First and foremost I'd like to apologize to (again) for taking so long on the stuff he paid me for a long time ago. I'm now almost halfway done...

Also I'd like to apologize to all the people I watch/know on DA, who may have put up artworks and been disappointed when I did not stop in to leave my amazing comments. I especially apologize to these people because I'm just going to clear all my deviations, on account of having more than 3k (and 913 messages).

So, the reasons I've been gone from DA are fairly simple. College kicked my ass, hard. I failed out of Chico State, and I was academically disqualified from enrolling in a California State University for a period of at least one year. Prior to this I'd been living in an apartment in Chico with my girlfriend, which was paid for by my mother's cash. Now, for obvious reasons, she's not too keen on continuing that setup, which I cannot really blame her for. So and I have spent the last month or two scrambling to get jobs which are capable of supporting this place. The current lease ends at the end of September and neither of us have been able to find anything. Before you judge us as slackers, however, please remember that we're looking for work (with neither of us having any real experience to speak of) in a town with a 16% unemployment rate and a lot of kids our age looking for similar work. So I don't really know what's gonna happen in the coming months.

Anyways, yeah, I'm not dead, but I haven't really been in a great position for art lately. Sorry for bein' a slacker.

PS I'm offended that there is no "blank" option, in the smileys for journals...