i still love seattle more
I got back on last Saturday night. I was really ready to come home… as much as I love traveling and seeing cool stuff, I still love being back in Seattle. And having been to several other cities, I still think I would rather live here.
I spent most of Sunday moving all my crap into our new house, which is slowly starting to look like an actual house now… getting stuff set up slowly and kinda getting situated. It’s slowly getting cuter too. It’s nice not living in the U-district.
Classes look like they’re going to be pretty cool. I’ll be researching diabetes for info design and doing a school of art catalogue or something for publication design. My 1 credit animation production seminar looks like it’ll be pretty sweet too. Just different people talking about various aspects of the animation industry. I’m pretty excited for it.
The stuff I did for Arriba is up now too. It’s weird seing that menu board all lit up and stuff. I guess I’ve just never really done anything so big. I’m not sure how I feel about it. I mean it’s kind of neat that I made it, but I don’t know how much I actually like it or the other stuff I did for Arriba. Dunno if it’s portfolio-able or not… I mean it’s cool that I got to do such a big comprehensive thing, but it’s not my favorite thing ever.
The animation-predicament seems to be constantly popping up. I don’t know what it is. It just seems that it’s what gets me the most excited, but something I don’t know if I’d actually be able to do. Dunno. I feel like I don’t have enough time to learn all the things I want to learn. It’s already my senior year… then I have to start working and doing “real” things… not even 9 months away!
in other news: my doodle diary from the trip to Rome shall be scanned soon and available for perusal, printing, or purchasing (if you were so inclined).
more sexy brazilian girls
Horray!! Brazilian Girls have a new album out!! More sexy brazilian girls = a very happy Jayne. The new one came out a lot sooner than I was expecting, but that’s cool with me.
Check out the Hype Machine and listen to some of the tracks off the album that are floating around the mp3 blogs these days.
In other music related lust, that damn poppy S.O.S. song by Rihanna has been getting some fairly heavy rotation the past few days. I swear it’s just that little Tainted Love sample that gets me. Too bad the rest of the album pretty much sucks…
swits swass
So, “white night” wasn’t really what I expected, although I guess I probably could have done some more planning if I really wanted to go to specific things. I guess I though it would be more.. street fair like or something with more stuff to see in the streets. Instead it was mostly TONS of people wandering around the city and being really loud and drunk and smelly, trying to go to a few things here and there. I’ve also realized that large crowds and groups of people make me feel very uncomfortable and awkward. I ended taking the hour long walk home on my own cause the busses were all weird, and got back around 3 am.
I always feel kinda lame about not really wanting to go out and about exploring more of the nightlife or whatever, but at the same time I’ve realized I really don’t get any satisfaction out of it when I do. But a lot of people seem to like it, so I think maybe I just have different priorities.
In other news… we had some tasty Indian food here. I’m looking forward to my Quizno’s steak sandwich when I return.
when in Rome
It’s weird being around so many people all the time here. It’s just kinda different. I guess I’m use to spending a lot more time in a small group of few people. Usually consisting of at least one girl and one guy. I haven’t really hung out with a big group of girls since highschool, or really big groups in general. I forgot about the gossip and group mentality and all that. It’s not bad, just kinda weird. And it’s weird that there will be 3 more weeks of it, and not having a good guy friend around to sort of balence things out a bit. They’re are 2 guys here but it’s not really the same.
And it’s not really the same just talking to Zach occasionally, and somewhat awkwardly, online or on the phone. I seem to have issues keeping up with people who are not within my physical proximity, but I suppose that’s a pretty common issue since most friendships are started by availability. But you would think that with all this fancy pants technology that supposedly brings everyone together that the physical space would not be an issue. I can call Zach or text him or IM him or email him or even video chat with him.. but it’s still kind of hard for me to not feel somwhat awkward about it because of the physical distance. Or maybe it’s more because of time zones making it difficult to sync up.
I’m doing well though. Just sort of missing people and sort of wanting the next 3 weeks to go by a little faster. We just got back from visiting Pisa and Parma yesterday. New flickr pictures are up from that.. so I guess check them out if you want.
