sleepy kid tells u abt their week

The last week was masked as a boring trash can fire, but sneakily morphed into a raging inferno of interest. Recently, I got into the hobby of Perler Beads, which are beads that you can iron to fuse together into a single solid form. They've proven to rule my life in recent time.

The perler bead conundrum comes from a rampant need to expand my horizons and I guess my introduction to pixel art led me to naturally stray to these hot circles of stress. I mistakenly got the 22000 BUCKET of TINY BEADS and now that I know how tough they are to use when they aren't sorted, I regret setting myself up for disaster. The finished projects aren't bad, but they cause havoc on my eyes and arm due to having to sort through the colorful mess presented before me. Picking individual beads one at a time and placing them on a pegboard is only part of the process. Breaking down the pixel art into a chart to use for pegging is the initial and most boring step in the process. The end result is great, though, especially since they're versatile enough to make 3d forms, keychains, boxes and more. 

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Aside from my tangent rant on beads, the class has reminded me of 3d form in math from 2nd grade, counting cubes and such. We worked on our 11-second club animations, and I fear for a certain clown's completion. I love how collectively as a class we get exponentially more hard-working until it's too late to get the time you need and we end up in a spot where we only did half a whole scene in a week. That's okay too. We all make mistakes and we learn from them. Good luck tomorrow, everyone.

I'm semi-excited for Maya tutorials, especially since I will hopefully be able to make a T-pose of my characters. Haha, right? Funny meme? I was wondering what it'd be like ever since I saw the 2016 class make memes of the squirrel T-pose (thanks, Maddox) and comment on how they "made memes illegal in Licata's class."

I wonder.

Frustrations blossomed solely from how I spent my weekend- sleeping, lazing around and tossing beads on pegs, slowly losing my mind every longing instant, but then i slept and now i'm okay

are we truly ever okay?


is safety just a construct designed to make you vulnerable?


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The nice things of the weeks past come from my bettering attitude, the perler bead payoff and also the love of my friends. Yea, this means you too. Thanks for being there for me, even if we don't talk in class much. I appreciate it. <3