#zylah

Whoa... Lots of things happened today.

Day started off easily. I took breakfast, got to school and used the hour I had before class to work on thesis. Then I went to a “festival” class.

This class is all about festivals and economic support that the government or even international institutions give to animists. It seems that’s going to be a fun class!

After that, Inarji, Zea, Lberi, Lbini and me got together to discuss several important themes about our own buisness and an ilustration competition we might be aplying to.

Once that got settled we went to the guy that had offered to help us create our conglomerate. Remember? I think it was around November when he came by to say our institution was helping upcoming buisness to get shaped.

We’ll be taking a course during this trimester on Fridays to create our conglomerate formally.

Then I left school on really high spirits... I’m really excited for what’s coming this trimester... But it doesn’t end there, OH NO! We’re just getting started on good news!

After that, Inarji and I took the route to Dewlth’s conglomerate. I think I’ll be seeing Inarji a lot since he’s going to start social service with Dewlth and, in my case... Well, I’ll get to that on a sec.

Inarji kept his route home and I went with Dewlth. When I got there, he said I had arrived just in time to cut the “King’s baje”. What’s that, you ask? Well, it’s an special type of sugary aed which is baked specially for this time of the year.

The funny thing about those is that it contains figurines inside. If you get one of those figurines, the 2nd of February you have to buy everyone another sort of special dish called “Samales”. These ones are a bit salty, kind of an aed, but not really. They can also be spicy or sweet, but usually they are salty/spicy.

Of course I had to cut the cake. Luckily, I got nothing. I really like that tradition, to be honest.

After that Dewlth signed and sealed the papers for the liberation of my social service... That’s a relief! I can’t deliver them to my school until the 14th because social service should be done in no less tan 6 months. I completed it earlier, but I still have to wait for the 6 months so I can turn them in.

Then Dewlth got contacted by Larek. They discussed some stuff about the Project they’re going to do and in the meantime I worked on my thesis.

Here comes the most interesting part

I’m... 80% officially hired!

It’s an 80% because I have not signed anything yet, but I will tomorrow! And I’ll also start working tomorrow! I have to work 20 hours a week and they’ll pay me 6,000 credits a month! That’s more than what people usually get on their first job!! Usually they get around 3,350 credits, so I’m getting almost double that ammount! It’s going to be tough, I know that... I might not sleep good some days, but I know it’ll be worth on money and on experience...

I’m feeling so fulfilled! It’s just... Oh, Creator... This day is one of the best days ever, seriously... My first job... It sounds just surreal! I’m getting payed by people which I do know, but whose money is not related at all to me. I’ve had “previous jobs” like working as a waiter with my dad or as a drawer/light stoner for some uncle’s agency or stuff like that... But this is a PRO job!

Let’s skip all the coming back home and such and go directly to my parents’ response to the news...

They were just as thrilled as I am.

Oh, Creator, again... I feel like crying of joy!

They opened up a bottle of smooth vine while eating. They were both really happy... They told me they were proud of me, they hugged me, they thanked me... I thanked them...

They have always supported me on any choice I’ve made. Good and bad ones. I know I have not been the best son there can be. Actually I had several flaws while growing up... I still have some of them... Yet they told me I was a good person, a good son...

Jeez... I’m... ecstatic... Seriously! I wish I could repay them and the Creator all they’ve given me! And I know I can give the Creator a bit back as long as I work hard and keep trying not to fall on bad stuff. The job and being busy will really help me out with that, I’m sure.

And about my parents... They’ve been the best. Seriously. They ain’t perfect, of course, but they took good care of us and they did a GREAT job on teaching us what is the most important: Love.

The rest of the day was spent on working on thesis, so... That’s not thrilling at all compared to the personal achievements I had today. And I also know I can festival my thesis and I WILL! I’ll do my best for the sake of everyone that worked on it, including me: Zylah, Ironheim (the echoist), Xannym (voice actress), Beryl... We’re all building this project together even though some of them are not participating on it actively because their job is done, they’re still constructing this.

