Frustrations

Blarg. I have spent the last 3-4 days pretty irritated at a lot of things.

I'm job hunting right now. I am really tired of searching for work. While I am glad to currently have a job I just wish I had the luck to have gotten a co-op that would have led to full time employment. Since I have moved to London I have needed to look for work 7 times purely because of school and only being able to work when I wasn't schooling. A lot of the job postings I am seeing are 1 yr contracts which is a big no. I don't want to be looking for another job in 6 months so I can have one by the time the contract has expired.

Trying to get my group motivated. Maybe I'm a poor leader I dunno but they don't seem to be to jazzed about doing anything. I set them out a little challenge about a month ago and none of them have even started it. In contrast I have finished the engine and am currently writing the level editor.

Speaking of that level editor I am experiencing some weird issues with that. I'm not going to go into the specifics but it is maddening when I am trying to perform a simple task with a program and all of a sudden the code decides it's going to hate me and blow up a lot. It's not the logic of my program but merely a small intrinsic part of the API. So I'm going to go and wrestle with that tonight and attempt not crush my mouse. I have also learned that I can not crush a mouse with my bare hand.

The editor does have the ability right now to draw: dots, hollow rectangles, filled rectangles, borders, and complete fills. So next I wanna be able to draw layers and then after all of that is done I wanna make it so that you can begin assigning things to things. Gonna have it done by February so I can pull the whole project together for March.

Screw the economy. It really sucks that the whole thing went to crap just as I was getting ready to go into the business world. Bah oh well. It makes that whole job finding thing I'm doing a lot more difficult.