Back to School

So, it's that time of year again. The writer in me is loving the extremely low price of college ruled looseleaf, but the beach bum in me is loathing the death of summer. Here in Idaho, the roads ice over for nearly four months in the dead of winter. I finally bought some snow tires for my truck, but it didn't make me feel any better.

I'm enrolled in college right now for an associates in Multimedia. I go to a year-round technical college that only takes one or two week breaks between quarters. Whenever I hear kids who attend traditional college whining about having to go back for their fall semester, I just shake my head with disgust.

"At least you get a summer vacation," I want to say, but let's face it. If they're whining about going back to school, they're probably the type of people that waste their summer breaks. In two weeks, I'm getting a one week break, and then I start my final quarter. Right after I graduate in January, I'll be driving home along a snowy road and die in a horrible accident. My only consolation is that I won't have to pay back my student loans.

I have no idea what to do over the break. I've already started storyboarding my final project for next quarter, so I could spend the entire break working on backgrounds or characters for the animation, but I'm a little burned out lately. Here's a picture of one of the characters I'm currently modelling.

After two and a half years on constant schooling, I feel both smarter and dumber. I don't feel completely tapped creatively, but I feel myself writing for a deadline more often than not lately. Perhaps this blog can help with that.

I wanted to start a blog that I could update every day. My plan was to wake up every morning, log on to Blogger, and blurb out whatever was on my mind upon waking. Whether or not I update it every day remains to be seen, but it's a hope, none-the-less.