So Apparently...

Last year I said I would update more. That didn't happen but I will do it this time. Life gets a little busy and you completely forget you had a blog. I'm going to try and get back into doing more artwork and posting it. Summer is right around the corner and it is the best time to get things done.

WHOA

O_O It's been that long? Seriously? Damn... I need to be more tactful. Oh well, many things have changed over this year. And I'll start updating a lot more.

08

Well, It's 2008 now, and there's a lot to look back on and a lot to look forward too. I made myself a resolution to learn how to use a drawing tablet, and so far... it sucks. I wonder how people are able to use these things. I really can't see myself figuring this out anytime soon. But other than that, I can look forward to hopefully another semester of school and looking for another job. Let's see what happens. Happy New Year!

National Portfolio Day

My sister informed me last night that today was National Portfolio Day at Parsons School of Design here in New York. She asked me to accompany her, and I POLITELY REFUSED. SO THE NEXT MORNING I WENT WITH MY SISTER TO THIS PORTFOLIO REVIEW. Apparently "no" means nothing to her. Anyway we left very late, which I told her not to do because the line would be terribly long, which it was! Around the corner and all the way down the block to the next corner. (If you know New York City blocks they are well over 800 feet long, especially in Mid-Manhattan.) The weather unfortunately was not cooperating, it was cold it was windy and worst of all... it was raining. (And it may have snowed a bit too) After she found her friends I quickly took my leave, as I did have plans for today.

So I headed to Grand Central Terminal to look around the Transit Museum. Then I walked to Starbucks bought some coffee, then walked through Koreatown and down to Union Square where I left my sister on line with her friends. Only to find out that they had already walked inside. So I made nice with the people around me, namely the security guards and parents of students. I met up with old high school friends and met my sister, who received lots of good feedback. :)

The funniest part of the day was on the train ride home, I was with my sister and her friend. We let two express trains pass us by and boarded the local. Shortly after leaving the station we stopped in the tunnel, there was a police investigation ahead of us. My sister's friend started acting all silly asking people if they had seen Saw IV and if they were scared that the train stopped. Then the lights went out and she let out a scream and said, and I quote "We all gonna die!" She had the entire subway car laughing, this couple in front of us could not stop laughing, the woman laughing for 2 minutes straight! :D (Another fact about NY, it's incredibly hard to make NYers laugh, especially on the subway!) It was the most fun I've had on the train!

Financial Aid Woes

Well, I've got financial aid troubles that are making it very difficult for me to attend school now. Apparently the federal government wants to know where my parents are and why don't they live with me. The financial aid office at my school basically said you can't get financial aid without your mom & dads tax returns. Well that'd be easy if I knew where they were! I've never met my dad before, never sent me a birthday card, never called or payed child support or anything. So... how do I get his tax return??? I've met mom a couple of times, but she doesn't live here so her tax returns don't work in my case. So what's a person eager for education to do? Well, my grandmother has raised me since birth, or shortly after so I can use her stuff right? Of course I can't. I need to file for an independence appeal. But now the gov't wants to know where they are and why don't they live with me. Sounds simple but now I gotta run around to all these different places to get letters that say mom & dad are just... out there. I can't believe they would hassle me like this just so I can get an education.

Lest We Forget

It was a warm morning, I was late for school and ran out the house to catch the J train. I still to this day have the Metrocard that I purchased that morning that read 9/11/01 8:00AM. Everything we've ever known would remain normal for about 45 minutes. I am a proud American and a proud New Yorker, I love my country and my city. No matter who knew what before it happened, or what should have or could have been done, or even if these acts were committed by us or them, all I know is that 2,974 people did not have to perish that morning. May the we never forget this tragedy, and do all we can to see that it never occurs again.

Hooray for School

Well, school has started up once again and I can now devote 150% of my life and time towards school! I'll probably have no time for anything else but, meh, what can you do? I decided to switch majors, I'm an art major now instead of an architecture major. I was thinking maybe I'd get my master's in Urban Planning or Architecture and take it from there. So hopefully all will go well!