Well well well, is seems everyone here has been fairing well while i was away (especially since I have over 300 deviations to look at). I'm glad you all liked my recent class stuff. You can expect more in the future. I make no promises however except that I will continue to make art and submit it as randomly as ever

I'm in college now at Pacific Northwest College of Art. I moved to Portland Oregon back in late August, and I couldn't have made a better decision. It was honestly a little scary at first, but the excitement and hectic pace of everything quickly did away with that.

I can't believe its almost the end of the term! where did it all go?? I've learned so much already... enough to know I still have far too much to learn. The experience has been humbling as well as empowering, and the people I have met have given me so much. It is lovely to be around other artist.. many of whom are much more skilled than myself (this has been the humbling part). It gives me even more of a reason to challenge myself and question everything I thought I was good at and everything I considered 'correct'. Even in the midst of all this questioning and rethinking, I have gained a new sense confidence I had lacked before, and a new sense of self worth (as cliche as that sounds).

I miss all of my Olympia people of course, but the truth of the matter is that I was beginning to become stagnant in that town. Not only in art and activities but also in relationships. So although i care for and miss them all, I desperately needed the change.

And what a change it has been! To go from the place I lived since I was barely 8 years old, to a house in the middle of a city, room mates, and an art student's budget. I also had to leave my precious kitties behind, and I find any chance I can to complain and be bitter about that. I do miss them so.

I suppose I'm rambling now, but thats the basic story in a nutshell. New city, new school, new people, new art, new everything.