redid the cape and idk if you can tell the bottom is supposed to be mountains and cactus 🥲

30 minutes of Aphelia data to label, 30 minutes - 1 hour of multilang to label depending on if I do both languages I have

When you clean your desk on Friday and come back to it cover with piles of side quests (paperwork) that your bosses left you on top of catching up from the weekend + processing payroll

I gotta lock in this weekend and crank out some labels

don't mind me updating alf's site...

My boss says I should be getting a raise in a few months 😳 I can't believe I was doing what feels like more work 2 months ago for minimum wage and now I'm making $10 more a hour and they still don't think that's enough???

I follow this company on tiktok and it turns out they're not only local but our customers 😳

bruh this is taking forever *doesn't open their tablet for days at a time*

Will y'all forgive me if I'm cringe on main with Aphelia's readme and demo reels being a little more in character 😔

Trying to reconcile the payroll taxes and bank statements with the world's loudest man sitting in the office on speaker phone behind me and all the florescent lights on when I'm already coming off a migraine

me: why do I keep getting migraines??? also me: *has chronic anemia and been slacking on taking my iron pills because of the side effects*

The owners using the overhead florescent lights in the office so I have a raging headache by lunch

How the heck did I use to have the energy to whip out so much art. It takes me months to finish a full body for Aphelia now because I get so tired so fast 😭

Finally got swag from work and it's from the fucking drug testing company 🤣

THE WHOLE TIME IVE WORKED HERE EVERYONE THOUGHT I WAS 19 😭😭

Everyone calling/texting me to do stuff at work when I'm off

I only have to label half of Pulsar + 2 multilang datasets, but I can't find the lyrics for the songs in one of the languages to know if I'm getting phonemes right 😭

Me working on Aphelia's vgen character profile and figuring out what songs fit each voice color instead of working on labeling them or any of the art I need to do for them

my power grows the more I get free food at work. last week is it was tamales, today it was a rompope boli...

I treated myself to SynthV2 + a few voicebanks for getting a raise/my tax refund and high key kind of hate how more powerful voices sound on it 😔

Me being included in important calls/zoom meetings these last two week about business decisions when I have zero clue what the fuck they're talking about

The new owner took over at my new job and he gave me a raise so now I make over $11 more than I did at my old job let's gooooooo

I got one of the things I commissioned so now I have more Alf art to give me serotonin when I look at it

My old job finally terminated me in the system and paid out my vacation it seems! I'm going to file for 17 days of waiting time so I should get 17 days of pay. Thank you guys for making a $2000 mistake on my way out!

Slowly making themes for OU of all of Aphelia's vocal modes, Black hole is my favorite so far I think

Finally, I'm getting to remodel our crusty ass office at work now that the old owner is gone

90% done with all my labels (Alf's + the multilang)! I've getting about one percent of that done a day, but I'm about to go full-time hopefully at my job so that might slow down.

good bye minna

Lemme eat lunch and make some coffee so I can lock in

Goal of the day: finish lining and do flats for Aphelia's Brown Dwarf full body

Rare occurrence: working on getting fully rendered art done

they beating my ass (the two multilang speakers I'm labeling) but they don't know what I'm willing to do to increase alf's power

crying... screaming... them

Bad news: They still haven't actually terminated me at my old job, so I'm missing at least 2 days of vacation pay, max 6 days. Great news: my lawyer uncle told me because of labor laws they have to pay me a full day's pay each day I don't have my final check so we're already 5 extra days up.

what they really needed was a marketable plushie

Pulsar was so easy to design but Brown Dwarf is just driving my ass nuts because there's always something off

slowly getting art commissioned from different artists for each one of Aphelia's voice color

When I thought the bar was low for my old job… I gave them a written/signed two-week notice, a verbal two week notice AND the managers all said goodbyes on my last day Saturday. But I haven't gotten my vacation paid and I still have access to all the employee portal/discount???

These two multispeaker datasets I'm working on are such ass man. High quality, professional audio and refined labels my ass. Why are there such huge sections where the labels are totally wrong, off time and/or non-existent 😭

Some times I miss when I helped host or take part in community events but I don't know that I have the energy to do them 😔

trying to nail down this design...

love being able to cover a song with a male singer and not have to pitch it to cover it with alf 🙏

pupusa time to celebrate not having to work at 5am anymore

peak rodeo synthesis

Finally promoted myself to customer

Why I gotta get good ideas for designs at work when I can't draw/write them down

Demo of Brown Dwarf while I slave away at the rest of their labels + art! Yee haw!! youtu.be/-yGNYDYQfH4

time to think of a clickbait title to tempt the girlies to look at my test for my diffsinger country vocal

Bro they winding up that dog in me on my last two days here with all these Karens

Why the fuck is it 90 degrees in the bay area right now?!