Oh, I’m so, so grateful for everything I have! Seriously... I might not be the best at what I do, I might not be the most intelligent guy, I might not be the strongest, I might not be a terribly good person, I might not be the most organized or the one who spends most time studying... But I have been given so many blessings over my life...

Honestly, I don’t think I can keep up writing with this feeling. And this was all I wanted to post today anyway, so... I’ll just go keep on working for my dream.

Ohohoh, wait! before I leave. I won’t be able to post on Tuesdays because job (eehehehe), so... Sorry about that. But I’ll try to post every other day, ok?

See ya! And may the Creator bless you!

Wellp, lots of stuff has been happening lately. I won’t post by day, I’ll just try and get the most important things out here, because I tell you, important stuff is happening.

Brace yourselves. A long post is coming.

First of all, I couldn’t attend to the junior high school meeting because I had to do tons of work and Kyo left me down so I had to rehearse as well on Saturday.

I spent almost all the time of the weekend working and working and working. If I got fed up with doing something, I jumped to another task and so on. I managed to finish almost everything I wanted, but I still have to do props for a scene and paint some other things as well.

I could talk a bit with Zylah on Sunday. I want to make a music collab with her on vacations, but it seems she has plenty of job to do regarding acting nd singing, so that might not happen. I’m not sure if I should insist her. Probably a few more tries, but that’s it.

Now, on monday I talked with Opo. It seems his project is geting canceled due to lack of interest from his friends. Since I don’t have any contact, I only know what he tells me, but yeah, it seems that’s not going to happen.

Regarding the presentation / pitch I had to do on monday... I did really good! Actually, no one did bad on the eyes of the guys that came watch us (Dewlth included).

I got some notes regarding the scrolls for one of the golems. One of the “judges” said it was really complex to anímate and write and that would take me some time I don’t have... What she didn’t payed attention to is that I mentioned I had already done that, so it seems I’m a step ahead from her.

Aside from that, there was even one of them who said THE phrase anyone who is pitching anything would love to hear: “I hope we can see that on the close future”. I left him with expectations! All the work was worthy. And despite I coudn’t finish everything I had in mind, I really did all I could. I couldn’t have done any more even if I tried (and boy did I tried). I sure was tired, but it ended up nice.

On Monday we also got checked by one of the advisors. I hope I get a good grade... I know I won’t be having anything bellow 7 out of 10 (Here on Loorphia, grades go from 0 to 10, 6 being the least grade you can get to approve... Unless you’re on our school. Here you can’t have less than 7 if you want to pass). The fact I couldn’t get one of the golems fully scrolled in time might affect my grade, as well as the scenery thing.

The good thing is that both advisors are aware every project is different and each have different difficulty level on certain parts of the process... But based on that, it’s really hard for me to know which grade I’ll get in the end.

I could also finally get to play with my brother on Monday. He was out on an airball tournament for the weekend, so he wasn’t an issue those days, but I owed him, so I repayed him on monday. He’s on his December exams. He’s not going by semester, but by year, so this are not his finals, but it’s almost like that.

The high school we both atended to has this method where on finals and on half year exams you just go, do one test a day and then, once you finish, you are allowed to go back home.

Now, this is important because honestly, my bro is really intelligent. I don’t know his IQ, but mine was on a hundread and twenty one last time I checked, so I’m not dumb myself, but I still had to study a lot on some clases to get by. My brother, on the other hand, he just needs to study stuuf for like 10 minutes and he’s done. He has better grades than me when I was on high school... To be honest it felt bad at first, but now I’m proud of him. If he doesn’t allow his lazyness to float around (I would say that’s his one and only flaw), he will achieve A LOT on whatever he wants to do.

Anyway, as he only needs to study for so little and he goes out of school like around 9 a.m., he has a lot of spare time already, which means we can hang out more right now.

Finally, yesterday.

Inarji, Zea, Zmanne, Lberi and I got to improve and almost finish our buisness plan. We still don’t have a name, so we gave it a provisional one... It’s weird...

