Damn, its been awhile since I've updated this thing, huh?

Well here goes a little news.

*inhale*

The past couple of months have been rather busy. we've got a number of projects going on at school at the moment. movies, car designs, logos, presentations, meetings... and this all on top of the fact I have yet to recieve any financial backing for this... I'm about to have at it with the state...

Overall, things are being... rushed alot. The only bright point at school for me at the moment is that I have now been given my own personal location within the classroom with a brand new computer brought in just for me, loaded with brand-new software, including Adobe CS4. It was bad enough the regular computer at school were only running CS2 while my home computer has CS3, but now I'm twice as updated as the other computer. Ah well, fun for me to learn a few new tricks with it. That would be true if it hadn't come in just the day before spring break, which I'm currently on... though it doesn't feel like it since I've had to bring work home with me. Same goes for Musey, but at least all he has to do is draw a cartoon, something to be comfortable with. I've gotta work in an entirely uncomfortable situation, splicing parts of a movie i worked on with a fellow school (dunno how many of you know about that project) and putting it and a couple of storyboards i did for it in a presentation i have to give at this big expo event in town... don't get me wrong, I'm not nervous about it. two-three years of competing in both regional, state, and national competitions has toughened me up a bit, but not often have i been given so much work on my plate i can barely do it all.

at least I am getitng something done though, even if it requires me splitting my time up pretty dangerously. least I'm not in a full-on relationship at the moment to doubly spend my time on, heh. anyways, all this has given me little time for guild wars at the moment, along with all my other games. I wanted to play a little tf2 recently, but as soon as i started, "Hey, can you come here? i need you for a couple of minutes", sigh... the most I've been able to do is part my time in with this IRC thing Musetrigger's gotten me on now, since its pretty easy to ' pause ' and concentrate on something else or gives me time to run off and help my dad or the many other thigns around here.

hmm, what else is there... oh yea! I am currently in the planning phase of taking a trip to florida for a number of purposes.

1) to visit my favorite uncle and spend a few nights with him. he misses the family so much and has been insisting on me visiting. if anyone's from the melbourne area or close to it and watchs USA today news or reads sports articles from it, you've probably seen my uncle or at least read his name. he's been a big help in my professional attitude, constantly telling me to put myself out there... though he doesn't believe too much in DA, keeps pushing me to get paid for everything xD

2) to take a trip... simple enough, hoping i can take a vehicle there, just to see the land and what not... but he's insisting on a plane. not that i dislike planes... i just dislike not being in control of one... its one of the many reasons i like driving and letting no one else be behind the wheel... i just like being in control of my own safety and wellbeing. plus, you miss so many great sights when you're flying by plane... and if anyone knows me (or by extension, arlyurl the character), i have a massive case of aquaphobia... flying over the ocean does not sit well with me at all, ESPECIALLY when I'm not in control...

3) i have a master plan... with many of my connections, having a cousin in the loop, and a local designer for the company right here in my hometown (William Joyce - "Meet the robinsons""robots""rollie pollie"), i plan to get into meeting with any of the disney crew, perhaps speak with them about what i can do to really launch my career to skip any unneccesary steps, maaaaaybe even find myself a job in anything from concept to storyboard artistry, my biggest dream jobs~ after all, all of us artists have been inspired by disney at one time or another, we all loved the beautifully done movies and the characters within them... i highly doubt that each and everyone here doesn't have a favorite disney movie. would you really mind working for them, being a part of the glorious team?

anyways, thats about all my reasons thus far... i suppose without looking for a place to live out there myself, i can't really plan to stay there long. hmh, but again, it all depends on money... i was hoping my usual financial issues would be solved by now and i could afford going, but paperwork and federal offices allllways know how to delay things even further... so gonna have to wait a month or two before i can start budgeting out any money for a trip and other finances... i feel like a little spoiled brat sometimes, and i need to correct myself. you know, anytime you get money, you just wanna spend it, like its gonna disappear the next day, but then find out that it only becomes true because you spent huge chunks of it... and endless cycle... but with the next deposit, i plan to account it carefully... I'm not in debt or anything, least not to a bank or something liek that buuut... if anything, i always have that large feeling of "i owe my parents alot", so the most i can do is take a huge quarter out of the total sum to give to them... it won't account for all the crap i do and put them through, but i pray it will be enough to get them straight too...

bah, i'm just ranting now, venting my frustrations out of exhaustion and regret... BUT i can tell you i will, once again, try to be active with my artwork posting once again. afterall, i have been drawing something nonstop recently, just haven't showed much to you guys ^.~

guess that end it for this chapter... time for bed, heheh... so sleepy... really should get my sleep schedule back to normal before spring break ends...

Love,
Arlyurl

PS.
Do I ramble too much?

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