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First things first: I AM using DA's new gallery organization. And no, I didn't delete most of my gallery--I just deselected it from my "featured" items. If you want to see some of my old or otherwise artistic disasters, click "browse." I even sorted everything into categories! Oh, but I didn't touch the effin' scraps!

Second, YES, I've been absent for a while. Life. It tends to happen. Fall Term was really busy: between the honors program for my general ed. credits, International Relations (my major) Theory, and upper-level Japanese, I did very little sleeping in my surprisingly comfortable bed at USC (in Los Angeles--I'm visiting my parents in MN, but for all extents and purposes, I moved to LA).

Third, I have no idea if I'll be creating much new art or in what form. Right now I'm scanning/cleaning up old art either from back in my AP days or from the summer. I also just threw up in my gallery my costumes from last year. I have some partially finished vector stuff, which won't be too hard to work on in spare bits of time because all I need is my laptop and my tablet. Oh, and when I'm back home I work on my costumes/other sewing-related projects.

And while we're on the subject of costume: Two things, really.
1) I'm working on getting my "Gauze" Kaoru outfit finished up accurately. I'm currently redoing the skirt, but I hope to tackle the accessories before break is over. I have a new (and accurate!) version of "Myaku" Kaoru done except for the fact that I need new vinyl pants (I'm far skinnier now) and need to transfer the bones and Chinese frog closures from the old dress to the new one. I may tackle either "Akuro no Oka" (GIANT HAAAAAAAAT) or "Raison detre" (um...no reason needed, obviously!) this summer. I plan to do a new "Myaku"/"Osaka Jo Hall live" wig before that though.

2) AD08 is far later than any previous AD and therefore does not coincide with my spring break at USC. It would be pretty much impossible for me to fly to Mpls from LA just for a weekend, so AD08 just isn't in the cards for me. Hopefully someone else will step up and represent Jrock cosplay this year! ^^ I may go to Kakkoi Con in August instead depending on whether or not Keito will join me (Keito--you better) and what my job situation will be like. I'll try to go to PMX in CA next year too.

Anything else?

Uh, I'm pretty psyched that D'espairsRay and Mucc are playing the TOC tour! Does that count? Probably going to the Long Beach date unless someone convinces me to go to San Diego instead (and will drive me--my car's in MN XD).

Oh, and 12012's new album rocks me hard. The end.