Today was a good day full of all sorts of wonderful awesomeness.

I woke up early, so I had some time to work on homework. I had to make 3 symmetrical designs using only squares, circles, and triangles. And then three asymmetrical designs.

I got through two of the symmetrical designs before I had to rush to shower and get to school to meet with Ari.

I texted her, letting her know that I got sucked into schoolwork and that I was running a little behind. She said that was fine because she was running a bit late, too.

So we both got to school and touched base with Project Break Room. Then we went up to talk to Donna.

Donna was amazing and super supportive of the changes we suggested. We even went down stairs to look over the break room to see if there were any other changes we could come up with.

She said that this most likely would be stretched out over the year, but that there were some things that we could get implemented relatively soon.

She is going to talk to Pete, our program director, and go over our requests and get the ball rolling on that. There’s a staff meeting in a few weeks. Donna said depending on how Pete feels, it might be brought up during the meeting.

Both Ari and I would be there so any questions that need to be answered should be covered by either her or myself.

But overall, very, very positive meeting. Huzzah!

After the meeting Ari wanted to talk. So we walked around the campus while she told me about her and Sara. I guess they’re getting a divorce. The whole time we were walking she kept bumping into me.

I can understand a handful of times, like once or twice.

But the whole walk I kept feeling like my space was being invaded.

Overall, it was a good talk, and there wasn’t the sexual awkwardness from our other interactions. Most likely because we were at work and in public. I’m cool with that.

After we walked around our building I said that I needed to go. This was the only time frame I had for the gym, so if I slacked off too much I wouldn’t be able to go at all.

I rowed, shaving a minute off my time, biked for a bit, and did the elliptical. So a cardio day I guess.

It was so hard not to run. So incredibly hard. Tomorrow is going to be worse.

But I’m trying to save running for Sunday. A full week for my shins to heal up.

My arms aren’t trying to fall of anymore. I did a bunch of upper body machines the other day, and the soreness is just now going away. I’ll do leg day over upper body any time.

So the gym was awesome and fun.

After that I went back to school. I has about an hour and a half to kill before the seminar that I wanted to go to, and I needed food.

So since today is Friday, treat day, I went to Crispers for lunch. While I was there I balanced my budget and did all of my finance stuff.

The bills for the apartment came in so I messaged Jarrett about that. He’s up to owing $160 on the accounts. He said he should have that by Monday. It would be fantastic if he did.

After everything is said and done, I have enough left over for Sabrina’s tablet. I’m going to give her $100 for it. That’s including extra money for gas for the trip home.

While I was at lunch I got a call from my Mother Earth.

She said that she was reading my post about my phone situation and she had a thought. She has an extra line that she is currently paying for, and not using. And that the phone attached to the line is an iPhone 4.

I think mine is an iPhone 4 S but I honestly don’t know what that means since it was a hand-me-down. All I know is that i-products run OmniFocus and that OmniFocus is the program in which I run my life.

She said I could have the line as long as I was ok with switching numbers. That way I wouldn’t have to deal with Sir any longer, or worry about the bill being paid.

I wasn’t worried about it before, but now that I know that it’s not getting taken care of, like I was told it would be, I have the added worry of wondering if my phone is going to have service cut.

It would be $12 more a month I believe. I never got around to checking further into the phone situation, but I think I would be ok with that. I finished off my symmetrical designs, and then walked over to the seminar.

There was a lot of walking today…

I didn’t really learn anything new at it. But hearing the stories of other people’s freelance experiences was really nice. I also got to talk to one of the presenters. He is an instructor in the Digital Arts and Design degree, the one that I’m taking. But he’s an instructor much further in the program. Towards the end where we work on our branding and portfolio pieces.

We got to talking about the final project and what would be expected, how it’s run. Really good conversation. I explained how I had already graduated the Computer Animation degree, and had branding, and how it would most likely be a revamp.

That lasted right up until I had to go to PCC Critiques, which were once again super fantastic.

I showed off the revised version of my script, which sparked a bunch of questions, so we actually opened up the script file and I showed them how my code was structured.

I talked about how it was online for download and already I was getting more followers on my Vimeo and YouTube due to the script. I also said how Rigging Dojo and Lesterbanks normally make posts about my work.

Which sparked a whole conversation about the first time I found a post about myself, and the feelings I experienced. The first time I found someone ‘stealing’ my work.

Lots of talk and story telling. Plus amazing work from everyone.

Like I said, it was a really good session.

After that my brain was fried.

I hardcore NEEDED alone time.

I still had 3 designs to get through plus the SAL lab.

I desided to come home for a bit for alone time. I knew Joshua and Susan were on campus, so the apartment would be empty. Perfect.

I completed my homework and submitted it. I re-evaluated my list and figured out what I still wanted to try to get done. I had four hours of lab I had to be on campus for. The least I could do is try to be productive during it.

I went through all of my Friday chores and made my grocery list as well.

I also went through my ‘soon’ task list. I was surprised how many things I’ve already completed on it. Go me.

When I got back on campus I emailed Donna my Google Doc list for the changes in the break room. I also emailed all of the co-workers who replied to my original email with ideas.

I wanted them to know that the first official Project Break Room meeting had occurred and that it seemed very positive and that I would keep them posted.

I filled out a form that I needed to do in preparation for my yearly review. I had to list different events that showed community involvement, personal growth, etc.

I’d just like to say… that form is so full it’s not even funny. And that’s just the stuff that I remember to write down. I know there are things that I forgot throughout the months.

I can safely say that I deserve my quarter.

Once that was done I set up my PayPal fully. Fredenator uses PayPal so I wanted that completely done for when they send me the rest of the information.

By 10:40 I was dying of hunger. Like, felt like I was going to be sick if I didn’t eat something.

I asked Frank if it would be alright if I ran to Taco Bell for food real fast. He said that was fine. I asked if he wanted me to bring him back anything. He was super interested in some tacos.

He tried giving me money, but I told him that I got it. It was just two hard shell tacos and a drink. Nothing major. It was the least I could do for him letting me leave lab for a little while.

I got a steak cantina bowl. I haven’t that much food in one sitting in close to three weeks now. And today was the first day in three weeks that I had carbs. I had a sandwich for lunch, and then rice in the cantina bowl.

It was fantastic.

I talked to Mother Earth online for a little bit about her honey moon plans. That’s something else I’m going to have to start thing about and saving for.

I stitched for a little bit, but not much. Frank wanted to talk for I couldn’t really zone out. But he was so awesome for letting me go get food that there was no way I was going to be aggravated or frustrated with him.

Lab ended, I came home and had an apple, and now am about to go pass out.

I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow morning.

Waking up and having coffee. Everything else can figure itself out as I go from there.

Totally looking forward to Sunday and my trip home. I can’t wait to see my mom. And with that I’m off. *poof*