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Well hello. Hmm, I feel weird. I worked all fucken day today but I'm happy to be making money you know? Anyway, hello to Miss Nae and yes, happy birthday to US! Damn I hella miss you girlie! Chris, congratulations on moving in with your lady and I would like to hang out with you soon, maybe we can go get some coffee or some shit. Anyway...tomorrow I am heading over to the Academy of Art and I am going to check into scholarships and financial shit and also have my fashion portoflio reviewed. Speaking of which, I don't think I ever ranted about the Comic con! So I went to the Comic con in San Diego last July and attepmted to go get my comicbook portfolio reviewed. A long time ago I got into this comic called Tarot and this was just after I had quit Contemp(t)o but was still going there to talk to my friends. Jack and I met this girl Meredeth who we became kind of friends with. Later that summer we went to the Comic con (this was in '01) and went looking for the Tarot booth. Low and behold, Meredeth worked for Jim Balent, writer and artist behind Tarot. You don't even know how much of an influence Jim has been to me. In fact, it was his rendition of Chaos's Purgatori that I FIRST learned to draw in the fashion I draw now. Jim and Tarot have influenced me so much and he is such an inspiration to me and has been even more so since Jack and I discovered Tarot. Well that was necessary back story to explain why the Comic con this year was saved. There are three reasons that I'll get to. First: On the first day that we went to the convention, we just wanted to have fun and shop around and that's what we did. After three years, we ran into Meredeth again (who I will refer to as Merri-death) and Jim Balent. Merri-death remembered us! And Jim kind of did as well, even though I look totally different, and they were so awesome! Well, the next day we went to get my portfolio reviewed but unfortunatly we were too late and the one group we were on time for didn't even show up. Needless to say, I was beyond dissapointed. So I decided to go down to the convention and try to make the best of it. It dawned on me that Jim might review my portfolio. Well, long story shorter, he did! He told me everything I needed to know, he told me everything I needed to do, he told me techniques and just...everything. Do you have any idea what it was like to have the very person you've admired and even slightly modeled your style like, review your work? It was one of the best things that's ever happened to me. Jim Balent liked my work and Holly, a fellow artist (she's amazing) and creator of Vampfire, also liked it, she said it was beautiful! I had never felt so much like I should keep working on my stuff. Two: after that, I was walking toward David Mack's booth, my favorite comicbook guy, creator of Kabuki, when Jack and I noticed that Masuimi Max was at the Topcow booth. We had seen that she was supposed to be there the day before but we didn't see her. (if you don't know who she is, go look her up) Anyway I realized this may be my only chance to talk to her so I approached her... Shit I have to go I'll finish this later.