I find myself constantly wishing there were more hours in the day, just so I'd have time to stay true to my old routines while tacking on additional responsibilities that life seems compelled to throw my way.

Well, I've been attacking the Sookie Stackhouse series. If you aren't familiar with the series, it basically falls under the category of "southern vampire mystery." More importantly it has a jocose, tongue-in-cheek undercurrent that keeps the books from falling into the typical dark, brooding trammels most vampire books align themselves to. Since I've been waiting over a week for the next book I've put on hold to come in (why can't people return library books within their due dates), I've resorted to watching the True Blood series. For those of you not in the know, that's the HBO series that is based off of the Sookie Stackhouse books. The book-to-screen transition is actually done pretty well--much better than I thought it would have--with some additional situations thrown in from other characters' perspectives.

Aside from that things are going well. I have school, a job, an apartment, my hobbies and my friends. The only other thing I need is a girlfriend then I think I can be considered to be well-rounded individual.

People, you should read "Love in the Time of Cholera."

It is written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and it is good.

I went to do the meme/feature 3 deviations from everyone who commented on my last journal but it turns out I need a subscribed account to actually post thumbnails in my journals. Fie! thwarted again, deviantArt. Apparently this is a meme formed for the amusement of the higher echelons of dA. I bookmarked everyone who participated, though, for when I am able to do it because I'm still dedicated to seeing this through to the end.

Also, I randomly uploaded an assortment of music for anyone who could use some new music. It's an assortment of electronica, classical and combinations of the two (The Flashbulb and Vospi are particularly tasty!). Here's the tracklist, enjoi!:

1. cornandbeans - The Sewers (4:25)
2. Bond - Explosive (3:08)
3. Bond - Winter (5:42)
4. Infected Mushroom - Frog Machine (6:10)
5. Infected Mushroom - Suliman (6:11)
6. m1dy - Freedom (5:31)
7. m1dy - Innocent (3:16)
8. Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (11:27)
9. Scissorkicks & Sgt. Rock - Seoul Warfare (6:22)
10. Tatsh - Zenius-I-Vanisher (2:17)
11. The Flashbulb - Amber Shores (3:17)
12. The Flashbulb - Passage D (2:00)
13. Virkato - Scorpion Fire (8:01)
14. Vospi - Etude Du Soleil De Matin (2:40)
15. Vospi - Waltz of Melted Snow (2:23)

Total size: 90mb

Link: [link]

Comment here and I'll feature my 3 favorite deviations from your gallery and MAKE YOU A GOD explain briefly why I like them. I don't expect you to do the same, though.

Like the title says! (looking for an excuse to update the ol' journal, since i never do because most of my earnest blogging goes down on livejournal where people who specifically want to know what's going on with my life will watch--in contrast to deviantart, where people watch me first and foremost for my arts, which i have not been doing much of lately much to my and certain others' chagrin; but it is odd since i'm on winter break now and have over a month to draw but i haven't been making much of the time because of having a life (aka work, chums and video games--oops, video games don't constitute having life, yet they are the stuff of life--how odd); but hopefully things will slow down because art is what i do best and the feeling one gets after drawing a pretty thing is akin to what i imagine a mother feels after looking down to the child she's conceived and knowing she's brought something beautiful into the world but that's just a guestimate because i've never asked a mother who also draws to compare what they felt upon creating a drawing and child although the option is certainly there because i do know some parents who're also artists (sorry, "drawer," since artist is a word some people seem to try and avoid) but no matter i am rambling on and on and on like this is stream of consciousness like a Faulker book like "the sound and the fury" which i did attempt to read once but gave up after the first twenty pages because i got utterly lost--another saddening thing because english is also another of my fortes just like art is but in this case i failed; yes, failed, like failure, as in what this entry is filled withAHHHH! gonna stop now... you will be baked... and then there will cake ~bows~)