A friend of mine just got back from Salt Lake City and was showing me some pics of when he and his girlfriend went sightseeing. When he started talking about this, I had to look it up.
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In other news, the end of the semester is quickly approaching and finals are looming. So life's pretty much consumed by studies and finishing my research papers.

I know I haven't been doing much, online or otherwise, for awhile now. Needless to say I had a lot of stuff to deal with and I just wasn't coping extremely well. But things have quieted down and I can catch my breath. Midterms just ended so I have a bit of a lag, although I still want to murder one of my professors. Many of the personal issues I had been experiencing have sort of been ironed out, and I'm feeling much better about life in general.
So now that that's kind of past, I have three incomplete sketches I've been meaning to complete. It's nice to be able to have time to draw again. I never knew how relaxing it was for me until I couldn't do it anymore. So anyway, thanks to my friends out there who offered their advice during my down time, I really appreciate it.

I've been kind of in a slump lately, between a near suffocating amount of class and lab work as well as troubles at my job. So much of my time is taken up now, that the only reason I get up in the morning is to go through the same routine over and over. There's no chance to relax, sketch or even just veg-out. Not only that, but I've spent the last few days basically coughing up my own lungs because of this damn fever.
All this is piled onto the fact that I'm sort of loosing a bunch of my really good friends. I had a falling out with one of them, basically because of various long-standing issues between the two of us. Another guy joined the Navy and ships out in a month. A third is moving to L.A. to help out his family. And the fourth is moving up to northern California to go to college. Don't get me wrong, I understand their reasons for leaving and I hope they all do well. It doesn't change the fact, though, that it's still a horrible feeling to loose four of your best friends. I really hope I'll see them soon, but I think we all have reached that point where we have to go off and kind of do our own things. Anyway, sorry to sound like one of those 1970's buddy's movies, but I just had to kind of get this off my chest.

So yeah, my field camp is now officially over with. The workload was hell, but the trip was incredibly fun. The places we saw were spectacular and the sort of misadventures all my fellow students and I had ranged from embarrassing to downright scary. But overall, we learned a ton about our subject and had a great time exploring areas most of us barely knew existed. But anyway, it's good to be back and I'm looking forward to starting to sketch again, between the other few projects I have this summer.

So the semester just ended, and it was the four days from hell. I don't think my professors totally grasp the concept of finals "WEEK". Three reports were due on Friday with a calculus exam that afternoon, followed by another report due Monday. Made me want to strangle somebody. But it's over and I get about a week off before field camp begins.

On that note, I'll be kind of absent until July. I'm both excited and a bit nervous about this. On the one hand, this field camp class is a great opportunity to get out and see parts of the country and learn about some pretty cool science. But it still doesn't keep me from feeling just a bit nervous about living in the wilderness for six weeks. Overall, though, I'm more eager to get started than anything else. We're going to start in Utah and hit almost every national park between there and the coast as we move west. Before I leave, though, I promise there will be at least one more pic, something special I've been struggling to find time to do.

So last thoughts, basically I guess I'll hear from you guys first week of July. I realized I'm coming up on two years of posting art on the web, and I wanted to say thanks to all the people who have faved my art and watched me. All you guys are great and it is definitely gratifying to know there's someone out there who likes my stuff. Anyway, sorry to go all sentimental on you. And I guess that's it for me.