Author: Brianna Edwards

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Week 3

3/5/20

12:47pm

I haven’t drawn for myself for a while. The last time so was on Nov 19. I don’t mean practicing my drawing for school. I mean a drawing that I do for my enjoyment. I even tried to draw a story driven comic. The problem was I didn’t really have a story yet. I was making it up along the way and I went and only made it to seven pages. I want to do more with it, but I can’t without an idea of where it’s going.

3/6/20

3:24pm

I registered for my classes. Last time I did it a bit late but now I made sure to get it done early. When it comes to organizing a new schedule, I take into account the time I want to work on homework. My first schedule was so busy that I felt I can’t really focus on my homework equally. Most of my time was focused on Graphic Design Principles 1 and Type & Media. They were super time consuming and it didn’t help that I can’t work on T&M on Wednesdays since my schedule was full. Why was my schedule so busy? Well, I only had the opportunity to schedule during the summer. Plus, there was trouble getting me into an English class.

After my first semester, I was able to set up my schedule how I want. In the beginning of registration, I put it to the side of my attention. Not only I wasn’t too sure on how to organize a schedule, I was also busy with schoolwork to pay it any mind. Eventually, I sit down and think up a schedule. One thing for sure, I didn’t want a late-night schedule. Those took the energy out of me. Also, no, there’s classes in one day. I try to stick to that rule to the best I can. I kept in mind of the time I have between classes. I was so proud of my schedule for this semester. I finished work early, I had more free time and I had sleep! (Most of the time).

For Fall 2020, I feel ok about my schedule. It’s not the best but I think it can still work. The only thing that stinks is having to do late night Philosophy class. All the other options were just as bad and conflicted with other classes. However, what makes this still way better than my first semester is that it’s one call per week and it’s the only one on Thursday. I just hope it’s not boring.

3/8/20

12:01pm

Yes! It’s time to relax from homework. Today marks the first day of spring vacation. It may be two days long but I will enjoy it! And how will I spend it? By doing homework of course! I just saw that I was sent a message revision for Tuesday Raster & Vector class. Funny yesterday I asked if everything was due by the next class. I guess she changed her mind. Luckily, I caught it on time.

1:22am

Done! Now I can have my vacation. The first thing I’m going to do is… take a nap.

3/9/20

1:31am

After I had ‘brunch’ (breakfast and lunch), I checked on discord to see what my friends were up to. They were playing a very relaxing game called, Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I never played these series before and surprisingly I enjoyed it more than I expected too. It’s a life simulation that plays in real- time, meaning the time in reality is the same in the game. It’s funny. This game came out the perfect time. It was released before GameStop closed and everyone is home with nothing to do. Now if you excuse me, I’m going to catch some fish from the sea with my friends.

3/10/20

6:00am

The day has finally come. The game I’ve been anticipating for four years. All I have to do now is get out that door and buy it at Target.

7:46am

I stood on line outside. Everyone was a few feet apart and was waiting patiently against the entrance of closed stores. I stood on the other side of the sidewalk as my mom stood in line. I did that because pigeons were perched on the edge of the building. I didn’t want pigeon waste to ruin my morning. Especially on this big day.

11:23am

I’m home! Now all I have to do is put the disc in the player. Back then I usually watched ‘let’s plays/playthrough’ of games I don’t have or plan on getting. I decided to get a PlayStation 4 two years ago. It was mostly because for two other games I really wanted to experience for myself. News about Final Fantasy 7 Remake was silent three years until the year of 2018. As I waited for the game to download on my console, I took a nap. I didn’t get sleep last night and I don’t want to feel tired while playing.

4:57pm

I woke up around 1pm and almost went straight to playing. I got a hold of my friends on discord and sent a link to a stream on Twitch, so they could see what I’m playing. I was the one that’s mostly talking but it was still fun. I’m three hours in the game, and so far, it’s an excellent experience.

The combat system is more than a mindless button mash. The game encouraged me to try something new with different enemies. It takes a while to take them out, so I have to figure ways to take them out quickly. For example, an enemy had a riot shield that prevented me from hitting him with my sword. So I used a counter attack, meaning when the enemy attacked me while I am defending, My character I am playing as attacks them back. Another way to take out energy is usually magical attacks they are weak to. Do that builds up a bar that makes them demobilized for a certain amount of time. This stuff sounds pretty geeky… but I don’t care. I’m enjoying myself with my new distraction.

3/11/20

1:06am

Welp! I am done for today. When I woke up after my nap. I’m too tired to keep my eyes open.

