Midterm

[edit: sorry if this appears multiple times i am interface challenged on dA @.@]

Midterm life update.

I have been doing a lot of writing for Visions of Ragnarok [working title] lately. It's been seven years in the making and I'm very eager to work on it and share my progress. There is concept art to do, scripts to write, and storyboards to draw... but I'm excited that years of doodles and scribbles and a fascination with Chaucer and Tolkien have finally culminated into something that might actually be worth writing. Youngsfield Academy has been shaping up, too.

I racked up some debt with my two-con circuit last summer. I was dreadfully under-prepared. The coming year has the potential to be much better; I have a friend who does printing and t-shirts, and we had a few good ideas for designs. I just hope that I will have the time and space to actually take that opportunity. It would be very interesting to design merchandise. I want to have more prints, too. I have a few months to make up my mind about doing artist alley next summer, but my course load is very discouraging.

That said, I hate college. I'm tired of having life put on hold. I just want to work, pay off my debt, and spend some time reading books, refining art, and working on scripts. I want to work on my programming certifications. I want to make my comics. But, it appears that I'm stuck in the rut until next May. Now that I nearly at the end, I feel like the past 5 years of my life have been a waste; I changed my major three times and never found a comfortable fit. I strongly feel that I should have taken that associate in general studies and left much sooner. The only benefit I can see right now is that I had decent healthcare while I was a student. I'm only glad that I decided not to go to an expensive college and won't have much money to pay back, but I can't help but feel I could have been fine just teaching myself, or even taking self-guided courses online.

I'm weighed down with medical bills right now. I'm so impatient to pay them off, but I just can't work enough hours to pay them and be at peace because I need to finish school. It's very frustrating. I have a few commissions on the back burner as well, which is also frustrating.


In lighter news, I've become addicted to crime drama in the past few months. They are always playing on the TV at work and I watch them on my break. It's hard to work when I know there is a Law & Order marathon playing on ION television... my obsession with Criminal Intent has pretty much become part of my identity. My friends will find me to show me when L&O comes up in a comedian routine or if they find a funny meme.

Friend: "Hi, I had something I wanted to tell you, but I forgot what it was."
Me: "Did it have something to do with Law & Order?"
Friend: "Yes, actually. How did you guess?"
It's always about Law & Order...


DUN DUN.

I really want to watch Law & Order now... but Netflix removed Criminal Intent this month. ;__;
Criminal Minds is online this month--which is really exciting and all, but I REALLY wanted to watch Criminal Intent while I was on fall break. I was so disappointed that I just did assignments instead.