Heh...
I was doing very poorly for a couple weeks. I tried to put how I felt into words but I failed, so here's a vague pictorial representation instead.
Anyways, it has passed, and along with regained motivation to live, I have new motivation for all my personal projects and aspirations which have been stacking up good :). These I hope to work on these in the next half year, roughly in the order of priority:
- Post a series of concise, topical entries rather than these big blabberings that take me forever to write
- Finish going through Ruby manuals and start mocking up my Rails app idea; have at least part of the code done by RailsConf!
- Take on certain misc. design projects
- Refine character sketches for Andrew's manga and and begin on the pages
- Finish coding Becky's site and come up with solutions for her blog and photo galleries
- Consistently nag Weien about writing praise song lyrics and work with him on orchestrating them
- Do astronomy/art project for school
- Redesign BattleSong, port the entries to a better blog-type system
- Draw pics for EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!! (i.e. my loyal blog readers :D) I'll take requests once I get to this!
- Get a host running Ruby and Rails, port my blog to Typo, make a simple template system for the other parts of my site
- Get some kind of CMS running on Mary Kay's site before June, in Ruby if the above item is accomplished
- Finish writing up the first few chapters of candid manga and start thumbnailing
- Begin a long-term digital painting with a full landscape and emphasis on composition rather than character design... I have to gear up for my one matte painting of 2006 ^__^
- Obtain quality fabric paint and stencil T-shirts for myself :D~
- Create simple posting form for the garlic thing... I still have 60+ people I'm supposed to add to the members list :P. I'm not sure why I thought this was a worthwhile thing on which to spend my time 2 years ago, lol
- Redesign my room
And here are some things I just want to do.
- Go to DT Nville with Weien and some of the other people people I've been really wanting to see again :). Hopefully it'll be a weekly thing once the weather hits the 50's
- Build up digital music library
- Finish getting through my old emails
- Be active on Daily Sketch Group -.-
- Visit Chicago museums with Weien (and anyone else who thinks that sounds like fun ^__^?)
- Permanently switch from my Yahoo account to my Gmail account
- Attempt to gain permission from the IBLP director to host a viewing of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for all my coworkers once the DVD comes out in April
- Get an account on Wikipedia and begin seriously editing
- Figure out what to do with my hair
- Go car shopping
I could probably write an entire entry about most of the projects, so let me know if you'd like me to expound on anything. I'm already going to post about Rails though, since that had a lot do do with getting me out of the dumps :D.
Speaking of good things... it must be mentioned that the 343-email devotional program for which we all toiled is finally complete! Daily Success really made me feel like I was part of a team, even though all I did was put the emails live each night, at the very end of the process :). My boss Matt and the webmaster Mary Kay have my eternal respect for all the amazing hard work they put into this.
Select pics:
The official countdown... we really should have made this chain way back at email #1 :)
The three in the middle are actual editions of the book... you might remember my spoof on the first version ^_^?
Weien, oh yes the nun-lady knows me well...
David, I'm trying my best!
Kash, thanks man!
Tara, I miss you!
Shiowei, sankyu muchly.
Ben, hehe yep.
Cynthia, I guess 2006 has been decent so far ^^
Ryan, thanks a ton and I will definitely keep thinking! (with my own brain, even :)
siao.CN, right, it's her breath because it's cold; she's not smoking. What I called a Bible comic in the last post is just me drawing pictures to better visualize what I was reading in the Bible ^^.