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It's been almost a year and a half since my last journal post! WHAT. That long?

I have a ("good") excuse, though. Since I was last "active" outside of being a :+fav: ninja, I've gotten a boring adult-type, full-time job. Thanks to that, however, I've had a little money I can set aside for cosplaying and going to cons again. So, I'm trying to work on including that here and on my cosplay.com. I've taken a lot of older works and put them in storage or scraps since I'm not into having old work I'm not proud of being being on display.

On a related note, I've talked to a lot of friends who've deactivated their accounts in the last two years here, which makes this feel a bit like talking to a void now, sadly. I don't have any plans to deactivate myself, though. If I want to interact more personally & less void-ly, I use tumblr and email or whatever else anyway.

Hopefully, I'll have some new things to add to my gallery again like progress shots or work from costuming construction projects I've done/had help with - or something to liven up my dA at least. I haven't felt particularly creative or motivated to create anything, but I'm hoping to change that up too. I've only just started doodling at my desk again, so here's to attempts at not being stagnant in my life outside of work and online.
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wow my last entry was something like december 2011, wasn't it? geeeez. sorry!
i can't believe i didn't make a single entry for all of 2012. i could've died and you guys wouldn't've been able to tell the difference lol.

clearly, i haven't been properly on dA in so long they've changed the upload again for like the 90th time.
although i have been busy with life-y things, so it's not especially a big deal i've missed a few things around here. in the time i've been away from dA, i've graduated from university and gotten a "grown up" job now as an IT helpdesk person (which i'll be starting in a few weeks) all in the last 9 months.
ideally, now shedding my part-time IT job on campus will help me regulate my schedule and do things like sleep, workout, and have time for making stuff again to submit here (if it's good enough).

i know a lotta people who made dA fun for me are gone now since we've kinda all grown up/away from it over the past few years, but i hope i can start enjoying the site again despite their absence. as well, i have been dealing with depression for the nth time, which hasn't helped my activity here much either.

oh! almost forgot. i recently bought tickets to dragon*con 2013! i'm hoping my new job will help me afford making some things to cosplay and up the fun of my first time at a big con. i've got several friends going with me though; it's bound to be fun whether i get the cosplays i want done in time or not. so, yes! please let me know if you are also going to d*c.
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I've come to the conclusion that I probably only update journals now maybe twice a year, if I'm lucky, and it's usually during finals week.

Things are kind of all over the place for me now.
I've started sorta writing again, which is helpful though.

So, updates...
:bulletgreen: I'm going into my 5th year of university (how terribly exciting...), but it's kinda of a great thing.
:bulletgreen: There are some issues with only one course left for me to graduate, but I'll have to wait awhile before I can take it again.
:bulletgreen: Gonna continue my Spanish studies since I've got this delay. I do like me some languages, dawg.
:bulletgreen: Several of my friends have deactivated their dA accounts this year, sadly. So, I'm feeling a little afloat here.
:bulletgreen: There's a class/study abroad to Belize summer 2012 for anthropology, which will be exciting too.
:bulletgreen: Also, I was nominated for my Sound Design from the KCACTF IV, and that's in the spring as well.


Spring is supposed to be about "rebirth," "reawakening," "renewal," et cetera et cetera.
I sure hope it is, because I've never been very good at being the grasshoper with this immense trust that everything will just fall into place.
I'm more like the ant, always wondering if I'd doing enough and if it'll all work out for me.

Just gotta keep in mind, "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans" as Lennon said.
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Haven't updated this in awhile, sorry about that. After clearing out the past couple months' worth of message since my last clearing out when I had a very generous DD feature in the fall, I figured it was time to update a little. Even though it's been almost almost a year since the last journal update, 12,000 messages in a few months made their point, haha.

Things are and have been pretty hectic/chaotic/(insert your own not-so-great adjective) here over the past (almost) year since I updated my journal. No one's life is necessary any worse than mine, but you know how it is (I hope, haha).

Just to hit the "highlights" (in no particular order), here are random things you're not interested in hearing but indulge me for a second:

:bulletblack: Lost my best friend of 16 years in March to strokes/seizures
:bulletblack: Switched to Android last summer (HTC Inc 2.2)
:bulletblack: Finally started my senior year of university this semester (FINALLY)
:bulletblack: Had my Scallop template for stamps featured in a few things as well as receiving my first DD :hearts:
:bulletblack: Will be graduating in Fall (after taking 7 more classes between Summer & Fall)
:bulletblack: Began & finished watching Pushing Daisies (Why did the Writer's strike have to kill it off after 2 seasons?!)
:bulletblack: Now making gifs from tv/movie/etc as a hobby (mostly Doctor Who related ones)
:bulletblack: Watched a bunch of films I'd never seen (including Scott Pilgrim VS The World & The Social Network)
:bulletblack: Started watching Firefly (I blame my addiction to The Science Channel)
:bulletblack: Finally finished 5 Centimetres Per Second (didn't like it as much as I thought I wold)
:bulletblack: Inducted into ODK & PKP honours fraternities
:bulletblack: Started watching Community (friends are saying I'm a mix of Britta & Annie?)
:bulletblack: Was nominate for KCACTF's Irene Ryan again (didn't win; c'est la vie)
:bulletblack: Learned more French (taking a 3rd class in the Fall)
:bulletblack: Had more of my artwork and writings published
:bulletblack: Found my ideal graduate film school for next year (it's in Paris, actually)
:bulletblack: Now addicted to iTunes U because of all the free courses (on topics my uni doesn't offer)
:bulletblack: Starting How I Met Your Mother (soon; only have seen a few 'til now)
:bulletblack: Ran out of my subscription here, so thing will be a bit plainer for awhile
:bulletblack: And just took my last final of Spring semester this morning (yessssss)


There are bunches of other things, but I'm not going to keep listing things just because it's late at night and I'm rambling mindlessly into a post. :giggle:

Hope your years have been going well.
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Enjoy your PLASTIC FISH FOOD, sir and/or madam.


This is going to be a short journal since I'm at work, but I wanted to state something that I'd seen all across deviantART lately. As an older member of the site, it's especially annoying because I've been with dA through so many changes from site layout to surprising upsets in staff changes.
So, what's currently bothering me on dA?

ATTITUDES.
People all over are taking things and blowing them out of proportions all across our art community.
Immaturity abounds, apparently.
I would expect some of these attitudes from children. We do have a surprisingly large number of pre-teens on the site. It's practically normal for someone who's 12 to act immaturely because they're still just kids.
BUT, when anyone who's supposed to be profession whines, I can't condone it.
Like my journal title says, EVERYONE on dA needs to act their AGE, not their shoe size. We're all better than the shit that we whine about.
Sometimes, we all need to act maturely & responsibly. I have this problem too. THAT's why it bothers me so much. I want to help people be better than they are, but change starts individually inside of each person at different times & progresses differently for each of us.


So!
Let's just agree to disagree, instead of flaming people.
Let's act like the adults we are instead of our inner children, who still have psychiatric issues.
Let's move onward & forward with our art and ourselves!
AND
Let's leave the dArama to the dA Llamas!
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