SUNSHINE!

[caraig]

It's bright and sunny out today. The birds are singing, the trees sway slightly against the electric-blue sky, little clouds, puffballs of white cotton, drift along the sky. A warm breeze walks between the buildings, it's not too humid, just enough to swaddle you in a thin sheet of moisture which promises to fall as rain someday. Bright sunlight is cast accross the ground.

You cannot comprehend how much I really am not fond of this weather.

Go ahead, laugh! Say, "If you were up north you wouldn't be saying that!" Ah-HEM, exCUSE me, but I happen to have come from the Northeast. I was going to college on Long Island Sound when the blizzard of 1993 hit and the East River as far as the Whitestone Bridge was frozen. I know exactly what kind of weather it is that I'm pining for. Let me get one thing straight, I dislike heat, dislike it greatly. I melt faster than you can say, "Fine weather for a heat stroke, eh?" And I like rain. It's cooling, nourishing. I like the sound of rain as it falls on the ground. I like the smell of the air during a t-storm. I like the damp moisture in the air as it comes down. I even like the sound of rain as it comes down in sheets, though those are the times I unplug everything from the wall sockets and go to battery power on the laptop. That's one thing I like about Florida: the almost-daily storms. They're not so daily anymore with all the climactic changes going on, but they're still fairly frequent.

Well, I've pretty much gotten all of the modelling I'm going to get done and ready, now it's a matter of disabling the cloth simulatiom solvers and doing the animating. Now, I should ahve reached this stage about... four weeks ago. But I ended up rebuilding the character from scratch, as well as scrapping and re-doing the skeleton, sigh. Well, no helping that now. I should be able to get the animating done in a week and a playblast all set to go by Friday next week. Then it's a matter of rendering it out, which (if I shanghai a few computers in the lab late at night) shouldn't be that much of a problem over the course of a couple of days.

Here is something interesting regarding the SATs. I'm as much of a critic of the SATs as the next person (I was denied entrance into the USCGA at New London because my SAT scores were about 20 points too low, just so you know where my bias possibly arises from, though loooking back it's probably better that I didn't. Then again, I wouldn't have been assigned to Marine Safety, and my career would have been a LOT different. Hmmm....) Anyway, as I was saying non-parenthetically, I'm as much of a critic of the SATs as anyone, but even as one, it made for fascinating reading.

I figured I should include a word about why I don't mention my own dreams much here. Usually they;re poretty chaotic and they have very little solid to ground them. Most are so fluid there's no sequence of events I can hook on to and remember at all well. There was a time when I would wake up and hurriedly write down my dream as best as I could, and I should do that again, if for nothing else than dreaming while somewhat stressed can be a very enlightening experience. I've already mentioned that I've dreamed in wireframe; I've also had dreams of being in lab with all of us rendering out our stuff. So as the deadline time raws closer, I'm wondering what kinds of dreams will pop up in my subconscious.

I'm off to class tonight, to run an open lab, and I'll be starting to animate then. Here's to MOTION!

Comments

[buran.livejournal.com]

I like cool weather, the sort one gets just after a rain.
I also like Elton John and Pavarotti's live performance of "Live Like Horses", too.

:)

That SAT thing is hilarious. I read it earlier.

[ahicks.livejournal.com]

Ain't nothin' better than a raging thunderstorm, when the lightning's crashing and the thunder's roaring and the rain's coming down in sheets... that's the kind of night I wanna sit out on my balcony, and just enjoy it.

Of course, I also try to MU* during said T-storms, as well. Probably shouldn't, but I do anyways. :)

[caraig.livejournal.com]

It's not always cool down here after a rain storm, since if the rain doesn''t pull all of the moisture out of the air, and doesn't cool it enough, it feels almost oppressively muggy. But that's not all that often, annd usuallly it's a LITTLE cooler afterwards!

"Roots, Bloody Roots" has got to be one of the most bizarre things I've ever listened to. =)

[caraig.livejournal.com]

There've been a couple of times when I'e just sat in my living room here and left the drapes opened, laid back annd watched/listened to a late afternoon t-storm tear up the sky. It's great. =)