So, what's up with you?
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So, what's up with you?
How are you guys doing right now? I noticed that the Nexus seems pretty slow, and I understand that finals are really starting to kick in... how're you guys doing right now? :3 Feel free to vent or brag or what have you, I just want to hear what's up in the life of my fellow Nexiians! ^_^ Touch base, y'know?
:: is sleepy :: X3 It poured all the way home from Xalia's last night, so I got home later than anticipated (driving on the freeway against the mountains in torrential rain? really surreal o.o ), and since it was all wet and rainy still when I got home, I had to lock the dog inside.... So I had to get up early to let her out, and of course, now that I was out of bed, there was no chance of getting back to sleep.
Yay sleepy XD
Finals? What finals? >.> :: is in denial :: Or maybe I just don't care >.> I think it might be the latter. I have two finals, both on the same day and both... pretty much covering the same sort of info. I'm more concerned with finishing my last two labs, but I oughta have those done tomorrow in class. Yay.
I'm obsessing over my supernals, that's about it for my creative ability at the moment. And even that's going really, really slow right now XD Sleepy-slow day.
Yay sleepy XD
Finals? What finals? >.> :: is in denial :: Or maybe I just don't care >.> I think it might be the latter. I have two finals, both on the same day and both... pretty much covering the same sort of info. I'm more concerned with finishing my last two labs, but I oughta have those done tomorrow in class. Yay.
I'm obsessing over my supernals, that's about it for my creative ability at the moment. And even that's going really, really slow right now XD Sleepy-slow day.
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It's weird how most Sunday's can be all sleepy-slow, huh? X3 I tend to feel like that, too... It doesn't help when the only way I can go about making breakfast is to clean out the sink and then do dishes. <_> I'm so lazy, it's 3:30 in the afternoon and I haven't eaten because it means I'd have to do /work/ of all things. XD
Must've been scary driving in the mountains with rain like that! I'd be afraid of mud-slides, or losing traction, or whathaveyou. XP I like the big, flat plains best. XD
Must've been scary driving in the mountains with rain like that! I'd be afraid of mud-slides, or losing traction, or whathaveyou. XP I like the big, flat plains best. XD
Well, it's not, like, twisty-curvey mountain roads, thankfully X3 The freeway's just kind of up against the mountains, with one pass through them, so all the clouds get bunched up there and it gets heavier rain than the rest of the freeway system, seems like >.> It was mostly a fear of hydro-planing-- loosing traction cuz of the water on the road-- or of other people doing the same. Passed a naaaaaasty accident on the I-10: one guy's truck had skidded and flipped onto its side, another two had been spun around in the process, and there was even an eighteen-wheeler pulled over, but I'm not sure how it figured in. I couldn't see it very clearly. But that truck flipped on its side, now that was scary.
Aww, I'd do yer dishes if I were there X3 You need to eat!
Aww, I'd do yer dishes if I were there X3 You need to eat!
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I've been doing looooots of stuff for ThanksUSA lately. (Got my first paycheck from them a few weeks back, woot!) But they're nowhere near keeping me busy enough that I have to pull out of here--as my continued happenings with the Destiny surely show. :B
Life is good. X3
Life is good. X3
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I just got home after driving around six hundred miles over three days to go to my company Christmas party. It was all fancy.
I have several things that need to get done at work before Christmas and I'm been off-and-on sick too, so overall I'll probably be better after the holidays.
Blarg.
I have several things that need to get done at work before Christmas and I'm been off-and-on sick too, so overall I'll probably be better after the holidays.
Blarg.
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'Epic' is most concisely defined as something that, were you to do it in view of a person in real life, they'd pretty much have to sleep with you immediately to maintain order in the universe.
I sneezed. It seems to have reshaped reality. My bad.
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:3 yey.
