Got up at roughly five minutes to 12 and washed myself up. Before getting up, I could hear the cleaner - a man, from the sounds of it - signing and tutting outside. It could just be the hassle of working or something similar, I just hope it wasn't something we had done. (Like...the mess outside of Yannis's room)
Whilst making tea in the kitchen, Jamie was up shortly in his pyjamas. It's clear he was as lazy as I, thank goodness. He DID have a lesson this morning; remembering from having asked Sophie last night she'd be up to tomorrow -there was a review session (similar to my crit on Friday, I guess) taking place this morning for film foundation. Jamie decided to skip on it. He told me also that poor Becky is having some issues with her group in that they simply aren't cooperating with one another. Sophie arrived momentarily into the matter, having incidentally just got from the review session. Kit came up there, too. Enquired about some of the things he mentioned last night - he got pissed off with some girls near the Porter's Lodge, I think? He couldn't remember any of it, though.
Went out to Farnham today to pick up some pencil and paper. Found some soft B pencils in WHSmith, but no standard cartridge paper. Instead, I tried the Workshop place across the street. The traffic lights were quite a way ahead so, as most tend to, I crossed the street as is. Cars jammed up for the traffic lights, which had given me an opportunity to cross. Sadly, I was an idiot at the time and disregarded that cars can still go down on the other lane (it's a one-way, much of central Farnham is, actually) and dashed out, with a car coming down having to promptly halt. It wasn't a close enough proximity that it screeched but...what could of happened, eh? No one really noticed though, and I scuffled into Workshop frantically rubbing the back of my neck nagging myself to "be cool".
Got a wholesome pack of A4 for £3.60 regardless. Also, stopped by at Subway. Got a bacon and ham sandwich, was nice. The guy told me a stored up 1000 points, meaning I can get a free foot-long next time. That's nice.
Later at 10 to 4, I asked Sophie (who just back again from a class) if she was going to Street Dancing. Indeed she was, and was waiting for Ben to turn up before going. With a knock on my door 15 minutes later, I got ready and met her outside. Yannis was there with Georgia, both of them having a smoke. Sophie managed to convince him to come, despite apparently being tired! Nice. He wanted us to wait about 10 minutes for him, though. Sophie tried to hurry him up out of the psych for the class.
We traveled on over to the sports centre. Yannis kept poking his hand into Sophie's handbag (with her consent) to get something he had needed. To anyone else seeing this all, it looked pretty suspicious. Also heard someone make a weird-ass rock scream from a car waiting behind the lights, near us. Apparently he was also dancing and raving in the car. I wish I had seen that.
Got to the dance room four minutes or so late. One of the guys from my animation course was there. Dan was the only teacher there this week! He warmed up the two there before us with a routine he taught me and Ben last week. When it came to the actual session, it started off with the obligatory push-ups and stretches.
The dance manoeuvres we had to learn this time were a lot easier to pick up and follow, save for this one move that involved a combination of shuffling and limping. It was complicated enough that it warranted Dan to get into nitty gritty details involving it. This shuffle IS something you see often in hip hop, but it's tricky. I picked it up a little bit better once I realised the entire torso needs to rotate along with the left leg. Still, splitting one manoeuvre to the next (like that one) was too tricky for to follow through with fluency. The entire dance routine itself had a fairly feminine element to it - specifically ballerina. When done properly to the extent that Dan demonstrated however, it's a pretty sick performance. Also, Dan was a bastard at one point and made us perform without his guidance (somewhat) in groups of two. I sucked ass. ;_; Yannis likewise got pissed off enough that he had to do rounds of beating up a boxing stand.
The session rounded up, and I felt a lot better afterwards than last time. Sophie and Yannis seemed to of enjoyed it, too. Along the way back, we stopped by at Sainsburys. Picked up a few snacks and what not, in particular drink. On the rest of the journey back, me and fellow animation student talked about where we were at for the walk cycle, lip-sync and character motivation. Most interestingly, he told me that today (Group A) had a group review on the dairy comics. Apparently Ron was really lenient on the level of quality, and style - mainly intent on just seeing who sort of resonates with what sort of element in drawing. Some comics varied from incomplete to really detailed. The fellow student told me some of his comics were even eight panels in length. I felt like a lazy prick, now.
