Hello thar. It's me. Obviously.

I just wanted to drop in, and say howdy, I guess.

I am now officially an invertebrate zoologist...well, in training. Yay me! College is still siphoning my time away, but I do think there is a higher chance of me actually coming back to this site on a consistent basis now than last semester. Owing to the fact that I was, in a word, depressed last semester. I didn't have any energy for anything, even things I ordinarily enjoy. Despite the little dancing dude in my last journal entry, I was not a happy camper.

I feel much better this semester (although I'm still busy). Mostly my problem now is being "rusty." Jesus it's hard to get out of a rut. Almost all my usual "artistic" activities have been suspended in lieu of college: reading, writing, drawing, etc. It's just SO HARD to find the time. Especially for reading, for some reason...

Well, before I go I would like to add: a long time ago I drew Northern Jacanas. Well, I've seen one in real life now! Admittedly it was one that got lost or something, so that wasn't its "natural" habitat, but still. They really are gorgeous birds.

So I am naughty and took another months-long break. Science classes tend to siphon my time, if you know what I mean. Have I mentioned I hate chemistry?

But I've since rediscovered the joys of "the art." I know I've said this before, but there's a chance I might actually bother posting some of the stuff I draw/write again. I've gotten wrapped up in other stuff, is all.

I lost my kick-ass macro-taking camera, or I would upload pictures of my two babies, Butter and Kayak. They are garden snails. Extremely cute. For some reason they are boycotting food (except for lettuce) right now.

My current "project" is to write a book about mollusks, but it hasn't gotten off the ground yet. I started another major fictional endeavor, but it sorta lost steam for the moment. I need another grand project to keep me going though...it feels weird not to have one.

Oh, but, I have learned to cook. Therefore, I have still been artifying. It's just hard to upload manicotti onto the internet and still have it retain its taste. On the other hand, if any of you are ever in my neck of the woods, I'd gladly make you an Onion of Supreme Popularity, which for some reason makes people into my mindless slaves...maybe it's the synthetic dopamine...

So. Yeah. Hi again everyone *waves* I WILL get around to replying to stuff! Really! I promise...

So I have almost survived a whole year of college. Somehow, living in the no-privacy box didn't kill me!

Well basically there is too much stuff that happened for me to recap in one journal, needless to say that I'm OK and am going to TRY to draw more since it will make my brain healthier.

The housing admin on this campus sucks, like, really, really bad. So no apartment for me. However, I may be living off campus in a nicer place anyway so it all works out.

Christ I'm bored.

Yeah. Getting used to living in a tiny no-privacy box, in a building with a million girls who giggle annoyingly, is sort of tough, admittedly. So I forgot this existed.

In April (a mere 4 journals ago, strangely) I said the integrals have been vanished. Well wrong, DAMMIT I HAVE TO TAKE CALCULUS AGAIN. Unhappiness. Well, I'm not failing it. And, all my other classes are OK.

I'm a Bio major, no emphasis (for right now). In the spring I'm going to help out with cellular signaling research, and see if it interests me, and if not do other lab work. This way I can see what I like/don't like. Because apparently a non-emphasis Bio major is really passe around here.

College life has taken a bit to get used to but I pretty much like it now. It's great not having a TV in the room, since there's nothing ever on, but you get stuck watching it anyway...waste of time! And I can play video games all day long instead of going to class, if I want.

So yep. I might get back into artifying soon. But maybe not. I'm really busy a lot of the time. Kindof a full semester.

That's what's been happening. Nothing too terrible, and I wasn't ignoring anyone ^^

God, the microwave's full of ants. Every time we clean it out, more just find it. I know I'm supposed to be the bug lady now, but this is a little much. They don't even look like normal ants. They're all brown and small and smooshy. Now that's all I can think about when I eat anything that comes out of the microwave, and I'm afraid I have to admit that's just about everything I eat.

There are freaking bugs all over this freaking house. I opened the door yesterday to let some guests out and a giant moth suddenly wakes up and flies toward me. I tried to slam the door on it but it made it in anyway.

And the walk to the house is like a great big Halloween display, there's about 5 or 6 very, very large black widow spiders on the sides of the path. I keep trying to remember to smoosh them but you have to admit, they're pretty, and I feel a little bad.

I almost died once trying to kill black widows. There was one big one right outside the door, so I killed that, and then another one appeared, and I killed that, and realized that the giant heap of crap sitting there was probably harboring a huge colony of them. So I sprayed it down with water. And bugs flew EVERYWHERE. So I kept spraying and just in time noticed the giant honking black widow heading right for my foot. I was, stupidly, wearing open-toed sandals. Fortunately it didn't bite me, but SOMETHING did, and it itched for like a week.

Strange thing to do this week: Hmm, I dunno. Rent out a medical dictionary from the library and find the "self diagnosis" section. According to ours, I'm having a stroke, I have some sort of liver infection, and I may have schizophrenia. (Strange, usually it says I'm having a heart attack.) Anyway, it's usually good for a laugh.