This is the last task on my to-do list for the day. Except for stitching one thread, but to be fair… I’ve already stitched two throughout the day… so I’m not sure how that works / counts.

Today was pretty good. I woke up with my alarm at 7 but didn’t really get moving until about 7:40. I got done with laundry around 9:30, which put me at the gym a little before 10.

I did the elliptical and then a ton of stretching. I actually cut my time down by a solid minute. So I’m at a 14 minute mile, at least when I’m on a machine.

It felt like a good workout, and I still had two hours of aikido to look forward to, so I didn’t feel bad about not doing more. It didn’t help that I didn’t pack my gym bag, so I actually didn’t have my jump rope with me. I was looking forward to that part actually.

I actually put my cloths away when I got home. Super proud of myself for not being a slacker on that. I ate, stitched for a bit, then headed to school.

I worked on my freelance for most of the time. There weren’t many questions in the beginning of lab, and Frank demoed for the last half.

Maya crashed on me at the very end, which sucked.

I’m normally really good about saving my work. I had basically just finished rigging the wings of the character (she’s sort of a cyber angel type character), and I hadn’t saved since I had started on that section of the project. Probably about 30 minutes worth of work… Gone. Poof. Like it never even happened.

So freaking annoying, but at least it’s not hours worth of work. Or something like all of my files corrupting (which has happened to people I know).

So that was a bit of an aggravation, but nothing that I couldn’t survive.

It was raining when I headed to my car, and has been for pretty much the whole day. I came back home and rested a bit. I was starting to get super tired, so I needed some recovery time. I drank a bunch of water and took it easy until around 6:30 when I left for the dojo.

Today was the fundamentals class followed by the advanced class. Sensei Jan is out of town, so we had a ‘substitute’ sensei.

He was alright, but I don’t like him as much as Sensei Jan, Beata, or Ian.

There was a new girl at the dojo today, which was actually pretty cool. I got to help her out, and it was nice being able to show someone how do different moves. It reaffirmed that I am actually picking this stuff up.

So that was cool.

After class I came home and redid the setup for the wings.

Tre and I swapped files around 11 so we could get fresh eyes on our work. I had checked his file out earlier, right when I had gotten to school. There were some minor issues, but overall his work was solid.

He had made all of the changes I had mentioned earlier, just a minor weighting issue in the fingers, but he’s done really well, just like I knew he would. I’m glad that he’s my partner on this project. I don’t have to worry about him. I know he’ll pull through.

If anything, I’m worried that I’m not keeping up with him. I still have to weight paint the character, but because she is so low res I’m fairly confident that I’ll be able to take care of it tomorrow.

Desiree wants to meet to talk about code and interfaces tomorrow at 11, which is during my break, but I’m ok with that. I meet with Sabrina at 1, which is right after lab. Then there is a staff meeting at 3.

Weapons class is at 8, but there’s an Open class at 7 I might go to.

At some point I need to look at my homework for this week. I haven’t done anything with that yet, though I have a 98 in the class so far.

So I’m thinking that during lab I will spend most of my time freelancing, as well as the time between work and aikido. After aikido I can check out my class and make my battle plan for that.

I would rather not save everything for the weekend. That would suck hardcore.

But that’s a problem for tomorrow. Right now I’m going to relax and go to sleep.