Halftime status report - but first...
A deep and heartfelt Thank You to hidden_hero!
This little girl is now sitting on the shelf above my desk, reminding me that even though I might be feeling like I'm tumbling down the rabbithole right now, there's always light at the end of the tunnel ~ and that there are some lovely people in this world who care and are there to encourage me.
Imagine my surprise when my nasty doorbell rang on Thursday morning, and the lady standing there handed me a small but heavy packet. I wasn't expecting anything, so I was rather curious. The address sticker made me squee and bounce the first time already, but that was nothing compared to my reaction when I discovered the contents: delicious spicy tea, some odd-looking, sticky but definitely yummy fruity bars and the figure shown above. The most lovely thing of all was the letter that came with it, though. I'm still all mooshy inside, and I've put it on my pinboard as a constant reminder of the kind words that it contains.
I seriously have no clue what I did to deserve this, but I'm deeply touched and speechless. If you were here right now, hidden_hero, I'd hug the living daylights out of you! :")
Now, for the promised status report:
I'm halfway through the preparation time for my exam. Whether I'm 50% done is another matter. My schedule is a bit off, but I've been doing good time on the MC questions, whereas the reading is coming along rather more slowly than I would like. For the MC-centered written exam, it wouldn't matter so much (in fact, it'd be better if I knew all MC questions by heart), but since the oral part of the exam is only two weeks later, I'd best squeeze the repetition for that in somewhere now too. *sighs* So much to do, so little time. As usual.
I need to speed things up a bit, that's for sure. But I think I can still do it. *keeps fingers crossed*
I've had two days where nothing was possible, though. On Wednesday, a meeting for lunch with a friend ended up being an entire afternoon spent shopping and drinking coffee/eating cake/updating each other on stuff. Not really wasted time, but an interruption nonetheless. And since the day was almost over and my brain too overloaded for work, I declared it a me-day and spent the rest of the evening drawing.
My brain has been running creative amok these past days - I noticed that I've quite some backlog with posting the pictures, and I just passed the 50-drawing mark, too. (Though that number is probably completely wrong anyway, since I forgot to count a few drawbles and small illustrations in my list.) This is not helped by the fact that I was assaulted by a horde of picbunnies.
Thing is, I once thought I'd challenge myself to complete the Fanart100 table for my Navyboys. Inofficially, since I knew my RL well enough to realize that a half-finished table would cause more sleepless nights than would be healthy for me... Then as I spent some time looking through the prompts, I realized that some of them really didn't work for me. Neither do the prompts the "Lover100" community provides. Not to mention that there are prompts that repeat themselves. I finally ended up combining the four tables, taking out the prompts that didn't work for me (things like "latex", "kink", or "branding" just have nothing to do with my Navyboys, sorry!) and ended up with my very own "fanart200" table that's been haunting me for the better part of a year...
Since my brain always comes up with these things at the most inappropriate time possible, it insisted I look into the possibility of reviving that project... *sighs* Well, after looking through the prompts and discovering art_100, I think I will not completely ignore the possibility of working with a prompts table for a change. At least that thing offers a certain diversity (and helps with finding titles for the pictures - something I've always had enormous troubles with). Hm...
I also remembered that I completely missed my 1st anniversary in the RN fandom, at the beginning of the year. Only to discover, a few days later, that it would have been wrong anyway. Because, guess what? There's a (clearly screen-cap-inspired) portrait of Commodore Norrington lying among the drawbles I never filed away into my folder. That means I didn't first step into the RN fandom on Jan 15, 2007. That's just when I took a rapid tumble down the slippery slope of Navyboy love. The portrait of James Norrington, however, dates back to November 2006... Oh well.
What better way to celebrate than to spend a bit of money on books I shouldn't read (not now, anyway, as there are other books that should have my whole attention)? But to be honest, I just was completely unable to resist the temptation of certain Navy-related books, because this girl needs something tangible to look forward to once the exam from hell is out of the way. I guess since that falls into the resource/inspiration department, a detailed report will be posted on lineae at some point. And yes, I know, I still owe you a comment about "Dressed to Kill". I haven't forgotten. *blushes*
Either way, I guess all this rambling boils down to three things:
- When my brain is swamped down with Things To Do, it always manages to find yet more things I absolutely have to check out.
- Study stress is not something my muses take seriously, and therefore
- There'll be more art sharing over at lineae in the near future.