UNIT II — Mid-Semester — GENRE

Location: home

3/30/20

8:30am

Oh shoot! I just woke up right when I should be expecting a message from Openlab. I thought I missed something but it’s a meeting set up for our summary in a diary we read. That reminded me, I haven’t mentioned much about the media we used to communicate as a class. Only one class is blackboard so far and it works mostly well on my side. I heard it was bad from other students, but I didn’t really see a problem with it. Zoom is better not only because of the voice chat. Accessing it isn’t as time taking. All I need is a code and password and then Bam I’m in. Little stuff like that makes up the difference over time.

9:02am

I saw that a lot of people picked the Wimpy Kid. I picked the wimpy kid mostly because of nostalgia and I never talked about it. It was a well-known book at the time and to anyone that read it as a kid. That shouldn’t surprise me, but it still does. When I experienced things as a kid it’s usually in my own bubble. So, imagine my reaction when reading people’s experience with the same book.

3/31/20

7:00am

I got up early for my figure drawing class. So far this is the class I’m still not sure where it’s heading. I know what’s going to eventually do but I still feel lost. I hope next class can bridge that gap.

8:30am

Aaand, the Zoom class was cancelled. I waited for any sign of a code for the next class. I also sent my Professor a message for the code. I didn’t ask the day before because I tried that last time and he said, wait for it around the time before class. So, I was twirling my thumb for a half an hour until I received a response saying he had technical difficulty and sent a practice sheet for shading on Blackboard. Welp, at least I’ll have something to do for his class.

10:57am

For some reason I thought it was Wednesday for the rest of the morning. Thinking I finished my Typography class homework. When I handed it in on google drive. I didn’t see any other student’s work in the submit section. That’s when I realized the correct day. I laughed at myself. I probably need more sleep.

2:12pm

Luckily, I realized my mistake earlier because I had a Raster & Vector class at 1am. During the class I didn’t see my current work up, so when she got up to mine, I was worried. I was hoping my work wasn’t concerned late because I handed it in on Saturday. The funniest thing is that I sent it with the file she was showing on her screen. That project was the longest I worked on since last semester’s Type & Media final project. I was happy to see the next assignment was less time consuming. I know we are home and all but being home feel like a distraction and a demotivator to work.

1/1/20

9:58am

I’m not sure if I am cutting it close for my English meeting and my Graphic Design class.

4:16pm

Ha! I made it to my English meeting on time. There was trouble with joining but I was able to join and no one else. Haha! I learned more about my writing style for my dairy. I would need to go in depth with my writing. I might start with that since my life route is super repetitive.

1/2/20

12:46pm

Oh sweet! I finally learned how to finish a piece of the “Falling in Love with You” by Elvis in the game Sky. I don’t know if I mentioned this, but I’ll briefly explain. You can play instruments in Sky.

2:08pm

Now that I’m finished playing the game. I can now write more. I took a super liking learning to play songs in this game. I repeat and repeat the songs I learn until I start getting them right without mistakes. It always feels satisfying sounding like the song that is usually played for you. One thing I feel that’s a negative playing on this game is that I can’t play along with someone. The game has delays for connection between players.  Duets rewires coordination and it’s hard to do so when they hear my notes a second later. I really want to pull it off, but I guess it’ll require practice and a solution to that problem.

4:22am

I just finished my Typography class. It went pretty well. We had a presentation of a Typography artist we picked a week ago. I picked Herb Lubalin. His work is really good. Definitely something that looked like it took hours to pull off. Especially for a time with little technology like we have today. So, for the presentation I did pretty good for my class. The absence of eyes looking at me helped a lot. Usually I lose all what I am going to say and even when I have a card to read from.

1/3/20

10:19am

It is now a week till my most anticipated game for the year. It looks like this year of games is non-existent. It still stinks that GameStop closed since I preordered the game there and it was the standard edition which came with an artbook, a soundtrack and etc. The only option I have now to get it next week is, go to BestBuy really early so I can be first on line to get it. The game looks so beautiful. I am not a person that’s big on graphics. But the textures of the ground looks rough, the clothes looks like it fits, and the hair looks fluffy.

2:46pm

For Graphic design, it looks like we have to make a cube. The Professor made it look easy but when I tried it, I screwed up on putting it together. Luckily, I used a practice copy of the box.

1/4/20

11:36am

I’m kind of starting to feel like a sack of potatoes. It might be because I went to bed over 1am in the morning.

11:30pm

Tonight, my mom and I played games together. It’s been years since she last played with me. I didn’t cheat, but I beat her in almost every match. I showed her how to play the game and put it in easy mode. It was funny to see her try and getting better at the game. She eventually started beating me while I tried to make her lose. I haven’t had this much fun since my cousin came home.