My life has been busybusy, which I only really started noticing a little while ago when i only signed on the nexus once in a whole day. <.< this is a record for me, becuase usually i spend a lot of time refreshing these boards. *nolife*
School eats my time, even if it is only highschool. .___. so much work. And i've been having very interesting reoccuring infections which kept me home for like.. two or three days every few weeks. X.x which didn't help the whole work load thing. ._. I ended up having to go see a specialist, and the situation is a normal one for my age group, but my case is very slightly abnormal, since the only risk factor i have for this infection is stress, and usually there's a few more risk factors involved in reoccuring infections. ._. soooo i have to undergo a lot of interesting medical tests, including getting tubes with cameras on the end of them poked into my body to take a look at my organs, and get a sonogram for my kidneys and a few other organs. loots of fun medical shit. I'm living with my mom this week, which doesn't help anything, becuase she's a childish little craphead and literally acts like she's 17. and that's the bad parts of being 17; no maturity, out till 4am, comes home and makes childish derogatory comments. She used to be abusive, and technically the idoit still is, but i don't care anymore-- now she's just annoying, but that doesn't help the whole stress crap. ._. i'm worrying about raising 5k$ for school next year, and passing school this year with this whole rack of absences i'm getting-- i've got a good cushion in the second half of the year, but still, lotsa worry. MY cats have just got done being critically sick, but they're okay now, which is such a relief you have no idea. X.x I spend a lot of time consoling tio, because he's having a rough time of it, too, but he spends as much time consoling me. <.<And>.> in quotes becuase i resent the terms "Art" and "Artist." :3 I've got a whole rack of xmas requests i offered, but those i don't mind doing-- it's just finding the time, you know? that and school are what's eating my time most right now, and the tests.
I'm actually doing pretty good, all things considered. XP it's just my time, I don't know where the hell it all dissapears to. :3
Hope things are cool for everyone else~ ^^
My life has been busybusy, which I only really started noticing a little while ago when i only signed on the nexus once in a whole day. <.< this is a record for me, becuase usually i spend a lot of time refreshing these boards. *nolife*
School eats my time, even if it is only highschool. .___. so much work. And i've been having very interesting reoccuring infections which kept me home for like.. two or three days every few weeks. X.x which didn't help the whole work load thing. ._. I ended up having to go see a specialist, and the situation is a normal one for my age group, but my case is very slightly abnormal, since the only risk factor i have for this infection is stress, and usually there's a few more risk factors involved in reoccuring infections. ._. soooo i have to undergo a lot of interesting medical tests, including getting tubes with cameras on the end of them poked into my body to take a look at my organs, and get a sonogram for my kidneys and a few other organs. loots of fun medical shit. I'm living with my mom this week, which doesn't help anything, becuase she's a childish little craphead and literally acts like she's 17. and that's the bad parts of being 17; no maturity, out till 4am, comes home and makes childish derogatory comments. She used to be abusive, and technically the idoit still is, but i don't care anymore-- now she's just annoying, but that doesn't help the whole stress crap. ._. i'm worrying about raising 5k$ for school next year, and passing school this year with this whole rack of absences i'm getting-- i've got a good cushion in the second half of the year, but still, lotsa worry. MY cats have just got done being critically sick, but they're okay now, which is such a relief you have no idea. X.x I spend a lot of time consoling tio, because he's having a rough time of it, too, but he spends as much time consoling me. <.<And>.> in quotes becuase i resent the terms "Art" and "Artist." :3 I've got a whole rack of xmas requests i offered, but those i don't mind doing-- it's just finding the time, you know? that and school are what's eating my time most right now, and the tests.
I'm actually doing pretty good, all things considered. XP it's just my time, I don't know where the hell it all dissapears to. :3
Hope things are cool for everyone else~ ^^
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Yeah, I've noticed that too, but since I'm a combination of lazy and frantic to study (interesting combo, trust me -- "omggottastudyforcalc......later >.>;; *resumes playing ADOM*")
I'm happy though, because my early final (8 AM) was waived for me, because I got an A in the class, which only leaves three - my Calc 2 final which I'm twitchy about studying for, my Elementary Logic final which will be eeaaassyyy, and my Speech final which is (surprise surprise) a speech. A quick speech.
And if I'm lucky and my teacher lets me go before 7, I'm going to get to go carolling after finals on Tuesday, which'll be fun.
