Pratt!

I was eating White Castle chicken rings on the hood of a U-Haul in Bed-Stuy last night across the street from Pratt around midnight. I watched some drug sells and a guy tried to sell us a TV. Crude jokes were made about how glass blowers make money and drunken bedwetters were made fun of. At one point I laughed soda into my sinuses and after yelling "there's coke in my nose!" I decided it wasn't the right neighborhood to keep repeating the phrase. I did give devil horns and yelled Pratt to some white freshmen leaving White Castle. I really don't know why I did that.

I registered for classes yesterday... Mondays 6pm-7:50pm and Saturdays 10-12:40.

Early to rise...

This morning was our campus wide staff meeting at the Kips Bay Lowes Cineplex... this is not as easy for me to reach as my office is... plus I usually come into work at 10:30, but I had to be there at 8:30ish... This meant getting out of bed at 6:30am. I didn't really sleep much last night... we're watching the McMüller's dog while they are off having fun. We can't sleep with two dogs in the bed, so Mo(sephine) sleeps in her crate... Mo's crate is a travel dog kennel made of nylon and mesh which she is able to move about the house in using it as if it were a giant hampster wheel. She started in the kitchen and we heard her walk it to directly in front of our door... it took her less than a minute to meneuver this and in doing so she blocked us into our bedroom. Then she whined alllllll night. She pooped for me outside at 6:35am though! Previously (blogged) she's pooped in the house.

I'm lost in a pile of work that must get done before classes start in about a week.

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Everything above that line was written yesterday, but then the boss stepped into my office and I saved the draft real fast before I begain on the 1.5 hours of work that he gave me to do right as I was about to leave for home. I was going to leave at 5ish... I left at 6:30ish. The other day the boss gave me a backward compliment... something to the effect that Continuing Education Enrollement was up so much in the SUmmer that it put me on everybody's radar, and now Fall enrollment is already double what it was last year, and so I've set myself up... (he didn't say the following, but implied it) for failure.

Perhaps you've watched the red shoe Reel on my faux website? In it there is animation of a mother and daughter and the mother flies and turns into a stove... it was a project I did for a friend whose live action film needed animation for a dream sequence. It was actually really fun working with her as a director. I think the animation turned out beautifully... she had great ideas and even helped with making backgrounds and such... she storyboarded the whole scene... anyway, all that to say that I'm seeing her tonight when we go to have dinner with some friends... she's been in LA working for a (big name?) indie director who once worked as a stripper. I enjoy this ladies recent feature film, but I hear stories that she's quirky and hard to work for.
My friend's going to give me a copy of her film with my work in it and she's also going to give us our wedding video that she taped two years ago and has been editing since! hehehe Maybe one day we'll get our photos developed too.

I'm blogging to avoid work at this point.

Bu__Sh__:Redux

So I've recently finished teaching an intensive. It was wonderfully fun, and the students were great. I often get students who come from money or prestige or both. In one class I had a student who can be found in this picture. The only other hint I can give is that she is a direct descendant of our current Commander in Chief. In the same class I had the progeny of this woman. Good kids.

Note: Gracias Touchos, Mcmus y Himmy por helpo.

sooprgrll Friend Biography #3:Bettina

My first year and a half of college was spent at a private Catholic college in Pennsylvania. My first semester I had to take a writing seminar class. My teacher was a grad student named Bettina. She was plump and dowdy, with brown hair that was always going in gravity defying directions. Bettina and I hit it off. I payed attention in class and didn't talk too much. We used to get hot chocolate and sit in the cafeteria. She and her husband took me out for Chinese to celebrate me transferring to a different school. Bettina was a pop culture junkie, she was devastated when Gene Rayburn died. She was incapable of walking with an umbrella. Somehow it threw off her balance and she just couldn't walk. There were many times when we met and she was soaking wet. That was just how she rolled. She had really thick glasses with a maroon frame. They fit snugly over her perfecty button nose. She wore lots of broom skirts. I never saw her wear pants. I think the only reason I did well in her class was because we were friends.

I hope you are enjoying trivia under a cloudless sky Bettina.

itube

Well, I've done it. I'm online.
Someone made me a website, but part of me just hasn't cared enough about my work to put it out there... but today I found out that I could make a page easily with google (complete with generic layouts!). And then, using low quality youtube, I put my animations online too. Not sure how I feel about that yet... I never wanted them available online before, but now these films are old news, so why not? We'll see what happens. let me know what you think


http://jimmytheanimator.googlepages.com/

BeBe idiosyncrasies #2: Pees(ed) to Meet You

When we brought BeBe home for the first time, she promptly pooped in the living room and peed on a rug. She was told no, shown that she gets walked, and she was house broken for the next few months. Then, she suddenly decided to start peeing on our rugs everyday for 4 months or so... we began taking her out 3 times a day. She became house broken again and we were able to go back to walks in the morning and night. But now, she's developed an excitement pee. Occasionally when we come home from work, and almost always when we have a guest, she gets excited and urinates. Only little puddles, little trickles. Nothing major. The My Touchoses came over recently and BeBe was soooo excited she peed 3 times and puked once. They got to see her eat with her baby ball.

Spotting

Yesterday at work I spotted Rachael Ray and Didi Conn. Didi Conn's butt crack was showing. That was more of a spotting than I wanted.
I broiled chicken thanks to JB Fulmer and it was awesome!

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Siggraph was fun... didn't explore Boston too much though... saw this and thought it was great http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2138178994239730121 It might have been better on the big screen than pixelated on the tiny screen.

I want a scanner... Preferably with an automated document feeder.

or a cintiq! http://wacom.com/lcdtablets/index.cfm