So I've been thinking about taking another BA after I finish this one and before I go on to grad school in archaeology....and the new degree I've been thinking about is art...graphic art and animation, more precisely.  I've always wanted to do freelance concept art and stuff like that, but with my current schedule I just don't have time to work on art like I want to, or to progress or improve.....art school would fix that, force me to paint a lot and teach me tricks.  

Yeah....but degrees are expensive....and I'll be paying off my current one for a while.  I'm a poor starving student as it is...ok not quite starving, but poor because I eat so much.  Heh.  I'm cheap enough that I'm making most of my christmas presents for my family...making them jewelry.  If I had a better camera, I'd post photos of my jewelry, 'cause the camera I have reflects the flash off the metal so you can't see anything, and without flash is super super blurry.  

Another thing is, I need a PhD in what I'm in now in order to get the job I want....if I just got a bachelor's in art I could probably land a job...right?  Wrong?  I don't know!

In other news, I'm engaged now   


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So I have been pretty much inactive artwise lately.  Was pretty hectic moving all my crap again and starting school, getting back into that routine and all.  This year I have to leave my house 2 hours before my classes start in order to get there on time - quite the change from living on campus!!  Starting to hate public transit...

School's going well (sort of), I'm enjoying  my classes but already I've missed a bunch of them, and later this week will be missing 4 more days' worth because my boyfriend is flying me to Tennessee and then to Indiana for some T-bird shootouts.  Will be fun and worth it, I think.  He just got home from Afghanistan, and this weekend was the first time I'd seen him in MONTHS.  So next weekend will be good for us, but bad for my school.

All right, so I've been trying to hold back, but SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MY MOMO IS HOMEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!  Pretty sure I squeeled when he texted me on Thursday night saying his plane was landing and that he was home early from his deployment.  

He came to pick me up from Vancouver on Friday and took me down to the States to visit for the weekend.  We were going to go to an SCA event called Banner War, but that morning I ended up in the ER for a few hours 'cause of another bad gall bladder attack.  They were going to do surgery on it but I thought it best to wait until I got back to Canada.  It was my first time in an American hospital, and because it was the closest one to us my bf took me to the Army hospital on the base he works at.  I was very impressed with the service!!!  All the doctors and nurses were super nice and helpful, and didn't treat me like a problem they just want to go away.  Normally I have to be dragged kicking and screaming to hospitals because I hate going, but I actually didn't mind this hospital at all.  +1 for America (still got a long way to catch up in my books though!)

The did a bunch of scans and tests, including an ultrasound and some kind of heart scan, then they hooked me up to an IV, took some blood, pumped me with 3 litres of fluids and gave me some awesome pain relievers.  I could still feel the pain but they meds put me in lala land and I didn't care lol.  When I got discharged they gave me some percocet and some anti-spasm pills.  Here's to hoping that my medical insurance covers all this...

So in addition to not eating gluten, the doc not told me to stay away from any fat, cholesterol, refined sugars, or corn...I think I'll be eating a lot of soup.  And rice.

I was supposed to take the greyhound back up to Canada last night but all the tickets were sold out (bastards!) so I had to miss ANOTHER day of classes.

Anyways I have to run and catch the next greyhound in a few minutes here, and should wrap up this little update.  I feel bad 'cause I haven't gotten anything artistic done lately and thought people deserved at least an update on my status

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So...moving back to Vancouver in a week and a half, then going down to Seattle for PAX.  Anyone else going?

Oh and sorry for my inactivity, been too busy getting concussions and memory loss.  So if you reply to this, I may forget about it the next day.  Just to warn you.


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So yeah, I gave in and bought a new subscription.  What the hell.  XD  Was trying to browse for stock images and was getting pissed off at the limited number of deviations I could view on each page, lol.

Oh, and about the housing thing, things are starting to look better...

Oh, and The Reader is an excellent movie.  I loved it  <3  Made me cry....

That is all for now.

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Hello my lovelies.

