Today I went to Full Sail for their ‘Behind the Scenes Tour’. Basically, it’s an open house to all visitors, students and family. They hold this event once a month and talk about not only the program prospective students are interested in, but also all of their programs and events.

I just have to say; this school is amazing! Everything they own is state-of-the-art. The students, teachers, and staff are all very down-to-earth people with a passion for this industry. This school has everything any undergraduate to even graduate could want and then some. The film department just got me a little to over excited when we visited all the rooms with equipment after equipment. I felt like running over to the cameras and playing with them! And, oh my gawd, their sound editing systems were HUGE! Bigger then what I’ve seen in a recording studio, it was crazy! They also showed us the many graduates and their accomplishments through out the years, and I have to say mostly everything you see out there has at least one Full Sail graduate on board. I love it!

Of course, where there is happiness, sadness is always at toe. Finally we get to the end of the tour, where we are able to meet with admission and financial aid representatives and faculty. Their film department in the span of 21 months comes out to be a whomping $69,175.00 dollars! That’s $23,025.00 dollars every 7 months. My mother, who accompanied me on this event, jaw dropped when we were told this. I mean, I knew it was expensive but not THIS expensive. Do you know how many loans I would/will need to take out for this? I’d be in debt before I could even start my life. A year and nine months till I’d graduate and then six to seven months later, I’d have to start paying my dues.

And even after all of this has been said and done, I am still interested in going to this school! Woe is me. =(

Sadly, I did not get the job as Westgate. The man called me back and told me that at that time they really needed someone with expert skills in Flash and action-scripting. I’m not going to lie, I SUCK in Flash, but I do know the program, since I had to make a mock company website using Flash and made a menu made purely with action-script, but I guess it wasn’t good enough for them. My hopes of finding a well off job in web design are sinking fast and I feel that I should just stick to freelancing and find a part-time job doing something else. In the end, I need money, no matter how I get it. (OK so it DOES matter how I get, if you get my drift…ha ha)

So, for the rest of this week, I will be trying to find as many grants, loans, and scholarships I can find and fill out an application for them. God only knows I will need them.

For the past three days, I have been working on updating my portfolio. I got a call back from an Orlando consultant, about a timeshare company, CFI & Westgate Resorts, who were looking to hire a graphic designer. He said that he saw my resume on Monster.com and felt that I qualified for the job. All I needed to do now was send an updated version of both my resume and portfolio to him and he would do the rest. So, for these past days I have been updating like crazy, although in actuality I’ve really been working my butt off all day today. On Thursday, when he called, I told him I would have everything to him that day. Sadly the power in my house went out and my mother and I couldn’t get it back on till the next day. By the time it came back on, two days were wasted away and all I could look forward to were Saturday and Sunday. Ready to get down to work on Saturday, errands came up that I needed to drive my mother around for, and so half the day was gone. So really, I’ve been working on updating everything for a day and half now. Not really that bad, considering all I had to add and delete to the site.

I really do hope, I get the job. It sounds great, from what the man told me and what I read on Monster.com. The pay is great, for starting out. ($20 an hour for the first 4 months) Its a 9 to 5 job and that’s what has me in a jumble right now. Since I do also want to continue with my education, if I get this job (which I pray to God I do) then that means that I would definitely try out for Valencia, since Full Sail is basically a 9 to 5 “job” also and that obviously won’t do.

I have finally made up my mind, thanks to myself and others. I will be going to Valencia! Since I really do need a job, this is the wisest choice I can make. As of now, I will be applying for the spring, since some of the classes I want to take are not available for fall. (which kind of already started) Whew, I can’t wait!

For a good two weeks now, I have been on a serious job hunt. I’ve applied everywhere that does not involve food and is related to my current field of web design. It’s really not that hard to find web/graphic design companies here in Florida, but to find a job opening is another story!

Even my current client is helping me! He called a few people he knew in the business and recommended me, which I highly appreciate. One company said that since I had just graduated from Winter Park Tech, that maybe the job would be to overwhelming. His website wasn’t that hard to figure out, but I guess since he thinks I’m new to the web design world, that I wouldn’t be able to handle it. It’s alright though, Mr. Pervis had other places (a lot actually) and I’m very great full for it. I just hope I get a call or email soon!

So yesterday I had a little scare with my cat Midnight. I had put him in the garage where his cat litter is so he could do his business. Usually I leave them (I have 2 cats) in there so they run around a bit, since it’s open space. Basically 20 minutes later…I go to the garage and open the door to let him back in, when no Midnight comes trotting back in I go into the garage calling his name. He is no where to be found and I start panicking. I go all around the house calling his name and looking through every nook and cranny in the house.  I decide to look back in the garage and notice that the drier is on, my first thought is that by an ODD mistake my mom was putting clothes in the drier and didn’t see him hop in and BOOM! So I open the drier door and franticly look through the clothes, still no Midnight. Then I think behind the drier and get this eerie feeling that I’m going to find a mangled body or something. Instead of finding that, I see a big round hole in the wall that leads to outside, basically its the hole where that alumna pipe/tail that comes from the drier and to the outside goes and its out of the hole socket.

At this point I’m scared because now I know he’s outside and there are a bunch of nasty street cats who just so happen to live in my backyard. So I go running out there, looking all crazy and what not, calling his name. I still don’t see Midnight and am just thinking the worst. After about 10 minutes of nothing I go back into the house in tears.

My mom is saying that I should wait outside that he would come back eventually. The thing is I’m scared because he doesn’t have his tags on him and doesn’t have a chip in him either, so if a animal catcher were to come around (which they do A LOT) and got Midnight well I would never know anything. So I’m sitting on the couch sobbing my eyes out and my other cat Miss Miss is there licking up my tears (she’s such a sweetheart and nasty…haha) when my father walks in. I tell him everything that happened and he goes outside to look for Midnight again himself and I follow. He goes to the backyard and calls out to him again and they walks to this little patch on the side of our house that leads into the “woods” (you can walk through them and get to the other side on the neighborhood) and guess who we find sitting there like nothing is wrong in the world? MIDNIGHT! Argh, I felt like hitting him…haha and no I don’t hit my babies.

So as I’m writing this, the bum himself is sleeping soundly on top of my desk. Whew, that was on crazy day…haha.

Till next time, or at least something interesting happens…haha. =)