CAUTION: The statements enclosed herein are the direct discourse of an emotional individual and as such may contain high levels of 'angst' - READ AT YOUR OWN RISK


Well I'll start with the worst news that's currently relevant, get that out of the way eh. My planned trip to Melbourne isn't going to happen. My friend can't make it anymore, mostly because of a lack of money and a restricted time frame, and I wouldn't enjoy it going alone.

So instead, I treated myself to a day out today and splurged with a little of the money that I had saved for it. Goodies include: Battlestar Galactica the Movie and Seasons 1,2 & 3, an electric shaver (because I hate wet shaving, have a horrible rash and need to shave twice a day to keep my beard to an acceptable norm ), some paints to finish off my continued 'modeling' experiments, and a bunch of books: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Tao Te Ching (because taoism is something that has had me curious for a while now), Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and a book on developing leadership skills that I think might be useful for my officer's application.

I feel refreshed. It was good to have a day just to do my own thing. I needed it. I still feel really tense and stressed out about life at the moment but at least now I'm not walking away from every second person I speak to just to avoid breaking their nose

Nothing much else to report. My current plan of attack: Prepare myself as much as possible for my ADF interviews (they should happen in the next two months), research what I need to do to optimize my chances of getting into uni next year (see if I can sit entrance exams, do interviews and who I have to suck up to in general) and work on rebuilding the social life I utterly destroyed over the course of the last six months

EDIT: I just finished watching The Mist, a movie based on Stephen King's book. I was pretty cool. Kinda like a zombie flick with kick ass critters instead - expect art inspired by it in the near future.

Oh, and add me to your facebook, here if you dare

Alrighty, a quick update. My application for the mid-year university admissions was knocked back. It sucks but that's life. I'll reapply for the '09 entry. From there we'll see what happens. I should hear about my ADF application in the next couple of weeks *fingers crossed* And a trip to Melbourne seems likely at this point. Short of hearing word from the army and needing to leave in a hurry I can't see why it won't happen.

As far as arty news goes, not much to report. Working on some emote ideas for a couple of projects. Been playing around with some air dry clay and doing some modeling - my first attempt will be posted shortly, it still needs another coat of two of pain first - and I'm trying to get something done that isn't pixel orientated

On a side note: *Verdokai passed this along to me so if you comment I will:

a) tell you why I friended you (if I have),
b) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.,
c) tell you something I like about you,
d) tell you a memory I have of you,
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,
f) tell you my favorite pic of yours,
g) in return, you must post this in your journal.

UPDATE: I added another two artists to the feature below; and a custom cursor

It's true, I'm still alive. I haven't had much time to do anything on dA recently. A lot of sickness has been going around at work, and I'm the lucky 'fill-in' guy who gets to cover everyones shifts. More shifts = more money =

I'm considering going down to Melbourne for a week on a bit of a get away. It depends on what I hear back from uni, on the 30th, and whether or not the Australian Defense Forces decides to get back to me before I leave. Oh, and money too. We'll see how it goes. Luckily there won't be much planning involved beyond the booking of airfares

No other news really. I just spent the last hour fracking around with CSS and HTML stuff; jazzing up my journal and working on a nicer look for myspace. I've been dabbling more and more in the emoticon side of things. I enjoy it. Funny little animations and projects. I like the outlook of a lot of the artist who do it too.

P.S - I ran out of time to find more peoples to feature, fracking CSS Now check the cool thumbs below. I should have more to show you next time peoples, including pop out menus

Well I've been running around pretty flat out for the last two or three weeks, I don't really remember when it all started. I haven't had any time at all really to even look at dA let alone make/post some art. I was working on an emote/pixel ski lift which proved a little harder than I thought it was going to be, its close enough to being finished, probably and hour or two worth or work left at the most but I just can't manage to find the time to get around to it.

Mostly I've been working, at this cool little cafe close to where I live. The boss/owner is a really cool guy and for the first time ever I actually somewhat enjoy going into work. The pay isn't great but I don't mind really, its enough to tide me over until uni/army stuff happens. The only bad part is for the last couple of weeks I keep getting called in randomly at the last minute to help cover other people's shifts and what not. That should quiet down on Tuesday though when a girl who is sick gets back. Until then not much time.

What little free time I do have I've been dedicating to my fitness. I'm happy with the way my cardio and respiratory stuff is coming along, I still need to do some work with my core, which has improved heaps but still isn't quite where I'd like it to be, and my arms and stuff are fine.

Oh, and I'm sick of people commenting on how firm by butt looks. I mean really. I think it is a result of work to be honest, we have these tables upstairs, like a flight and a half worth, and I'm always running (literally because it hurts my knee if I take them slowly) up and down them.

Other than that nothing much to report, family still annoying the hell out of me; not a lot I can do about that for now though. Any who, see if you can find the Wally Emote in his first two appearances:

Emotikingdom - This one is easier
tardwallpaper - And slightly harder

Well I've spent the best part of the last week 'taking it easy'. Which is a pain the the butt. I really need to keep on top of my training for the army but my insides have been pretty determined to squirm their way out one way or another of late

It's just a stomach virus as far as I can tell. Today it seems to be a little better than what it has been. Hopefully it will be gone in a day or two.

So really I haven't been doing much of anything. Well just reading and watching dvds. That's really all I do when I'm sick. If you haven't seen it yet, and I don't thing there are many people left who haven't, get your hands on Death Note - the anime AND the manga. They are both awesome. Disc three of the anime is out over here, though I only bought disc one (because I'm poor at the moment ) and I'm not quite sure where the manga is up to. In any case it is pretty awesome. Refreshing to see a good series that not all action orientated. The focus is on morality and makes you wonder how you would act in given situations. Though any review will tell you that