Awake in the middle of the night and my brain keeps turning over the time I got kicked out of animation school because of a joke one of my friends made. The administrator who booted me wouldn't tell me why. She just said "you know what you did". Turned out she was pissed that Ricky had drawn a candle going out and its smoke going up and clearly spelling "SEX" as an exercise for our FX class, which was taught by an FX supervisor at Disney. She was afraid it would piss him off so she kicked out Ricky and Gabe and me.
It was near the end of the year and I did not get any of the industry placement assistance that was part of the whole deal of the school either.
That sure was some bullshit. I wonder how different the trajectory of my career would have been if not for that? I might have gotten a job at a sane, union place instead of ending up at Spumco.
