SO I returned my 12 dollar stylus and got a refund and bought a 30 dollar one that works fine, but my brush strokes still lag in photoshop, so I did some more troubleshooting and it's tolerable but not perfect.  I'm not sure if I should up the amount of memory photoshop can use to 100 percent, I'm not sure if that would cause any problems.

I have a wisdom tooth that I never pulled and after eating too much kettle chips the skin around it is infalmed and infected somehow... which is total bullshit.  But, it fucking hurts and if pulling the tooth will get it to heal then I have no choice.  Basically in a few hours I'll go in there and get drugged up and then they'll pull it.

All over a bag of Jalepeno Cheddar Kettle Lays.... I love spicey chips but this is bullshit.

SO I tried the new stylus and it didn't work after hours of reinstalling drivers and troubleshooting, I discovered the pen was for the MSP19, and I have the MSP19U.

SO that one letter is all I can discern to be the reason as to why it does not work... either way, my mouth has been in serious pain ever since I ate the whole bag of these kettle lays jalepeno cheddar, and it's been lasting for days.... I think somehow I caused my mouth to have in infection because it hurts to swallow on the same side as where my gums are aching....

All I did was pig out on some spicey chips WTF?!?!?!
 

Hating life today.

I've been trying to make art on my tablet monitor for months, and I'd keep having problems with the stylus.  So after a severe meltdown due to having dificulties applying a simple brush stroke in PS, I smashed the fucking stylus nearly in half.  So now I am stuck with animating on my tablet PC which is still my favorite animating tool so that's cool, but digital painting has basically grinded to a halt, not like I submit anything anyway.  BUT I spent 12 bucks on a new (more reliable looking) stylus for my specific tablet monitor and it should arive within the next 5 days, so I'm excited to see it perfom, because if it doesn't I'm going to have to do more troubleshooting without breaking anymore hardware.

Also haven't been on NG lately because I'm working on alot of side projects including a website portfolio, probably won't post anything on NG until I'm done with it and it's online.  I'm thinking about writing a short cartoon to sort of make fun of myself and then post that as a comemortative piece, but we'll see.  Don't want to be too masocistic. 

Yeah I'm not going to be getting anything done playing Battle Toads and Banjo Kazooie.

I gotta remember that.

Done with school for the semester, and hopefully forever.

The only thing I shall be doing school work wise is informing them that I got an internship, other than that I'm gonna apply for graduation as soon as I can.

With these finals I'll be pretty much done with lame schoolwork.  I am currently holding off applying for graduation because I want to remain a student as long as I need to.

This might SOUND stupid but in reality it's my best move, because if I graduate without getting a decent internship it will be a hell of a lot harder finding a good internship or job.

Also once I graduate I have to start worrying about interest accumulating on my student loans, and I don't have the money to begin paying that off.

So I'm carrying the internship class over to summer session in order to put myself in a better possition before I graduate.

It was to the point where I could slick it back but I was avoiding the mullet so it didn't get that long in the back but I kind of wanted to grow my hair out.  I'm doing a sort of mock internship while I bide my time and set things up for another season of internship hunting while I'm enrolled in a internship course to help facilitate the process.  Beyond that I'm a couple weeks from finishing all the classes I need to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts diploma in General Studio Art.  I'm just planning on using the hours I've logged animating shorts at my current internship to carry the internship class over to summer session so I don't have to pay any tuition.

I ended up cutting my hair because In N Out called me and asked if I could go in for an interview, I reluctantly accepted (although I sounded enthused on the phone) because I really don't want to go back to working fast food even a respectable place that pays well compared to all other places.  I still decided that I should try my best and go for it considering that I could use the money even if it was just a summer job or something.  So I cut my hair, put on a shirt and tie and kicked ass at the interveiw.  But alas they did not call me on friday like they said they would if they had a possition that fit me.  I'm actually relieved.

Another part of me doesn't want to work because I had just won an appeal for unemployment benefits from my last fast food job that I worked at for almost 3 years.  Literally hours after the hearing, In n Out called me for an interview the next day.  Then today I finally got the back pay for all the weeks the EDD didn't send me benefits (since Jan) because of the lies the new owners of my store were saying to the EDD.  Those lies basically led to me getting denied and I had to file for the appeal which I slam dunked and won when the hearing occured.  Part of me doesn't want to rely on the benefits but another wants to squeeze the fuckers who treated me like shit then fired me for all I can.  My plan is to just finish school and try to get a real job through an internship, sounds a lot funner than working a fast food job on the side like I did for 3 years.

I've also been working on a lot of concept art for my friends band album art and the art for their band name.  I'm in the final stages of creating things digitally and will have a digital version of both within the next day.  Hopefully he likes it enough to pay me a few hundred for everything cuz I could always use the money, and I've spent a lot of hours contemplating and drawing the designs.

I've applied to several animation studios but also to art galleries and places that don't generally fit my carreer desires. Wish me luck.

Yeah I went through a little phase here, might animate some more of these to pass the time.