Time is an illusion anyway, right? (Tea Time w/ Ari #10)

What's brackin, gamers??

W-w-w-welcome back to week 10 of Ari Rambles, in which we will be discussing my weekly comments as well as some actual tea on people we've never met before! (find this in my "off topic" label)

This last week in animation, we were given a fine tech-tour of both the sound booth, green room and the recording equipment available to us through the BOCES program. It's all hecka-sweet and honestly, I can't wait to begin my final project-- so much so that I forgot to begin my independent study which is due in 10 school days. No worries, I say, chugging more tea and getting into bed for a power-nap. You see, I have a chronic case of "This'll definitely be done later, so let's do this now!" and it came this week hard in the form of euphoria, Perler beads, and Kingdom Hearts. For those who don't know, Perler beads are plastic beads which can fit onto a pegboard, creating designs. Once said design is complete, you iron the beads, fusing them together permanently. This caught my attention recently and I fell hard, hard enough that I tripped and metaphorically hit my face on the mistake of buying an assorted bucket full of 22,000 of these things. No, they are NOT sorted, and NO, I didn't even think of the disaster and time-wasting this may cause. The guy in the instructional video warned me of this, too, but do I ever listen? I'm currently working on a huge bead project of my fursona and then I plan on replicating the Kingdom Key from Kingdom Hearts. Speaking of KH, I picked up KHII again after finding it in my cold side room and threw about 14 hours into it over the time we had off. This process of just having fun, tossing beads in pegs and smashing buttons was fun, but reality crashed down upon me at around 3PM today, but I was so close to finishing the audiobook of Ready Player One (amazing book, btw) and I thought I was near-finished with my beading, but apparently I work at 1/100th the pace when listening to something. The story was especially interesting since it was sci-fi and Wil Wheaton was reading off the climax of the story, so I was far too invested to cut off now. Once the book ended, I had gotten no farther in my bead process, but I was so in the zone and yearning for another audiovisual distraction that I dove straight to Netflix and dug about 10 episodes deep into Love, Death, and Robots (also an amazing show) and barely made any progress after I realized about 200 beads I set were the wrong colors. W h o o p s ? 
Tangent aside, I did have fun. I'd enjoy learning more about cameras, recording software, and sound management, but I know already that all that's next year's deal. I'd love to try making my own music, but Garageband isn't readily available to [Annabelle's] 4GB RAM Windows laptop, so I'm effectively blinded until I decide to research more into music-making myself, which might be a while.
The problems that frustrated me as of recent are more personal than anything, but This Is A Blog, so who cares. My dysphoria is acting more than weird lately, and with warmer seasons on the horizon, I have quite a few run-cold showers to look forward to. I'm beginning to tackle my eating problems more head-on by logging what I eat and drink over the course of the day to try and pick off what I really don't need in my system, incorporating more natural things into my diet, etc. This routine I have of pulling void-all-nighters doesn't really help my habits, however, as they often lead to unhappy awakenings due to late nights. You see, I want to get up early on Saturday and Sunday so I can go for a jog when the sun's still rising, or get my stuff in order like any functioning adult, but I get too caught up in everything past 10 PM every night and suffer the consequences such as waking up at 10 AM, 11 AM, or sometimes 1 PM with a dissatisfied groan and more than a few half-hearted yawns. It also messes with my diet as sometimes I forget and try to compensate by eating a bigger Brunch when all I really need is just a 2-egg omelet. 

It's a process, I'm working on it.