It took the world a while, but I finally got notification that I made it into the Bachelor of Fine Art program here at school. What that means is that I'll have a better degree but I'll have to take 2 classes in the summer before I can graduate.

At least summer classes are done in half a semester as opposed to a full one.

Onward and upward! :)

It's been a while since I posted last, but I figured this is a good reason to post something...


The Piece of Paper, 1st of Two by *tekitsune on deviantART

16 years in the making. It took forever and several false starts, but it's finally done. I started my Associates Degree back in 1991. Several school name changes and several department overhauls later, it's finally done. I've been chasing after this for a long time. I'm glad that I was finally able to get it done. Now I've got nine or ten classes left (or 7 or 8, depending on how some things go...) and the Bachelors is done. Oh, how happy I'll be when that's finished. Life will be able to move on.

For now, I'm happy that the Piece of Paper #1 is done and in hand.

So, it's finally here. Tomorrow begins a new chapter as I hit the books for the first time in almost 10 years. Now if I didn't have all this packing of the place to do at the same time... it's going to be a long rest of the week...

In other news, I think the guys over at my client's place, DST, are going to find a way out of their contract. The guys here at RSG want to keep me around for a while part-time. I've heard that they want me around at least until March, so that's a good month or two there. No complaints. And it may last longer than that.

The nice thing there is that they don't really have any other web projects, so that means that I'll be doing work that I sooooooo much prefer doing, print. We'll see where that goes next week though.

For now, I've got 2 more hours of boring to suffer though before the REAL fun for the week starts.

Woo.

 

Well, it's done.

As the final piece of the puzzle, I told my boss about school today and my impending departure. To say the least, it threw him for a loop. He was kinda flustered and grasping for words. He then set up a meeting with the BIG BOSS in about an hour so we all can talk about it.

It'll be a nice load off once this is all finalized and done. And the change will be well worth it.

Here's to hoping this conversation goes alright.

The final pieces of preparation for the changes in January are done. Financial aid is taken care of. Classes are registered for. And in anticipation of the change in things, I've got a new website for myself:



It's called AtomicIcebox. No real reason behind the name. It just sounded funky and trendy. I've got a bunch of new things on the site too, mainly the Gallery section. I'll be dumping up all of the art-ish stuff I come up with in there. Right now there's not too much there beyond the silly art that I've had online forever and a day and then some of the photography that I've done. (got some more of that to upload some time too...)

That's it for now. I'm sure there will be more later... After my appointment with the eye doctor this afternoon. Contacts again! Woo! :) And maybe I'll have my phone back on again. Won't that be nice? :)

Well, the final hurdle has been jumped.

The financial aid info has finally come in, so school in January is finally a go. It's a bit less than I had hoped, but still workable.

Now the fun part comes. Trying to figure out how to tell work that I'm leaving... that should prove to be something fun. :)

We'll see what happens.

Last night, I pretty much got home, ate "lunch" and then crashed. I was exceptionally worn out yesterday.

I'm not sure why, but this week has been exceptionally high on the energy drain. I'm not sure if it's because of the trip to KU on Monday or if it's cause this week has just been a lot of blah at work. (Of course, this week ended up having two Mondays, so that's probably part of it. I hate weeks that have two Mondays.)

Granted, the trip to KU was good. I got there early cause I didn't know how long the drive would be. I lounged around the KU Visitor Center for about 45 minutes before the tour presentation started. The actual presentation was ok. Nothing that I didn't already know about KU. All the info they went over was stuff I'd gotten off the website already. Once that was done, the group headed up to the Student Union and started an exceptionally freezing walking tour of the campus. (What possessed them to think people wanted to walk around in the freezing cold wind is beyond me.) We ended up getting the abbreviated version of the tour cause it was getting way too cold. Once we got back to the Union, the tour was finished and I had about 2 hours before my appointment with the Fine Art Department advisor, so I wandered around at the Union for a bit, looking at the Bookstore and grabbing something to eat. Bookstore is decent. Nothing like I was used to when living in Utah. BYU's bookstore is huge. But KU has a decent enough computer section with a lot of Mac stuff, so that's good.

