Frank is doing a demo right now. And I have finished my assignments by the skin of my teeth. Currently my brain is so fried that I’m surprised I can recall how to form words, let alone string them into coherent sentences.

I have done so much art and sketching today. x.x

It was good, fun. I loved working on my assignments. I think the real reason I feel so drained right now is because my assignments weren’t the only things I had to worry about.

I had to have my files in order for the PCC Critique. Being there on time was a detail that I couldn’t really slack on, either.

Since I’m in the process of rigging characters and updating my scripts I felt it was fair to show my work along with the students. That way they can see what I’m up to.

So after I finished the tutorials for my class I had to shower and dash off to work to be there on time.

I was able to do three pages worth of warm up sketching before the critique began. I also completed a still life sketch earlier in the morning while following along with some of the tutorials.

There were a lot of people at the critique today, which totally made me happy. There was tons of great work being shown, though no one showed any scripts.

Small steps. I’ll corrupt them over the next few meetings by showing my revamped tools.

Tre and I were supposed to talk after the critique, but he ended up having to leave, and I still had a ton of work to do, so it worked out well. We agreed to meet up early next week.

I went back to the break room to finish off the last two still life images I needed to do, plus a blind contour drawing. That was actually pretty fun. I wish there had been more of those.

That finished off the first assignment that I had to do.

By then it was time for SAL so I dashed of to the other building to be at lab on time.

There was a lot of dashing today…

The second assignment was to create two road signs. Something unique. The first sign we had to choose from a list of ideas. I ended up picking Native American Village.

The second sign we could pick whatever we wanted. So I picked ‘Stitching Area’ and the image I created was a threaded needle.

It was fun, and it was really nice to be inside of Illustrator again.

I finally got that assignment submitted, and now I’m left feeling accomplished, but drained. My brain feels like it’s melted.

On top of doing all of that I had to run back and forth to the upstairs breakroom to scan my sketches twice, go by Clavan’s desk to get my birthday card, reply to several messages on Facebook answering questions from students, keep up with work emails, remember to eat, and somewhere along the way I misplaced my notebook… The one that I write my to-do lists in.

I seriously have no idea how I kept everything together today. But somehow I got to the end of it and everything got done somehow along the way.

This is one time where I can say I am totally glad that tomorrow is the weekend, and that I have no work. I have a solid two days to myself.

It was actually pretty cool. One of the times I was coming back from the scanner I saw a student who is currently in my CRI1 class. I asked if she had any plans for the weekend, and she said not really since she had to be in class tomorrow.

I asked what class, since ours didn’t have lab. She was totally shocked that we didn’t have to be at school tomorrow. She had thought we did, so she got a whole extra day to her weekend.

She was super happy about that and said that I made her whole weekend.

Warm fuzzy feelings. : )

So, I have no idea what I’m going to do once I get home. Not work… or do art… most likely I’ll make dinner and cross stitch for a little bit.

I really don’t want to listen to Eat That Frog since that’s more work, and the last thing I want to listen to is how to be more productive.

Maybe I’ll start Eldest. I don’t know. Silence could also be cool. So many options.

I’m a little bummed that I didn’t get to the gym today, but it actually worked out well to take today as a rest day.

Tomorrow I will run, and as a reward I’m going to go to my sports bar afterwards where I can have awesome wings and finish off reading the design articles for my class and take the quiz.

I want to finish off updating my script so I can re-record the demo for it and get it posted online.

Tony checked out the podcasts that I did for the SAL class and said that he loved them. He asked if I could cover an additional topic, and I got some information that I was missing for the final video I wanted to do in the render setting series. So good stuff. I would like to get those polished off this weekend as well.

So even though I’m out of commission right now, tomorrow has the potential to be awesome and just as productive as today, hopefully in a more structured way though.

But with that, I’m off to go home.