So I would have to say that the highlight of my week was probably yesterday; I had absolutely no down time to just sit at home and relax... I had a friend over from the other side of town crash at my place on my futon and so me and 3 of my house mates and him decided on going out to try and eat something new for breakfast; luckily I bought a groupon for a Thai-Laotian restaurant that was not too far from my house. I had just recently discovered this amazing thing called a groupon thanks to one of my friends; apparently you go online to their website and pay for example $20 and the coupon would get you something like $40 to spend when you go out to use it and it comes in all forms of things you can buy, I guess it is a great way for places to get their name out but it is defiantly a win-win for both parties. I actually went to a Thai-Laotian restaurant about a month or two ago when I was in California this summer and I suppose it is pretty common since their food styles are very similar, but thanks to that, I knew exactly what we should order. The great thing about this kind of food is that you order a bunch of different dishes and have them all in the middle of the table and all eat from them so that you get a huge variety. I highly recommend something called pad thai which is like the country's signature dish along with thai tea which is a very tasty drink, no two are the same though so if you had a bad experience with it I would try it again. Overall it was an amazing decision to go, we each spent about $6-$7 thanks to the groupon and ate a very large amount of tasty food.
Right after we ate I had to drive straight to work; I recently got a new job as a lab assistant at my school which means that I pretty much sit at a computer and maintain the lab making sure everything is going well and helping out students with hardware or software problems, luckily I am studying computer graphics and I am very technical minded so answering questions and figuring things out is easy for me and because all of my shifts are in a 3D lab mainly used by animation students. This job is actually helping get more of my homework done since it is kind of like a study hall for me and I don't have any distractions around; I am actually writing this blog at work also.
Right after work I had to go shopping with my house mate since he doesn't have his car yet. We went to Walmart and bought some random groceries. Living off campus; I've learned to embrace my inner chef and usually get pretty good compliments on it. Straight from the store I decided to take the bus and hang out down town with some friends, when I finally got back, I passed out.
Back to important things like school, I have been working on my 3D sculpture. Don't know if anyone could guess who it was but I'm trying to model Scarlet Johanson, thanks to the inspiration I got from my recently bought movie, The Avengers, I think that I am starting to capture her characteristics better. Another thing I did to practice making my model recognizable was a hand done sketch that I did. My professor commented to me that if your spending hours working on something, it might as well be something you don't mind look at. The DVD I bought actually came with the 3D blu-ray version, standard blu-ray, digital copy, and sound track; for $20 I think it was a pretty good deal. I don't know why anyone would have picked any of the other versions since they where all priced the same. As for my other project I decided that I was going to make it with my scripting group for our final. Using scripts we are going to try and rig the model and maybe make a short animation, to contribute I drew up a bunch of concept sketches since planning is half of the work.
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