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DragonoftheDark

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I felt like changing the journal skin up a bit. Sorry not sorry for three hot and just plain awesome guys gracing the bottom of my journal (seriously, they're fantastic people and I love them more than for their looks and their acting).

ANYWAY. Moving on from my Supernatural fangasm, I've been gone for awhile and I don't really have anything new for you guys. I feel pretty fucking bad about it, but I got caught up in school and work sucks up all of my weekends and ugh... Even my Tumblr suffered for awhile, and I usually kill what spare time I have surfing through my dash on the mobile app. But when there's a 50%-of-your-grade photography project due plus shit in your philosophy class you kind of have to get things done. That and I've been getting 8 hour shifts at work all weekend and I spend at least two days a week brain dead from being up at 3:45am.

Also, believe it or not, I got burnt out from drawing so much. I tried to get the next pages done in time but I couldn't lay them out or they looked like crap or I just stared at it and went "fuck this," shut my computer down and took a nap. So I'm recharging a bit and hopefully in the next couple weeks when the semester is over I can get to drawing again.

In the mean time I'm going to try and actually work on something, but I might be a bit more focused on surviving my Black Friday shift, and by surviving I mean not getting fired because I'll be too tired to have any patience to put up with people's shit. I work on Thanksgiving, 9:45pm to 6:15am after 12 hours of family functions. Yeah. Not fucking happy about that.

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Somebody somewhere might have noticed that I kinda failed to post WYS yesterday and I just wanted to apologize for that. I'm a lame ass and the page isn't done yet. I don't really have any excuses other than that and I just flat out did not feel like working on it... My busy ass weekend and having a horrible headache on my day off didn't help either.

So I'll try and get that posted sometime in the next week. After I finish this commission first. And after I finish fumbling my way through this latest photography assignment >.> And probably after I slaughter my laptop charger cable for not working.... I have a whole day at school and it chooses 7 am to go out >.<

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Ah, I should probably update this thing... It's been what? A month and a half? I don't even know anymore >.>

So I started school back up again. I've transferred to a State University about 2 hours away, but since I can't afford the rent in that area I make the commute with hundreds of other people twice a week. Which means getting up at 4 am on those days to be at school before 8, but I survive. The drive gives me some time to jam out to whatever I have in the stereo and think about life and stories and stuff.

I'm currently taking a photography class that's been draining my wallet something fierce, but I was told I needed it by one of the leads in the art department. It's pretty fun though, even if lighting my shots properly is a bitch because I don't have the right set up. I've also got this philosophy class about aesthetics and beauty and art and shit that I really shouldn't even be taking because it's super lower division general ed. But it's my first semester and the class was open.

The 2500 I shelled out just for class was tough, but my financial aid check and scholarships made up for... Really all of it. Next semester will still be largely out of pocket though. My parents are helping me as much as they can AND YOU AWESOME PEOPLE HAVE HELPED ME TOO!! <333333333333333

Since I opened up commissions, I made enough money to pay for my books this semester (or that program I had to buy for photography). You're hard earned money is going to a good place I assure you :heart: Please send any commission requests you want, I get to those a lot faster than replies or comments >.> i'm terrible i'm sorry please forgive me

I've also talked to my business adviser guru guy *coughmydadcoughcough* and I'm now accepting personal checks from US residents. I've still got to talk to him about cold hard cash for commissions, but I don't see that being a problem either. So look for that! And to my lovely watchers outside of the US, I'm really sorry! I swear as soon as I figure out a way to make that work across country lines, I'll get going on it.

In the meantime, I'm gonna go chill and enjoy the good mood that suddenly broke through my dark cloud of apathy and try not to cry depression and watch some Supernatural. Or god forbid I do something productive.

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That's right! I finally got my shit together and got some prices for what I can do! Just click here for the details: dragonofthedark.deviantart.com…

That's about it for the journal. Very short. Imma go draw comics

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Woah... Okay weird new journal thing... I swear I don't update this thing for two weeks and it all changes... Alrighty then.

IN OTHER NEWS, I finished my classes today! :iconlachoirplz: And I'm pretty sure I got A's in both of them :meow: So that means I can do more art before August 21st when I start up at my new college. Which is posing it's own problems. I have no idea if I'm looking at a 4, 5 or even 6 hour round-trip drive two days a week and I'm officially scared that my psych degree won't get me a job (I know the art one won't, which is why I went into psych). But the job market is SO FUCKING IMPACTED EVERYWHERE that pretty much any degree is worthless. Or if they say, for example, that there are a lot of jobs for somebody with a business degree one year, it's impacted the next and it takes at least 4 years to get the degree. So really, if you do the math where does that leave you? Good news is people will always need mental health care, especially now that having a mental illness is slowly becoming okay (as it always should have) and there will be a need for practitioners and people to teach the classes. That's probably being super optimistic, but I'M BETTER OFF THAN I AM IN ART! Which is ridiculous.... But whatever. I can do school counseling and all this other stuff. I'm pretty sure there's more I can do with this than I thought. Butfuckmyliferightnowguys.

How did we even get to the point that they're asking 8th grades what college they want to go to, what they want to do for the rest of their lives, and making their 20 year old selves pull their hair out over trying to find the answers to these questions? All without ANYBODY TELLING YOU HOW TO DO IT?! Why isn't "reality" a required course? Why do they fill our heads with hopes and dreams and aspirations only to say "oh yeah bee tee dubs ur rlly fckd" and throwing it all out the airlock? Why did they tell us throughout our lives that we need to go to college to get a good degree to get a good job so that we can live at a good standard of living? Why does everybody not seem to be freaking out about this?!

Lest we forget to mention the cost of it all. I'm fortunate that I'll be paying only about 5 grand out of pocket every year for school, but that doesn't factor in living expenses, gas, freak situations... I can't even remember if it factors in books. And the system is so fucked up. If you're under the age of 24 here, they look at your parents' income. They don't really give two fucks about what you make or if you even talk to your parents. Or if your parents are even as supportive as mine. I get a grant because I've got a bitchin GPA and my parents make an x amount of money every year, but that's it. It's loans beyond the 2500 I'm given each year (EACH YEAR) for part time schooling.


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WOW. Okay. THAT turned into an unintentional rant..... Really sorry about that, but I guess I'm not too sorry since I'm not deleting that shit right now. Probably because it poses some problems with society and MAYBE SOMEBODY HAS ANSWERS FOR ME! D:

But anyway, I'll be able to get to all of your wonderful comments and notes and everything soon :heart: I'm sorry I haven't replied sooner, but when I'd sit down to my laptop to have fun I'd be so tired and brain dead you wouldn't have gotten an intelligent response out of me. It would have looked like lndSBGPOGBOGTNBOGJBTIO-drool- Seriously. I've been that fucking tired lol

Guess I'll go read that financial aid booklet that makes me want to rage quit just thinking about it... Or work out. I like the work out idea. I'm packing on more chub than I want too and it's hot so I might go swim some laps.

Peace out my lovelies :heart:

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