Not sure of how to describe the experience, but it was... surreal, I think. All happened so fast somehow.

Was on my way back from school, and the green man lit up, so I started crossing a 4-lane wide street. I guess, just when I stepped into the 3rd lane, a car (I think it was a Toyota sedan of sorts) was travelling (from 11 o'clock) towards the cross junction (Pender and Abbott Street crossing), and by halfway through the 3rd lane, I realized the car was making a curve towards me at 9 o'clock.

I basically reacted instinctively I think, as there was barely any time to think. Swerved my body facing the car and took nearly 3 skips backwards.

Didn't really know what happened after that, but when it all stopped, my left shin was in contact with the car's bumper, leg straight, right shin on radiator and foot on bumper, both hands were down on the bonnet and face was held away from the bonnet, but facing it.

My reaction after this was probably a strange one...

The first thing I did was to look at the traffic light as I backed away from the car... Green man still lit...
Following that, I looked at the driver, an old man whom I think was placing away a cellphone (seriously, when will people learn this is dangerous?), and then pointed at the green man, and then gave him a... thumbs up? Seriously, what was I smoking? I'd like to know there o.o;

(What was going on then was something like: There, you see the green light for me there? All good? Okay? OK *walks off*)

Anyway, his expression was what I believe to be of speechlessness as he, what I think waving at me very slowly, as its rare to see someone with eyes so wide open o.o;

After that, I just continued walking across the road, incident still in my head, yet not fear (though its somewhat settling in right now) nor anger, but rather bemusement. Got greeted by 2 hoboes outside the McDonalds of Tinseltown after that who asked if I was okay o.o

I'm... really awake now, to say the least, not sure if I'll be sleeping anytime soon o.o;

It was sure an... interesting... experience, but I'm definitely not any eager to live it again anytime soon.

ADD:
Image of place of incident: [link]

As some of you might have known, I've stated my 3D animation course this year and am using both XSI SoftImage and Maya for 3D animation.

As of late, I've been guiding a few of my classmates behind the logic related to the 3D animation assignment that we'll be tested on in Maya, and how the Graph Editor in Maya works for all this.

Last night however, I woke up to a nightmare. I was going through someone's Graph Editor and could see what was going on with it: It was a big mess, and I could see where the animation was going without even looking at it just by looking at the graph editor.

Right then and there, I woke up wide eyed, flabbergasted... And then realized what happened... And then smiled...

The animation obsession is coming back to me... And it felt good, somewhat.

Some folks who are closer to me might have known that I was mugged on my way home by 3 druggies early August last year.

Well, what I didn't tell a lot of other people was that despite being held back, I made them bleed, the same way they made me bleed, and I have my reasons to believe that my blood and at least one of theirs did come into contact.

I've went and gone for 2 HIV checkups since then, the first one turned out clean since it was 3 months in and activities of HIV Antibodies would be low (even if they exist), the next one, which was done this March 3rd, was the most recent HIV test that I had.

As the clinic said, 'No News is Good News', but they usually get their blood sampling test results back 10-14 days after getting them from their patients, and last Thursday, 10 days after my blood sampling, I missed a phonecall from a withheld number at the clinic's operation time (2:00 - 5:00pm, clinic is only open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday).

Since then, I've been preparing myself for the worst (I really need to apologize for the VI Furs for this, I wasn't as sociable as I should have been not only from being tired from school, but for this very reason as well), and was stressing out all weekend.

Fortunately for me however...

Verdict: Negative

I'm clean.

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In other news, I need to get back to my animation! =3

Posted up fixed versions of my animation posted in my previous journal, since Youtube cut away the tail ends of my animation (added tail end buffers to them)

Bouncing Ball:
[link]

Wave Motion:
[link]

Jumping Sack:
[link]

*morale up*

Let's go!

Last week, the 2nd week of school, went by quite well.

We did the Jumping Sack assignment in 2D prior to doing a 3D Snowman jump this week.

