Well as always time appears to be escaping me! I have had a sore throat for a couple of days now, but am choosing to ignore it in the home that it would go away. :) Which it appears it has, however my head has not been in the game when in comes to Uni work for the last couple of days.
I have been slightly distracted in making banners for the various (websites? apps? social networks?) places I can be found on the web. I decided to do it as I wanted to create a bit more a visual 'About Me' page as it were and am experimenting on here with it all before I add it to my more 'professional blog' as it were. Basically I wanted to create a more visual about page rather than have it a wall of text or full of images of things I am interested in. So I decided to create some quick and simple banners using screenshots from the various sites I use and then just putting something quick and dirty together in Paint to suffice for now. However I couldn't quite bring myself to leave it like that so I ended up in Photoshop and using rulers, pencil tools, and editing at pixel level to create some banners that I'm still not entirely happy with but am okay with posting for now. It was basically a therapeutic exercise, something that I tend to do when feeling a little grotty, usually it's something to do with the Dreamstone. :) Yet after getting a my own domain finally sorted I am now settling into that and playing about with things, basically learning a lot more than I probably need to know in regards to passing my current degree. However it is something I enjoy doing and keeps me practised in software packages that I will be using for my degree. In regards to the Dreamstone project I am still not comfortable with my current web skills to do that site justice, and this time I don't want to put anything up until I am happy with it. Though I realise that I run the risk of never putting anything up! :)
Anyway we have started new projects at Uni and they are just the kind of ones that I like to sink my teeth into, as not only are we creating design documents in one we are analysing games in-depth in the other. Then to top it off we are now going over Maya in the tech classes, something I have been looking forward to.
My only regret about the current project though is that I am working on my own again, as I would have liked to have worked with someone this time. However most people seem to want to work on their own clear ideas for this one, which I understand as that was how I felt for the last one.
Other than spending too long moving pixels around in Photoshop this week I have also had to do the cat a great injustice by booking her into the vets. She has a small sore on her lip that really needs sorting and as of today a possible tooth broken. This cat is not going to have any teeth left at this rate, she has worse luck than I do. (Three teeth out in one go due to over eager wisdom teeth.) She's an old cat though approaching fifteen I think...though sometimes I wonder as I can't believe it's been that long since she was born, added to the fact that she looks like a cat half her age. (Even the vet agreed on that one!) Plus with the new mouse toy I purchased thanks to the recommendations of a friend she acts like a new born kitten when chasing it. :)
Anyway I should consider turning in now and try and get a good nights sleep as I have a lot of work to do tomorrow due to the lack of it yesterday. I am however tempted to finish off and post the drafts that I have sitting on my work blog.....sleep would be better though. :)
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