does it make me shallow and materialistic for being this happy about a material possession? my new comp has been up and running for a week now and it’s a LIFE CHANGER. i called it rufus because it’s a lean, mean animation machine (don’t ask me what those two have to do with eachother, choosing names for my computers is a very intuitive process for me haha). rufus is FAST! render time means NOTHING to rufus! which means that me and rufus… well… we’re made for eachother.

no but seriously, thus far this has been the best investment i’ve made. with help from my boyfriend, who actually knows stuff about computers, we put together a list of the parts which i bought separately and he pieced together to become rufus :D some exciting aspects include:

• an i7 processor
• windows 7… at last… goodbye shitty vista!
• 1500 gigs of disk space
• a fucking amazing dell ultrasharp screen which is just mind-blowing!! this is the first time i’ve had a screen larger than laptop format :0

for now it’s housed in my miniscule work room at home which is kind of a disaster because it’s all squished into a tiny space, as above picture shows. i also forgot to invest in a decent wireless card (it’s on the to-do list) so i still have to use my laptop for browsing which is why it’s squeezed onto my tiny desk as well, ahaha. also my entire house is still littered with boxes from all the separate computer parts…

here’s to hoping this computer will facilitate the creation of many a digital painting and animation :D