I think yesterday I realized we’re about to finish SCHOOL... Like... Maybe not forever because I still want to take some major degrees... But it’s just 6 months and we have to start working for a living.

We worked on that and then we decided today we are going for some quamet, which is my favourite soup! We had this tradition that every time we finish a trimester, we went out for an ice cream, so this is different... It’s only going to be the 5 of us, I guess, but it felt exactly the same as deciding where we were going to eat at Dewlth’s conglomerate...

I mean, we are working on making our conglomerate and this 4 beautiful people and I decided where to go to eat afterwards. Together. I know this might not seem anything really shocking for any of you out there reading this, but for me it was special...

I’m definitely not a kid anymore... Or maybe I’m just a kid pretending to be an adult? I don’t know! I feel just the same as yesterday or a month ago, it’s not that I’m more mature all of a sudden, so all this changes are hard to picture on myself. I mean... What does adulthood even implies? If I’m the same but I’m having all this new responsabilities coming up and I think I’m up for it... Does that make me an adult? Even if it doesn’t feel like it? On my mind I’m still that 17 year old guy who just wants to make art and try to change the world with that, and I sure was not an adult back then... *Sigh* I honestly love what I’m going through right now. It’s intriguing, but I’d love to see how it goes.

And then, on social service, this feeling got even stronger.

Dewlth officially has offered me a job.

They got this new project from 2 girls who live on Iars City, a city on the border with Zentron. They have a good ammount of money and they want to make some show with animism. The thing is, they have NO IDEA on how to make golems AT ALL (nor do they know how to write a story).

From what I understood, one of the girls has this asociation which tries to push forward and promote the young people’s activities. The other one is her friend who... knows how to use clay? ...

She says she is an animist, but MY CREATOR, she has NO IDEA AT ALL! she sent us memories of the golems she modelled, and Irry, the one who got the project, stored them on some stones. He showed them to us... They were horrible! And I mean, aesthetically speaking it can be ugly and that’s OK if that’s the intention, but they were not only ugly, but also the magnets were placed all randomly, the painting was not even half good and every model seemed like it was going to fall apart the moment you “tried” to move them.

The thing is, they only want us to make the scrolls and anímate THOSE models according to HER story, which honestly has nothing to do with us young people, is apparently bad written and if we use those golems... Either they actually want to do something REALLY UGLY on movement quality, or they have no idea what they are asking for.

First case scenario, wanting to make something really ugly; that would be really good for us! That’s easy money! And I would accept working on that straight away despite the thesis (working with an alias I would never use again, of course). But they would have to sign a contract with their blood (not literally, of course. We don’t want to course them), saying that’s what they want and that’s what they’ll get.

Worst case scenario, they don’t have any idea of what they are asking... Now THAT’S dangerous. Because that means we woud have to clear them out lots of stuff regarding the animism process or else they might want a HUGE ammount of changes due that they’d expect something we can not do with their golems. That or convince the producers to allow us to make the golems from scratch and also check the story.

So, I have a chance to start working formally on February, 4 months before graduating... It’s sort of intimidating, but I see it as a good chance to start gaining money, knowing how the real working ambience is like and gaining experience, so... I think I might accept the job if they allow me to work for a certain ammount of hours a day.

Wellp, those were the highlights. As I said, stuff is going down! I’m excited! Keep it comming!!

Talk later, fellas.

Yesterday was a busy day.

Sorry I couldn’t post yesterday. I got home sort of late and I was really tired. I tried posting, but it would have been interrupted again, so... Let’s get straight to the day 18.

Remember I said I still had to draw after the 17′s post? Well, I did that, but I still couldn’t finish the drawing because I was almost sleeping on my desk. Aaaand I lied to you guys... Sorry.

The drawing I had to do wasn’t for school. It was actually for Zylah’s birthday (Her birthday IS the 18th of November, so...). But if you remember, she intercepts my connection with you on purpose, so I had to make sure she didn’t saw that as suspicious and coated it as a drawing for a teacher... I didn’t even had clases yesterday!

