Monday night update

Well tonight we had another great Class Rep dinner held at the VFS Cafe.

A great turn out, with new faces -and as always we had great food too. Besides all the introductions and the chit chat between meals, we also got a chance to talk about some concerns that different class reps had and wanted to bring to the table. One of the hotter of these topics was the very famous VFS karaoke night. There were some concerns about many students not being able to get in because there was a huge line. The capacity for the VFS cafe, because of liquor licensing and fire codes is 150 people. All I have to say about that -which is exactly what Liz told us is to make sure you come early! This lead into talk of holding the event at another venue and possibly charging people admission. I can see how that might be something they might do in the future, but honestly, it’s great to have a night out when you have to spend next to nothing and still have a ton of fun.

The karaoke night is not just a night out with cheap beer and wine, though that is pretty freakin’ awesome.. It’s a great place to meet people from the other departments, albeit they may not remember you the next time you meet because of the cheap beer and wine…but seriously, it is a great time to party with people who are in the same crazy student-life-boat-ride as you. Not only that, but in all the VFS Karaoke nights that I have been to - which have been all since I started in January.. there have been no fights, no people behaving badly..maybe just some bad singing -but hey, it’s karaoke!

Here’s some photos from the most recent shindig…

I’d like to say ‘hey!’ and a big thank you to Lee, Jeff and *Jennica! over at VFS taking care of the VFS blog -thanks for the plug, but most of all thanks for listening..err, reading! I didn’t get a chance to talk to you personally, but I think it’s great that you guys are so open to suggestions and an input from students. So thank you again!! You guys rock!

What else can I say about tonight.. Let’s see.. Oh right, I have a ton of work to get done for my meeting with Mark Busse tomorrow afternoon, so I will pulling an all nighter, as per usual. I fear I may become a zombie, or vampire -whichever one sounds more bad-ass. My sleep schedule has been completely out of whack lately, and cannot seem to break the habit. Plus, my most creative times seem to now be late at night. So maybe if I keep up these hours for the rest of my project, I will be okay, but as soon as it is done I hope to become a semi-functioning human again!

By the way, I just got a new external monitor at home last week, and I am in geek-heaven. It’s a Samsung 21.6 widescreen with some kinda crazy resolution that blows me away. Keep in mind it is in comparison to my 3 year old 15′ Powerbook g4 with the darkening screen :S

The reason I got it was cause I was fed up with working between my laptop and the school computer. I REALLY wish that the program will switch gears a bit soon and start working on Macs. In my year at Langara College in the Electronic media design program (EMD) we got our laptops (the now 3yrd old powerbooks) plus the software. Even if the program could give the option between a PC or Mac laptop to work on and have the students purchase them or something? I don’t know, maybe have it included in the tuition fee..err? Mainly, my issue was that the desktops in our classroom are so limited. We have no permissions, or the ones we do are very little. I just want to be able to use my huge font collection mainly.. nerdy I know. I realize that there are many reasons why we cannot load our own fonts on the computers. Licensing. Designers share a lot, or re-appropriate things constantly, and fonts are a huge part of that. I know, I know, this isn’t so easy for a school that has partners and legal matters and etc, etc.. but atleast if we had our own personal computers, or laptops we would be able to do what we wanted with them and VFS would not have to be held accountable for that.. ? I think it’s great that the school is open 24hrs for our access, but trade some of this up for getting personal computers or something GAHHHH!!!! It drives me crazy. Anyways, so because of this, I have opted to work at home during my final project, because I cannot be restricted to using Comic sans, Times New Roman, and Courier New!
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