Finally huh? lol well, i've been pretty busy lately so i haven't had much time. so, quick review since Christmas? ok, here goes:

Christmas- Crazy sick, didn't even look at my presents until a day or two later DX what did i get? my own Wii =D until now, i had been 'sharing' my old Wii with my sister, which pretty much amounted to me having to leave it at home while i was in Charlotte. Even though my sister never played it. yea, tell me about how logical that is. now that i have my own, its not a problem anymore =)

B/W Christmas and New Year's- not too much of importance, at least as far as i remember...

New Year's- also surprisingly uninteresting...

Jan. 2nd- Jami's Birthday! She had a 'surprise' birthday party at Bojangle's =)

Jan. 3rd ~ Jan. 10th- the last of my Christmas vacation, my classes started the 11th

Jan. 11th ~ Today(15th)- finished my first week of classes, i have classes three days out of the week, for more detailed info, keep reading ; )

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Schedule:
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Monday - 3 pm ~ 5 pm - Survey of Art History 1
- 6 pm ~ 10 pm - Design Layout

Tuesday - Absolutely Nothing!

Wednesday - 8 am ~ 12 pm - Illustration
- 3 pm ~ 5 pm - Survey of Art History 1

Thursday - 1 pm ~ 5 pm - Vector Graphics
- 6 pm ~ 10 pm - Photography Techniques

Friday - Absolutely Nothing!

Saturday - Absolutely Nothing!

Sunday - Absolutely Nothing!

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Any questions? oh yeah, maybe it would be helpful if i tell you what the classes are about.

Survey of Art History - obviously, a class about Art in History...

Design Layout - an unofficially combination course. The main part of the class is focused around Adobe InDesign. the unofficial part comes in because Graphic Design students get their first Gateway
in this class. Gateway is where the Graphic students pull together some of their work from the previous classes, clean them up / improve them if necessary, and give them to be
evaluated by teacher. All of this is so they can decide if we are ready to go on, if we have understood all of our fundamentals classes.

Illustration - as the name suggests, a class on Illustration
Vector Graphics - a class focusing on the basics of Adobe Illustrator

Photography Techniques - a general photography class

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phew, that's a lot... let me take a breath for a minute....

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ok i think can go on. yep, you heard me, there's more!

So, a few things have changed up here in Charlotte. As i think you know, i live in "Student Housing," and by that i mean two bedroom apartments the school leases. and everyone in student housing has three room mates, (ok technically one room mate and two suite mates). For my first two quarters i had the same three room mates. Gustavo and Andrew, the suite mates, and Derek, my room mate. This quarter Andrew and Derek moved out. i now have two new room mate. Chris, who has been my friend since first quarter, and Brookes, a "new" student. Derek and Gustavo were almost alway at school or work and were normally only in the apartment to sleep and do homework on occasion. Andrew was pretty much never at the apartment. I think i saw him a total of 5 times since first quarter. So, i was the only one in the apartment, and i got pretty used to that. However, that's not how it is anymore. Brookes seems to be here just as much as i am, and i only leave for classes. More importantly, he normally has friends over ever other night or so (though it seems to be happening more frequently). The friend thing really doesn't bother me, and i really don't mind that i can hear the rap they play, those are easily drown out by closing the door and putting on my own music or watching TV. The part that's kinda creeping me out is how... interactive? he is. It is not quite invasive, but compared to my previous room mates its a drastic change. And it's not really a bad thing. the only reason i feel like he is invasive is because he is asks all the time if i want food when he cooks ( i really don't mind this, he even told me and Chris that he would cook anything we gave him so thats not bad) or asking if i want to join him and his friends in the living room. He just doesn't seem to get that i'm not a really big party/people person. i'd much hide out in my room when he has company over. I don't know, maybe i'll get used to it... And as for Chris, he's not a bad room mate =) Although i am being a little careful, one of my High School teachers once told me to be careful about rooming with friends, as you might not stay friends long. (It happened to her in college).

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ok, guess it's time for me to stop boring you, huh? till next time,

Trey Smith
Tsurei Sumifu =(look me up on Deviant Art)

To all but me...

I have been sick for the past 28+ hours =( I've eaten almost nothing in that time period and would swear i threw up my stomach DX

But enough about me, how was your Christmas?

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It's almost Christmas...

so we all know what that means, its almost time for my yearly update!

