Well, I promise I'll eventually get around to uploading things before I head off to start my winter term of college. Really! Promissite! I've got stuff, I just need to motivate myself to scan them in.

Now then, to make a plug.

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This is the link to an OCT that I plan to enter and encourage you to enter as well if you're at all interested in storytelling. It's a sci-fi twist on the tale of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth. It looks to be really cool and compelling to read even if you don't necessarily enter.

Note, before I get on with what I've been tagged for... Yes, I've been quiet for the past while. Between school (which, admittedly, my term ended almost three months ago), an art slump, and the fact that I haven't much wanted to sit down and scan things in, I haven't actually uploaded anything in a really long time. >.>; Oh, well. I'll get things up soon.

Anyways! I've been tagged for a little journal entry by . You readers out there - the few of you there are, anyways - get to learn ten things about me. Now... what about me is interesting again?

1. I am usually painfully optimistic when it comes to situations and things going on in my life. For example, I'm currently unemployed for the co-op half of my year and looking at unholy amounts of student loans. Yes, I'm stressed out and, yes, I do occasionally stare up at my ceiling and fret when I should be sleeping, but despite all that, I still somehow find the gumption to be cheerful and hopeful about the situation.

2. I get up with the sun and go drowsy when it goes down. Not such a big deal during summer, when I can easily be up early and stay up late, but it makes things interesting during the winter. Getting sleepy at 6 in the evening is always interesting.

3. Speaking of winter, I live in the Great Frozen North - Michigan, to be exact. I am a big fan of the cold, and none of that statement includes sarcasm. Snow is my favorite kind of weather. I much prefer winter to summer; much weather above 75 degrees makes me start to wilt, especially in high humidity. I'm a cold-weather critter.

4. I'm a freshman in college, studying mechanical engineering with a concentration in bioengineering. I hope to eventually work with prosthetic limbs and the like, though I'm perfectly willing to work on anything as long as I have a challenge and an interest in it.

5. I prefer the taste of Splenda to actual sugar. The reason for this that I've been raised more with artificial sweeteners than with true sugar; my grandfather was diabetic and my father is as well. I have a good chance of developing it myself.

6. I have very vivid dreams, though half the time I can't remember exactly what they're about. The ones I do remember are either quite nice or on the extreme other end of the spectrum. Luckily I don't get nightmares much anymore.

7. The scariest thing about death, for me, is not my own but the deaths of people I love and cherish. The worst thing about my own death is leaving behind all the things I have yet to do, even though I know that I won't have much of a choice when it's decided that my number's up. Ah, well - still, I hope that's a long time off. I've got too much to do until then!

8. I'm a big fan of Star Wars. I have most of the expanded universe novels and watch the movies on a fairly regular basis. I have never watched Star Trek, which is the reason that my boyfriend has called me a horribly uneducated and deprived person. Perhaps he's right, but I've survived this far without it....

9. I have accidentally dyed my finger and almost the lower half of my face while working with wood dye. I still have a blue freckle on my neck from the latter incident and the pad of my right index finger is still kinda purple.

10. I sing all the time; it's hard to find me without my MP3 player or a radio on. I've sang karaoke before, but only among friends. Though I love to sing, I have a hard time doing it in public unless asked. People tell me I have a nice voice, though I'm hardly the one to judge that.

Well! There are ten things. I'm supposed to tag ten people, but I really can't be bothered. If you want to do it, go ahead and do it.

Well, technically I have been for a little while already (last week was my first week of classes).

This is part one of three why I've been playing least-in-sight here: I've been busy settling in, unpacking, finding my way around campus, etc. The second is that I discovered that, although having a more flexible schedule than high school, I still find myself not having as much time as one would think, which I then spend goofing off with friends rather than doing much of anything productive by way of drawing and sketching. Third, and arguably the most direct, is that I don't have access to my own scanner anymore, along with leaving my newly-filled-up sketchbook at home. So... yeah. Hopefully I'll be able to pester one of my friends into letting me steal their scanner for a while.

Other than that, things have been pretty good. I'll hopefully be uploading things soon thanks to a couple people out there asking about my quietude (is that even a word? I don't think so...). You know who you are!

Journal title is the title of a song by Manchester Orchestra; incidentally, it's the song I'm listening to right now. Coincidence? I think not!

/Any/ways, life is trucking along, like it always does, right now. I've learned that not all hospital food tastes icky, and that one can actually sleep decently well on sofas if one is tired enough. I've been spending a good amount of time in hospital lobbies, waiting to see a family member who's, two weeks ago today, had a double bypass surgery.

A week ago today, a wonderful thing came in the mail: my tablet! :3 I've been saving up for one for a couple of years now; I blame gas prices and my own wariness of spending any large amount of money for the long time I had to wait to get one. I've been fiddling with it, mostly to odds and ends of coloring, re-coloring, and doodling digitally. Expect late-night nonsense to show up in my scraps every once in a while; apparently that's when I get the doodle bug and my stuff actually ends up being somewhat funny.

This Saturday is my last day working at the part-time job I've worked at for four years. Two weeks from today I move into my dorm room at college. Three weeks from today my classes start. Wow. Early. It's just now hitting me how soon that is. O.o))) Well, at least I won't have time to forget things I've learned from last year. ^__)));

I've been trying to fill up these last few weeks of my relaxing-summer with the activities that I know, love, and won't be able to do as much (if at all) once I get to college: golfing, visiting friends, working on a bamboo fly rod with my dad, getting dragged along on shopping trips with my mom... it's almost endless, all the things I want to do before I leave.

Still, I'm enjoying my time here. I'm looking forward to heading off to college, too. It'll be interesting being mostly on my own, though it doesn't scare me like it might for some people: I'm a fair independant person, after all. Doesn't mean I won't miss the creature comforts like a private bathroom, though....

That's all for now, I think. Valete, omnes, until the next time! ^.~

Well, more updates, two of which went into my scraps and a few in my gallery which may follow in the not-too-distant future. (Methinks it was next Tuesday.) And if you know that reference, you get +10 cool points.

Speaking of somewhat-obscure references, I'm playing a somewhat obscure game. Wild ARMS Alter Code:F, to be exact, which is a remake of the original first in the series. Awesome game; if you haven't played any of the Wild ARMs series, you should give them a try if you like RPGs and puzzles and awesome storylines. Expect to see fanart for it and the other couple of games in the series that I own. Rudy = <3!

I drew some concept art - for what I imagine, at least - for an RPG that'll hopefully soon be on its feet and flourishing. It's by no means canon, but it's better than nothing. Much of it is little better than glorified sketches, to be honest, but I wanted input before I got too terribly far.

Crazyness? That would be that I only have three days left of high school. Forever. That's... actually, both exhilirating and terrifying at the same time. And so there are end-of-the-year projects and physics field trips to amusment parks (which is awesome - rollercoasters FTW) and saying tearful goodbyes to teachers and friends. Well, it could be much worse; I'm not too terribly far from home where I'll be going, so that's reassuring, at least.

Not to mention that this Thursday through Tuesday I'll be in Washington, D.C., to march in the National Memorial Day Parade. *squee~!* That's something I've been looking forward to all year. ^.)))-<3 Smithsonian Museums and other national landmarks, here I come! >:3 Digital camera, go!!

That's about all I have to say for now. Until next time, keep those obscure video game RPG references coming! ^__)))