So I straggled across Deviant Art while airing out my mind before studying for mid-terms. I forget that this is not one of those sites like Myspace or Facebook where it automatically updates your age, etc., so here I was updating my age. Wow, 26, who'da thunk it? Where was I several years ago as a freshman? What was I doing? What was life like before college? Hmm... I was an art major at my community college for some 2 years before I suddenly decided to change to an English major (one of those few biggie majors like Spanish that requires one to capitalize it). Now I'm a senior English major/art minor with only a few classes remaining to graduate and I'm looking down the education tunnel and finally seeing light at the end (or maybe it's another tunnel--it's hard to tell). After really getting engaged with a lot of complicated, but rewarding texts, I realize that I do love the English major (hey, 4 classes of the stuff in one term will prove it in a hurry, trust me). On the other side of the coin, however, this has been one of the first semesters in a long time where I have had no art classes period. The ability and the desire is still there, but without being a part of class assignments there is no way that I can really squeeze it all in. Fortunately there is this summer--a time when I can let the artistic half of me clobber the analytical English side with charcoals, watercolors--what have you. With any luck I'll be finishing up my art minor this summer while English takes a back seat with SciFi lit. Until then I'm getting uber-inspired to eventually pick back up with my own art by seeing the marvelous works produced by Hayley (Siosama). Who knows, I may work towards a B.A. in art also while I'm down here. As they say... when in Montevallo... But for now it's heigh-ho heigh-ho a back to books I go. Bye for now, minasan!