Back home, James was waiting for us (or maybe just Sophie) - he brought up the Afghanistan documentary mentioned last week. It was tonight, 7:30 at the Maltings for £6.00. Supposedly before the feature presentation, the director/producer gives a live speech (through webcam). I was hungry and wanted to eat, so I turned down the invitation to come. Still, he, Jamie, Sophie, Yannis and Rob all headed off. I found out that although I have plenty of ready-meals, they are all side dishes/complimentary food, so I had to venture out again to Waitrose for something substantial. As I raced out, I caught up with the gang heading to Maltings.
In Waitrose itself, I bumped into Rory. I haven't actually seen all too much of him, but it was good to see him here and there. After surveying the ample selection of ready meals, I went and picked the Cottage Pie. Back home in the kitchen, I wanted to have it a potato ready-meal but both required an oven at differing gas marks/cooking times. Well, there were two ovens, but I only had one baking tray. Cottage Pie it was! Brought up my laptop to play a little bit on a computer game, and when it was ready, I avidly consumed the pie.
Sophie, Yannis, James and Rob returned later and went up to the kitchen. Georgia was there, too. There was a peculiar air of humour about the gang, but they obviously didn't smoke anything. Guess they were just energetic. Rob's curry caught the eye of Sophie, and it became her priority to be able to eat some of it. I've never seen her so keen to eat someone's food before - all the times I offer her and she's cool about skipping it. Yannis also mentioned he was going to finally give up on smoking for the 6th or 7th time, much to everyone's rather vexed outlook. Sophie rather boldly stated that as long as he is in University (or at least when around Rob and Georgia) he won't be giving up on smoking. Georgia also felt it appropriate to allow herself some alcohol after forcibly plowing through work despite the unexpected 'free time'. Yannis made a weird laugh, and some awesome bubbles (using washing up liquid and hand structures), and had also gotten some foam and water on Sophie's face when gesturing the hand-shake of promise. The look on her face was great.
My scheduling is going a little awry here. I shower by 9pm and be in bed by 10pm, but my body-clock is allowing itself to blunder from each consecutive late night up. I haven't been using Microsoft Entourage much either so time-tabling can be a helpful remedy. It's 00:10 as of finishing this entry.
Back home, James was waiting for us (or maybe just Sophie) - he brought up the Afghanistan documentary mentioned last week. It was tonight, 7:30 at the Maltings for £6.00. Supposedly before the feature presentation, the director/producer gives a live speech (through webcam). I was hungry and wanted to eat, so I turned down the invitation to come. Still, he, Jamie, Sophie, Yannis and Rob all headed off. I found out that although I have plenty of ready-meals, they are all side dishes/complimentary food, so I had to venture out again to Waitrose for something substantial. As I raced out, I caught up with the gang heading to Maltings.
In Waitrose itself, I bumped into Rory. I haven't actually seen all too much of him, but it was good to see him here and there. After surveying the ample selection of ready meals, I went and picked the Cottage Pie. Back home in the kitchen, I wanted to have it a potato ready-meal but both required an oven at differing gas marks/cooking times. Well, there were two ovens, but I only had one baking tray. Cottage Pie it was! Brought up my laptop to play a little bit on a computer game, and when it was ready, I avidly consumed the pie.
Sophie, Yannis, James and Rob returned later and went up to the kitchen. Georgia was there, too. There was a peculiar air of humour about the gang, but they obviously didn't smoke anything. Guess they were just energetic. Rob's curry caught the eye of Sophie, and it became her priority to be able to eat some of it. I've never seen her so keen to eat someone's food before - all the times I offer her and she's cool about skipping it. Yannis also mentioned he was going to finally give up on smoking for the 6th or 7th time, much to everyone's rather vexed outlook. Sophie rather boldly stated that as long as he is in University (or at least when around Rob and Georgia) he won't be giving up on smoking. Georgia also felt it appropriate to allow herself some alcohol after forcibly plowing through work despite the unexpected 'free time'. Yannis made a weird laugh, and some awesome bubbles (using washing up liquid and hand structures), and had also gotten some foam and water on Sophie's face when gesturing the hand-shake of promise. The look on her face was great.
My scheduling is going a little awry here. I shower by 9pm and be in bed by 10pm, but my body-clock is allowing itself to blunder from each consecutive late night up. I haven't been using Microsoft Entourage much either so time-tabling can be a helpful remedy. It's 00:10 as of finishing this entry.
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