<rant>But then I'm facing two days of nothing, not even being able to go home, because my last final is on Friday morning, and it's a five hour drive and a full tank of gas each way and... grrrrrrr. I bloody hate that damn class! Univ 101 needs to be shot! There's no reason for it! And the teacher doesn't even let me work on writing or art or anything while I'm sitting there being bored, because it's "rude and distracting." She even told me that if I didn't want to be there, I should just get up and leave... so I did. And I didn't go for the last class either. I'm fed up with her and her oh-so-superior attitude and her inability to teach (she's no a teacher -.-;; she's not a teacher.. she's a library worker who volunteers her time to teach this class, which is bull, because we still have to pay for the bloody class!) I'm just glad after Friday I'll never have to see or deal with her or her attitude again. Or her opinion of my writing! *twitchtwitch* She has this... issue... with me and my style of writing, because it's not "professional" enough, despite real English teachers encouraging me to use that style in my essays, research papers, etc. And what we've been having to write in Univ 101 are personal essays (and then she has the gall to write on my paper that she's "disappointed" that I seem so "closed" to new experiences. Hello! Who's the one that's been adopted into a Cherokee tribe down here and is now learning their culture? It bloody well aint her!)</rant>
.... *twitchtwitch* Anyway! Other than above paragraph, I've been not very badly off. I ended up switching my major to Comp Sci, in order to be a programmer, and my teacher in CS ended up being the director of the CS department *grins* And got me into CS 215 and 220 at the same time, when I'm supposed to take 215 before 220.
On top of that, I've been bitten with the creative bug lately, and been working on various things (some of which really can't be said right now, because I can't reveal them for a while yet *grins*) when I should otherwise be studying for Calc, but I don't think it matters that much.
I'm just looking forward to Christmas, the calmness of home, and not having to put up with a roommate or a bed that's barely wide enough for me to sprawl out on and not fall off an edge (stupid twin-sized mattress =P).
I'm happy though, because my early final (8 AM) was waived for me, because I got an A in the class, which only leaves three - my Calc 2 final which I'm twitchy about studying for, my Elementary Logic final which will be eeaaassyyy, and my Speech final which is (surprise surprise) a speech. A quick speech.
And if I'm lucky and my teacher lets me go before 7, I'm going to get to go carolling after finals on Tuesday, which'll be fun.
<rant>But then I'm facing two days of nothing, not even being able to go home, because my last final is on Friday morning, and it's a five hour drive and a full tank of gas each way and... grrrrrrr. I bloody hate that damn class! Univ 101 needs to be shot! There's no reason for it! And the teacher doesn't even let me work on writing or art or anything while I'm sitting there being bored, because it's "rude and distracting." She even told me that if I didn't want to be there, I should just get up and leave... so I did. And I didn't go for the last class either. I'm fed up with her and her oh-so-superior attitude and her inability to teach (she's no a teacher -.-;; she's not a teacher.. she's a library worker who volunteers her time to teach this class, which is bull, because we still have to pay for the bloody class!) I'm just glad after Friday I'll never have to see or deal with her or her attitude again. Or her opinion of my writing! *twitchtwitch* She has this... issue... with me and my style of writing, because it's not "professional" enough, despite real English teachers encouraging me to use that style in my essays, research papers, etc. And what we've been having to write in Univ 101 are personal essays (and then she has the gall to write on my paper that she's "disappointed" that I seem so "closed" to new experiences. Hello! Who's the one that's been adopted into a Cherokee tribe down here and is now learning their culture? It bloody well aint her!)</rant>
.... *twitchtwitch* Anyway! Other than above paragraph, I've been not very badly off. I ended up switching my major to Comp Sci, in order to be a programmer, and my teacher in CS ended up being the director of the CS department *grins* And got me into CS 215 and 220 at the same time, when I'm supposed to take 215 before 220.
On top of that, I've been bitten with the creative bug lately, and been working on various things (some of which really can't be said right now, because I can't reveal them for a while yet *grins*) when I should otherwise be studying for Calc, but I don't think it matters that much.
I'm just looking forward to Christmas, the calmness of home, and not having to put up with a roommate or a bed that's barely wide enough for me to sprawl out on and not fall off an edge (stupid twin-sized mattress =P).
Wow, sounds like you need to give a speech to that chick like my friend did to his Art Institute feebs that were grading his portfolio... He pretty much told them the truth of the matter: if they were all that 'professional' they'd be *in the profession* and not stuck in a teaching job. That he pays their paychecks and that they better shape up and understand that they're there for one thing: to instruct, not to judge. 