I only read one kind of dairy like story is the Diary of a wimpy kid. Reading it again brings back memories. I have the books from “Rodrick Rules” to “Cabin Fever”. I lost the first book and I stopped at Cabin Fever because I grew tired of the series. I don’t remember why. I definitely remember that the first and second books got movie adaptations. So, imagine my excitement to read this story again after it got lost in childhood memories.

I like what I read so far. The way it’s formatted makes it easy to digest the context. If I see a huge amount of text, I would freak out and feel anxious by just looking at pages of brick walls of text. The world felt like it had history as the main character, Greg wrote about his experience of previous events. Such as picking the right seat compared from his previous year and school norms among the rest of the students like the Cheese. It really pulls off the believability of a diary. When characters are introduced to the story the author doesn’t bring light to the first appearance. It’s written like any other day. As I read more of the story, I learned that Greg is a bit of a troublemaker. He is not as bad as his older brother, Rodrick but he still gets in trouble with his parents enough to learn the form of punishments his parents usually give. But at least he still receives consequences. It brings balance to what Greg does at home. But in some settings in and outside of school, Greg act’s inconsiderate to other characters.

This didn’t inspire my diary while I wrote it. The story is fun to read but that’s not my life. Everything is slow past right now and my schedule is still busy with class work. I try to put personality into my writing but it’s not at the same level as this book. Overall, I like it’s perspective inside of a fictional boy head.

Week 1

3/23/20

4:47pm- All are located in my house

Even though I can’t go outside, I’m already used to staying inside for a long period of time. I liked staying home for the summer after a long semester. In order to entertain myself each day I have plenty of options. I can watch ‘The Office’ on Netflix, catch up on anime or cartoons, read my manga, and play games on almost any device I have. It’s a lot so I wouldn’t list them all here. If I’m going to write about my experience each day then I’ll eventually get to it on the weekends. I will write about one for today.

I didn’t have anything to work on, so I played my games for the rest of the day. First I played a game that I usually check daily. On my iPad, I’m able to play a game called ‘Sky: Children of Light’. It’s about candle children spreading light to others that need it. It can be relaxing to play. It gets 5 points for being able to fly in the game. It makes the game feel fun to explore. Then there’s the ability to make friends in the game. Everyone is so nice and are always glad to help. It takes more than an hour to finish what I need to do for the day. I always try my best to finish it as fast as I can.

2/24/20

7:00am

Tuesday was the longest day in school but NOT ANYMORE! HA! I am glad that there’s no more three hours classes especially. But soon I realized that I would have to go to school and work on my work. That makes me sad.

10:54am

I just finished my figure drawing class. I think this class will go through the most changes. We are now just drawing in sketchbooks and to use whatever we have. The video chat experience was pretty good. For most of these, I would be using just my mic. Cameras make me uncomfortable. Luckily it’s not mandatory. Something funny happened towards the end of the session. One of the students had an improper name. Some texted me that and I was dying. It didn’t talk long till someone pointed that out. Professor Nelson was cool about it. The person was just marked absent.

11:10am

Oh! We can finally use Adobe at home! Now I can be a complete hermit. No more trains, people, or time limit. Not the real question is… Will I get stuff done more efficiently?

3/25/20

7:00am

Oh, I forgot I had an alarm set for class today. I really didn’t want to get up but I have. If I did close my eyes I would be knocked out like a light. While waiting for 8:30am to come I am going to play my daily dose of Sky.

8:42am

I’ve been waiting for a bit for any sign of any post. Maybe it’ll be like last time. I’ll keep checking while watching seal videos. I wouldn’t long till my eyes start giving up on me.

9:40am

This is the third time getting up to check for anything new. At this point, I think it was over. I double checked to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Then I took a longer nap till my next class.

1:57pm

The class I head was Graphic design principles 2. It’s the same class I can’t join Monday. She went over a few things like assignments and what we needed to do due to everyone being home. As soon as it ended, I ate a cream cheese sandwich. I would go relax while watching YouTube but work has to be done.

6:07pm

What I had to do was paint combined letters on an illustration board. I messed up on both and would have to make more. I’ll have to cut out another board piece after my third try next time. The edges are the hardest part for me. My brush keeps going over the outline. Part of the reason why is my lighting. My shadow and the ink made it hard to see the brush. I eventually moved my passion to the side, but I still had difficulty seeing the brush.

