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Me: "Yeah, that's cuz Im not graduating yet."

Skool: "Well, you're on the list for graduation."

Me: "...except that I have 6 classes left..."

Skool: "Oh, that would be why... you must have been automatically put on the list."

Me: "Yeah, but I kinda like to sleep my final quarter...a little bit..."

Skool: "Dont worry, we'll take you the list for next quarter"

And yet they still call.  Maybe they want to push me out or something.

Oh, I am so freaking pissed.  I just found out that Looney Labs (makers of Fluxx) have a special promo card that is almost exactly the same as a card I recently designed and printed yesterday -- even the name.

Their card: 
"Radioactive Potato" a Creeper card you dont want)
"You cannot win if you have this card.  Whenever the goal changes, move this card in the counter turn direction" (to another player)

Mine:
"Hot Potato" a Creeper card
With this card in play, you cannot win or lose.  You may pass this card to any other player at the end of your turn.


This is now at least the 7th time this has happened.  I think I need to write these companies and tell them to stop making cards that I am also making.  Or ask for a job.

I've been telling a bunch of people in person, but I might as well post this:  My academic director is awesome.

During my afternoon class's break, I talked with my dir, Todd, about the recent changes in our ciriculum, since I've been hearing different things from different people and needed confirmation from the man and cuz one of the chagnes I heard about makes things bad for me.  Unfortunately, me bringing this up was the first he had heard of this (just goes to show you how much our skool likes to keep our new heads informed), but he said he would look into it to find out what's going on.  Fortunately, regardless of the changes, he has he the final say in which classes are required, so he can bend this to help me.  I love making friends with the new director his 3rd week on the job.

In other news, 2 pigeons nearly hit me in the head when walking from skool.  In between them, a leaf hit me in the face. 

So, with my expected 1 year (4 quraters) left of skool, and given the way things are currently going, this next year is also going to be overall really difficult.  

To be more precise, this next quarter (starting in 5 days), should actually be comparatively easy.  I imagine that my 3D scripting class (which I still have to swtich into) will be the only hard one throughout the quarter.  However, from what I know of that class, it uses the MEL scripting language instead of Python, which is better for me to learn.  In fact, I'll have to push myself harder than the class requres to learn Python along side MEL if the teacher doesnt teach both, which I doubt she will given my last class with her.  

Now, a little side note, the reason why Python is better for me to learn is cuz the scripting jobs (which I just looked at a lil) I know about use it more so than MEL, since MEL is Maya only (I think) and Python is both Maya and 3DS Max now.  To further complicate things, I will need to learn quite a bit about a major programming language, such as C++, for these jobs as well.  For ease, I'm going to try to take as many of these additional programming classes at my skool, cept there are even more complications -- I think I will have 1 elective left after this upcoming quarter, I think I can only audit 1 class, and the only admin I currently know enough to help me will be leaving in a week.  Yay.

One the plus, we do have a new academic director and he seems pretty cool and knowledgable, so he might be able to help me.  However, given our ability to hold directors, I predict he will leave our skool in about 9 months, the quarter before I expect to graduate and consequently need him the most.  

Oh yeah, and to wrap things up, I said that this next quarter should be easy class-wise.  However, the following 3 quarters (my final 3) will almost definately be hard and tiem consuming, just like the last 6 months.  Eh, maybe having no time after ~2 weeks from now will be a good thing considering I have felt a tad crazy a few times with this long break (a whole 4 weeks) having so much less to do than normal.