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work, work, work
This week has been very... stressful. Monday we defended our Game Dev't project, and I felt so bad because Eric, our teacher, was expecting a lot from our group and we didn't deliver. He looked so disappointed. A lot of stuff didn't work, mostly from the programming end, but also from my end (art) because our textures didn't work. And on the programming end I couldn't blame them either because there was only three of them and John (my partner from last sem) was doing most of the work on his own. Sniff...
And then for four days (Saturday to Tuesday) i had been getting very little sleep trying to get our database program up and running. So bangag. It's a good thing that Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights, a CS graduate came over to help. TJ looks like a bigger version of Joaquin Phoenix, it's uncanny. Anyway, he's really funny and really good and we worked from around 10-2am each night. I had done most of it on my own, but since I was rusty at programming generally and I didn't know C# or SQL (the languages we used for our proj), it was good that someone else was helping me debug. Also, the lack of sleep made me so scatterbrained, and I really appreciated the extra pair of eyes that checked that the error I was getting was caused by a mere typo. (make that lots of "mere" typos)
So there, Wednesday (when our presentation was due) early morning practically everything was up and running. I took a power nap and when I woke up and fixed the code some more.
Turn on PC and open program... OK.
Compile... OK.
Run... OK.
Change some lines of code... OK.
Compile... IT WOULDN'T COMPILE!!!
For some reason it would only compile when I had just restarted my PC, so each time I wanted to compile I had to shut down and restart!!! I disabled some functions to try to spot where the bug was but... no time left. Burned everything on the CD to port onto Hannah's laptop. Rush to school, try to install stuff and overwrite Hannah's database. It wouldn't drop the existing tables!
So Liz had to drive me back to the dorm, pick up my CPU in my 4-inch heels, carry the heavy fricking CPU back to school. And NOT A SINGLE GUY OFFERED TO HELP!!! Whatever happened to chivalry?
No actually Leo, a classmate saw me struggling with the CPU and said, "OH MY GAWD. Let me open the door for you."
WHAT THE HECK IS THAT ALL ABOUT?!?! >:-O
And so we presented and the rest of my groupmates took so long. And i didn't even know i was supposed to do a program demo, and a frazzled scatterbrained girl with very little sleep and very little time to present is not a good candidate for showing off her work. And to top things off, since I had disabled some functions while hunting for that stupid bug so it looked as if some functions weren't working when they actually were, they were just disabled.
ARGH!!!
Basta. On a more positive note, I'm learning the difference between liking someone and being interested in someone. Right now I really don't want to be "with" anyone so I'm not interested in anyone, but there's a someone I "like-like," even if it is in a nerdy way. ("I want him for his brain." -- How much nerdier could you get?) I just realized my crush on this guy is just like my crush on Mike Wilson in England, the guy's not my type but he's just so darned smart (in high school Gabs Vogt and Mike were my only competition academically, and I couldn't be attracted to someone who wasn't smarter than me. And since I had to have a crush, I fancied the more attractive of the two boffins.)
Anyway, gotta code some more for our game. Yay. :-/
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