What the heck I gotta ~do~ to pass school?

        What time is it? Week review time! How exciting! (I'm groaning internally at myself I'm sorry.)

        This week we learned about keyframes and peg layers. And storyboards and probably something else I'm not remembering. Keyframes and peg layers honestly make me nervous because I feel I'll end up messing my animation up when I use them. Storyboards excite me, though, because even though I'm worried about making full-blown animations I am excited about planning them out. If there's one thing that I can do write it is write down a plan of action. Other than that nothing else was really learned in school. English was wordy, chemistry was chemically, stats was graphy, and history was just me zoning out because I know an unhealthy amount about the American Revolution. (Example: Did you know that once during the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Charles Lee and some other troops were across the Hudson river destroying a flour warehouse before the advancing British troops got there, right? And troops saw the British coming and were like "we gotta bounce lol bye" and left, but Hamilton and a couple other men were left by the side of the river while a ton of Redcoats were coming. But lucky them, they had a boat, so they retreated across the Hudson river (under British gunfire), but that boat was useless cause one man died and another was wounded. So they were like "dudes, time to swim" and abandoned ship and just started swimming. And they made it out okay! But Lee assumed Alexander had died so he got back to camp and was like "Washington, listen, we saw British coming and booked it and accidentally left Hamilton and he's dead now haha sorry bro." And Washington was like "woah, that's sad", so he and his aides started mourning Alexander and drinking in his memory, when A dot Ham busted into his own death party, soaking wet.)

        In the future, I want to learn how to apply audio to animations. I feel it will be another painful and tedious process, but what is animation if it isn't tedious and painful? I also want to learn how to animate faces, or how to draw things the same over and over because I struggle with that. Something not related to animation that I want to learn is how to properly front fall for stage fighting. Believe me, I need it.

        Here's the big bomb: What frustrated me this week? Me. I frustrated me this week. Everything I did made me want to rip my own hair out. I sabotaged myself on the ball and tail(hello bad grade my old friend), I cried for 30 minutes over not being able to grasp the fight scene choreographing I missed, and some other things. I just made life hard for myself this week, full of anxiety and depression. It is hard to admit that sometimes, but because of it I am sometimes Gaius and Brutus and crew stabbing Caeser in the back while at the same time I am also Caeser. But as of right now I'm better, and feelings have settled. The knives are out of my back and I'm not on the verge of screaming at someone.

        So since I frustrated myself all week there really wasn't much there to make me happy. But today was a pretty happy day. We went out to Red Lobster, and for the second time this year I took a bad picture with crab claws as my claws and gave it a bad Wolverine related caption. Then we went to Barnes and Noble, and I got a book and a tote. And then twenty minutes later got another book and a very confused cashier because she could have sworn I'd left. There is also a thing I'm writing that's picked up recently and that has made me happy too, especially the comments left on it.

        The link this week is a video called Overcomer. This is an animation made by a student for a class, and I relate heavily to it this week. So, enjoy! Overcomer - Animated Short.