Spring Break!...Part 2

So this is kind of late, but on the tail end of Spring Break, I went to Wonder Con to see the sights and of Course the public debut of Cory and Matt's Plotless Comics. I went on friday and then again on staurday. On friday I kind of just wandered around. On saturday, I went with Christy and our friend Idris. He bought us nerdy t-shirts (I got a Battlestar Galactica one!) and we went to the bathroom to put them on.

Then we went and found Cory, and things looked pretty busy at his booth.

Cory's table was located right next to the asile with all the "celebrities." I use the quotes because a lot of them are old and haven't been in anything important since the 70's. But this time some people from the new Battlestar Galactica were there! I love the show so I was excited to see a few of the characters there and we got to say hi and take pictures.

First we met Richard Hatch (left)  who is the evil Vice President on the new series and Captain Apollo in the original series. He was very cool. He told us he was the thumb wrestling champion and kinda looked like he was challenging one of us. I looked over at Cory Idris and Christy and no one volunteered so I jumped at the opportunity. So I played thumb wars with Richard Hatch! Christy got it on video.

Then we saw Aaron Douglas from Battlestar Galactica (left) who plays Cheif Tyro. He was basically the head mechanic. He was nice too. Wanted us all to squish in for the photo.

Then we saw the guy who played Chewbacca in all 6 Star Wars movies! He's kind of a crazy looking guy, and he's super huge despite looking kind of skinny. Idris managed to get a wookie sound out of him too!

After all the excitment and overstimulation that happens at Wondercon with all its colorful stuff to see, we got on Bart and went back home. It was a really fun time and Cory really enjoyed exhibiting there.

And That Goes Where?!

I think I mentioned here that I was sick for Christmas day, and it kind of sucked. Well I was sick for another 3-4 weeks after that. Although the roughest had passed, a cough, congestion, fatigue and a general feeling of crappiness lingered. So the doctor gave me some antibiotics because it was likely a bacterial sinus infection. It helped and I was able to get back to normal life, but I never quite felt 100% better. Recently I was feeling pretty crappy again and at times suffered spells of dizziness. So it was back to the doctor. This time he decided to pull out the bigger guns and prescribed me this monstrosity of a pill:

I was fairly beside myself when I saw it. I jokingly asked mom if she was sure this was supposed to go in my mouth. lol. Although it was frightening, it actually isn't that terrible of a chore to swallow it. And after the first day of taking it I felt better. I don't wake up with all that nastiness that comes with a dried congested nose. Nosebleeds aren't plaguing me daily and at times I can even breathe through my nose. Now I just have to do something about these allergies...

Spring Break!

Ive been on spring break since last friday. Its been pretty great. Normally I'll always get stuck with some project or paper that'll be due right after or soon after, but this year I have nothing. Its a clean break and I don't have to even think about school. It is kind of sad though because all last week it was sunny and warm. Now just in time for my break its all cold and cloudy. Still happy for the break though.

On tuesday I put my season pass to good use and went to the park formerly known as Marine World. Now its Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. This year they unveiled a new trick for Shouka the killer whale. Instead of jumping straight up in the air to hit a ball, she jumped all the way out and did a flip and hit the ball with her tail. It was pretty cool. It was a great day to go though. There was hardly anybody else there. We got to sit right up close at all the shows and walk right on to any rollercoaster. Probably like 2 minutes was the longest wait all day.

I also got this souveneir! It actually cost less to buy the one with the t-shirt on. I don't know why because clearly a whale with a t-shirt on is adorable.

 

My next spring break adventure will be going to WonderCon this weekend to see what is essentially the world debut of Cory's Plotless Comics.

Also, I've noticed that pretty much all my post titles are exclaimations. Apparently I only blog about things I can shout.

So Many Looks!

So Butters has been growing her hair out since last summer. We managed to keep it untangled for so long, but about a month ago we gave her a bath and that was the end of it. If you don't brush her thoroughly after bathing then the hair will get tangled and matted. The thing is though, at a certain point her fur is just more absorbant than any towel. So you cant dry her and brushung becomes a huge pain. So she got incredibly matted. Probably 40% of her was matted. Poor girl. So we had to have her shaved. I was hoping she would last until may when it was warmer but she was just too matted. Here are the before and after pictures of Butters' new hairdo.

Before

After

Its hard to believe its the same dog! I like her all fluffy but I appreciate her short fur as well. She seems more like a dog and without all that fur you can see her adorable little puppy face. When we put her in front of a mirror she jumped at it and barked. I don't think she recognized herself. nyway, at leaast this way she'll be ready for the summer heat and she'll be easy to clean.

Logos!

So I took 4 graphic design classes in community college and while they were challenging  and caused a great deal of stress, I still loved those classes. But since finishing those classes, I have had to take other classes that are required for a graphic design degree but aren't necissarily graphic design. It feels like its been so long since those graphic design classes and I find myself often questioning if I even want to do i still. But every so often I get an opportunity to flex my design muscle and remember that I do enjoy graphic design and persuing a degree in it is a good move. Recently Christy asked me to make a logo for a mock fashion company she made for one of her FIDM classes. Logos are tough because you start from scratch usually so you have to try to grasp the character or the feel of whatever company or thing you are designing for. But this opportunity gave me another chance to show myself that I'm making the right decisions. And since I haven't blogged in a while I thought I'd take a look back at all the logos I've made in the past couple years. (of course they're all for fun/education)

This was the very first logo I ever made in my design class

for my own personal stationary and stuff

I later revisted it and changed/improved it.

Its still sort of a work in progress but I like where its going

This one I did for a computer graphics class.

It's more illustration than design but I thought it was pretty nifty

This one was just for fun, to pretend Butters was runnign for public office

I also revisited it later and made it better

This one was for the family vacation shirts. Its sort of a logo....

And finally this is the one I made for Christy

Now, if only if I can devise some sort of plot to get paid to do this...

My New Aquarium!

I actually got this a while ago. After having plague wipe out half of my feesh I finally was able to focus funds towards decorating the tank. Fish rocks are not easy to find, and from what I could tell, are not cheap. But theres a fish store in Dublin that has everything fish related and they have a lot of nice sized rocks at very good prices. Hopefully the guppies and tetras that survived will make a good home of it.

Big News!

Today, March 1st 2010 I was accepted to Sacramento State University!

I've been thinking about how there are events in everyone's lives that changes everything. Marriage, a baby or even a new career. In my relatively short life the biggest changes have been going to Jr High school then to High school and then to Jr college. But still those were fairly small changes. Going to a University will be big. I'm going to have to move away from home and do some growing up. It's definitely scary but I'm also excited. This will be the biggest change of my entire life so far. I'm kind of sad about leaving home but who knows, maybe I'll be back. haha. But for now, I have 181 days left till I begin my fall semester at Sacramento State University!