3/26/20

8:28am

Thursday is the part of my schedule that I liked the least. Not because of the class. It’s more to do with the time it takes place. Before I had the looming feeling in my head of getting ready for school until 12:00pm which is when I actually got ready to leave. It feels like most of the day is gone. Now that I’m home, I still have to keep in mind of getting ready for an online session but it’s super easy and faster than before. Enough rambling, it’s breakfast time!

9:19am

I had the usual hotdog for breakfast. While I was doing that, I watched some YouTube videos. YouTube is my replacement for tv. Especially when the channels I use to watch daily does not have shows that don’t interest me. If you’re wondering, I’m talking about channels that aired cartoon shows such as Cartoon Network, Disney channel and Nickelodeon. Most I grew out of, but others still entertain me. Shows like “Mao Mao”, “The Owl House” and “Rise of the Teenage mutant ninja Turtles” which has some amazing animation.

4:57pm

I just finished Typography class. And I realize I should finish my Raster and Vector homework soon. It’s going to take a while since we have to recreate a Disney poster. But of course, I picked something that is heard to do. I picked a three-dimensional character. I don’t know why I keep doing this to myself.

3/27/20

8:00am

Friday feels like any other day now. It’s like time doesn’t matter as much. I chilled for the morning until the last class for this week.

1:45pm

After my Graph Design online class, I showed my professor the work I did Wednesday. She said it was good! I thought it was terrible. The ink when over the outlines and the curves were not smooth.

8:37pm

I’ve finally done it! I finished my Disney poster. It looks pretty good. I would have done more to it, but I don’t have much experience making a drawing look 3D and Adobe works a bit different on my Windows computer. I did my best of what I know and that’s what matters.

3/28/20

10:43am

When I woke up, I didn’t do much. I played Sky for the morning and then checked on the Disney poster project to do a few corrections. I haven’t really had breakfast yet so I’m going to check what’s cooking in the kitchen.

10:50am

My mom is baking cake today! It’s been a long time since I ate pound cake. I used to eat them a lot, but I eventually got tired of it. Now that years passed, I am willing to try something familiar again. She uses an old cookbook that my aunt gave her. It’s so old that the paper turned yellow. I used to help my mom bake. The worst part was the cake mixer. We had one you have to hold and stir. It took about thirty minutes to stand and constantly stir the egg, butter, flour, baking powder and spices. My arm used to hurt like fire. But now we got a mixer that does it on its own. My mom said it so much easier and quicker. It got a five star from her.

What a week! I’m not a fan of online class. It’s mainly because I learn better by using sight and being in the classroom. Welp, there’s no changing that. Right now, I feel worry about how my classes are going to operate. From the start, I’ve been worried on how I could do my work since my major mostly involves having expensive programs. Plus, it looks like the college is mostly cramming everyone into lab that’s not as big as the one on G-600. If there are any more labs for students around campus, I would like to know. The Learning Center also has computers, but they are not up to date with programs (making them useless for COMD). Right now, Typography class was the only successful online class. We first test it on Wednesday, and it was a success that time too. We critiqued each other’s work. My Graphic Design Principles II class with Professor Giraldo on Friday was a flop for me. We were so posed to start class around 2:30pm on Zoom, a video chat website. We didn’t test anything any time before so that made a nervous. I checked for any new message for the link or code on Blackboard and email since 12:00pm. When the time came, I waited for a few minutes for anything. I Eventually emailed my professor, hoping for an answer not realizing that I accidently send a replay to the blackboard “do not replay” mail. That took away some time. I corrected my mistake and the send a real email. In the back of my head, I was hoping I didn’t somehow miss something. An hour later, I saw an assignment on Blackboard that tells me that the session didn’t go so well. That took some stress off my back, but some still hang over my shoulders. I hope next class it was not as bad as Friday. I’m comfortable that the website is private now. I feel like I can vent a little about my concerns. For the Virus itself, I try to keep a clear mine and be aware of its effects and how to keep myself safe.

I’m not super worried about the coronavirus. I know eventually there will be a cure in a short time period. The only thing that’s concerning is how the virus disguised itself as a common cold. This is an inconvenience because during this time, people normally still get sick and start to experience allergies. So if I get sick, I wouldn’t know if it’s the virus or not. Most people I’ve been around are chill about it. But some are being a bit paranoid. I’m starting to realize that I touch my face a lot. I’ve been catching myself in the act. Advice I have is not start moving to a different country to get away from the virus because there’s no running from it. It’s more of a risk for you and or the country. Some of the positives I got out of experiencing this are a reason to stay home even more when summer comes and how the world will combat this pandemic.