Semi-bi-Monthly Personal Update =P

^NEWS
Good morrow, my artsy fartsies!  Hope you are all doing well.  Time for another all-too-rare updatage of my DA journal.  If you're not at all interested in my mental state of mind (which I would funderstand), skip to the last paragraph for the essential info.

Life has definitely picked up for me since earlier this year.  January and February are always difficult because of the continuous cold and dreary weather, the monotonous continuity of insane amounts of schoolwork, and the monotonous continuity of pretty much everything else.  However, this time around, I've had some extra personal baggage to fuck around with.  It's been tough working to find my place in this small town dump, but I'm rediscovering my ways to manage.  I'm on good terms with the friends I've come to know and love, and as time passes and I inch through my days, I sometimes find new people pieces to wedge into the puzzle.  

I find myself these days with the healthiest social life I can remember having; I've got a good chunk of friends, all of them differing from one another and giving me a variety of person types I can relate with.  It's nice when I need a specific person to correspond with my mood.  I do love my obscure scraps of friends; I see them all as different characters in my life's story.  However, unlike in my budding socialite days, I'm still able to connect with myself and the things I've always loved.  Music is still my lover (I'm also teaching myself piano now), I'm still enjoying my daily dose of Colbert, I'm loving my dear tweeps, and though I'm weighed down by tons of artistic obligations I'm still in touch with my creative side to a decent extent.

I'll say that my key gage into seeing how content I am with life is how acceptingly and peacefully I view other people and experiences.  For a few months I found myself seeing things in a very negative light.  I was always waiting for some pivotal moment where I would end up feeling more in the moment and content with all aspects of my life, and I wasted my time trying to figure out what that moment would involve and setting my sights on it, which only ended up disappointing me over and over again.  But I ended up waiting long enough to find that things will fall into place if you perservere and give it time.  I realize now that school stress has had a large underlying effect on my problems, and I'm glad to say that I now have a much more open-minded view of how my social life should be.

So nowadays I see things much more sunnily.  I see a homework assignment not as something to consume my night, but as something that will just take a few minutes.  I perceive other people more cheerfully, find myself more comfortable with smiling around my friends and family when I really want to.  I enjoy the little things much more  when the same little things used to just piss me off.  I'm much more in the moment, and life is feeling much better for me.

Alright, enough softy emotional writing.  Like I mentioned above, I'm teaching myself piano and it's going well.  I've gone cold-turkey vegetarian, and despite the shit i hear about it from small-minded rural rednecks every day, I'm really enjoying the experience.  It's Spring Break time, and between times with people I plan on knocking a bunch of responsibilities out of my artistic way and making time for personal projects.  Thank you to my five new watchers and for all the faves and comments I've been receiving despite my inactivity.  I really appreciate it, my friends.

Much peace and much love
Nuk


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Obligations
~Vienna's album cover for "Apparently Dawn"
~Stencils and decals for the band
~Stelactites for Spanish class
~Prom decorations
~Trade with Koudawaia

Personal Projects
~Surprise for Tweeps
~The Longest Night
~Alive in the World
~More Light, More Love, More Truth, More Innovation

Commissions are CLOSED
(1) George Carlin for Mr. Bennett
(2) Logo for Lisa Clement

Requests are CLOSED

Trades CLOSED

Collabs are OPEN