a new record

Well this certainly was an exciting week. Too bad I don't remember any of it. Here's what I do remember. Tuesday at Billiards Club I got owned early on and was knocked out in an hour or two (which is pretty fast). Minh was on fire and made it down to the final two. He went in undefeated and ended up losing, making second place. That kinda sucks, especially since it ended some time past midnight and I ended up taking some dude home because the busses had stopped running by that time, putting me home by around 1am. Damn my helpful nature. The cool thing though is between Minh and I we have 7 hours of free pool at the Union, which we need to use somehow on Monday and/or Tuesday, haha. My cue is in town and will be delivered Monday, so I need to be sure to be home to receive it Monday so I'll have it for pool on Tuesday.

The Chapelle's Show dvd came out Tuesday and was sold out everywhere, and has been since then. I really wanted it too. Today I checked and the north Best Buy had it in stock, so I ordered it online for store pickup to ensure it'd be reserved for me, but by the time they processed my order (which was only about 30 mins), it was already sold out. Everywhere I go you can see the empty spot on the shelf where those dvds were. It's nuts and I'm growing ever more impatient. grr.

Thursday was wonderful. I had a project due Friday for Stats class, and I hadn't started so Thursday I met with my partner so we could divide up the work. I spent most of the day trying to gather the necessary info so I could do the project. After much pain and agony prodding through various census websites and voting records sites, I got all the necessary info. I had to work 5-10 that night, so during work I spent all my time working on the project. By the time 10pm rolled around, I was about halfway done with the project, so I packed up my junk and headed home. I pulled out of the garage and was headed down MLK when I noticed my car felt funky and the radio was acting extra jacked up. I shrugged it off and proceeded to curse at the radio for always being messed up, and for being extra messed up at that time. As I got toward Lamar I heard this weird sound which I thought was the car behind me. The radio had started to work again by that time so I could barely hear it and gave it no further thought. As I got to the light at MLK and Lamar the radio pretty much went out. It was at that time I heard the weird noise again, but there were no other cars around me. So I thought oh crap and drove a little more to hear the noise. It was at that time that I noticed this awful smell, which smelled like something burning out. By that time I was getting kinda worried, so I drove a little down Lamar and pulled into a Conoco. I turned off the car and all of a sudden everything locked up. The pedals wouldn't move, the steering wheel wouldn't turn, I couldn't change gears. It was freaky. I tried to turn the car back on and it made this awful sound and wouldn't start. I tried again and it stuttered a little, then barely started. This time the battery light was lit and the car was making that horrible sound again. So I turned it off and called my dad. He eventually made it out to get me. We had to leave the car there overnight so they could tow it to the mechanic in the morning. I finally got home at around 1am, and I still had to finish my project. I finally finished at around 4:45am. Since I didn't have a car, I had to carpool with my mom in the morning, so that meant I had to get up a little before 6:30. I worked all day Friday, going on 2 hours of sleep and no food. I came home yesterday at around 6, watched tv for a little while, then passed out, still having not eaten. I woke up at 6am, but since it was 6am, I just decided to go back to sleep, and ended up waking at around 11am today. So all in all I slept for about 16 hours and went without eating for about a day and a half. Awesome. Oh, and it turns out the alternator died in the car. It's fixed now, but the radio is still jacked up as usual.

This weekend I am going to spend all my time trying working on some projects I have going. That volleyball team T-shirt I am doing must be done by March 10th, which is only a week and a half away. Yay deadlines! It's kind of exciting though. Having deadlines makes me feel professional or something. Whatever. I got a new project to add to the list. Harry asked me to design a cd case and label for his upcoming demo cd which is plans to hand out at the GDC coming up. With that comes another deadline, woo! This one must be done around March 15th. I have a lot of ideas for that though. This coming week I'm gonna devote most of my time to brainstorming ideas for that design while trying to finish up the shirt design. If anyone knows a site with random templates in .psd or .ai form, particularly cd label templates, I'd really like to know.

I've been in a really artistic mood lately, mostly due to my deviantART addiction. I hope to start making some new crap to post on there. I think that'll have to wait until some of these projects are done though. Although, I should probably capitalize on my artsy mood and make stuff now. Hmmmm. I really need to invest in a tablet. A new computer would be nice too. Donations anyone? :)