Still, I arrived at school at 7 a.m. as usual because I told Dewlth I was going to arrive there at 10 a.m. when he arrives to the conglomerate; and if I wanted to be there on time I had no choice but to get to school with my dad... So I had to be there at 7...

I used my time to finish Zylah’s drawing. I couldn’t possibly deliver her the drawing, so I had to stare at it for a long time, paying attention to every detail so I could contact her and allow her to read that memory of the drawing. That’s the only way she could have seen it.

I finished the drawing and then got to work on thesis. I tried contacting Zylah, but she was busy. I kept trying every hour or so until I got her at around 10:00 a.m. She was in a hurry, but she saw the drawing. She thanked me, but I’m not sure if she liked it because, as she was in a hurry, she just said that and then broke the connection... I hope she did liked it...

Then I left school to go to social service. I got there before Dewlth, so I had to wait for hi a little bit. Then we got working on his golem. He had already solved the problema we had the day before, so we moved on to other stuff. The bad news for yesterday was he had to sacrifice a bit of the original design to “properly move things”.

I stopped paying attention to him. He always says “The animists must build the golem accordingly to the design no matter what. It’s our job to solve the movement, not the designers’. I sketched out a few things with runes while he kept working until I got a solution for it. At that point I had no idea if he would be mad if he had to go back to the model and stop working on the scroll again.

I approached him and asked if he would mind doing the modifications I had in mind. He didn’t understood what I was trying to do, but he gave it a shot. I directed him and told him what to do and where to do it. It was until I almost finished that he got what I was trying to do.

That made the golem exactly as the designer had sketched it. He thanked me and then we took a break. I was going to eat my lunch when he came back from making his broonth and asked “Wouldn’t you like a bocha right now?”. Oh, such magical words! The day was cold, and I was thinking I wanted something else for lunch when he said that. A bocha was exactly what I needed.

Bocha is some sort of... fluffy... thing. It’s not meat and it’s not vegetables... It’s made out of a grinded seed and mixed with fermented stuff and then baked with sweet condiments... I had no idea it would be so difficult to explain something everyone on Delwund knows. The point is, it’s perfect for cold mornings.

We went out to an aed shop (bocha is a speciffic type of aed) and as we walked there we encountered with 2 more members of the conglomerate. We all walked to the aed shop and bought our stuff. When I asked the price for the bocha, I noticed If I bought it, I would be almost out of money. I was about to say “Oh, then no, thanks” when Dewlth said he wsa going to buy it for me because of what I did with the golem. Then he showed off what I had done with the other members of the team... I felt flattered...

We went back to the conglomerate and we kept working on the modified model. We took our time to check if there was anything else we should take a look at before continuing working with the scroll. I don’t think there was anything odd.

We worked on the scroll until it was time to eat. We went to a fancy restaurant and, as I had “few money” (We could have eaten on a family restaurant without any sort of financial problems), I just ordered a soup and a thing called roosh. I wsa specting a full roll of roosh because of the price... It was just one single sad piece of roosh. Everyone was like “you’re just going to eat that?” “I can buy you a full roosh roll if you want”... But I don’t like when others pay me stuff. Specially if I’m not too close with them.

Luckily I still had the soup, or else I would have starved to death.

We went back, kept working until 6 p.m. and then I left. This time, my brother and a cousin were also on the same área I was, so we all went with my dad. We were supposed to go back home with him, but he owns 2 apartments and one of them had been robbed (not exactly the apartment, but the building), so he had to go see what had happened with all the neighbours.

We got to the building and then my brother, my cousin and I went back home on the bubbles. We got here quite late and, since they decided not to eat anything and play airball all day, we ordered some food. I had to watch out for them while the food arrived. Then we dinned and they went to my brother’s room to play... I thought that would be a good momento to post and got to sleep, but I felt tired all of a sudden. I checked the time and it was already 11:15 p.m.

I have no idea what happened. Probably all the work of the day plus yesterday’s work and sleeping late got to me at that moment. I went to sleep straight away.

