this demo/poster session. Unfortunately, there were 46 of these things going on and the site visitors only had 45 min. to get through (and we had 10 site visitors from NSF come). I had about 4 people talk with me (and I believe all of them saw what I was doing). Most of the people I talked with were nice and liked my work and didn’t ask too many questions besides what I was studying. One guy from NSF I guess told the heads at my lab that if I was looking for a job to contact him (hint animation friends, if you are looking for a job, especially if you’re good at Flash, contact research labs….I’m finding a lot of them desperately want animators working for them but don’t know who to contact). There was one guy who was a total jerk though after he found out I was just the artist, tried to belittle what I do (which I was like, “whatever guy, you are obviously just too cool for me and apparently know everything*rolls eyes*”). Afterwards, my aunt wanted me to show her friend Terri(the one we saw The Lottery with a few weeks ago) my animation stuff (both for work and my youtube account). Well, this show and tell ended up with the majority of my lab watching it and them yet again getting amazed. It was good because from this, I ended up finally being introduced to everyone in the lab, so now they all know who I am. My aunt then dropped the hint that I needed a job after I graduate(she forgot about my grad school plans) and both Marni and Javier(the two heads at my lab) said they are going to look into if they have the money to pay me, but they were fairly certain they do, so it looks like I may possibly have a job working here after I graduate if I so choose(and I may be able to work part-time while I’m at school through the magic of the internet). So I have that now to contemplate….which then lead to me just contemplating about many, many things which I don’t have enough room or energy to write about(basically about my life, the future and reflecting on living out in San Diego). It was a deep night of quiet contemplation.
Tuesday-Day 2 of site visit. Listened to my aunt give her 2 speeches which included a Q&A and at the first one, things got really heated between one of the site visitors and the whole TDLC group. I was glad I was sitting next to Judy, one of the scientists who is a part of the center because she was cracking joke after joke about the NSF guy, it definitely relieved some tension for me. But seriously, things got REALLY tense. The guy pretty much disagreed with what the center was doing and considered it “one of the stupidest things I have ever heard”….no worries though, Javier totally changed this guy’s mind by today and he apologized for his comment and admitted he was wrong. By the time that was over, it was time for lunch. The nice thing about the site visit is that both breakfast and lunch were provided. After that, I went back to my lab but no one was there and I worked for a bit before giving myself a half day. I’m happy I decided to do so, I was able to get my first test for the Genesis class I’m taking Distance Ed., get through 2 more lessons, go for a long walk, and catch up with 3 or 4 people via the phone that I had been meaning to call. Poor people at my lab though, they had to pull a very late night answering questions and getting ready to prepare to talk about those answers the next morning. My aunt was a part of this, she didn’t get home until 3am.
Wednesday-Today was relatively boring compared to the past few days….I went to a normal day of work, designed and built racecars in flash for the intro video of this racing game we’re building, got through another 2 lessons for Genesis(over half way done, yay! Trying like mad to get done before the end of the month), called the last person who I had been meaning to call….yeah definitely a more low-key day than the last few have been.
That's all folks!
~Lauren
EDIT: I should probably note something about the potential job opportunity cause some people have been asking about it and I think I was confusing. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it because as of right now, they haven't officially asked me, it's just an idea thrown at them and they seemed favorable about the idea. But that's all it is right now, an idea, a possibility but not a reality as of yet.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Day 16: Full Work Week #2
So this work week has been far less busy than last week. Basically I’ve been going into work, coming back home, working out, having dinner then chillaxing for the night. So nothing too big to report on. Everyone at work has been ramping up for the site visit next week. This site visit is where the National Science Foundation comes in and they judge whether they should be funding $20 mil for the next 5 years. No big deal right, haha. Anyways, I guess one cool thing is that I am going to be demoing what I’ve been doing next Monday for the NSF. How crazy is that?!?! I’m going to be showing a bunch of important scientist how I make the art/animation I’m doing for my internship and talk to them about art and science. So that will be quite exciting and nerve-wracking all at the same time. Oh and best thing about this (well not maybe the best…), I’m demoing right next to all the sweet learning robots my lab has been making. So I’m going to be demoing about animation next to bunch of arguably, the most advanced robots in the world…no big.
