I start school on Tuesday and I feel a bit restless. Perhaps it's because my summer vacation is over. Not that I had a long one to begin with due to the summer classes I opted to take. Summer classes are both frustrating and exciting. The exciting part comes from getting several credits out of the way in a short period of time. That and you're in a more prepared state for when fall classes arrive. On the downside, short summer vacations aren't as much fun. And school prevented me from putting in extra hours at work. Then again, I'm that much closer to graduation, so I can't complain.

I also head back to work after coming off a two week vacation. The job isn't hard but my respect for management wanes everyday. A little bit of competence and fairness on their part would be nice. All I can do is come to work and do my job to the best of my ability. But even then they make that a chore.

It feels like it's going to be a long week of adjustment, but I'll just have to stay positive. Yeah, positive.

For some reason I'm feeling really random tonight. Something tells me that I might have a hard time sleeping.

It has nearly been a year since I've last updated my DA journal (or my gallery for that matter). I just had to clear out all of the deviations from my watchlist, as there were too many go through. It would have taken me forever to go through 3,503 deviations, so I thought it would be easier to just to visit artist pages instead. So if I start randomly adding favorites, don't be surprised.

I'm also not sure if I'll have any new artwork any time soon. I might focus instead on fiction. I guess time will tell. Although it's nearly time for school again. At least it's my last year at my university and then I'll be done with school. Now that's something to look forward too.

On Tuesday I go back to school, thus ending my long summer break. For the most part it's been a good break and I wish I could have had just a little longer. At the same time, I wish to be done with school, so I can get my degree and move on already. When you're only a part time student, everything takes much longer. If I had been full time, I'd be taking about having a degree in Journalism right now. However, in exchange for being a part time student, I can juggle school, a job, chores around the house and internet stuff without TOO much stress.

Speaking of stress, my last few weeks of summer vacation have been quite stressful (as those of you who follow my LJ may know). Bad neighbors sabotaging our property, kids that run free with no respect for others and punks trying to steal my car/and or the parts on it. Even though a vacation from school was nice from academic stress, the stress of this city block was uneeded. To best describe it, it's like having a sword point pressed to your throat. There's open hostility and you have be on the defensive constantly. Ugh. Where's the love in Philadelphia now???

Moving on to something more pleasant...

For now I've decided to split my time between LiveJournal and DA. Being on DA more often will give me a chance to catch up on all of art on my watch list, and to hopefully upload some art of my own. Currently, I have 1,979 deviations left to view, down from nearly 2,200 last week. As for art, I still owe a few people some stuff and while it hasn't been done, they haven't been forgotten. One of the things I look forward to is finishing up any art trades or requests that I've taken on.

Looks like I'll have to blow the dust off of this account one of these days. I've been so distracted by life that I haven't had much time for creative things. At the very least, I suppose I could pick up a pencil and start drawing again before I get too rusty.

As for the new DA, I kind of like it. Well as far as looks go anyway.

I'm still alive. Although school and work has nearly killed me. Other than Live Journal and TBL chat, I haven't really been on-line in the past few months. In fact, I've only been on summer vacation for a week and I'm still quite busy. But I won't let that stop me from returning to my favorite hangouts on-line. I don't know how active my DA gallery will be (I haven't really been drawing) but I will leave comments when I like or favorite something. It's good to be back though. ^^

I'm definitely looking forward to Anthrocon '05 on Friday. Hopefully I will see some of you there?