On my front, I've been relatively healthy but depressed as heck, my home situation hasn't changed at all in 3 years and it doesn't look to get any better as my mother slowly drops past sane. I'm still only working a couple days a week (and thankfully both places I can access the net heh). But I've been drawing a little more, elves (if you're watching my DA account you'll have seen those). I failed to write a darn thing for Nano that I liked, if I'd started on the elves a week earlier (like I wanted to but hadn't got the gumption up to push on the COH forums) I might have done 50k in the last week...
As for here, I'm still trying to plug out clutches but there seem to be literally no one giving out regular dragons to regular candidates - I mean... I've got over a hundred characters just ready, some of them actually already on pages, but nowhere in character to send em... I don't want to just pad all my wings with my own stuff. :/ Meh.
I'd really like to see folks return and come back with clutches, old-school style, for that reason. Don't know if that'll happen but I always have someone waiting for a dragon...
(and psssst, Xalia? can i just like, have dragons? those poor guys at tripaldi? :p)
On my front, I've been relatively healthy but depressed as heck, my home situation hasn't changed at all in 3 years and it doesn't look to get any better as my mother slowly drops past sane. I'm still only working a couple days a week (and thankfully both places I can access the net heh). But I've been drawing a little more, elves (if you're watching my DA account you'll have seen those). I failed to write a darn thing for Nano that I liked, if I'd started on the elves a week earlier (like I wanted to but hadn't got the gumption up to push on the COH forums) I might have done 50k in the last week...
As for here, I'm still trying to plug out clutches but there seem to be literally no one giving out regular dragons to regular candidates - I mean... I've got over a hundred characters just ready, some of them actually already on pages, but nowhere in character to send em... I don't want to just pad all my wings with my own stuff. :/ Meh.
I'd really like to see folks return and come back with clutches, old-school style, for that reason. Don't know if that'll happen but I always have someone waiting for a dragon...
(and psssst, Xalia? can i just like, have dragons? those poor guys at tripaldi? :p)
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It's December. I don't what it is about this month that makes everyone in my family lose their brains but in any case I'm left to pick up the slack. Which means doing just about everything from cookie baking to the tree. >> Too much to do is too little time. *sighs and goes back to RPing*
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Thank you so much, Shard, I needed something else to worry about.Shard wrote: (and psssst, Xalia? can i just like, have dragons? those poor guys at tripaldi? :p)
At some point in time I did have all the pairings worked out for that clutch, I just never got around to writing the hatching story. Plus I believe I was hoping to have your dragoness fly so I could have another gold clutch on the sands to cover the plethora of candidates I got last minute but no one sent any chasers. I have since moved and have no idea what happened to the sticky on which I wrote the pairings.
So in regards to that clutch everyone's choices are thus: continue to wait, or take your candidates elsewhere. I do intend to hatch that clutch, but right now I'm trying to focus on not killing myself to get out of a stressful no-hope-in-sight life situation rather than worry about hatching a clutch of imaginary dragons.
And despite the smiley I posted earlier I was serious about my seventh circle of hell comment...the only thing that would make my life worse right now is if I didn't have my horses to save me.
oh no no - I intend to wait it out! 
The special clutch zone will be FILLED TO THE BRIM with mushrooms, heh. But it's absolutely okay. *patpats*
The special clutch zone will be FILLED TO THE BRIM with mushrooms, heh. But it's absolutely okay. *patpats*
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>.> Ooooh boy. Everyone want a hug? I've been giving and receiving those like crazy over the past few weeks. They are amazingly theraputic in times of stress. And currently, we all seem stressed.
Just to give an example of my life:
1) My average in school has gone from medium 70's to low 60's. Just from this one semester.
2) I had the exam from HELL just recently and still have one more to go (just one!). The exam consisted of three short note questions chosen from a list of nine and one essay question chosen from a list of three. These questions all fit onto a single page. The prof then gave us FOUR writing books. The guy beside me saw this and started laughing hysterically.
3) I will not be going home for the holidays. I will be staying here to work. At a fast food joint.
4) And last, but not least, my current boy hasn't talked to me in two weeks. Not for lack of trying on my part. He will be exiting my life quite shortly.
Just to give an example of my life:
1) My average in school has gone from medium 70's to low 60's. Just from this one semester.
2) I had the exam from HELL just recently and still have one more to go (just one!). The exam consisted of three short note questions chosen from a list of nine and one essay question chosen from a list of three. These questions all fit onto a single page. The prof then gave us FOUR writing books. The guy beside me saw this and started laughing hysterically.
