MathiasMeioh

While many things have happened in my life during the many, many months since I've said (and done) much of anything here, but I don't think any of it would serve as a sufficient excuse for my general absence. Those that speak to me regularly already know what the deal is, but for the benefit of all the others-- I am a college graduate of nearly two months now. After about two consecutive decades of considering myself a "student" (at least on formal applications, heheh), I've entered a new stage of my life. I've been challenged to market myself in a title of two or three words, to cull the works that best represent me from semesters of experi

A few new pictures may have trickled into my gallery in the past few months, but I have never forgotten for a second the dozens of other pieces that are still unpublished. At least I seem to have hit a creative high, giving me more interest in dA than I've had since I first joined (if you can believe it). For now, I've gone back and cleaned up some of what I already have, such as resizing full views to be a little more accommodating to current monitor settings and organizing my schoolwork according to the course for which I made them. I've also dropped my oldest Scraps submission, as it was originally just there for the sake of having stuff i

Yesterday -- Monday, February 5, 2007 -- marks the date of my twenty-first birthday. No, I did not go out to a bar and drink, as my class on Monday this quarter requires constant high concentration and almost always runs late, so I always just want to get on the train and come home as soon as I finish packing up. My family did serve champagne as part of dinner, though (mental note: we have orange juice -- make some mimosas), so I suppose I somewhat fulfilled the expectation for every American resident turning twenty-one. When I woke up Monday morning I saw a wrapped gift lying on my office chair. Well, since my mom and brother were already g