Waiting For The SHoes To Drop

[caraig]

Aside from various unpleasantness in the news of late (which you can read about just fine elsewhere; I'm still peeved that VOA News was put under new management a bit over a year and a half ago and is now toeing a party line) there is the somewhat less-impactful unpleasantness in my own life.

Now, it isn't all bad. Last night a guest speaker came to the school, a man by the name of Scott Rays, a characer artist at Volition. Afterwards, I was glad to speak with him and get his card, and will be sending something reasonably good on to him for critiquing.

Part of me feels a bit dirty; I should be able to just talk with the guy as a respected professional, not holding some sort of concealed hope that he could be a potential job lead. But, there's nothing that says I can't do both. And to be quite honest, the job situation is looming more and more over me, heck, over us all. I'm not having any of those "I should not have come here" moments, fortunately. I just know that it's going to be hard getting a job, that's all.

Warning, the tangential tracks of my mind being allowed to wander follows.

"Lucy Cassidy" is a pretty energetic piece, with pipes, drums, guitars, fiddles... kind of a 'folksey' style *twitch* but very very energetic. Makes me almost wish I'd learned caildhe, Irish dance. Yes, yes, I know, Lord of the Dance Dance Revolution.... =)

Since most people I know have heard me complain about lonliness before... nuff said.

Oh, yes... commence kvetching. There's a little 'issue' with out Computer Special Effects project grade. The project had to be turned in at a certain resolution, 720x480. Turns out, that all the playbacks came out at 320x240 -- which is pretty much worth five points off the project grade. Why? Well, Windows Media Player has some wierd setting that shrinks the size of movies encoded with the Microsoft DV codec. You have to go into some setting and turn that off. Now, it's one thing when a couple people have a resolution issue, but something QUITE another when ALL of the class less two or three people (who encoded with a different codec) have the same problem. We are computer animators, not WIMP programmers. (DAMN YOU MICROSOFT! DAMN YOOOOUUU!) Anyway, hopefully this'll get resolved and we'll get a slightly higher grade for that really abyssmal class. Still waiting on the Compositing and Editing class grades.

Anyway, enough for now.

Comments

[nigel.livejournal.com]

Well, if you need a job and a roommate, you could always come down here. ;) Job prospects would be good, actually. Hell, with your certs and experience, you could probably take down one of the district guys. Then you'd be -my- boss. Of course, that would dump you back in the IT world, which I doubt you'd be interested in. I don't know what the local market is like for CGA guys, being a lowly tech-monkey and all, but I could always look...

Good to hear from you again after all this time. My contact info is still the same, except that I don't have a voice line again. If you want to email me, just use one of the old addresses. The one listed in my profile is just a spam dump.

[caraig.livejournal.com]

That's generous, except, it's exactly the sort of work I went to Florida to get far and away from. =) I can respect people who do IT. It can be a rewarding job, *but*... I did it for a bit too long, and I don't really have any desire to do any more of it, certs or not. They were useful while they lasted, but I really can't spend any more days trying to solve printing problems. :6

[nigel.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Half of what I do some days is fix printer problems. I've got about 100 iMacs running OS 9.2.2, which doesn't always play nice with the Windows network. I think you'd love working in the building I work in, but there's no way they'd hire you at less than the district level. They're cutting jobs like crazy this year. Hell, they laid off someone with a Master's degree just so they could keep me on again. I kinda feel bad about it too, since she's one of the coolest people here...

So, are you still enjoying Florida? I still need to head down there for a visit one of these days, even if I don't have any relatives left there anymore. Seems like ages since we've gotten together.