C’est Finis!

Today is the day! I received word earlier this morning from one of my favorite profs at the school who was chosen to do my portfolio review! 95% – and everything mentioned were little things here and there, absolutely nothing that said my work wasn’t top notch. THough, amusingly, the one he felt was weakest is actually a logo that is sold and in use and receives rave reviews everywhere else. *L* Made me chuckle a little bit for sure. He always was a fan of my more illustrative works, anyway, but! Dude. 95% – while not perfect? I believe I still finished first in my class.

So – It’s official! I is a college graduate! Whoot!

OMFG.

Mom let me know today what her secret is too! She’s the best! She is paying for a years worth of ads in the Alaska Women Speak magazine! Oh man. I’m just… speechless… that’s so cool!

I don’t think it’s actually hit me yet – i’m still kinda in the same school headspace, but it’ll settle in soon enough. I’m lucky I’m thinking at all after the week i had!

I knew things were going to well when mom and dad scored me a physical flat portfolio case for one sweet deal of a price – way cheaper then I expected to pay too. I knew better then to feel confident because I was sticking to my timeframe plan and everything was coming together and I was headed to turning in the final EARLY even… I should have know better!

So, the day before my final portfolio was due, I turned on my computer, and everything SEEMS fine, until I open up MIE – and everything on the computer screeches to a grinding halt. Uh. not good. So I check the task manager, and MIE’s opening is sucking up 99% cpu usage! this is not supposed to happen! And then, when it finally loads? there are no menu bars, no address bars, no nothing, which means one cannot oh, surf! or get to the schools FTP sites in order to turn in/post/download/critique everyone’s portfolios! ACK! So I shut it down, and run ad aware and spybot and come up clean. I run my virus scan and come up clean. I rebooted 18 million times. I reinstalled MIE overtop of the current installation. Nothing. I ran chkdsk. Nothing. I did everything I and everyone else could think of! I called my computer gods – they have never HEARD of such a problem. I spend hours with my buddy online and we do our best to uninstall MIE (a pain in the ass, mind you, and it never DID uninstall completely) and reinstall.

Nothing. Worked. General consensus – needed to disconnect the HD and take it to my computer gods so they could see what is wrong.

Lessa? Was in QUITE a panic, totally flipping out, complete breakdown time. Actually did have a minor breakdown where I cried and threw things and just generally fell apart. I cannot afford not to have a computer at the moment – and I have to have MY computer!

So I sniffled a bit, sucked it up and installed mozilla. The problem was, I didn’t know that Mozilla would let me post at school, because the programming they use is based, naturally, on MIE, and well – I don’t HAVE mie at the moment.

(god i miss my matching scroll bars and transparent windows! *SOB*)

Fortunately, Mozilla did allow me to post – it does NOT allow me to get to the FTP sites, however, so I had to get access through my seperate ftp program and use it that way. Whew. Ok, so still not happy, but able to finish putting things together and get things posted and stuff. Of course, still, no one has even HEARD of the problem I have with MIE – so if someone has heard anything like this and knows how to fix it? please please PLEASE let me know!

So anyway – i got my final crits from people looking at it – including this gem from TBF who went through this process just 9 months ago:

All in all babe, those are all just terrible little details I’m probably
the only one to ever notice. Hell… probably best that I notice this shit
and the profs don’t? *smirk* Hell…. it apparent enough that I’m
critiquing the presentation…. and not the works themselves? Grammatical
errors, spelling, few little documentation glitches, little vestibules of
formality. That’s really it. You done good.

Told you so.

Yes – he told me so. It’s all his fault I did this to begin with – I didn’t want to, swore I couldn’t, and he swore I could. Man – I wonder if he ever gets tired of being right? *grins*

Anyway – managed to get everything turned in to rave reviews and we’ve come full circle to how I started this entry. *L* I is done! finished! Whoot!

and one of the FUNNIEST damn things anyone said to me this week? I showed a friend the portfolio, and this was the conversation:

[08:06] M: Oi! 25 minutes. (laughs) Yeesh.. I thought it was a web-site. (is… er.. dense)

[08:07] M: Oh, wait, 14 min.. that’s better.

[08:07] Me: *LOL* pdf file… *L* it’s worth it. gives you all you’ll ever need to stalk me. *L*

[08:07] M: (dies) SCORE!

[08:08] Me: *grins*

[08:08] M: Since, you know, stalking you is VERY high on my to-do list. Right up there with buying tampons.

[08:08] Me: WOW! I knew I rated high, but THAT high! *preens*

[08:08] M: (blushes) My secret is out!

[08:08] Me: *litterally laughing out loud*

[08:09] Me: me and my fat ass with my skanky slippers and approaching
d-esque grunge look, ranking THAT HIGH on a stalkers list. I can totally die happy now… *L*

[08:11] M: Well… I might ask you to bathe at least. I mean… I like nice smells. (reasonable) BUt you can keep the slippers on…
…baby. (waggle waggle)

[08:11] Me: *LMFAO*

M gave me some WELL NEEDED laughter that helped me get through the rest of the week. *chuckles*

So anyway – that was my week, how was yours? *chuckles*