Hello everyone!

I am still alive, and I'm still ok.

A little sick and a little (ok a lot) broke at the moment, but otherwise can't complain.

I have been trying to find a second job for several months now without luck, and I will be transferring YET AGAIN to my FOURTH college sometime this year. In case you need refreshing, the flowchart looks like this.

Heidelberg College>Ohio Wesleyan University>Ohio State University> Ohio University.

Which ironically, is one of the schools that offered me at least one year free back in 2004 when I was all smart and desirable.

I work in a public library, and hope to get my bachelor's degree soon so I can pursue a masters in library sciences.

Still living at home unfortunately- until I find that second job that will cover the cost of moving out. Either that or get married. Which surprisingly, may not be as lunatic of a notion as it might appear to be as my bf of two years and I have discussed it happening within the next year or so. Being the doubting thomas that I am, it will take at least a ring and more to convince me it will ever happen.

Lucky for me though, he is a musician and a painter- and also enjoys collage. So my hoping to have an art studio someday remains a possibility.

On a humorous note, this is the very guy I used to mention completely vaguely and target some of that silly poetry towards when I was a teen. I've known him my whole life, and we've been close friends since I was 18. That makes things interesting to be sure. "How did you meet?" "um.. in the womb?" (Our moms grew up across the street from one another and were best friends...)

Our relationship and our friendship have been far from smooth sailing- but we always end up talking incessantly and craving each others company. So I can feel blessed to have that, I suppose.

I guess there isn't much else to say... I promised two years ago to use this site as motivation to do more artwork. I have been doing some artwork- I'll try to post pictures. I'm afraid I'm completely out of touch with the dA world. I still maintain contact with a few people off of here... david and dan at least.

Here's my facebook: [link]rofile
My skype (although I've never used it): laurenlovesitlive
My googletalk: yougottorollme
My aim: osomellosoyello
my myspace(I have one to keep on top of matt's musical endeavors, etc: myspace.com/gonnawarmmybones

Some websites I love:
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