Tadaima (I'm home)
May. 26th, 2010 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
digitalrukiBy the way, journal and journal buddies, I have returned safely from my study abroad in T-T-Tokyo. I went straight from the world's most exciting city back to my hometown, then just a quickly rushed up to my college campus that I'd been missing like crazy. I've been living in my friend's internet-less but cozy apartment and working at my old school job. The weather here is sticky and sweaty. My job is practically hard labor and every evening I come home exhausted--but happy.
I've been looking forward to this summer almost since last semester began, as the first summer since entering college that I'm going to thoroughly enjoy. Usually I go home during the summer but this time I'm on my own in the city, near my friends and earning just enough to get by. It feels good. This is the last summer I'll likely spend in school, and it already the weeks have flown by. I want time to move slower so I can see and do everything.
I've been slowly peeling through the journals on my reading page, although I'll admit I dropped off a few months ago and have probably missed quite a bit. I love all my journal friends so dearly, but I'm also enjoying my life disconnected from the internet. While I was in Tokyo, I fell into the habit of choosing a night out over a night in. I've started to realize that I've been missing too much of the outside world. Thinking about previous summers, which were spent almost entirely in my own bedroom, I want to spend less time in my fantasies (not that fantasies are bad--on the contrary, they are one of life's greatest pleasures, but there's such thing as too much sugar).
I no longer seem to dislike spending time with others, or doing pointless things--things that aren't involving in schoolwork or artwork or fandom. Like having a long talk over dinner with friends. Or rolling around on the floor. This might just be a coincidence but I've also been feeling really nostalgic lately. I keep remembering parts of high school. I'm kind of longing to reconnect with that time.
In more physical news, I've acquired an old road bike that needs cleaning and adjusting. I ordered some stuff online since I'm too lazy to visit the hardware store, and that stuff won't arrive for another week or so. So I've just been spending time coddling the blue, rusty frame and balancing on the seat, imagining all the places I'll be able to explore. If this was my apartment I was posting from, I would include a picture of this gorgeous creature. (I'm in the school computer lab, detoxing after a particularly scorching hot day pushing heavy carts around.)
Summer isn't without its fannish pursuits (when else can we pursue them so freely?)--Re-watching old Power Rangers series, working on a fresh fanvid in my spare time, and gearing up for an Otakon art table. I've been marathoning Bones over the past few weeks (read: drooling over Hodgins), and following a few web-comics as best I can--Finder, The Meek, TJ and Amal, and Sfeer Theory. My thesis will most likely be a comic too...but I'm always having trouble deciding what style I want to work in. I love so many comic styles, and given enough prep time, can imitate just about anything. But what style is me? What's my brushstroke? What's my cartoon? Anyway, the projects I'll most likely focus on are my "Deo Vindice" graphic novella, the mail room comics, and more Archie Comic imitations ho ho ho.
*~*LOVE!*~* to my dreamwidth circle and livejournal f-list
You guys are all awesome people !! Knowing you're out there gives me strength every day.
I've been looking forward to this summer almost since last semester began, as the first summer since entering college that I'm going to thoroughly enjoy. Usually I go home during the summer but this time I'm on my own in the city, near my friends and earning just enough to get by. It feels good. This is the last summer I'll likely spend in school, and it already the weeks have flown by. I want time to move slower so I can see and do everything.
I've been slowly peeling through the journals on my reading page, although I'll admit I dropped off a few months ago and have probably missed quite a bit. I love all my journal friends so dearly, but I'm also enjoying my life disconnected from the internet. While I was in Tokyo, I fell into the habit of choosing a night out over a night in. I've started to realize that I've been missing too much of the outside world. Thinking about previous summers, which were spent almost entirely in my own bedroom, I want to spend less time in my fantasies (not that fantasies are bad--on the contrary, they are one of life's greatest pleasures, but there's such thing as too much sugar).
I no longer seem to dislike spending time with others, or doing pointless things--things that aren't involving in schoolwork or artwork or fandom. Like having a long talk over dinner with friends. Or rolling around on the floor. This might just be a coincidence but I've also been feeling really nostalgic lately. I keep remembering parts of high school. I'm kind of longing to reconnect with that time.
In more physical news, I've acquired an old road bike that needs cleaning and adjusting. I ordered some stuff online since I'm too lazy to visit the hardware store, and that stuff won't arrive for another week or so. So I've just been spending time coddling the blue, rusty frame and balancing on the seat, imagining all the places I'll be able to explore. If this was my apartment I was posting from, I would include a picture of this gorgeous creature. (I'm in the school computer lab, detoxing after a particularly scorching hot day pushing heavy carts around.)
Summer isn't without its fannish pursuits (when else can we pursue them so freely?)--Re-watching old Power Rangers series, working on a fresh fanvid in my spare time, and gearing up for an Otakon art table. I've been marathoning Bones over the past few weeks (read: drooling over Hodgins), and following a few web-comics as best I can--Finder, The Meek, TJ and Amal, and Sfeer Theory. My thesis will most likely be a comic too...but I'm always having trouble deciding what style I want to work in. I love so many comic styles, and given enough prep time, can imitate just about anything. But what style is me? What's my brushstroke? What's my cartoon? Anyway, the projects I'll most likely focus on are my "Deo Vindice" graphic novella, the mail room comics, and more Archie Comic imitations ho ho ho.
*~*LOVE!*~* to my dreamwidth circle and livejournal f-list
You guys are all awesome people !! Knowing you're out there gives me strength every day.
