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10/13/05 02:29 - ID#32280
This old House and Stuff
This is the kind of journal entry I promised myself I would not have after last June.
So those of you that know me, know that I am almost never depressed. At least I had never been unitl last spring. I thought I would get over it but it seems to be getting worse the more money I owe. I know what it is about, but I don't know how to change anything. I just want a full-time job with health benefits doing something I paid all that money to go to school for and am good at. I also want it to be in Buffalo, instead of California. Maybe it is too much to ask for.
I know I am developing some really horrible depression because I am shutting everyone out and inventing all this extra work for myself that is increasingly more complicated to complete in order to prove to myself that I am in fact capabable of doing everything. The tasks get increasingly more time consuming and complicated the more depressed I get. It takes my mind off the fact that I feel like a total failure. Maybe I should just drink beer like everyone else.
Because I didn't get that job at Canisius, I am in such a bad place in Buffalo. I am reminded of it everyday. Worst of all I let down my best buddies. I need to just give up my dream of being a full-time professor in my home town. I am faced with the decision of giving up my career goals and moving on or giving up my hometown. I am not willing to wait until I am 45 to start a full-time job. I am sure I am not ever going to get a full time teaching position job at UB as I graduated from there and they seem to be moving more toward film anyways. Canisius probably won't have another job for a long time, and they didn't want me anyway.
My hopes were so destroyed followed the events of last spring. I still have no idea what made me the wrong canidiate for the position. It made it so bad that most of the people in charge of making the decisions could not even understand what it is I do. I felt I had proven myself with years of dedicated work but that amounted to nothing. I didn't have a history in industry but what does that really amount to. Especially in digital media arts, I think my teaching history combined with my work and stellar academic record made up for it. Moreover, industry experience certainly doesn't necessarily make someone a qualified teacher. I have witnessed that first hand.
The sitution made me hate school at UB because I saw it as such a huge burden of time and money with no return. That's the real reason I haven't completed my thesis. Had I got the job, everything would have been in on time, but I hated to look at it. It represented everything that defeated me.
Everytime I look at it, it reminds me of the crushing feeling of owing $80,000 and having no real hope of ever getting out of debt with becomming the person I never wanted to be. I have two useless degrees. One in German language and this new Master in Fine Arts. The second one I only chose because it fit my career goal and I was prompted by my employer. It was supposed to be the useful degree that wasn't just about learning for the sake of learning.
After the situation someone at work told me that in the future I should be more friendly with the other faculty. I was never very unfriendly though. It kind of made me feel weird. Like was it that I didn't go to their Christmas parties and invite them to my house. I should have just gone and brought terry or matthew. I was jist afraid that would ruin my career. How much worse could it have gotten.
So what triggered this now. Today I learned the new professor does not do game development. It Probably does't seem so significant but it makes me feel really weird about the whole process. Could the job description have been any more explicit about their interest in game and real-time 3d. For a while I thought maybe I didn't have enough experience with real-time modeling (I have lots of experince with real-time modeling and texturing) and that some of my work was too "rendered." Guess that wasn't the case.
I also I got an email that they are thinking of starting a masters program. To bad I just spent $50,000 on one in order to try and get the job that never panned out. Now there is talk of some other full time lab director job. I just can't tell if it is for real or if it is that same memo I got almost every semester since I started there back in 2001 telling me that soon there would be full-time work and many even benefits. I just want a full-time job with beneifts doing something I don't feel morally opposed to. Sometimes I think they make it up to get me to stick around.
If it doesn't work out I am going to try something totally new without computers. Maybe I will go back to basics and just get some meaningless unskilled job until I die.
I am so glad I saved this message form that day [inlink]paul,3328[/inlink]. I love my parents even if I don't see them enough. I know they were so dissapointed.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/11/05 10:16 - ID#32279
max width in IE
The code looks something like this. I make a class for a thumnail image. every oterh browser ignores the expression. Every other browser follows the max-wdith = 150px The expression is not too bad. I am thinking you could do some cool stuff with it.