3) I will not be going home for the holidays. I will be staying here to work. At a fast food joint.
4) And last, but not least, my current boy hasn't talked to me in two weeks. Not for lack of trying on my part. He will be exiting my life quite shortly.
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I am bitchy and irritable as always. 
And fed up with a lot of things I do "for fun".
Other than that I'm looking for a job, getting spring semester things in order, etc. And right now it appears I have insomnia.
And fed up with a lot of things I do "for fun".Other than that I'm looking for a job, getting spring semester things in order, etc. And right now it appears I have insomnia.
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Thanks Star. :3 I'd like to believe I'm an optimist though, so I don't see it as being quite so terrible. My prof assured me that this semester is "just a blip on the screen of life". I don't need a relationship right now because, quite frankly, the work involved irritates me. Hanging out with my friends and using *coughs* personal entertainment gets me all the attention I'd need from a relationship, both social and not. AND... now this is what's keeping me happy right now... I have a job working at the courts this summer! I will be filing papers, but I will /finally/ be close to my desired field. Might even be able to chat with a few forensic psychologists.
*waves her e-penis at Sil*
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Hi everyone! *waves and hugs*
Looks like we've all been stressing. Last month I decided to finally admit that I'm a writer not a scientist and so I changed my major from computer science to English. It was a scary and drastic move but I believe it was the right one. But in order to change schools (and stay off probation), I have to keep above a 2.0, and all my classes hate me now that I have no real motivation to learn anything in them except for them to not screw up my GPA. My GPA is already pretty screwed up due to the fact that I suck at engineering. A lot. I hate how much emphasis people put on GPA and how bad failing one class can screw up your life, but alas I digress. I'm failing linear algebra but my professor wants to give me an incomplete. After that, I have a year to retake it or I fail. I don't want to retake it but its better than failing I guess. I'm also failing data structures (which i also failed last semester, this is a retake) but my professor likes me for whatever reason so I might be okay. Might. Astronomy I have no freaking clue how I'm doing in. I haven't turned in practically any of the homework so I'm guessing not well. Yeah I know stupid Astra. My TA wanted to meet with me about turning it in but I haven't had any time in the past week. My lab and test grades in that class are ok, though, I think... And last but most certainly not least, History of Space Exploration, which is one class I might do semi-sorta ok in. Furthermore, changing my major so drastically will mean I'm stuck here for another year beyond what I was expecting, at the very least. Yay for school sucking.
So thats my school rant. Long and sucky, I know.
Outside of school, my boyfriend and I are about the only thing going well in my life right now. We're planning on moving in together, he's getting an apartment next month but I won't be joining him until my current lease expires in April. Noticably, my parent's aren't too pleased. They love him, don't get me wrong, they're just conservative, religious typs who don't want their precious little angel living with a boy without getting married first. Cough. Also involving boyfriend and parents, I'll be spending Christmas with his family this year, not mine. I'm both excited and scared. To move in with boyfriend I need to pay my own rent, unless my mom decides to cave and continue paying my rent like she does now, which is possible but I'm not going to count on it. So I've been spending the past month franticly looking for jobs that will give me enough money that I can survive. Finally, I got a job offer on Friday, but my future boss is notoriously hard to track down, so I'm not "officially" working there yet. With it I can afford rent but not much else. Hopefully my parents will take pity and/or conveniently forget to stop paying car insurance, cell phone, etc. Tuition, thank the gods, is taken care of by our good friends at Financial Aid. But for how long? Only time will tell.
So yes that's my life Sorry to make this sound like a bitchfest. I've just had a lot going on lately.
Looks like we've all been stressing. Last month I decided to finally admit that I'm a writer not a scientist and so I changed my major from computer science to English. It was a scary and drastic move but I believe it was the right one. But in order to change schools (and stay off probation), I have to keep above a 2.0, and all my classes hate me now that I have no real motivation to learn anything in them except for them to not screw up my GPA. My GPA is already pretty screwed up due to the fact that I suck at engineering. A lot. I hate how much emphasis people put on GPA and how bad failing one class can screw up your life, but alas I digress. I'm failing linear algebra but my professor wants to give me an incomplete. After that, I have a year to retake it or I fail. I don't want to retake it but its better than failing I guess. I'm also failing data structures (which i also failed last semester, this is a retake) but my professor likes me for whatever reason so I might be okay. Might. Astronomy I have no freaking clue how I'm doing in. I haven't turned in practically any of the homework so I'm guessing not well. Yeah I know stupid Astra. My TA wanted to meet with me about turning it in but I haven't had any time in the past week. My lab and test grades in that class are ok, though, I think... And last but most certainly not least, History of Space Exploration, which is one class I might do semi-sorta ok in. Furthermore, changing my major so drastically will mean I'm stuck here for another year beyond what I was expecting, at the very least. Yay for school sucking.
