Care Factor Zero

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Well, to me it's kind of old news now, but I was made redundant last monday afternoon. Yup. Two days later, the company goes into receivership. A day later, I'm rehired. Amidst that, I've had assignments due, homework to do (which I haven't done), basketball to play, houses to clean, money to make and family duties to attend to.

I'm fucken tired!

I have another assignment due this coming monday, and I'm freaking OUT! It's one of those fine arts subjects with all the development work needing to be done in the visual diary. The brief that we have has outlined everything that needs to be done to insure a pass. A pass. There is no scale, no indication of what needs to be done to get 100%. As it is, I have a 3 week extension as I started the course 3 weeks after everyone else, so people have completed the first assignment and have received their marks. There is one girl in the class, and she is extremely diligent in this class; it's her favourite. She did a SHITLOAD of work in her book. She filled a 6 page A3 visual diary and a 30 page A4 folio with development work, and she didn't get 100%!

She followed the brief to the letter, produced work to a high standard, and obviously thought about the subject matter and different techniques and materials, and got a B.

What. The. Fuck.

It doesn't bode well for moi.

So yeah, I have a shitload of work to complete in my folio and I'm rapidly losing motivation in the face of impossible odds. I have only a couple of days to complete it too.

I'm helping dad with an auction early saturday morning, so I'll probably stay there friday night to save me the drive in the morning. I have Greek Easter obligations saturday night -> sunday. The assigment is due monday. I have tonight (basketball), and tomorrow (I'm going to an art gallery for a show) to finish it. I might have to take friday off from work to complete it. We'll see how desperate I get.

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Yeah, a whole heap of these have been done since mid-last year, in various stages of production. It has had many names (Burning Out, Secret Life 2, Mark 2, Untitled) but it wasn't until monday night that it was officially dubbed "Care Factor Zero". I'll post them when I wanna :)

The Panda Army is Coming..

Just a heads up..

So I haven't blogged in a while. Been busy with, you know, stuff. :P Put it this way, I'm still working a 37.5 hour week and going to uni 7.5 hours a week, plus time spent on homework, because I'm 3 weeks behind the rest of my class. So needless to say I haven't had a lot of time for anything other than eating, sleeping and general winding-down.

But all of that is beginning to change. With the start of daylight savings (finally!) I caught up on the elusive hour of sleep that has been missing from my life. That coupled with the fact that I'm coming to grips with my longer hours and getting ontop of everything makes for a very alert Darkris. I may have been pushing the boundaries a tad when I stayed up until 1am this morning playing with Illustrator. I feel blegh today :-/

There's soooo much happening in my life at the moment, but most of which I can't speak about, not yet anyway. Those who know me well will already know what I'm referring to, but for everyone else: rest assured, when something actually happens, I'll let you all know.

Basketball has been good; last week I managed to finally drop the curse that I have carried for sometime. We actually won a game I played in :-O In saying that, I'm not expecting that to make us unbeatable, but it should definitely help, especially against Flemington Magic (tonight at 8.10pm). I think I'll suit up and sit on the bench for some moral support and for the psychological edge it gives us, knowing that they can see that their opponent has some depth on the bench. Not that I look like much of a threat, but I can pull a mean greasy when I need to.

I have been experiencing something of a roller-coaster of inspiration the last week. I have been motivated but I haven't been able to create anything. I have wanted to write some more notes on a story I have been concocting and reformulating for about 15 years now. I have had some new ideas about it. But I know I have so many things on the go, that when I sit down to write something, I either don't write anything at all because I don't know where to begin, or start writing and go off on so many tangents that if anyone was to guess the subject matter they would be utterly wrong. I mean, that's aside from the fact that the story is very confusing anyway.

I really want to work on Burning Out, but finding time when I'm not too buzzed out to draw is hard. I can't draw when I'm tired, and that was been the only word to describe me over the last few weeks. I can't even write about Burning Out, because I want what I write to be perfect, as it will be around forever, and I don't want to write some half-assed thing because it was easy at the time, only to have to re-write the past because I was too lazy to think things through. Like that sentence. Which is what I'm experiencing with this Infused (working title of my major, major story) stuff.

Hopefully in a week or two I will be 90% on top of everything (especially after I hand in my first assignment for Design Elements and Principles - gah!) and I will be able to take more on. I couldn't even begin to imagine playing footy this year with my schedule the way it is.

Anyway, I had better scoot and do some work, just thought I would drop a line to say hi :)