Otherwise, one of the programmers and I have been working on creating a racing game using the CERT2 software. It’s sweet, he’s made it work that when the webcam detects you are smiling, my character will smile along with you(so getting the emotion mirror thing to start working). So he’s then built a code for Flash, that when racing, the more you smile, the faster the car will accelerate. He did this all in a day…so crazy! And he was nice enough to include my characters from the emotion mirror I’ve been working on b/c he wanted to show off my art cause he'll be demoing the game at the site visit.
Lastly, today I made one of the grad students misty eyed when I was showing him the stuff I was working on today:
After showing him, he told me “you artwork just makes me get all misty eyed” and I turned and his eyes were watery but he was smiling. I have no idea why seeing my drawing got him so emotional, it was just a quick drawing of a dog in a go-kart, but I think I understand part of the reason why. This lab has been putting in so much time and really have been coming out with some pretty incredible work, but with having an artist on board, it’s only going to make their work stronger and get better results. I’m so glad to be helping them out for the summer, they really are doing such amazing things in this lab and being able to use my ability of drawing/animating to help improve the work they are already doing, words cannot describe. I honestly feel like I’m doing nothing compared to what all the scientists/programmers are doing, I’m just the undergrad artist who is polishing everything up and making it look presentable and appealing for kids. But everyone in the lab is just amazed by what I am doing and I can just tell they are excited to have me there. It’s incredibly nice to work at a place that really, really appreciates you and the work you are doing…I don’t think I’ve ever experienced that, at least with my art. And their excitement for what I’m doing makes me excited to keep on getting better and better.
~Lauren
Otherwise, one of the programmers and I have been working on creating a racing game using the CERT2 software. It’s sweet, he’s made it work that when the webcam detects you are smiling, my character will smile along with you(so getting the emotion mirror thing to start working). So he’s then built a code for Flash, that when racing, the more you smile, the faster the car will accelerate. He did this all in a day…so crazy! And he was nice enough to include my characters from the emotion mirror I’ve been working on b/c he wanted to show off my art cause he'll be demoing the game at the site visit.
Lastly, today I made one of the grad students misty eyed when I was showing him the stuff I was working on today:
After showing him, he told me “you artwork just makes me get all misty eyed” and I turned and his eyes were watery but he was smiling. I have no idea why seeing my drawing got him so emotional, it was just a quick drawing of a dog in a go-kart, but I think I understand part of the reason why. This lab has been putting in so much time and really have been coming out with some pretty incredible work, but with having an artist on board, it’s only going to make their work stronger and get better results. I’m so glad to be helping them out for the summer, they really are doing such amazing things in this lab and being able to use my ability of drawing/animating to help improve the work they are already doing, words cannot describe. I honestly feel like I’m doing nothing compared to what all the scientists/programmers are doing, I’m just the undergrad artist who is polishing everything up and making it look presentable and appealing for kids. But everyone in the lab is just amazed by what I am doing and I can just tell they are excited to have me there. It’s incredibly nice to work at a place that really, really appreciates you and the work you are doing…I don’t think I’ve ever experienced that, at least with my art. And their excitement for what I’m doing makes me excited to keep on getting better and better.
~Lauren
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Day 8: A Week In Review
Holy cow, I need to start writing about all I’m doing here before I start forgetting…I was trying to remember what I did on Saturday and was having a hard time, so then I was like “I need to write about it before I forget and everything just meshes into together in my MIND!” Anyways, crazy thing-I’ve been here for a week. It doesn’t seem like I’ve been here that long yet it seems like I was in Minnesota months ago. Ah time and trying to perceive it.
