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It was time for me to say farewell to my computer. It was about years old and contained a lot of files, music and pictures I can now never get back. At the apartment, the power goes off abruptly pretty often which didn't help, so it's a mix of my hard drive dying from age and the constant power surges frying it.

Well. I'm half in a state of shock and slight despair, and half "well, I guess it means a new start...." alll my music is goneee flkdjldsl

Right now I'm on this ancient laptop that is really hard to press some keys and smells extremely undesirable. ):

Everything is shit now lol. When can I hang out with people and have a life again?

Life is flashing before my eyes..

I can't believe it's halfway through May already. I feel like all I did was go to work, run around until my back/ankles give in, go home and it's magically 2AM when I crash... And no, I do not enjoy my job, hehe. But people are just so incompetent, spoiled and rude, it makes my blood boil and I wonder how on earth they are able survive with the way they treat others.
Seriously, almost broke down in front of everyone today...

Enough about that. I barely have time to paint because I'm constantly being called in on days I'm supposed to have off, or some newly hired person decides to never come back, so I'm left to deal with their work.

This was what I was able to rustle up with the little time I had. I knew time management for the things I want to do over the summer would be difficult, but I didn't expect impossible!

And for my confession of the day: I've been watching Kuroshitsuji lately. I avoided it like the plague before because it came off as something specifically geared for yaoi-crazed otaku fans. It's not bad from what I see; it's interesting enough for me to want to continue watching.

As a sucker for gothic/victorian/art-deco styled illustrations on top of EGA and EGL fashion, Ciel Phantomhive is the character of interest for me. There, I said it!

EDIT: To heal my aching heartby reading stories of unreasonable customers on the lovely fyeahretailrobin, this [conveniently and surprisingly relevant]gem came up.

OH THIS WAS GLORIOUS AND I SNORTED TOO HARD HAHA. 

Albeit busy, I'm doing a lot better with the productive summer (art-wise) now then I did before.

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Finished my junior year last Thursday. At this time of the year I would usually be counting down the days to my summer break, write a list of things I want to do and so on. But for some reason this time, I wasn't up to do anything like that as it really didn't feel like the end of year.

I've also landed my first real job which is real news if you know me...but I'd like to get my paperwork settled when I get it before I consider it a job, or else it would just be volunteer work, which I can't afford to do anymore. What I really want to know is what days I have off because as explained in my last post, I also can't afford to not be productive.
My hours aren't that long for now, but I also wonder how can do the other things I want to do over the break: make jewelry to sell on Etsy, make clothes/Halloween costume, study for driving permit and hopefully take lessons, and still have a social life.

I'm definitely still working in oil, and I'm gearing my portfolio to a fantasy/portrait path. I'm still amateur at Photoshop painting, but I really want a portfolio that contains both traditional and digital medium. I can't wait to paint me some ethereal beauties and mythical animals.

 I'm working on it~ ♪

Last assignment. Everyone was so burnt out by the thesis project, we needed something fun to do: Draw posters for the Macy's Flower Show. I don't know if this is a yearly thing but this year's theme was India, hence the elephant-Buddha and orchids.

I grip my pens hard, and my hands were pretty sore. 

My class took a trip to the show itself as well, pictures under the cut.