Thursday, July 20, 2006

With the move to LA fast approaching, I thought it might be a good idea to start a journal to document the process. I have a regular journal, of course, but at some point I will want to collate all of my grad school adventures, and this seems like an easy way to do it. So, to kick things off, some pictures of the new place:













The front of 1006 W. 23rd St, my soon-to-be humble abode.













My bedroom. It's very...frilly. I intend to take steps upon arrival.














The kitchen. Fully stocked with someone else's dishes (which means I don't have to ship mine). I'm looking forward to not having to wonder where all my kitchen stuff is all the time.













The garden. Apparently a regular back yard was just not an option, so we get this marvel of botanical opulence instead. I can't say I mind.

Pretty swanky digs, eh? I was initially pretty worried about it, mostly because of the price tag (a grand a month is hard to ignore), but I've had some questions answered and got myself a job, so things should work out nicely. It won't be the Moss House by any stretch of the imagination, but that's probably a good thing. Moss was...distracting. Fun, wonderful, but definitely distracting.

In other news, I found this while I was surfing USC's Interactive Media program website: fl0w
It's a game, and the master's thesis of someone coming out of my program. I find it fascinating. The game itself is beautiful and addictive as hell, but what I'm more interested in is that it's his master's thesis. Well, it's not the ENTIRE thesis, but the idea that a master's thesis from IM could include an application of theory like this is encouraging. I'm not really looking forward to the idea of writing a novel about ActionScript.

I think that will do for now. More to come, once the preliminaries are out of the way and I'm actually IN California.