.thumb{
width:expression(this.width < 150? "auto": "150px" );
max-width:150px;
}
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: health
10/11/05 10:04 - ID#32278
Being Sick in October and February
I was looking back at my journal for last october and I was sick at the very same time. Maybe next year I will use that to my advantage and schedule some sort of vacation for this time. I was also sick in February both years, wonder what's up for this February. It is so crazy that I have my colds documented for the last several years. I suppose I look the sickest in February of 04. The previous february is before I had a cell phone cam.
Colds since I started my Journal:
Now 10/09/05 with pic
02/08/05 [inlink]paul,2676[/inlink]
with pic
10/06/04 [inlink]paul,2028[/inlink]
with pic
02/12/04 [inlink]paul,527[/inlink]
I wonder if now that I see the cycle it will perpetuate it even more.
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Category: friends
10/11/05 10:01 - ID#32277
Sara Ross - we go back further
So Sara's name is right on the crease and hard to read on the scan but you can see her address, birthday, and parents clearly. You can also see her phone number, but I changed hid all the numbers before posting this.
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Category: rememberbuffalo
10/08/05 09:14 - 48ºF - ID#32276
The Remember Buffalo Project
There was the great quote about the building of the 33 which divided the city into two sections. The quote said
By the mid 20th century, the automobile and superhighway further transformed the city. Private cars allowed more people to live farther from work. Suburbs became linked to offices downtown by networks of superhighways. The highways divided many of the old neighborhoods.]
Here are some pics from the Kennsigton being built.
What they are missing is the thousands personal accounts that I plan on capturing with the Buffalo memory network
Today I added a linkdump for the memory project where people can add relevent research links and ideas.
They also had this incubator, I couldn't get over how future yet retro it was.
And a great sound clip jingle from Sattlers the department store that used to be on Broadway before broadway started to die. I love the jingle, and I could get pctures now we just need the memories to go with it.
It will be so fun to visit all these ghosts on mobile phones and to inspire all the fmaily interactions that the proectw ill require.
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Category: clothes
10/07/05 11:05 - 52ºF - ID#32275
Matthew and Socks
Permalink: Matthew_and_Socks.html
Words: 65
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
10/07/05 06:24 - ID#32274
spot coffee ripoff
The blonde guy who works here, that had the broken arm is the best employee. He is always so friendly. He was that way at feelrite too. If I had a busines I would hire him.
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Words: 96
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: design
10/07/05 12:07 - 71ºF - ID#32273
Student Art Gallery
on a wider screen
Another issue is that I only work on it about 4 hours a week. Originally my contract had more "work" time built in to do things like this and the checkin database which I already finished but then my boss had this idea to have me work in the lab. Well it is impossible to get any work done in the lab because no matter where I am students and faculty find me and ask questions. Not that I don't like answering questions, it's just I never get time to work on stuff like this.
This is what it looks like now. You can click ont he thumbnauil to the left or right to load pics into the main box. If you want a full 1024x768 size image you can click on the main mage to load it in another window.
The space at the bottom and the top right will be used for other info, etc. Not sure yet. I will probably change it all before it is done.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: elmwood
10/06/05 10:46 - 72ºF - ID#32272
Wilson Farms
There was the usual crowd. The woman that runs the launromat cross the street, the crazy lady that told (e:mike) he needs to go fight in Iraq, and andre. It's funny that this site pretty much started it's public phase over some racist drama at the Farm [inlink]news,29[/inlink]. I wish I had a media cpable cell phone back then but this was way pmobl.
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Words: 120
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: tatoo
10/06/05 01:00 - 66ºF - ID#32271
This man looks so freaky
Permalink: This_man_looks_so_freaky.html
Words: 12
Location: Buffalo, NY
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I know you are feeling down and disappointed and feel that it would be so damn easy to just give up and go get some unskilled job somewhere, but you would be more depressed if you did that. Sure, at first, you would be releived by the money and benefits, but sooner reather than later, you would be back to feeling depressed and instead, you might feel like you sold yourself out. Don't give up on your dreams. You are talented!!
(((((((((((((((((((( Paul ))))))))))))))))))))))))
Perhaps you are meant for greater things than being a professor at Canisius.
I think you have the talent and the ability to come up with something fantastic computer-wise that will have the world beating a path to your door.