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just not yet ^^;

Honestly, this man confuses the crap out of me. I can’t stand it. It’s like every time I try and have even the slightest logical argument with him, it completely falls out of control down a veritable landslide of back and forth BullS***, and usually ends with one of us walking away fuming. It ticks me off and I hate that. More importantly, I can’t hold on to this anger for very long. No matter how hard I try it slips away, even if I wanted to I couldn't STAY mad with him for more than a few hours at most. But really, it just ticks me off when I KNOW he is TRYING to help me and TRYING to get me to see things his way. IT DOESN'T WORK. We see things almost absolutely and completely differently, and there is almost nothing we can do about it. Even now I’m not half as mad as I was when I started typing, so I’m trying to rush this rant. It's just soo annoying to know that what he is trying to get me to see, makes sense in the way he wants to get me to see it, but I cant comprehend it that way, I just cant and he doesn't seem to understand that.

Now that my anger has almost completely dissipated, lets go into the incident that sparked this rant.

Earlier today, after he gets home from work he asks me if I would like an opportunity to earn some money. I replay with "maybe, it depends on what I’d be doing." he then asks me to come outside so he can show me what he wants done. We walked around the backyard, he told me all the typical stuff I was expecting (picking up the trash, picking up the broken tree limbs off the ground) and asks me to do a few other small things, all in all he estimates that "it shouldn't take more than 2 hours." And I know, I shouldn't complain about this, it's typical they’re really only small chores, but inside I was holding a little flicker of ticked-off-ness. I mean this is my vacation, why should I be working? Its enough work trying to visit and hang out with all my friends when I come back (I do love visiting and hanging out but it's really time consuming on a typical weekend DX ) and really other than that little insignificant glimmer, I had no problem with it... ok fine you got me. That last fragment was sarcasm. I really detest working outside, I’m more of an indoor person by default, and allergies never helped push me outdoors. But still, no problem, I’ve done worse helping him before, right? Right.

The only reason this glimmer evolved into the rant it is now is because he kept pushing the point. At first I assumed that if I REALLY wanted to, I could tell him I didn’t want to and he could keep the money he offered me. Yeah, I totally guessed wrong, after he told me what he wanted done, he assumed I would do it. Honestly I had planned on doing it anyway, but admittedly it wasn’t exactly first on the priority list for tomorrow. But, he just couldn’t leave me alone. He had to keep pushing the issue... but this was all earlier today, not the immediate chain to this rant, just a chain link.

Here we come between 11:30pm-12:30am. He finishes working on some job related things and decides to take a shower, he gets out of the shower and comes into the living room to ask when I’ll be going to sleep. I reply with "ummm, idk. I’ll probably sit in here on the internet until I get sleepy, why?" I don’t think this was the response he was looking for, in-fact I would bet my MacBook that that's not even close to what he wanted to hear. He then sits down on the couch and tries to calmly suggest that I go to bed, like immediately. I told him "That would be pointless, because I'm not sleepy. I can’t go to sleep if I’m not sleepy so all 'd do is toss and turn in my bed for a few hours until I finally get sleepy enough to fall asleep." Can you see my point? I understand that he wants me to get up early and finish the things he asked me to do, honestly I understand where he's coming from. But it wouldn’t help. If I’m going to be doing something until I get sleepy I would much rather it be something semi-productive, instead of tossing around in my bed. He continues to push the point and I continue to push mine. Before he finally gives up and goes to bed he starts sounding incredibly skeptical that I actually will do what he asked. Just before he went off to bed, I told him, twice, in a very matter-of-fact manner, that I completely intended to do what he asked me to do. He replies, both times with a very low "we'll see," which only tipped me off the edge. In fact, he probably heard me typing that first paragraph, I was pressing down on the keys loudly.

In a way though, I have to say I’m proud of him. He seems to have learned that angry arguing doesn’t work out well, and has actually learned to control his temper somewhat. Although he can't control it with out giving the impression of suppressing emotion. Me on the other hand, figured out long ago that if we got into any kind of dispute, my temper would get me nowhere, and ninety percent of the time I have little problem controlling it. However, he seems to be a trigger that makes it infinitely harder to control my temper.


Ok, that helped. im now calm, complacent, and tired.

One side-note: I turned off the link i had set up connecting this blog with Facebook, for somewhat obvious reasons.

Well, goodnight.

~Trey Smith
~~Tsurei Sumifu