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Wow I haven't been here in forever. Here's some updates!

I'm on my way to a Master's degree at Cal State Fullerton. I love the school and I love my teachers and the other grad students are awesome. I like the undergrads, to, they're just so darned cute. I was a TA for one of the illustration classes and I kept referring to the students as "the kids" even though they're all full grown adults. Some of them are older than me. I've also been doing a lot more work for the kid's museum in Salt Lake, so I should remember to put more of that up here. Plus school assignments and trades and other things. Also I have a bunny. I need to put up some photos because BUNNY.

So what is this, computer exploding season? Everybody's having trouble. Including me, yay! Sooo I'm opening commissions again. For ATC cards, since my computer is dead and it is how I would do any other sort of commission. whee.

Examples of my cards: fav.me/d3cha4j
jadephoenix.org/oriyan/forumst…

I'll mail 'em in special hard plastic cases, they're done in gouache and watercolor and acrylic and colored pencil and whatever else I can find.

10 bucks a card! Free shipping! note me! I need a new computereeeeerrrrrr! (or a the very least, a new graphics card. hopefully that's it)

Man, I haven't put anything here in ages, have I? Well, a lot of stuff's been going on lately. In Feburary, my Grampa, who was the most awesome and crazy man in the world, passed away from cancer of the everything.  A week later, I was alerted to the deadlines for applying to a graduate progam at CSU Fullerton, so I spent a crazy week trying to get my portfolio ready and then driving down to 's house the night before my interview/portfolio review,  cuz the drive fom there on a weekday morning was WAY better than trying to make it through LA at that hour. After that I got to bring me a Dumpysaur back to my place and there was SO MANY MOVIES to watch and SO MUCH SAMURAI JACK. And then, like some sort of mystical fey creature, she was gone. I received the letter saying I got into the program, which was awesome, but also terrifying because it opened up so many other problems. Like.. how am I going to pay for this... and get housing and pay for that too. And I need to earn money to visit as soon as possible for ADVENTURES and GEEZ I want to talk to grampa about all of this but I CAN'T. Well, I guess I could say it, but I won't hear his responses. And then I think well who haven't I told yet? Oh yeah, I need to call Shannon!1111... oh... no... she died a year ago. And then I am sad. And then it was my birthday and I got so many things I didn't expect and everybody in my family tried so hard to show how much they love me and it made me cry. Everything makes me cry now. I try to be happy about the program this fall but then I worry about the money and then I panic and then I think about Grampa and how he's not in his chair anymore and I won't hear him sing ever again and he'll never GET me by talking about his crazy crazy things he liked to talk about for hours again. And then I think about Shannon and I miss her and I miss her children and I don't know when I will see them again. I GUESS I miss her husband, too. But he calls sometimes and is annoying, so I don't miss him as much. (sorry caleb, if somehow you see this. seems unlikely though.)

So. That's what's been going on with me. How've you been, internet?

Do you ever feel like the pencil's just getting in the way and you should be able to smear your hands across the paper and have the art just come out?

We went on a ride today with my aunt and uncle! It was awesome! I haven't ridden a horse in years and it was sooooo fun, despite how freaking cold it is here.