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I’m going to try an impromptu post right here. There is a lot of stuff on my mind. There are some longer, more thoughtful posts I would like to make, but at the moment, I kind of just want to sort through the commotion in my brain.

School starts tomorrow. I want to say that I’m totally stoked, and in a way I am, but I’m not sure that that’s because of school. Towards the end of the Scotland trip, and over the past week as I was trying to figure out what classes to take in fall (which I should have done about 3 months ago), I started looking forward to really developing in some areas that interest me, notably figure sculpture and 3d modeling, learning more about anatomy through the process, and figuring out some rigging and animation stuff. When I should have been sorting and posting my pictures from the trip, I was perusing some stuff on CGTalk and got a little caught up in a rigging blog and I’m thinking about tearing into some animation after looking at Keith Lango’s site . This is why I’m stoked. I need to check out some of the stuff on Rigging101 and work through the stuff in Maya Character Creation: Modeling and Animation Controls . And now I’m dropping links like nobody’s business.

So anyways, I guess I am getting excited about the possibilities of the upcoming semester. Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of control over what my classes cover, but I will remain delusionally optimistic until I see syllabi. Hopefully I’ll be able to have an independent study where I can work on some of this stuff.

Hmm what else… I thought I had a bunch of stuff on my mind. I suppose it will have to wait. Coming soon: Unwinding from Scotland, moving forward, and pictures pictures pictures.

That is all.

So in an earlier post, I mentioned that there was no address bar in the incarnation of IE in the school library where I was taking classes for the past two weeks in Scotland. Or at least alluded to this fact[. But I was okay with that, because it was better than nothing, free, and I found a workaround quick enough. But now I am in a hostel in London, paying for time, and this thing… it’s ridiculous. The keyboard is like buttons instead of keys, with quarter-inch spaces between them, and requiring substantially more pressure and concentrated effort to type with any semblance of normal speed. But worse than that is the browser… there’s an address bar this time, but it doesn’t seem to “support” multiple or popup windows. Or Java. And there’s no AIM client… it’s ridiculous. Here I am trying to waste a little time in London and I can’t even do it successfully.

So if any of the my comrades read this and you guys haven’t forgotten that I exist and would be kind enough to pick me up from the airport, I should be getting in on Tuesday at 4:40pm on Virgin Atlantic Flight 15.

I have so many stories to tell. Well, one, really. Here’s the gist of it: my foot hurts, and I am an idiot. Let’s all cross our fingers and hope that I didn’t fracture my right calcaneus. Or talus. Or any of them really.

In case anyone is curious, I am still alive.

And here is a link so I can access my email