Once I finished roaming around the Union, I headed over to the Art & Design building and wandered around there for a bit before taking up space in the "Commons" area there and waiting for my appointment. I finally got to meet with the Advisor and she gave me some info on the Art program and then took me on a tour of the 5 and a half floors of Art goodness. Yes, I did say "and an half" too. I must say that the building is a maze of hallways, dead ends, looped walkways and flights of stairs... the place reminded me of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. There are actually 5 floors in the building, but because at one point the University joined two buildings together, there's one part of the building that has a "half" floor, right between the main building's 3rd and 4th floors. It's kinda funky. There's all sorts of different options for the classes there too. Anything from the metal foundry to cloth weaving. It's an exceptionally diverse Art department. I'll be an interesting thing when I get up there in the Fall.

Beyond all the goodness at KU on Monday, this week has been dragging along. Fun with money, fun with cameras, fun with clients, fun, fun, fun til' your daddy takes the t-bird away... yeah. It's been that good of a week. I am glad that it's December though. I like December. I'm not sure if I'll get to go home for Christmas like I was planning (school is prolly going to eat up the money that I'd need to fly home), but the month should go ok overall. This week will be a bit rough cause ottermama's paychecks are off because of the new job, but we'll find a way to survive until his first check on the 15th. We also have a photo shoot on the December 10th. We've got a pet store on the MO side that is going to have us shoot picts for their Santa event. It'll be some good stuff if we can get enough people into the store. There's a lot to do before it all happens too. It's going to be a long week next week in preparation for the shoot...

January is going to be excellent though. School starting and we'll be moving into the new townhouse. That's going to be great. Cheaper lives for all of us here. (And we won't have to scrounge up quarters anymore to do laundry. That'll be very nice.)

And I'll be happy in 2006 when my car is paid off. :)

Yeah. :)

I think I can add November onto the months this year that have officially kicked my ass. Not that November has been a bad month. It's actually been really decent. There's just been a LOT of stuff going on and yet, it feels like little has gotten done...

I've got a big list of things that need to be recounted... Stories of fun. Stories of insanity. Stories of life changing events. I have movies that I'd like to comment on. Not to mention the fact that a lot of things will be changing in January.

The big list o' things that I need to write about:

• The Alton Brown Encounter, Part 3


• Reactor


• The Dave & Busters VIP Party


• Good Night, and Good Luck


• Serenity


• The big pile of good stuff that will be happening in January

I'll have to see if I can get some of this done soonly.

One of the things that is happening in January is something I can write about now. For those that have read in other places, I've been presented with the opportunity to go back to school and finish up my degree. It's an opportunity that I can't really pass up at this point, so I'm going to go for it. I'm in a bit of a waiting pattern for some paperwork at the school, but that should be all tied up in the next week or so. According to the community college, I have 3 classes left for my Associate of Arts degree. I should have all that finished up this summer. Then I'll move on to the University. I've done a lot of poking around and I've found that the best place for an Art degree in Kansas is out at the University of Kansas. I was originally looking at Kansas State, but the distance from here (it's like 2-3 hours away) and the fact that KU has a better art program (and they're only like 30 minutes away) is driving that decision. I have an appointment to go see the campus and to talk to the advisors in the Art Department on the 28th, so that's all good. I'd most likely be starting in the Fall up at KU. Life should prove to be interesting with that.

In preparation for school and things, I tossed up a new website for all my school and art-related stufferothers. It can be found at http://www.kitstudios.com/. I've got the main pages running on the Movable Type engine. There's a gallery in there running on the Coppermine software. I have all my old artwork in there as well as some photography that I've done. I've got a pile of other stuff that needs to be scanned in too. And then there's the bane of existence, the forums. I still hate them as a piece of "technology", but there's no good way to discuss stuff on the website right now. (I just really hate administering them.) I'm still working on the Projects and the About pages, but those should be done up in the next few days. If you're bored, go take a look.

Beyond that, it's just a blah boring ol' day here. I can't wait for tomorrow to be over. I need my holiday to come already. I need to sleep. I need this headache to go away. I hate feeling sore and bloatertastic... End of the month ick is never a good thing. And I need to find a way to get back to exercising. I've slacked off since the weather changed and I got back from Reactor.

Yeah.