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l_the_fangirlStarted taking college classes in Graphic Design - probably going to take Garde Manger classes to fill the 2 credit gap I have now that Comparative Religion is borked (aww!), but if anyone who's been to Laney has some suggestions for Fun Elective I'm all ears (Note that classes in Formal Logic are full beyond capacity: that would have been my first choice).
Monday morning at 10:00-12:00 is a computer lab for Typography exercises.
Tuesday morning 9:00-10:50, class in Quark Express 7, a very intuitive and powerful page layout program. This thing is, as they say, the shiznit. I was noodling around and discovered things I didn't know you COULD do with print (wait a second, it looks much better if I space the paragraphs closer) - thanks for lowering my expectations, Microsoft Word...
Tuesday afternoon 1:00-2:30 (then lab from 3:00-5:00), I have Flash CS3 class. This ought to be FUN - one of the things we saw in that class was a political tract in the form of a relationship map of the CEO's of the world and their companies (Al Gore worked at Apple? Huh.) - for those people who know how little I can shut up about Dat Game About Love Threatened By War, Mecha Style, you can well imagine how much I perked up at that. Sadly, programming is not covered... But I know some Python, so... (hee hee)!
Wednesday morning from 8:00-10:00 (I can no has hawt brkfst, sigh) I have classes in Typography, the ancient art and subtle science of making printed words look REALLY good, and classifying their varieties and uses.
Thursday, lab in the morning and Graphic Design Principles in the afternoon and evening.
No class on Friday or weekends.
In related news, I've started a comm for a Bay Area Roleplaying Society - an organization with one member at the moment, me, on my admin LiveJournal ID http://blissauthority.livejournal.com - and am looking for members that hang out and about Laney (or at least can get to Laney / Endgame near 12th Street Bart easy enough).
Right now, the moment you begin reading this paragraph) I'm thinking of running or delegating (say it with me) Bliss Stage. This game SERIOUSLY needs more love: it's Evangelion The RPG and it has lousy sales, and this confuses me. My one-man viral marketing campaign continues afoot...
I'm also interested in running a D&D minicampaign shamelessly stolen from http://the_tall_man.livejournal.com, which in my incarnation is called The Bearers of the Torch. (You relight wards. Without the benefit, support, or indeed legal protections of the various duchies. This means your primary source of money and equipment is yoink.
(As The Tall Man says, "Imagine if Han Solo or Captian Mal were the templates for an criminal society of Jedi, working to save the Republic from cosmic horrors." You rock, Levi.)
For a later date, I've just picked up Cthulhu-Tech. The setting and situation is made of unadulterated awesonium ore (Periodic table abbreviation: "Wn"): a three way war between Humanity, the various cults to Cosmic Horrors and interplanetary monsters who fear human emotion almost as much as humans fear their tactics; and it's written in a way that makes H.P. Lovecraft repeatedly bang his head against his coffin to make it stop, and John the Baptist just tells him, "Yeah, I did that when Evangelion came out."
The system categorically sucks. This is NOT conductive to story-gaming - stop claiming it is, guys.
The obvious fix: Spirit of the Aeon, a FATE 3.0 game set in the Strange Aeon of CT, with heavy doses of contradictory global Aspects ("Troping") - such as "The Power Of Love Prevails!" and "Never Give Up, Never Surrender!" versus "When You Gaze Into The Abyss..." and "Who Can You Trust?" But not now... at least November.
On a side note, SO running Engel pilots. So totally doing an Engel game.
And now, your weekly Why I Play Bliss Stage:
"You can use me as a weapon if you need to, Jess. I love you. I want you to be OK. And I don't particularly mind if the aliens aren't."
-- Tarragon Farah, they boyfriend of Innocent Sweetheart pilot Jessica, who up to this point had been a pacifist.
Monday morning at 10:00-12:00 is a computer lab for Typography exercises.
Tuesday morning 9:00-10:50, class in Quark Express 7, a very intuitive and powerful page layout program. This thing is, as they say, the shiznit. I was noodling around and discovered things I didn't know you COULD do with print (wait a second, it looks much better if I space the paragraphs closer) - thanks for lowering my expectations, Microsoft Word...
Tuesday afternoon 1:00-2:30 (then lab from 3:00-5:00), I have Flash CS3 class. This ought to be FUN - one of the things we saw in that class was a political tract in the form of a relationship map of the CEO's of the world and their companies (Al Gore worked at Apple? Huh.) - for those people who know how little I can shut up about Dat Game About Love Threatened By War, Mecha Style, you can well imagine how much I perked up at that. Sadly, programming is not covered... But I know some Python, so... (hee hee)!
Wednesday morning from 8:00-10:00 (I can no has hawt brkfst, sigh) I have classes in Typography, the ancient art and subtle science of making printed words look REALLY good, and classifying their varieties and uses.
Thursday, lab in the morning and Graphic Design Principles in the afternoon and evening.
No class on Friday or weekends.
In related news, I've started a comm for a Bay Area Roleplaying Society - an organization with one member at the moment, me, on my admin LiveJournal ID http://blissauthority.livejournal.com - and am looking for members that hang out and about Laney (or at least can get to Laney / Endgame near 12th Street Bart easy enough).
Right now, the moment you begin reading this paragraph) I'm thinking of running or delegating (say it with me) Bliss Stage. This game SERIOUSLY needs more love: it's Evangelion The RPG and it has lousy sales, and this confuses me. My one-man viral marketing campaign continues afoot...
I'm also interested in running a D&D minicampaign shamelessly stolen from http://the_tall_man.livejournal.com, which in my incarnation is called The Bearers of the Torch. (You relight wards. Without the benefit, support, or indeed legal protections of the various duchies. This means your primary source of money and equipment is yoink.
(As The Tall Man says, "Imagine if Han Solo or Captian Mal were the templates for an criminal society of Jedi, working to save the Republic from cosmic horrors." You rock, Levi.)
For a later date, I've just picked up Cthulhu-Tech. The setting and situation is made of unadulterated awesonium ore (Periodic table abbreviation: "Wn"): a three way war between Humanity, the various cults to Cosmic Horrors and interplanetary monsters who fear human emotion almost as much as humans fear their tactics; and it's written in a way that makes H.P. Lovecraft repeatedly bang his head against his coffin to make it stop, and John the Baptist just tells him, "Yeah, I did that when Evangelion came out."
The system categorically sucks. This is NOT conductive to story-gaming - stop claiming it is, guys.
The obvious fix: Spirit of the Aeon, a FATE 3.0 game set in the Strange Aeon of CT, with heavy doses of contradictory global Aspects ("Troping") - such as "The Power Of Love Prevails!" and "Never Give Up, Never Surrender!" versus "When You Gaze Into The Abyss..." and "Who Can You Trust?" But not now... at least November.
On a side note, SO running Engel pilots. So totally doing an Engel game.
And now, your weekly Why I Play Bliss Stage:
"You can use me as a weapon if you need to, Jess. I love you. I want you to be OK. And I don't particularly mind if the aliens aren't."
-- Tarragon Farah, they boyfriend of Innocent Sweetheart pilot Jessica, who up to this point had been a pacifist.