Okay but back to the point, the fun stuff I’ve been doing out here. I’ll just go day by day, giving the highlights…yes that would be best.
Saturday: My aunt was a keynote speaker at this talk at UCSD, I tagged along. She is way smart. Then when we were driving back home, we saw a street festival by the beach, decided to have lunch there. It was alright, but my aunt and I decided it wasn’t the best street festival we had been to. After that, had a relaxing movie night. Good way to end Saturday and the week.
Sunday: Tried out a new church, it was okay but I am trying a new one next week. Went to a performance of Bye, Bye, Birdie at a theater in downtown San Diego. We went b/c my aunt’s 10-year old neighbor was in it(so it was a children’s production of it), holy goodness it was AMAZING. We were blown away!
Monday: Crap, what did I even do this day? Well, first day of driving in San Diego. It was pretty easy, traffic here is comparable to the Twin Cities. At work, really started to understand Flash…otherwise…hrm what did I do this day? Apparently nothing terribly exciting…
Tuesday: Work. Then when out to dinner/movie with my aunt and her best friend from the academia world and her friend’s 16-year-old son. Dinner was good-it was at Berta’s in Old Town(I only mention the restaurant so that I remember when I look back cause it was delish). I already wrote a post about the movie, no need to comment…
Wednesday: You guessed…work! Able to design and animate a whole character in a day, really starting to get a handle on Flash, yay! Then went out to eat a fabulous restaurant (The Red Door, Mission Hills) with my aunt and some of her bff’s.
Thursday: Wow no way, I had work again. Able to design/animate a character in half the time it did Wednesday without the glitches I have had previous. Proud b/c I started off the week as a complete novice/beginner at Flash and now feel like I really have a handle on it. I am told that the heads of the lab I work for are going to see if I can get a stipend for the summer because they like the work I am doing. While on a run, one of my aunt’s neighbors stopped me, I have a babysitting job for the summer-win!
Yay, looks like I remembered most of what all went done this week!
~Lauren
Okay but back to the point, the fun stuff I’ve been doing out here. I’ll just go day by day, giving the highlights…yes that would be best.
Saturday: My aunt was a keynote speaker at this talk at UCSD, I tagged along. She is way smart. Then when we were driving back home, we saw a street festival by the beach, decided to have lunch there. It was alright, but my aunt and I decided it wasn’t the best street festival we had been to. After that, had a relaxing movie night. Good way to end Saturday and the week.
Sunday: Tried out a new church, it was okay but I am trying a new one next week. Went to a performance of Bye, Bye, Birdie at a theater in downtown San Diego. We went b/c my aunt’s 10-year old neighbor was in it(so it was a children’s production of it), holy goodness it was AMAZING. We were blown away!
Monday: Crap, what did I even do this day? Well, first day of driving in San Diego. It was pretty easy, traffic here is comparable to the Twin Cities. At work, really started to understand Flash…otherwise…hrm what did I do this day? Apparently nothing terribly exciting…
Tuesday: Work. Then when out to dinner/movie with my aunt and her best friend from the academia world and her friend’s 16-year-old son. Dinner was good-it was at Berta’s in Old Town(I only mention the restaurant so that I remember when I look back cause it was delish). I already wrote a post about the movie, no need to comment…
Wednesday: You guessed…work! Able to design and animate a whole character in a day, really starting to get a handle on Flash, yay! Then went out to eat a fabulous restaurant (The Red Door, Mission Hills) with my aunt and some of her bff’s.
Thursday: Wow no way, I had work again. Able to design/animate a character in half the time it did Wednesday without the glitches I have had previous. Proud b/c I started off the week as a complete novice/beginner at Flash and now feel like I really have a handle on it. I am told that the heads of the lab I work for are going to see if I can get a stipend for the summer because they like the work I am doing. While on a run, one of my aunt’s neighbors stopped me, I have a babysitting job for the summer-win!
Yay, looks like I remembered most of what all went done this week!
~Lauren
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