It was a pretty fun thing to do, having to once again revise what I know and have learnt in 2D class and re-enforcing them once more, furthering my understanding on their concept once more.

Prior to that, in the first week of school itself, we had to blaze through the Bouncing Ball and the Wave Motion assignments, which fortunately, I managed to pull through without much of a problem. Gonna re-do my 2D and 3D Bouncing Ball because I'm not satisfied with them however.

At the end of the week was the meetup with the rest of the Vancouver Island furs, and the last VI Furmeet I can actually attend because school's about to get hellishly busy (A lecturer of ours expects us to dedicate 12 hours working time in school every weekday, and expects us to come in during weekends, and honestly, I'm very happy he says so, since that's what I'm doing! XD).

We had a big video games gathering during the VI Furmeet, where I managed to get to play some old classics like Cybertroopers: Virtual On and Marvel VS Street Fighter on the Sega Saturn, and the party went on the whole night till the next day 11am. A group of furs even managed to finish the entire campaign for CoD 4 that one night, though I'm not sure if its their first time playing (I think it was for some of those who played).

Following that, we had lunch, and after some of us said our goodbyes, I followed
Torwin Collie to his place is Chemainus to help him shift his stuffs since he's moving from Chemainus (Vancouver Island) to Surrey (British Columbia mainland). Managed to meet his Border Collie, Brody, in the process as well. Like his owner, Brody is one very handsome dog in my opinion.

He has it rough however, missing his right hind leg, but that doesn't seem to slow him down one bit from what I observed. He was well behaved when I saw him, but Torwin did tell me he can get very excited and go crazy when it comes to paper rolls (being thrown around as toys apparently). 8D

After moving in all of Torwin's stuff into his new home in Surrey (Which he will be sharing with both Sairys and Ruggs), I managed to get hom at 11:09pm thanks to Ruggs driving me back to where I lived, and the rest was history.

...

That said however, I do miss the Vancouver Island fur crew already... And ow, my back... XD

After the school year started, my previous year schoolmate and I managed to break some of the ice between the present group, managing a bit of socializing, and hopefully, being able to bring the class together closer this time round as opposed to last year.

What happened last year? Well...

To tell you the truth, the class I had the previous year, CA24, was probably the best class I had my entire life yet, even if I wasn't much of a socializer. The problem was, that the class as a whole only started to bond together towards late 3rd term and the 4th term (although separate groups in the class exist where people from that group are closer to one another than most).

I guess it helps that the times we were facing were not exactly easy times, being stressed as an animation student and all, but really, each and every single one of the 15 individuals in class were wonderful people, with much background to tell, especially when the class was largely an international one.

We also got close to the lecturers, our Layout teacher, Sir Jerry Benninger whom we see as a jovial uncle, our Life Drawing teacher Clint Morris whom we saw as a big brother, our Flash Animation mentor Sir Gerard De Souza whom we saw as an encouraging morale officer who can churn out lots of ideas and is an excellent voice actor, and our Head of Department Sir Charles Phillips whom we saw as a father figure and an excelent History lecturer (He made History lessons interesting).

This year however, my classmate from the previous course and I wish to try my best to bring the present class closer together, making it possible to bond together into the family that we were back towards the end of CA24 now in CG24 (Its a tough job though, the folks here in class are very differnt personality wise to the previous class).

Speaking of classes, this year, its REALLYOMGSCARYPACKED!!!

With a total of 23 assignments for the first 2 terms, plus learning both XSI and Maya, sculpting and acting at one go, its not going to be easy.

This is the 2nd day of school as well, and we started our 2D bouncing ball assignment, and I'm only about 2/3rds done without having the probable corrections made yet o_O

*worried woof*

Chances are, I'm going to have to give up either the monthly Vfur Artjams or the Vfur Furmeets. From the way things are going as well, the VIfurmeets are going to be impossible to attend starting next month, and even this month is really going to be pushing it

Oh well, you win some, you lose some.

Its 11pm now, gotta get some proper sleep in.

This is Zeph, signing out!
~ Peace