Valefor

My paladin (Asuka on Mannoroth) is now level 31 I bought her the Warsong Gulch healing cape (yay) yesterday, then played her until she hit level 30 doing Forest Song quests Logged out there (since my hearth is in darkshire ftl) and then finished up this morning and I’m about 31.5 I didn’t have enough money to buy my next rank of Lay on Hands, but I managed to get everything else bought. Now she is poor XD I couldn’t even put up all my auctions. Hopefully some will sell and I can sell the rest of the stuff I got too.

My baby healadin is coming around quite nicely No points in Retribution, so things may be a bit slow… but I really like her so far. Just gotta make sure she keeps an updated weapon (right now the only thing that isn’t Healadin-y about her is her weapon - using Cobalt Crusher) and she’ll hopefully cruise along just fine. I can’t wait to try her in an instance again. I’m really loving healing with her, in pve and pvp - it’s amazing to have a healer character that doesn’t die in 3 hits and it’s also sweet having 100% uninterruptable (except by kick/shield bash/etc) heals.

Sascha is 42 now Leveling her slowly (as is understandable, I think XD) but she’s moving along. It’s really nice having Shadowform since level 40 (on Voice I didn’t get it until 48, and then I didn’t like it much… rarely used it since I’d been soloing so long without it).

PvP’d a bit on Voice this morning. It’s AV weekend, so the queue for AV was quick. Got into a vs.-premade WSG, left before anything happened, then into a terrible AB, left that too, annnd then into an AV that we won flawlessly I am thinking of transferring Voice over to Ysera where I have friends. Not sure… but thinking of it.

Chris and I survived the night! Barely

Finally around 6 or just a bit before 7, we were able to get one of the videos I exported from Premiere (lol I think the one I exported at 1:25am, which I know becuase I included the time in the export filename) to work. Chris did some crazy thing where he put in a TON of parameters to convert it to AVI and finally it converted!! Then he tried to have his program interpret it as an MPEG2 file so it could be read by the dvd program thingy…

then, hahahahahaha, after waiting probably 20 minutes, it ends from lack of hard drive space SECONDS before the end!!! SECONDS!!! But then Chris just renamed the AVI as MPEG2 and it worked? XD I’m not complaining.

THEN!! We had dvd issues. When we tried to burn the ISO there was clearly something wrong because nero wouldn’t let me use a dvd, it said I had to use a cd. We tried various things, finally got it to burn, then it “worked”… except the menu had no buttons and we couldn’t play anything.

Used 3 of my dvds up trying stuff out. Finally got something that semi-works XD;

The final product was odd. The main menu sound worked fine. (I exported the main menu in FCP.) The animation video worked fine (I exported that one last night and that’s what took 8 million hours). The sound on the 3 projects that I exported in FCP… was weird D: at first we thought there was no sound. Then we changed the language track (from other to other2…??) and it had sound D: I have NO IDEA WHY. But I was out of DVDs so that’s what I turned in along with a note.

If I get a bad grade on this I will be pissed! But again, not like I would know anyway since I never have gotten a grade :/ In some ways I am surprised that I busted my ass this much for a project in a class where one of the teachers clearly is prejudiced against me and seems to want me to do badly (hence telling me the day the lab closed, scant hours before it closed, that my project was due friday, 2 days later, and no appropriate media labs would be open!)

The good- I learned more about Adobe Premiere than I really wanted to know for now, and about dvd authoring and burning… in Linux (with tons of Chris’ help)
The bad- omg sleep. omg sleep. omg sleep.

At this point I’m just trying to stay up long enough so that I don’t screw up my sleep schedule for the rest of the weekend.

So I took a bunch of stills for a stop motion animation with my digital camera… I don’t have it on the automatic setting.

Looking through them now… it is fluctuating the colors almost EVERY frame. Most of them are suitable but some all of a sudden will be too blue, and others suddenly too yellow! I don’t understand D: almost NOTHING changes in these frames and suddenly the camera will take it differently? I didn’t think they were supposed to do that

15 page paper: Complete!

I screwed up my works cited page and didn’t realize it until it was too late to fix. Oops. I e-mailed the teacher about it, so hopefully that’s okay. I accidentally didn’t include a source I used, and included an old source that I didn’t end up using at all.

Ran all over campus in a frantic rush to get my paper turned in - does that count as more exercise? haha

It’s cold for a bike ride today (and I still have a bit of soreness from riding the bike yesterday andt he day before) so Chris and I did 30 minutes of DDR in Workout mode It estimated that I burned about 130 calories and Chris about 180 or something like that. Probably isn’t TOO accurate but who knows, it was fun and it feels good to get exercise done Hopefully I’m not sore all over tomorrow morning!

Finishing up my paper. About 16-17 pages now! Trying to put things together so that they make sense. It’s due at 5pm… then I get to study for Ethics, oh boy! How exciting..