So thats my school rant. Long and sucky, I know.
Outside of school, my boyfriend and I are about the only thing going well in my life right now. We're planning on moving in together, he's getting an apartment next month but I won't be joining him until my current lease expires in April. Noticably, my parent's aren't too pleased. They love him, don't get me wrong, they're just conservative, religious typs who don't want their precious little angel living with a boy without getting married first. Cough. Also involving boyfriend and parents, I'll be spending Christmas with his family this year, not mine. I'm both excited and scared. To move in with boyfriend I need to pay my own rent, unless my mom decides to cave and continue paying my rent like she does now, which is possible but I'm not going to count on it. So I've been spending the past month franticly looking for jobs that will give me enough money that I can survive. Finally, I got a job offer on Friday, but my future boss is notoriously hard to track down, so I'm not "officially" working there yet. With it I can afford rent but not much else. Hopefully my parents will take pity and/or conveniently forget to stop paying car insurance, cell phone, etc. Tuition, thank the gods, is taken care of by our good friends at Financial Aid. But for how long? Only time will tell.
So yes that's my life
Sorry to make this sound like a bitchfest. I've just had a lot going on lately.
What I Learned From This Thread:
GOD I'm glad I'm not a college / highschool student!!
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That is all.
GOD I'm glad I'm not a college / highschool student!!
.... >.>
That is all.
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Psst, Shard, we're not ALL in dire straits...XD well, not financially anyways. >.> Just be a Fine Arts college student whose parents are... pretty much paying her way entirely.
All I have to deal with is a great deal of guilt over being such an intense moocher. Oh, and projects, but I like them, most of the time.
... I dunno. Other than that, my life is full of... that strange transitory mental time when I'm trying to figure out exactly what I'm doing here, what I WANT to be doing, what I SHOULD be doing, and what I would LIKE to do. It's really kind of uncomfortable. Being in an art school is a real huge blow to my artist-ego -- it's pretty much teaching me that I do not have what it takes to be a career artist. Hell, I don't even have what it takes to be a respected hobby artist, I'm not skilled enough or social enough for either... so basically, though I'm staying in art school for the experience I hope it will lend me, I haven't the slightest clue about where I am going to be once school is over. It's a little bit terrifying. Okay, no, a lot terrifying.
But right now? I'm being lazy for a week before I have to go back to Edmonton and live with my mother over the holidays. >.> Not looking forward to that. Hell, I like where I am right NOW in terms of living conditions. Is there anything better than living with one's partner? I think not. :D
After Christmas I'm getting a job. Probably at Blockbuster, because The Love Stop wouldn't hire me. XD I think The Gay makes them nervous.
All I have to deal with is a great deal of guilt over being such an intense moocher. Oh, and projects, but I like them, most of the time.
... I dunno. Other than that, my life is full of... that strange transitory mental time when I'm trying to figure out exactly what I'm doing here, what I WANT to be doing, what I SHOULD be doing, and what I would LIKE to do. It's really kind of uncomfortable. Being in an art school is a real huge blow to my artist-ego -- it's pretty much teaching me that I do not have what it takes to be a career artist. Hell, I don't even have what it takes to be a respected hobby artist, I'm not skilled enough or social enough for either... so basically, though I'm staying in art school for the experience I hope it will lend me, I haven't the slightest clue about where I am going to be once school is over. It's a little bit terrifying. Okay, no, a lot terrifying.
But right now? I'm being lazy for a week before I have to go back to Edmonton and live with my mother over the holidays. >.> Not looking forward to that. Hell, I like where I am right NOW in terms of living conditions. Is there anything better than living with one's partner? I think not. :D
After Christmas I'm getting a job. Probably at Blockbuster, because The Love Stop wouldn't hire me. XD I think The Gay makes them nervous.
