So it's been awhile! I'm alive and well, I promise you that, I've just been preeeeetty busy! I can't believe I haven't updated my journal since Harry Potter time!

So why the long absence?

I've been student teaching three Japanese classes at a high school an hour away from my house -- if you do the math, that's 2 hours of commuting and about 3.5 hours of being at the school every day, and THEN I had work in the evenings after that! Needless to say, any art I was doing was related to educational purposes and were in the form of stick figures. I finally finished that up about a week and a half ago, but THEN I went to Youmacon! Youmacon was awesome and I cosplayed as an actual character for the first time ever! Pictures will be posted! PREPARE YOURSELF.

Now this week, I have to take a written Japanese fluency test, so I've been spending the last few days cramming everything I've ever learned in my four years of Japanese studies into my brain in the hopes I will pass the test. If I dn't? Well...I can't do my student teaching next semester, which will suck. No pressure!

But yeah, that's pretty much what I've been doing. I did design a Lolita dress for my Second Life shop that I unfortunately never got around to opening on 11/11/11 like I wanted to, but it will come as soon as I have some time to sit down and actually work on some pieces. I don't really know what to do on dA right now because, for the most part, I've sort of fallen out of the mood of Pokemon, and that's all I ever really did. I hope the followers I gain will still appreciate my art when it's more directed to my current interests: Lolita fashion, off-site roleplay, and whatever strikes my fancy.

Sorry if I had been RPing with you before my hiatus -- I think I only left one person in the dust unintentionally, but we worked it out >_<;...

Hope to be around more!