So, I'm starting to get back into the swing of things.  These things being, of course, school, school, and campus life.  I did decidedly terrible on my exams last semester, so I'm hoping to step it up a notch this semester and bring my GPA back up.  I got the worst marks I've ever got in university last semester...gonna blame it on my new arrival to this university.  >.>

I spent two weeks up north with my parents, then flew down to Seattle to spend a wonderful week with my boyfriend, Mo.

I could write an essay on everything that has conspired in the past month...but I won't.  Too many damned essays for school.  To sum it up, I had fun

I've been decently healthy this last month, no problems such as I had in previous months, thankfully.  However, I did get fat over Christmas from all that candy and massive dinners.  I'm now trying to live off veggies and lean meats, and as soon as it's nicer outside I want to start going on jogs.  Incidentally, I refuse to go out in the rain.  I hate rain.  I especially hate rain when it turns the snow on the ground into 6-inch-deep slush that, even with my boots, completely penetrates everything to the point where I might as well be swimming.

So, my goals for this semester are to bring up my GPA and to lose this fat.  And get my muscle back...all that muscle I had this summer has melted   I miss my muscles...they were fun.  And nice.  And hard.  And not flabby.



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First of all, I'm super stoked about my new computer!  It's not quite up and running yet (but it will be tomorrow after my boyfriend brings me a new CPU fan), but the prospect of having a system that can run photoshop and games smoothly is just...plain sexy!!  On my current laptop, if I work at a resolution higher than, say, 1000x1000 pixels, strokes lag a lot.  Sometimes, I'll make a stroke with a big brush, and then sit back and watch it slowly work its way across the page over the course of the next 30 seconds.  Pretty frustrating.  Plus, I'm pretty fond of gaming, and my laptop generally has FPS rates of about 5-10.  I have screenshots of 1 FPS.  It's pretty scary.  Anyways...my boyfriend Mo helped me pay for this new system, and ordered all the parts in for me and put them together, and gave me his "old" 22" monitor (barely a year old, and beautiful!!!).  I splurged and bought a Razer Lycosa keyboard.  I'm going to have to live off rice and beans for the next few months, hahaha!

In other news, I'm rushing to get a paper done for a Classical Studies course on ancient Greece.  Funny thing is, I'm writing about the modern America/Iraq war, the ancient Graeco-Persian war, and the way the media (movies in particular) have distorted and manipulated these conflicts through leftist organizations.  WHOOHOOHOO!!!  HOT TOPIC!!!  Bring on the heat, I'm an unabashed right wing supporter.  Right wing in theory, really, I can't say I support everything the conservative government does (either Canadian or American!  I'm Canadian btw).

My prof is VERY leftist, so...this could be interesting.  He's pretty anti-military, anti-war, etc, whereas I'm...extremely pro-military, to say the least.  Maybe I'm digging my own grave?

Thoughts?  I love talking about this stuff.

Oh, and don't forget about   Go read his journal.  Now.  Please?


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Hey guys.  Just a quick journal entry this time.  I just read (moments ago) about a situation an artist I respect and have been watching for the last couple years () is going through, and I would like to help out.  You can find more into in his journal:  [link]

In short, he's got some pretty big medical bills, and I'd like to contribute as I can to help him get through this.  I'm super busy with school and life at the moment, but I do have time for speedpaints and sketchs.  Therefore, I'm going to be offering sketch commissions as a fundrasier for Shaun, and all proceeds will go directly to his Paypal account.  If you are interested, please contact me via pm.

These sketches can be either digital or graphite skethes/linearts, or black and white portrait speedpaints, or anything that takes less than 5ish hours.  Prices may vary depending on the time it takes, but will range between $10-15 dollars.  It's not much, but every little bit will help!  Again, send me a pm if you are interested.

So...any takers?  I can't express how strongly I suggest this.  Or, if you don't want a commish, you can always send money directly to Shaun.  For more details and for a list of other artists trying to help, see 's journal.

