Wednesday, May 31, 2006

  Hey everybody. How’s it going?

I’m sorry, but I won’t be able to get to your sites until tomorrow. I have to study right now, and my internet shuts-off in an hour (I’m already pushing it by not studying at the moment O_o ), so I won’t have time tonight.
But, I’ll make sure to make my rounds tomorrow afternoon. b^_^

I’d appreciate it if you’d check out yesterday’s post, or at least skim it a little, if you haven’t already. It’ll provide some info on what’s been going on recently. You could probably skip the whole part about my most recent manga-run, anyway.

So anyway, here are some updates as to what’s been going down:

-My relatives have arrived: My aunt (on my mother’s side) and my 2 cousins (both around my brother’s age). They’re staying in a local hotel (thank goodness!), so they’re not here all the time.
Because I’ve got to study for my exams next week, I’ve had an excuse to get some time away from them. I guess it’s a good thing I don’t get out of school until 2 weeks after my brother (he enjoys our cousins, though, so he doesn’t mind).
It’s a good thing, because I’d go crazy hanging out with them. For the last two nights, my cousin (the older one, even!) loudly slurped his entire dinner of my mom’s spaghetti! >o< It was disgusting!!!
My dad dislikes having them over just as much as I do. My aunt is divorced, so all week my dad gets to sit and listen to her talk about how her marriage went so bad. >_< Sucks for him…

-In other news, as you read yesterday, I’m currently trying to cram for exams.
This is no fun, particularly because I’m currently experiencing a difficult bout of a lacking of concentration. @_@
This time last year, I was blazing through studying, and had been doing so for nearly a month! This year, we did little to nothing to review ‘till just this already shortened week, and they replaced all that other time in May with more new material to learn!
It also doesn’t help that I have a gigantic art-project to finish on top of that as well. >_<’ Grrrr, I don’t have time for petty assignments from the Art Kaiser!

*sigh*, I would really, REALLY appreciate prayer right now, everybody. Please pray that my studying will be productive, and that I’ll be able to learn the massive amount of things I need to know in time for my exams. Spreading the word to pray would also be greatly appreciated.
Please also pray for anyone else taking exams. Is anybody here in the same category as me? I haven’t heard anyone say anything about exams yet…

As for other issues…things just seem to keep deteriorating here in the anime-art community.
Things just keep getting worse and worse, and as obsessive as it makes me sound, the depression and stress caused by that is something I don’t need right now, ESPECIALLY this close to my already precarious situation with my Final Exams.
I was talking it over with Josh this weekend, and honestly…I think I may just have to do what he did about it. Namely, I’m talking about leaving the site….and that’s not something I wanna’ do (though I’m sure a lot of people would just love to see me do that, especially since they also suggested that solution).
I love this site, and I want to stay a part of it (look at how much it’s improved my artwork!). But what I don’t love is the toxic, ignorant atmosphere that’s accumulated here, and the people who have caused it. It’s absolutely disgusting how F’ed-up some people can be, and it’s gotten to the point where I can’t even enjoy the art-community anymore, and that’s a sad, sad thing….
Honestly, I’m tired of the bullshit, and I’m tired of people not supporting me (or worse, condemning me) in my fight against it. Though the community may redeem itself, I don’t want to be a part of a community that’s this polluted, depraved and caustic. It’s not worth the stress, the depression or the feeling of betrayal.

But hey, time will tell, ne?
I may be wrong about a few people (I at least sure as Hell hope I’m not right about them…), so we’ll see how it works out.

Quick Question for my Fellow Anime-Fans:
I’m no good with Japanese, so I need some translation help from you Japan-ophiles.
What does “Chotto Matte” mean?
I’ve heard it once or twice before and I want to know what that translates to.
I believe I heard The Erin-chan use it a while ago. It actually sounds pretty cute!

Here’s today’s Art-Feature (check out the one on the previous post if you haven’t already!!!)….
“Bomb-bounce” by Cipantolones:


A very cute, and very effective example of a quaint, colorful, almost video-game styled emoticon. ^_^

All right everybody, I’ll be coming to your sites ASAP!
See you tomorrow!

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