Final Semester Blog Post 7 - Sickness and Stress Cubes

Since I have been very sick for the past couple of weeks and haven't managed to get these blog posts in on time, I'm just going to seperate each one up into topics, so that they are at least somewhat different, if that makes sense. I'll try to focus on things from two weeks ago in this one, and from one week ago in my next one.

On Tuesday two weeks ago, I woke up feeling horrible. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't manage to get myself up and out of bed. My body hurt, my throat stung, and even eating seemed like too much work. I texted my group and wrote my professors, saying that I was sick and wouldn't make it that day. I figured I'd take a day or two to rest, and show up on Thursday ready to keep working. And then two days came and went, and still I couldn't get out of bed without wanting to cry. I was still sick!! I don't really have time to be sick this close to the end of the semester!!! I had animations to finish, group members to help. Unfortunately, I had to listen to my body, and decided I would simply come back the week after instead.

During that week, everyone was hardcore on track in the rendering space. Everyone in my group was screaming at each other in discord and running around the lab like chickens with their heads cut off!! Haha. Not that I blame them. If I had had the energy, I would have done the same thing. But I didn't, so all I could do was watch, and provide moral support to everyone. I'll be honest I don't fully understand what needs, or needed, to be done for post production. I was heavily involved in the preproduction and also had a pretty big part in the production itself. But now that we've reached post production, I don't have much to do. And whenever someone tries to teach me, I seem to mess something up or break something. Luckily incrementing is my friend and I did not break anything permanently. So after I finally finished all of my animation, I kind of just stepped back to watch everything and be there if someone needed me. I'm trying my best to be open and help as best I can regardless of what is needed from me.

My group members said that I would make a good voice for Seed, our little yellow yarnball, and guess what?? My illness made my voice even more squeaky than normal!! (Which is why I was chosen in the first place.) So I just made a bunch of squeaking sounds into my phone and sent them to Lucy so that the sounds could be added. So I at least did do something while sick. I kept apologizing to my group, but they told me to just take care of myself. I really appreciate it, honestly. I just wish I hadn't been so useless these past couple of weeks.