I haven't squeed about my course lately. Mainly because, for the last two lessons (which are once a week), our usual tutor was away. We had someone who claimed to be "just as knowledgeable". That may well have been the case, but his ability to communicate that knowledge was non-existent, so we spent the lessons pootling around with the programme. Which, y'know, is all well and good as a learning method (that's pretty much how I learnt Photoshop), but I have the programme downloaded onto my laptop at home. I can pootle in my spare time. Bah.
But anyhow, yesterday, Juan - the regular tutor - was back, and there was much rejoicing (in my brain, anyhow - the class is pretty quiet and subdued). We learnt about how to create a curve that can be rotated so you get something that's symmetrical, all the way around. I made a table lamp that lit up. *g*
I'm definitely getting to grips with the basics. And the good thing is, now I'm not moving house, I'm able to go in to the college during the summer, after the course has finished. Juan said we could just call him and ask if it was okay to use the computers. Whee! I'll definitely have to take him up on that, if I can get some free time.
In fannish news, I can't concentrate. I have lots of new shinies, and that's not a very good idea. There's the
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gateverse_remix that I must get done (once I've finished my 'research' - i.e. watching certain eps). There's the Sam/Daniel cutefest with abyssinia4077 that I want to write more for. There's a project me, geneeste, and vickyocean have tentatively started (I'm all about the collaboration, lately). And yesterday, vickyocean mentioned a plot bunny to me, and now all I want to write is a Stargate western. Gah! Must. Concentrate. On. One. Thing. At. A. Time.Oh, and I must must must email / phone my rl friend Vick. Because she emailed me ages ago and I didn't reply. Very bad me. Sorry, Vick, if you're reading this - I did get it, and I will reply! I swear! :)
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I hear you, I so, so hear you - too many WiPs, not enough focusing power in my brain. But yay on more for the cutefest (I'm working on the baseball game still in my head).
Showdown at the Stargate corral? That would be AWESOME!
*hits brain* Must not do it NOW. Must do remix first.
And I forgot to add to that list, 'Jack's lost year after Sara left'. I want to do that, too. Grah.
Jack would totally have watched spaghetti Westerns growing up and definitely would have loved to play cowboy. No question.
Remix. Right.
(and you can't write Jack's lost year until after the remix anyway)
I wonder if she'd object to me translating that story into English... I think, with some help from Babel Fish, I could...
"Enough of that, Colonel. Doctor Jackson has received a letter."
"What?" demanded O'Neill. "We're having a briefing because Daniel got mail? I myself, just yesterday, got an invoice..."
"This letter is more than a hundred years old," said the archaeologist, irritably.
Jack raised his eyebrows. "More than...? Ah, okay... My invoice isn't... quite as..."
"And it was me who sent it."
(I'd ask you how your remix was going, but then you might ask me how mine was going and then I might have to run away screaming and nobody wants that)
Time to bring out the ol' ficathon icon again... It's going to wear out, at this rate. :)
However, I really must ask her first. Hm. Means I need to write an email in French decent enough to not immediately make her say "No way in hell!" Eek.
I didn't make it as far as the kiss. Though I totally love how she referenced the Back to the Future movies. They re-translate very weirdly.
I considered her sending an email about how much I love her art work, but like I said my french is very shaky. I don't think I could put together a whole sentence anymore other than "Je m'appelle Vicky". And I probably didn't spell that right.
I didn't see the Back to the Future reference! Heh. But I only skimmed it.
I always get stuck with my extreme lack of vocabulary. I can conjugate verbs, but damned if I remember any actual nouns. I do have a very useful book of French swearwords, though. *g*
Well I'm glad I'm spreading the lack of the ability to concentrate on one thing around. It makes me feel better about my own chaos. : )
Yeah, Maya. It's definitely something I wanted some lessons on, rather than just messing around and trying to pick it up that way. I don't think it's the 3D-ness that's the problem (for me, anyhow) so much as all the technical things - things like knowing to switch the rendering to high quality if you want to see textures such as glass... Not stuff you can just find. Things you have to do in the right order, or it all goes pear-shaped very quickly.
And that's pretty much why I taught myself Photoshop, too - we had a Computer-Aided Design teacher who... well, he found the Photoshop filters terribly exciting and high-tech, and that was about it. "Look, you can make it look all sepia-tone, like an old picture!" Well, not that I don't enjoy that effect, but what else can we do? "Turn it into a mosaic!" Oh, right, great, thanks.
With bandits! And guns! And horses! And UST!
(Okay, I might be slightly too in love with this idea).
What the...?
And they've travelled through time before, so that's the excuse hand-waved. *g*
*pictures
WorfTeal'c in western gear*