And that's that. I wish you all a very nice day! :)
This little girl is now sitting on the shelf above my desk, reminding me that even though I might be feeling like I'm tumbling down the rabbithole right now, there's always light at the end of the tunnel ~ and that there are some lovely people in this world who care and are there to encourage me.
Imagine my surprise when my nasty doorbell rang on Thursday morning, and the lady standing there handed me a small but heavy packet. I wasn't expecting anything, so I was rather curious. The address sticker made me squee and bounce the first time already, but that was nothing compared to my reaction when I discovered the contents: delicious spicy tea, some odd-looking, sticky but definitely yummy fruity bars and the figure shown above. The most lovely thing of all was the letter that came with it, though. I'm still all mooshy inside, and I've put it on my pinboard as a constant reminder of the kind words that it contains.
I seriously have no clue what I did to deserve this, but I'm deeply touched and speechless. If you were here right now, hidden_hero, I'd hug the living daylights out of you! :")
Now, for the promised status report:
I'm halfway through the preparation time for my exam. Whether I'm 50% done is another matter. My schedule is a bit off, but I've been doing good time on the MC questions, whereas the reading is coming along rather more slowly than I would like. For the MC-centered written exam, it wouldn't matter so much (in fact, it'd be better if I knew all MC questions by heart), but since the oral part of the exam is only two weeks later, I'd best squeeze the repetition for that in somewhere now too. *sighs* So much to do, so little time. As usual.
I need to speed things up a bit, that's for sure. But I think I can still do it. *keeps fingers crossed*
I've had two days where nothing was possible, though. On Wednesday, a meeting for lunch with a friend ended up being an entire afternoon spent shopping and drinking coffee/eating cake/updating each other on stuff. Not really wasted time, but an interruption nonetheless. And since the day was almost over and my brain too overloaded for work, I declared it a me-day and spent the rest of the evening drawing.
My brain has been running creative amok these past days - I noticed that I've quite some backlog with posting the pictures, and I just passed the 50-drawing mark, too. (Though that number is probably completely wrong anyway, since I forgot to count a few drawbles and small illustrations in my list.) This is not helped by the fact that I was assaulted by a horde of picbunnies.
Thing is, I once thought I'd challenge myself to complete the Fanart100 table for my Navyboys. Inofficially, since I knew my RL well enough to realize that a half-finished table would cause more sleepless nights than would be healthy for me... Then as I spent some time looking through the prompts, I realized that some of them really didn't work for me. Neither do the prompts the "Lover100" community provides. Not to mention that there are prompts that repeat themselves. I finally ended up combining the four tables, taking out the prompts that didn't work for me (things like "latex", "kink", or "branding" just have nothing to do with my Navyboys, sorry!) and ended up with my very own "fanart200" table that's been haunting me for the better part of a year...
Since my brain always comes up with these things at the most inappropriate time possible, it insisted I look into the possibility of reviving that project... *sighs* Well, after looking through the prompts and discovering art_100, I think I will not completely ignore the possibility of working with a prompts table for a change. At least that thing offers a certain diversity (and helps with finding titles for the pictures - something I've always had enormous troubles with). Hm...
I also remembered that I completely missed my 1st anniversary in the RN fandom, at the beginning of the year. Only to discover, a few days later, that it would have been wrong anyway. Because, guess what? There's a (clearly screen-cap-inspired) portrait of Commodore Norrington lying among the drawbles I never filed away into my folder. That means I didn't first step into the RN fandom on Jan 15, 2007. That's just when I took a rapid tumble down the slippery slope of Navyboy love. The portrait of James Norrington, however, dates back to November 2006... Oh well.
What better way to celebrate than to spend a bit of money on books I shouldn't read (not now, anyway, as there are other books that should have my whole attention)? But to be honest, I just was completely unable to resist the temptation of certain Navy-related books, because this girl needs something tangible to look forward to once the exam from hell is out of the way. I guess since that falls into the resource/inspiration department, a detailed report will be posted on lineae at some point. And yes, I know, I still owe you a comment about "Dressed to Kill". I haven't forgotten. *blushes*
Either way, I guess all this rambling boils down to three things:
- When my brain is swamped down with Things To Do, it always manages to find yet more things I absolutely have to check out.
- Study stress is not something my muses take seriously, and therefore
- There'll be more art sharing over at lineae in the near future.
And that's that. I wish you all a very nice day! :)