First steps

[morsla]

It's quiet on the other side. There's rain falling out on the balcony; paper rustling on my floor. My room looks like a bombsite - detonated on Monday, with the dust still settling from the fallout.

There's the tiniest gap, a pause before I start back at work again. It's been great so far - I rediscovered my parents' house; reminded them who I was; slept; reaquainted myself with the cat. I'm free until Monday, and I'm sleeping more than two hours a day. Life has been good.

I need to clear my desk, so I can paint again. It's been so many weeks (or is it months?) - I start twitching whenever I unearth some brushes beneath piles of paperwork :) I've decided to "spoil" myself (splashing out on half a dozen new paints) with some of the Vallejo range, which I'm looking forward to using. First thing to finish off is the commission work from the start of the year - it got swept under the rug when the customer didn't need it done urgently, and I had to start working harder...

I just bought myself a copy of Necronomonopoly, too :) The game board and deck of cards are in a PDF, sold by Wicked-Dead Games ($10USD). Haven't recieved my download link yet, but I'll be taking the file to a printing place and putting it all on cardstock - I'll write up a review when I've had a chance to play it. The artwork's a bit of a let-down (I was hoping for something more than black line-art cartoons, I guess) but it sounds like fun.

I'm really looking forward to being busy with my own plans, this summer - working Mon-Fri means that *gasp!* I'll actually have some weeknights and weekends to myself. I've been looking forward to this for a long, long time...

Current plans: Write a bunch of games for Arcanacon, ][con, Conquest. Paint. Teach myself how to use the Adobe CS package (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop etc). PAINT! Get back into sculpting again (it's been a year since I sculpted anything). Start training again. Putting painted work up on Ebay, to pay for the other hobbies... I intend to relax at high speed...

EDIT: Whoo! Necronomonopoly has arrived :) I'll be printing it out tomorrow morning...

Comments

[harkon.livejournal.com]

Maybe paint the board?

[morsla.livejournal.com]

:)

I'm tempted to print out a colour copy later on, after I play around with Illustrator...

[one-mirror.livejournal.com]

*waves* Hello there! Is it Honours you've just finished, or...? It's all very scary, I recently decided that I'll be doing honours in archaeology (just finished first year) so I've been perusing your journal and thinking to myself "eeeee!"

Oh! I ambled across from punk_rock_nerd's journal, and have added you to my friends list as you seem interesting...dis okay?
(probably should have said that part *first*!)

[morsla.livejournal.com]

*waves back*

Yep, it was an Honours course. Like most things I've done lately, it was 95% fun, and a final 5% of pain...

I know a few people who did archaeology honours projects, though - they didn't have as much stress at the end of their course, as the timing is set up a little differently (smaller thesis handed in a few months before mine was, and various other assessment things later in the year).

[one-mirror.livejournal.com]

Eee! Hopefully it won't be too bad...my tutor made it sound like HELL. Rewarding hell though. I'm at Latrobe so I don't know if they structure it differently from one uni to the next. He was fairly adamant that it's harder than getting your PhD! Which I suppose is comforting...sorta...not really :P

Anyway, (belated) congratulations on finishing! :D

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

It's harder than a PhD, because of the timeframe - with a 2 or 3 year course, you can spread things out a little. Plus, you'll have had first-hand experience at writing that volume of work...

Honours is a bit tricky because it's only 9 months long, and it's generally the first time you've done anything even vaguely like it. Seconds after handing in the last work, you'll think "damn, I know I could do that better if I had another shot." Well worth doing, though, if you find a project you're interested in.

[futurelegend.livejournal.com]

you could always pick bonesinger's brain.. Honours-archaeologist-extroadinaire!