Now, for today, I woke up at 9:30... I slept quite a bit... I had breakfast with my brother and my cousin and then I went to the XV rehearsal.

When I got there, Kyo was already there rehearsing with the girl and 2 chamberlains (another one was missing, but he arrived quite late).

As Kyo suppervised the first 2 dance routines, I thought about the next steps for the 3rd routine. He took almost 2 hours, so I had only one left to advance anything.

We advanced a good amount of steps nonetheless. Then rehearsal was over and Kyo and I talked about some stuff and plans for the future. We would like to make a performance, but it’s kind of hard to get the people to make something good.

I came back home and I noticed I had no idea about today’s plans. My parents were almost heading out to a party and I was like “what the fadoodle?” And my brother was also going to a party at night.

My parents left and I made some quick food for me and my brother. After that he wanted me to play with him, so I did. Then I worked on thesis until now that I’m posting.

My brother is already out and my parents haven’t got home... It’s sort of weird when they are not around, but I hope I won’t go to sleep without seeing my parents... Meh. Who am I kidding? They won’t be back until they get my brother, so... It seems I’m going to dinne alone and then go to sleep... I hope I can talk with Zea or Zylah. I would contact Reenah, but she said she had a party too, so...

Anyway! For now, I’ll keep working on the thesis.

See ya!

Today was a fast day… I guess it’s that way every thursday.

Day started off by waking up from a nightmare. It wasn’t that bad. I dreamed all my friends were automatons with pre defined answers to what I said. I had just discovered them and it was starting to get creepy when I woke up. That’s why it wasn’t that bad… I guess the fact my dad opened up his door in a hurry and woke me up before time helped.

Once at school I basically worked on my project from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. I started painting the other golem and I’m about to finish it. I’ve also atarted to think about the scroll’s seals, runes and spells, but I have not started to write anything down.

We had project review today and the adviser told me to move on with some other stuff, so I guess I’m doing fine for now. I still have a lot to do since they’re asking us for a movement plan on monday. That means I have to at least have a basic scroll to show what the goles are going to do. Reeeally basic movements, nothing complicated… I can have the scrolls ready on an hour or two, but the movements… Like… The “choreography” to put it some way, is what may take a while because I have to be mentally active on a 100% for a long time in order to get the right movements.

Now, let’s talk about Zea…

I’m worried about her. I don’t know if she’s depressed or something, but she has told me she’s got no will to do anything right now. Even today, at night, I tried to talk witth her by telepathy, but she wasn’t doing enything and giving short answers…

It worries me because I have failed once to be of help for a friend of mine on high school. And today, speaking directly with her after class, I felt like I was annoying her more than helping. I wanted to help her with scholar stuff because she even got behind schedule on her work thanks to her missing will, but I really think I got to annoy her… I don’t know what to do… Maybe she needs her own space… But maybe she doesn’t… Ugh, this is confusing and I really have no idea if I should talk to her or leave her alone until she wants to talk to me so I don’t annoy her.

I’ll have to think about that, but for now, let’s move on with the news.

I went to social service at 4:00 p.m. and this time we made more tests on the golem to see if it worked properly. We still had to make some really tiny minor adjustments, but the golem feels done on the overall movement.

Dewlth also wants to give some facial expresions to the golem… Now THAT’S going to be interesting. This means we’re going to have to keep on working on the scroll and making lots and lots of tests. I feel this process is going to take from one to 2 weeks.

Then I came back home and used the stones to see what was going on around with my friends and so. And I also talked with Zylah via telepathy. I had no idea she worked at a library on saturdays! That’s awesome! I would love to do something like that too at some point… Just imagine all the things you could read… And on a quiet space too!

But well, after that I just played a bit with my brother, then we had dinner and now I’m just posting this before I go to bed. As I told you, it was a really fast day. It’s geting sort of routinary, but I can’t complain. I’m advancing on the project, so it’s ok.

Sweet dreams everyone! (I hope I don’t get nightmares this time)