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I haven't been very productive lately.  I've been trying to do daily speedpaintings, but school's kept me fairly busy.  On top of that, last week I came down with what I thought was a normal cold, but then I started getting fevers and migraines.  The migraines are common enough, with me, but combined with the fever, I think it may be linked.  Then I developed a bit of an infection (don't worry, I won't go tmi), followed by a couple more days of fever.  I'm not yet sure if the infection triggered the fevers, or if it's related to something else...perhaps my "cold" was some strain of flu?  I'm not sure.  Or maybe, as my mom speculated when I spoke with her on the phone tonight, it's something I picked up this summer when I was in the Near East (I got really sick over there).  I've been refusing to see the doctor, but my boyfriend and a close friend of mine, who is in nursing school, have been harassing me to get to a doc, and my mom's on my case now too.  I hate going to clinics and hospitals with a passion (spent a lot of time there when I was younger).  So maybe I'll book an appointment tomorrow...I need to get some sleeping aids anyway.  Insomnia's led to me missing a lot of my morning classes, and I'm falling behind on some of my classes, starting to get really stressed about it.  Which also doesn't help the migraines

On a brighter note, I was feeling well enough to go to GM Place and watch the Detroit Red Wings at the Canucks!  Even though I live in Vancouver (at the moment), I'm not a Canucks fan, but a hardcore Wings fan.  One of my friends bought me a ticket, which was super awesome of him (thanks Joel!!).  I had a blast, ate too much popcorn, and watched my hockey heroes pwn the Canucks.  My throat is still a little sore from cheering and yelling haha.  I was one of the very few Wings fans in the audience of thousands of Canucks fanatics.  It was interesting.  lol

This weekend was my boyfriend's and mine 3-month anniversary.  I warned him that I was super sick and likely to be miserable all weekend, but he drove up from Washinton to take care of me (and it worked!  I felt much better by Sunday).  He's such a sweetheart...  
Oh, and THANK YOU Emily for introducing us  

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The American show So You Think You Can Dance has always been a favourite of mine.  This year, it has premiered in Canada, and one of my good friends, Izaak Smith, auditioned.  He was accepted into the top 200, then made it through to the top 20, and after two weeks of voting he is among the top 16!!!!  It's surreal, seeing one of my friends on national tv, not to mention on one of my favourite shows!

SO!  If you are Canadian, I call upon you to watch SYTYCDC on Wednesday night and VOTE! for Izaak Smith.  You can vote more than once - REDIAL is your friend!!!!  You can catch the show on ctv - here's a link to the show times:  [link]

In other news, after three years on dA I finally reached the 10k pageview milestone!!  Thank-you to all my watchers and to those who visit my page regularly


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Okay, I'm going to have this as the journal that can be referenced about commission info, rather than typing it out in every following journal.

As some of you know, I'm a full-time university student.  I pay for all my schooling myself.  In the past three years, I've managed to get by without taking any loans out, but this year my funds have run out, and I've been forced to take out loans.  It's all worth it, in the long run, but it does make things a bit tight (especially when the govt gives me the very smallest amount they can for me to get by!).  I have a job, but I only get a few shifts a month, so it doesn't make that much of a difference in the long run.

So, I would like to start offering commissions, at what I think is a very decent price, for the number of hours put into them.  (for example, if I charged $80 for the recent piece entitled "Serenity's End", that would give me less than a dollar an hour.  Yikes!)  This extra little money will help me out greatly with groceries, and with going to visit my boyfriend, who lives in the States.  

To give you all incentive, the first three people who order commissions will receive a 25% discount off the base prices of their commissions.    

Prices:</u>  (All prices in Canadian Dollars)
COLOUR:
Detailed portrait: $80
Semi-detailed portrait: $40
Sketch portrait: $20

SHADES OF GREY:
Detailed portrait:  $45
Sketch portrait:  $15

PENCIL SKETCHES/LINE ART:
Full figure:  $15
Bust:  $10
Additional character:  $10

If you are interested, please send me a pm

I will be loading examples of each of these into my gallery soon.  I have a lot of sketch portraits on my computer that I haven't posted on DA, just as black and white portraits etc.

Questions?  Ask away.  Oh, and brownie points are awarded for linking this journal in yours   Spread the love!

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