I have been drawing vector graphics for Wikipedia all night.
I started with rather simple flag designs:
Flag of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (1871)
and then went on to things like the logo for the Israeli Directorate of Military Intelligence
Not bad when you consider this was the original:
The hardest one was this one, the logo of the Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers
I love doing graphic design. It makes me smile.
I had such an amazing day, voyaging to Fry’s after work, playing DDR and snuggling with Drew…it was amazing. Now it’s time for sleep, ’cause it’s 3:37 a.m.
I can’t wait to get off work…so I can work on these.
I’ve been really into open-source vector graphics editors lately…like Inkscape.
That and I’ve been playing around making music in Garageband, but haven’t come up with any catchy tunes. I’m going to invite Brian over to play around in Logic…I’m not very musically inclined, although I have the hardware to create it.
My trip is actually sort of becoming a reality. I woke up today and realized that I’m going to be leaving in less than three days.
But yeah…NEW YORK! I LEAVE ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON! OMFG!
Today has been the day of remixes and mashups.
I’ve had this awesome Gwen Stefani remix, “What You Waiting For? (Jacques Lu Cont’s TWD Mix)” and the M83 remix of Goldfrapp’s “Black Cherry” stuck in my head all morning.
I just downloaded the most amazing mashup ever, which Brian recommended, called “What You Hung Up For?”
I’m also really done with Digitalism, now I’m into this French band called Justice. I love this gimmicky music video. It just goes to show you, I like every fucking band on either Mute or Gigolo, whether I know it or not.
In non-music-related news, I totally blew out my neck last night. I can’t lift my left arm over my head or it like hurts. It feels much better now that I took a shower, but it was touch and go for a while there… it was one of those days where you wake up and go “whoa… can I get out of bed?”
Today’s the day where I have to go to Target and find a carry-on. The guidelines were so vague. I think I’m just going to get a big backpack. I also need noise-canceling headphones and something that will keep my iPod kicking throughout the six-hour flight and the layover in L.A. I’ll be fine if I only listen to music, but I think I’m going to load my pod with two seasons of Deep Space Nine and every other TV show I have on my hard drive that I haven’t watched (there are a lot) and just burn through the whole collection. My iPod only gets two hours of battery life playing video though, so I’ll need an external battery pack.
I should probably get started. It’s already 4 p.m.
I’m so excited about going on this trip! So excited that I did the thing that I had needed to do for a long time…I called and begged my dad to pay for my classes, which he did.
We had quite a fun night. We started out the night out meeting Erin and Brian at Elephant Bar. We traded dirty jokes and had some delicious food. Brian and I got Shirley Temples.
After that, we headed to the party. It was around seven, and it was a bit early. However, we started hanging out in the big dome area that Christen welded and had a bunch of staring contests. I don’t remember… it was kind of slow in the beginning, then as people started showing up drama happened. I was drinking out of my flask and nursing a beer when I noticed Scott.
I was all “oh my God, there’s Scott. Annie is going to be here in like five seconds.” No sooner did the words come out of my mouth, but as if on cue, Annie shows up. She had said “oh, you couldn’t pay me money to go.” Which meant that we were definitely going to see her.
I really wanted to punch the bitch, but we said hello and a bit later we all left.
I just figured out how to increase the priority of a program in windows XP. It was never useful before, as I was always running a bunch of programs, but since I’m in my virtual machine and I’m only using it for Dragon, I can assign Dragon a ridiculously high priority. The recognition is markedly faster now. W00t.
I have been trying to get into this band called Digitalism, and while two of their songs are catchy, they are trying too hard to be Daft Punk and not being very good out at it.
There was like a major drama going down the whole night and it was just beginning as we were leaving. After the party, I didn’t really feel like going to Trash Film Orgy, so I invited Drew to True Love and we played Battleship and sipped coffee drinks.
We were going to start playing Scattergories, but the place was about to close.
This party was my unofficial test of like whether this thing with Drew is going to work, and I actually had a whole bunch of fun. I think I was mostly angry that he wasn’t spending much time with me. I was telling Christen that I was going to get super drunk and tell him something… now I can’t remember what that was. I think that we talked about it. The “you’re ignoring me” thing, which he said was unintentional. Anyway, it was resolved, and I didn’t feel like saying anything mean. You know how you think that you’re going to tell someone what you really think and then you’re like wait…I like you…that is how I feel. Strange.
It was kind of sad, I was sipping from my flask the whole time I didn’t really even get buzzed. We didn’t stay late enough for the crazy shit to happen. Drew is so uptight…that’s the vibe that he gives off. He wouldn’t even dance. Well, it took me a while to be able to dance in front of strangers.
Christen basically had to threaten to cut Allen’s dick off before she could get him to come and say hi to us. He has such issues with me, and I have no idea why.
Fuck. It’s really hot and I’m going to go find some food in the kitchen.
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