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And just for that, Shard, I'm going to TP your house and knock over your flamingo-dragons!
*goes on a rampage*
And just for that, Shard, I'm going to TP your house and knock over your flamingo-dragons!
*goes on a rampage*
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NooooooOOOOOOooO!
Not my flamingodragons!!
"Fly! Fly away quickly chillin's!" She says to the flamingos, who sit there looking rather plastic...
It's so funny because there's a trailer for sale near mine, that has 2 flamingos on its front area. I'm so tempted to just take them... And then put dragon parts on them.
And Jkat?! Mooching = a fine art in and of itself. I have to wonder if art schools pretty much are designed only for discouraging young artists from breaking into their field, by wearing down their confidence and stressing them out over their own likes and dislikes. My friend who gave his rant a couple days ago on DA - he's not the greatest artist but he's improved a thousandfold since he started drawing just over 2 years ago. Yet the instructors doing his review were only typography experts - and he had none in his folio. So their reviews were less than raving.... he let em have it.
There's one thing about art school - it CAN help you learn things you didn't know how to do before, it CAN help you learn to use tools you hadn't been familiar with. But as for everything else... it always seems like there's no 'success' going to a school where you're taught to ignore what you love doing, and mold yourself if you can into carbon copies of someone else's style... boo on that I say.
I say your work is fantastic. Possibly too narrow in scope - but hey, all we see here is dragons. If any of your other work is even half as good as those, you've still got more talent and more expertise than 90% of the people actually making money at artistic pursuits...
Not my flamingodragons!!
"Fly! Fly away quickly chillin's!" She says to the flamingos, who sit there looking rather plastic...
It's so funny because there's a trailer for sale near mine, that has 2 flamingos on its front area. I'm so tempted to just take them... And then put dragon parts on them.
And Jkat?! Mooching = a fine art in and of itself.
I have to wonder if art schools pretty much are designed only for discouraging young artists from breaking into their field, by wearing down their confidence and stressing them out over their own likes and dislikes. My friend who gave his rant a couple days ago on DA - he's not the greatest artist but he's improved a thousandfold since he started drawing just over 2 years ago. Yet the instructors doing his review were only typography experts - and he had none in his folio. So their reviews were less than raving.... he let em have it. There's one thing about art school - it CAN help you learn things you didn't know how to do before, it CAN help you learn to use tools you hadn't been familiar with. But as for everything else... it always seems like there's no 'success' going to a school where you're taught to ignore what you love doing, and mold yourself if you can into carbon copies of someone else's style... boo on that I say.
I say your work is fantastic. Possibly too narrow in scope - but hey, all we see here is dragons. If any of your other work is even half as good as those, you've still got more talent and more expertise than 90% of the people actually making money at artistic pursuits...
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JKat, if you're not good enough to go professional, then I don't really know who is :O. But yes I agree with Shard, which is why I could never be an art major, and in a way why I couldn't be in engineering, either. It scares the piss out of me for english too, not being able to write what I love, but it shoudl be better than programming i guess.
And as for the mooching, I've been proudly mooching off my parents for years. That's why I'm trying to stop, but if they want to give me money, who am I to complain?
And as for the mooching, I've been proudly mooching off my parents for years. That's why I'm trying to stop, but if they want to give me money, who am I to complain?
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XD Okay, I have to make some candykids for Christmas. That'll be MY special treat to the Nexus.
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For reference, I'm going to Ivy Tech Community College next January. Not as irritating to get set up with as ISU, I'm hoping. Considering an associates in medical assistance, AND THEN hopefully I'll enroll in IU and work towards a Doctorate in Art Education. >>
Intended profession? Art professor! Probably with a digital media bent. I think I could do that rather well, personally.
It's just a pain to get it all set up. *groans* Gotta focus and actually put time into my work so that I can get scholarships or something.
*cuts off Mystic's e-penis*
Intended profession? Art professor! Probably with a digital media bent. I think I could do that rather well, personally.
It's just a pain to get it all set up. *groans* Gotta focus and actually put time into my work so that I can get scholarships or something.
*cuts off Mystic's e-penis*
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:O Nooooo! My pseudo-manliness!
*consoles herself with a candykid* ^_^
*consoles herself with a candykid* ^_^
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