Well, I’m sure most of you know the drill by now. This is my annual leaving-for-the-summer-to-dial-up-internet journal. It’s just denser this year because there are a lot of new happenings in my life. So here’s the low-down:

Man, how time flies. It feels like just yesterday I was a senior in high school and now I’m going to be graduating college in a couple days! Makes one contemplate things you’d rather not.

Do you ever stop and think about what you’ve accomplished? What your goals used to be and what they are now? Earlier this year I had an “AHA” moment; it all fell into place. I knew exactly what I wanted to do…and then I realized that I had wasted four years of my life majoring in the wrong thing. Back when I was a wee high schooler I knew two things for certain: art was what I wanted to do and Disney was who I wanted to work for. At that time, animation seemed the logical career path. Since then I’ve grown older and wiser. I’ve learned nothing of substance from the animation program at my school and I’ve come to the conclusion that animation isn’t for me. I’m an Illustrator at heart. I don’t think in action or movement – I think in images (key poses in animating terms). I can convey a story better through a single image than I ever can through action and time. It’s refreshing when you can figure out a small part of your complicated life – I just apparently have really bad timing (no animation pun intended).


At least I have the summer to look forward to. There are some awesome movies coming out that I can not wait to see! Obviously, Harry Potter 6 is a big one. July is almost here! Curse those Warner Brother bastards for making us wait from November to July! Lol.

But the movie I am most excited about right now is X-men Origins: Wolverine. Not only is a movie based solely around Wolverine awesome in its own right, but Gambit is in it also. He’s always been my favorite mutant and I have been waiting for them to put him in the X-men movieverse since X1. I wanna jump out of my skin with excitement every time I see a commercial for it on TV. It’s crazy…I don’t think I’ve wanted to see a movie more badly (even Pirates or Harry Potter). Lol…and it’s only when I see clips of Gambit do the fangirl hormones in me really start to rage. First it was a glimpse of his eyes turning red and then the other day I FINALLY heard him speak with his Cajun accent...now all that’s left is to see the damn movie! Just to add to my gnawing anticipation, I discovered something really awesome the other day. Have any of you guys seen the clips of the mutants duking it out on a nuclear reacter? I read in the paper that it’s supposed to be Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. Are you freakin’ kidding me?! TMI is less than an hour from my house - I can see the steam plumes from my window! Mutants...duking it out on TMI...I can not wait to see that.


To top the summer off, in late August I’m heading to Walt Disney World again to participate in the Disney College Program. For five months I am going to be living and working at WDW. I’m psyched...sounds like a great opportunity (networking ftw) and I can’t wait to get started!

Hope you’re summers are as good as I anticipate mine will be!

Fair Winds.



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