Several interesting things have arisen lately.

First and foremost and most important: I got a new camera!

It's a pretty little digital camera, a Samsung. I have already gotten quite a bit of use out of it. It's even got it's own special accessories, like rechargable batteries and the charger for those, a cord to upload pictures, and a IG memory card. It was all on sale. I am very proud of it.

Secondmost: I've been drawing again.

Yup. So where's the art, you say? It's on my camera. In a large "desperately needs processing" format. And I'm lazy. I'll try to get some up today or tomorrow. Or next week. Eventually. Sometime. Maybe.

Thirdly: I'm going goth?!

I've discovered an incredible fascination with everything goth, which has stemmed interest in areas such as make-up, clothing, tattooing and piercings (especially 'gauging'; I'm seriously considering going to a larger gauge post so I can eventually wear some of those really cool looking earrings I've seen). Also, I cut my hair. It's reeally short now, the shortest it's ever been in years. And it's curly, but I'm thinking that once it's grown out again, I ws going to get it cut another way (not sure which way yet) and have it dyed one of those blacks that has a lot of blue pigment. Also, more piercings, but I was told to look up a place that used hollow needles for cartilage piercing. Anyway, that's my new interest.

Fourth...ly...: One of my spouses (we aren't married, but we might as well be), is looking up buying a house where he lives (which isn't here, but far away.)

He asked me last night what I thought about him owning there, and I didn't know what to say (being awake almost 21 hours that day didn't really help the thinking process either). Where he lives is small, but sounds more advantageous than living here in the States. However, it is far away from everything I know, and far away from my family. Now, though I wouldn't mind being far away from a member or two of my family, I am very close to the rest, and it would be hard. Also, if I moved there, I would literally have to start all over, right from step one as an immigrant, find a job in my desired fields (which I've casually been looking up in his city's business directories...yays for the internets...). It sounds like a nice place to live, with free education and better healthcare, but I remain stumped as to what I'm supposed to think. I guess I'll just have to wait and see, it's really all I can say at this point.

Fifth, last but not least (I think): I'm going back to school.

I'm crazy! I just spent three years there! But I don't care. I realize now that I took the path of least resistance when I went through the baking program, and though I love baking, and though the idea of owning a small bakery someday is nice, it's just not a way to make money. Therefore, I have gone back to my original dream, and in less than half an hour, I am going to sign up for my first class of the rest of my life in Graphic Arts. Specifically, I want to graduate with the Associates Degree in Graphic Art. But what's great about Graphic Arts is the fact that there's ten thousand and more things you can do in the field. I personally wanted to apply my hand to computer graphics and animation in cinema (that's making movies with CG effects), but I understand it might be hard to get a toehold in that area, so I can always try to apply it to my other areas of interest in science, such as anatomy, or paleontology (for example, putting flesh on old bones and skeletons to show how the creature might have looked, moved or whatever.) Whats also good, is that now that I have a job, I can afford my own schooling. I'm going to try and get scholarships of course, and living at home (argarg) helps as well, since the only bill I have to pay is the internet, but I look forward to the day when I can get a job that pays well, get an apartment, and be done with living at home under someone elses rule.

And six! (yes, I knew I had something else to say): I'm rennovating my bedroom. I hope to have everything (well, at leeast the painting), done by the end of May, I'll post a picture here, because it's going to be a super cool custom job.

There, now I'm finished!