#then spent more hours this morning finishing it and fiddling with compression

[ar-mage-ddon]

parody of カノープス (canopus) by nayutalien but make it ephelayer ft. my own keykid

also as a heads up, the audio might be a bit loud so watch out

original song | cover used

higher res frames under the cut!

[hope-and-sleep]

SO HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED TODAY

So I stay up all night to finish my project, yeah?  It’s 7:00AM, I think I’m in a good place, so I eat some breakfast, take a nap, do a little more work, eat lunch.  12PM, I open up my work, realize that my cursor has gone a bit fucky and I don’t know how to fix it, so I decide to restart my computer.  Nothing like turning it back off and on again, right?

But when I start it back up again, my file -- the one that I’ve been slaving over for over 12 hours -- is completely empty.  

“Sonnuvabitch,” says I, very loudly. 

So I fiddle around with it for an hour, looking up some shit about how to restore files, before accepting that there’s no way Imma figure out how to recover it.  So I rewrite it.  Alllllllll of it.

3:30PM. I’ve rewritten all my code.  None of it works.  I comment out everything except for the bits I’m positive should work.  Still nothing.

4:00PM, rewriting my code again.  Slower this time.  Making sure I test every bit of the way.  6:30 PM, I’ve got it, and I’m now slightly past where I was at 7:00AM this morning.  But slightly past 7:00AM in the morning is still mostly done.  I’m not happy, but this still looks doable.

7:00PM.  Done with dinner.  I’ve gotten all the hard coding done, so now I just need to put it all together, right? 

Yeah.  No.

No matter what I do, none of it connects.  8:00PM,  I just decide to give up, write my report, record my demo.  If nothing else, I can at least get 40% for the report, and the fact that I have some working code should get me some credit, right?

11:00PM.  It’s getting a little close to the deadline now, but it should be fine, right?  Most of it’s done, I just need to compress my code and put some last minute stuff on my report, right?  

My computer freezes.

I can’t turn in what I have -- my demo and my code are stuck on my old lagging shit of a PC.  I can turn in the pdf, but it’s worthless without the bit stuck on the computer.  

11:55 PM.  It’s the deadline.

And I’m still stuck staring at my frozen computer.

11:57 PM, write a half-hearted email to the TA to let me submit.  Probably not going to work, but worth a shot.

12:10 AM.  Computer shuts down of its own accord.

12:15 AM.  I might as well restart my computer and see if I can compress my files?

1:00 AM: Still compressing.  Maybe?  Has my computer gone to sleep?  Has it decided to shut itself down again?

I don’t know.  What I do know is that it’s wayyyy too late now. Submissions are closed.   No late submissions allowed.  Which means I have just spent well over 24 hours on nothing.  

1:13 AM.  I am very tired and everything is terrible.  My computer is still trying to compress files.  I think I should accept that it’s just not going to happen.  

I am going to shut my computer down, get ready for bed, and then cry into a pillow.