{"id":908,"date":"2011-03-09T19:13:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T23:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=908"},"modified":"2011-03-09T19:13:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T23:13:23","slug":"stuff-im-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"Stuff I&#8217;m doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might be wondering: &#8220;gee whiz, I wonder what exactly Sean is up to these days?&#8221;  If so, I will tell you in this post that I am writing right now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in week 10 of class 3 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animationmentor.com\/\">Animation Mentor<\/a>.  It continues to go very well; I&#8217;ve learned a ton of stuff this semester.  I&#8217;ve gotten better at managing my time, but I still find myself pulling very late-nighters or all-nighters the night before assignments are due.  But at least I&#8217;m not feeling the pressure like I was during the previous classes.  I still wish my (almost full-time) part-time job didn&#8217;t take up so much time, but I need the $$$ for Animation Mentor tuition (and paying off college loans).<\/p>\n<p>I requested a Leave of Absence for the Animation Mentor Spring 2011 term because I want to watch the trees blossom.  But mostly because I want to dedicate as much time as I can to researching and developing my melody generator.  My main goal would be to be create and sell an Android app; that has the potential to make some $$$, and Android is Java-based and I&#8217;m developing my algorithms in Java anyway, so it would be mostly a matter of getting an Android GUI to work, and figuring out how Android can handle MIDI files (I know it can play them, but can it create them?).  I&#8217;m not sure if this is something I could accomplish in just 12 weeks, but it&#8217;s worth a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, I&#8217;m reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0765326574\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wizardwalk-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0765326574\">The Lost Gate<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0765326574\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Orson Scott Card (the first non-Ender novel from him I&#8217;ve read), which is quite fun, along with a number of non-fiction books (I tend to just read whatever chapters interest me, because of my limited time).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also continuing to plan out my fantasy novel and working on a couple of new short stories, one likely to be titled <em>The Boy in the Sword<\/em> (which I&#8217;m almost done writing) and the other currently untitled.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I rarely preorder stuff on Amazon, but I had to preorder this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0026L7H20\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wizardwalk-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0026L7H20\">The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Extended Edition) [Blu-ray]<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0026L7H20\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.  Really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might be wondering: &#8220;gee whiz, I wonder what exactly Sean is up to these days?&#8221; If so, I will tell you in this post that I am writing right now. I&#8217;m in week 10 of class 3 of Animation Mentor. It continues to go very well; I&#8217;ve learned a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[87],"tags":[219,100,48,382,264,381],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-eE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}