LJ’s new update page is funky. I got used to most of it right away but I keep putting tags into the Music field XD

I started a new family in the Sims to get a break from my Legacy family. Really it’s only one person so far She has a little business, and I just sell random crap and I have one employee. Things seem to go SO fast. I wish I didn’t get hungry or tired at work, that would really help haha XD and taking care of the employees is annoying too T_T It would be easier if I had 2 player controlled people, methinks

Anyway I guess I should stop rambling. 1 more hour should get my paper finished, then I need to go on campus and print it

My butt hurts D: lol. I want a more comfy seat on my bike! Not that it would probably change much in the long run… Luckily my legs don’t hurt at all, so we’ll be doing another bike ride today if it isn’t too cold

I really like getting in some exercise, and it also is Chris-time I’ve also been better with eating - we eat at the dinner table now instead of in front of the TV (so less mindless eating) and I’ve been trying to eat more slowly so I don’t overeat. Doing well so far Somehow over the past couple of years I have gotten into this mode where I paid for this food, so if I don’t eat it, it’s going to waste… so I’ve been overeating, hence some of my weight gain. I need to learn that it isn’t going to be any more useful if I throw it away or overeat, so if I did accidentally make too much, oh well! I’m not sure when that started, but I wish it hadn’t!

Been working on my paper for BDIC. Decent progress so far - I have a lot of writing to do today though. Tomorrow I get to turn it in and complete my final project for the video class, then focus on studying for my Ethics test. Then I have nothing more to worry about, and the semester will be over!

Tomorrow if I remember, I hope to also talk to the people at the Asian Languages department and find out if I have my Japanese minor or not. I can still go early next semester, but I’d rather figure out sooner!

I logged on my priest this morning and vendored some old armor I won’t need anymore (nature resist stuff, some fire resist stuff, etc). I really miss my priest :/ I can’t wait for The Burning Crusade to come out and for my Draenei priest to be born!

Anyway I better get going, I have my “class” at 1:30 (I can’t believe they scheduled class today - classes ended WEDNESDAY). I really hope it’s warmish outside when I get home so we can go on a bike ride

Just went on a bike ride with Chris for about an hour

Walking up the stairs afterward was really hard… haha

Well, I guess it isn’t fair to say it was a whole hour - we did stop and eat at Subway during that time.

Hopefully we’ll be able to do the same thing tomorrow. It wasn’t too cold for it today, but we’ll see

Yesterday was a game party There was lots of Wii playing to be had and I played Arkham Horror twice at the end (we lost the first time because we didn’t realize how close we were to losing). I’ve determined that it seems like having people with low sanity (but high stamina) kind of sucks. My guy had 3 sanity and 7 stamina, never went below 7 stam (I did lose stamina, but only after an encounter that raised my stamina temporarily to 10…) but I had a lot of trouble only having 3 sanity. Probably because his Fight was amazingly high (I was the soldier) but his will sucked (max was 3 D:)

In random news, Ceres is now Honored with Booty Bay (haha) after rescusing Metzen the Reindeer again this year. And WTF, I get to finish the Stormpike quest AGAIN even though I did it ages ago and got Bloodseeker. XDD Hello Ice Barbed Spear which sells for 8 million

Okay I just did a ton of quests on Ceres and got a whole bunch of money XD Alaphrei now has her epic mount riding skill need need 30 marks from each and then I’ll have an epic mount! I already have 30 AB marks, but I am going to be buying her epic pvp shoulders as soon as she has enough honor, so I probably will need some more of those too ^^;

Anyway time to go shopping for some food

i am so tired D: i am falling asleep studying for ethics (and my test is in 49 minutes!)

this is insaaane. i am so tired

also

today was the last day of classes but my art teacher is trying to schedule class for next monday because we didn’t get through all of the critiques (sorry, that’s their fault… can they even legally schedule class after classes are over? i don’t think so)

i am going anyway because i can finish up work but i am not staying more than 1 hour

So I didn’t post this earlier. I am more awake now. I am pretty sure I totally smashed my Ethics test I feel REALLY good about it. I think I basically aced it… we’ll see!

Hellooooo~ (I always imagine that sounding like in that Seinfeld episode, ever since I saw it!)

Things are going pretty well lately. Almost done with my video project Adding in music now… thankfully. After that it is just going to be a matter of trying to make my stills all look nice and authoring the dvd. And making a dvd case >_> but luckily, that’s the easy part, since I have TONS of stills considering this was a stop motion animation project

Rendering….

Hopefully I’ll be done early enough to have lunch with Chris! Not going to hold my breath but still hoping for it I am going to be SO HUNGRY after class is over (3:30) if I don’t get to eat in an hour.

Okay time to stop this, gotta work now that stuff is done rendering and whatnot!