Well, It's November fun shit. College is in full chug along mode to the point where I've gotta start worrying about Finals in the next 6-7 weeks. Even though it's Statistics, math is still a bitch. Biology is a bitch, and then there's color dunno what to make of that yet. Been busy as hell lately what with just recovering from a disease from hell and playing lazy catch up.
Got to go to the Freer Gallery in DC this past Thursday and handle priceless antique pottery From Japan / China / whatever its Asia. Been drawing and painting a bit more here and there when I get the free time to. Also been listen to Hikaru Utada lately for some damned reason. I might have to fight the theater at the college for my pay for doing the Rocky Horror poster image. Lost a lot of respect for them since this happened. Also got a semi-commission for creating graphics for newspaper for the blind website. Gotta sit down and create something for that and all that jazz. November is gonna be a bitch of a month I feel..

Also for those who do not follow my Facebook posts I present you with:

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Life sure seems to add good timing to everything, Soon after I got the art done for the theater's new Rocky Horror Show Promotional Poster, I run into computer problems. While I was working on getting my laptop reformatted for the semester of college, and to clean it up since I had a dual boot OS running with an OS I haven't used in forever. I guess it doesn't help that I had forgotten how to reconfigure the wireless settings in the Linux partition. Well, while I was reinstalling Windows XP my primary comp suddenly went from the normal screen saver collage that is Google photo screen saver to Blue screen! After some wonderful hair raising moments I discovered that I have a memory problem, Windows detected it but to be sure about it I looked up info on running memtest86+ which was thankfully on the install disk of my Ubuntu CD. I must of gotten lucky on my first try because after 20 minutes of running memtest 16 errors were discovered within that single chip alone. I spent the remaining 6 hours of that day running each chip of my memory in sets of 10 test passes to see if they too would fail.

I then decided why not just replace the memory and get myself something better since i was beginning to worry that the rest of my ram will fail along side the first. I dropped a good chunk of change down on a 4gb kit of Corsair Dominator. I chose this because I found out Corsair backs up all their products with a lifetime warranty. After waiting a good 4 days of aggrovation The replacement ram arrived! Upon installing the new Ram my system began to lock up on the quick boot memory test making it impossible for me to even reach the systems setup menu or a full bios post screen. Frustrated I worked down the possibilities, from the motherboard being the cause of the lockup down to one of the new ram chips I received was Defective!

Thus began the wonderful trek to get corsair technical service to respond and the wonderful world of shipping something via the US Mail service. Which by the way was a total pain in the ass. We got confirmation from Corsair the Friday before Labor day weekend, and low and behold every post office closed early at noon on Friday in Maryland to cut back on state expenses. I of course had class Friday and was ill informed of the early closings until 4 pm that day. I entertained the plot of mass destruction for a moment until I calmed down. It was not until early Saturday morning that we managed to get the ram on its way through the travesty that is the US postal service, thanks largely in part to Delaware not observing the notion to close early for the whole weekend.

So i've been without a working machine for a good two weeks now, My laptop is running but with limited software so most of what I can do is surf the web and play some old games when I get really bored. Thankfully I hatched a plot to trade in some xbox games for the new Batman game to help ease the boredom of the Labor day weekend. I will admit it was indeed a great game to play. I have not had that much fun with a game in a long time. Meanwhile As I had said earlier School is now back in session, and the joys it brings only fill my head with more annoyance. The campus is half a construction site and the other is a dwindling overpopulated mess. I can't wait for more people to drop out so parking can get better. But the Icing that takes the cake this time is just this past Friday my glasses broke. The bridge between both lenses snapped when I was trying to bend the damned frame back in place, and funny bit is the frame was supposed to be flexible.

So yes, a lot of wonderful things has been happening to say the least here lately. And why I haven't updated much. Go Figure eh?

I need to update all my crap on here.
God I've been frigging lazy this summer.

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_{..but it has been a great summer indeed..}

Well, Thank god. I managed to pull an amazing rabbit out of my ass this semester, the passing of all my classes has left me feeling rather refreshed and much happier with the looming deadline of the end of my college career. Work at the engineering company is still rolling smoothly for me, I have yet to be liquidated which is good. Still waiting to hear back from that Graphic design place in elkton, though I have a strange reason that they're not gonna be hiring me due to the costs to bring in my skills and such. Though it's a mixed blessing i suppose, gives me a summer of freedom to work on getting my ass into gear in the way of developing my focus once again. I've decided that, I am not going to bother trying to do digital painting unless I plan to spend a shit ton of time on the bugger. Instead, i'm going to focus my attention in rebuilding my comic skills per say. Reintroduce myself to pen and ink possibly, and working with Illustrator again to hopefully get back into the swing of things. Might even see about working on comics here and there, but I doubt that i'll do that. I keep jumping back and forth between doing comics and not doing comics it's pathetic.

My buddy ~ZZT-X has been recently hooked on looking up a lot of classic comics and such. He even got his hands on a documentary of Robert Crumb. I must admit he sure has given me a reinspiried look into the whole drawing comics, and doing graphic art stuff.

I have also purchased a new work desk and supply cabnets for my room. I'm planning on expanding my work area so I can prove myself a decent amount of space and all that for working on art and doing homework. I fear next semester is going to be a toughie. I should probably see about signing up for classes here shortly. That and talking to an advisor to make sure that I will be graduating and that they haven't screwed me out of something that I needed for my degrees. Anyway i'm bored now so I shall leave you all with this tid bit of information.

I sure haven't been very active lately have I? Been a long while since I've been so busy with school this semester. Haven't had much free time in the past month or so. School has suddenly taken on a new light as to its importance since I have become a member of Phi Theta Kappa. I still find it very ironic that I managed to meet the requirements for said Honor Society. In one regard it's kinda depressing, in another rather amusing. I'm still the same ever procrastinating kid who will shove off work till the day said assignment and or work is due. Either I'm attending a school for that has somewhat low standards, or I'm a lazy person liviing in a world full of dumb people.

Don't answer that..

Needless to say, I now have a new kindled view upon the importance of my studies in all of my classes, though I still dislike my chemestry class with a passion. I've been staying away from WoW lately, to focus more on my classes as well as the other joys in life. I am enjoying sketching in pencil once again, I do believe my figure drawing class is helping me a lot in that regard, as for improving my ability to draw the human figure, I doubt it is giving me the same effect in that regard. I spent over $60 in magazines yesterday, one being the latest ImagineFX, Advanced Photoshop, and a big sucker that is all about digital painting tips tricks, and stuff. I figure it might help flesh out some of my problems by showing me new approaches to the craft..

If you've kept up with this part of the journal update i'll be pleased to tell you that I am now ingesting a considerable amount of shark cartilage. Exact mesurements and whereabouts as to how I am not at liberty to say. Foot is still healing up, the amount of pain i'm getting is now negligible unless I over do it, or forced at gun point to climb up and down 6 flights of stairs repeatedly. Someone could torture me with the use of a step climber or a treadmill.

Doc gave me some real nice painkillers to take care of the pain and swelling if I do over do it, or run into a gun toting fitness freak with his own personal treadmill..

Attempts to make any progess into my personal fitness has been insignificant at best. My schedual is so irratic right now that its nigh impossible. Though I must start making attempts of changing my habbits around so I can start doing something to help improve my situation. Who knows, maybe things will turn up after easter. I cannot wait until the summer comes, I think i'll spend most of my time in my own personal training..