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Not a real update

~BecArt — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:34:02 PST

So I'm just writing something new here, because I added some things and changed up the new layout options.
I figured some new words should be said. There.

Maybe something will come in February.

-Becca

EPIC FAIL.... at life.

~BecArt — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:41:57 PDT

So today I was determined to get work done. I feel asleep last night as I started my studying & knew I had work due today, & so I felt bad about not doing my work.

I'm not being responsible.

So after my golf class I made some chicken noodle soup instead of rushing to get ready for the bus. I spent a good half an hour this morning clearing my throat with no change. I still (at 8:30 at night) feel like I have popcorn stuck in my throat.

After finishing that I caught the bus to campus & headed over to the grad program fair. But what a disappointment, only law schools and east coast colleges. Sans Georgetown!

I left that place to go catch the end of my general science class and I got my exam back (mediocre grade).

After class I fooled around for a bit & then made my way up to the 3rd floor to do some actual work (my TA job). The actual work took no time, but then I got caught up with talking to my professor and I ended up being late to my next class (in the same building). My professor and I talked about our equal inability to accept help. The discussion ended with a compromise & my realization that
1) I might not want my problems to clear up
2) I laugh when people make me feel bad
3) I feel bad when people understand me better than I do myself; when they catch me in my bad state.

So, I got some things done today:
I sent in dependent status papers for flights
I checked out grad school options
I finished the geog tests
I dont have to make geog quizzes this week
I made a study date tonight (with guess who!)
I made a study session for tomorrow night
I paid my bills

yep.

Oh the work

~BecArt — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:01:00 PDT

On my honor, I will try, to be good to my studies, and finish my major.

That being said, maybe I'll actually follow it.

I just got a Xmas present in the mail today! Because my fam. lives on the other side of the country its just easier to order things online and have them ship to me directly. So I got a surprise today, a new sewing machine!

I'm SO EXCITED!

It has all the great features one would like to have, 3 diff. button hole designs, reverse stitching, change the stitch width/length, a wide area for extra fabric to fit through, tons of other features! Its amazing, and I can't wait to get some projects started/finished!

In other news, I'm trying not to become too boy crazy, being out on the market and all, but how can I not be crazy when a total cutie shows up in my class??? o.@

I must remain calm. haha, we'll see how much control I have.

I'm also on my way to bicycling master status, after spending the whole day riding to and from every possible landmark in my little college town.

BUT, tonight is going to be devoted to getting shelves up on the walls, bookcases built, and decorations placed in very soothing ways. This year my bedroom will be a place I can relax and chill in.... hopefully bring some guys back to. Haha

Cannot find sleeeeeeeeep

~BecArt — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:10:00 PDT

Ok so Here I Am, and I can not go to sleep. Today was pretty eventful but I wouldn't say I did much, so my body and mind are not tired. Grrr...

Well anyways, even though I never said it:
I'm back from the Philippines!!!
I'm back from Japan!!!
I have a slacker job being a beverage cart girl on a golf course!!!
... yaaaaaaaayyyyy...

HAHA.

Ok so yea I have returned to the US all safe and sound. I had a blast while visiting Asia and am counting down the days until I can return. My life completely changed when I got back, not much of the change was because of the trip, just unfortunate things happened and I am forced to deal with them. Ah, such is life.

So I had a wonderful time traveling, maybe too good a time, and so by owing more money than I can even charge to my credit cards I decided to grab a job and be responsible. I have now successfully paid off my charges and bills and have nothing more to worry about (for the time being).

As for DA and art, well I have the time, I just haven't taken the time. All is not lost however! I do have some textile things I would like to show and possibly sell and then soon enough I'll be back at school with tons of free time and comfort to procrastinate my life away.

On a tangent, who else is going to Otakon in Baltimore MD this August? My friend and I are going and are wondering what to do and who to see. So let me know!

ALSO I'm going to answer her month old call to answer a meme of 10 facts about me as a sort of renewing of my life.

1) I have been reborn an adventurer after my time in the Philippines and Japan and have hopes of trekking in South America and Australia within a year.

2) I am 95% independent. And thus missing 5% of whether or not I can vote in this state or my parents state or wherever. This independence thing is not normally a bad thing, but it is a confusing thing.

3) I am a straight forward, honest to a fault, stubborn woman. If I dont approve or understand something then you're gonna hear about it and I'm not going to stop until it makes sense or we come to a logical understanding of how stupid you were being.

4) I was in a 5 year, close to 6 year relationship that ended abruptly without warning and without a clear reason, the day I returned from Japan.

5) I am an avid golfer, tennis player, football and baseball fan. I would have loved to be in the sports earlier to be pro, but what happened happened so I am just amateur and able to enjoy my failures. And REALLY enjoy my successes!

6) I am scuba certified, have flown an airplane before, scaled the tallest dormitory on my campus, have jumped into a volcano cone, and gained enlightenment by crawling through Buddha's nostril.

7) I have seen the destruction of nuclear weapons and met the people who deal with that everyday and found those people to be the most compassionate, understanding people of the world around.

8) I never had a good relationship with my brother until a couple weeks ago, when we started talking and acting civilized towards each other... dont be fooled though, we're only talking, we havent actually seen each other in person for a while now, that encounter can bring out the crazy...

9) I am interested in motorcycles and tattoos but do not have the money for That right now. Some day I will. The tattoo may be soon...

10) I am reborn and yet I am 21. All my life I wanted to be older so I could be around intellectual types and people who decide for themselves (are not controlled by their parents), and all my life I waited until I could "start my life"; and yet now that I'm there I realize that I WAS living my life and people will always be controlled somehow by their parents or equivalents and that no matter how old I am or where I am I will still be in the presence of idiots and childish games. I also am fearful of being older and having to meet people like an adult and get a CAREER like an adult. I'm finding out that while I'm finally 21 and about to graduate college, I am no where near knowing what I would like to do with my life, in fact I may be further than when I started college. I am reborn and I am new again, and from this newness comes fear and excitement and hesitance. I'm not sure I want to take that last step, I think I'd rather linger on the verge of being a fullfledged adult.

Ok so there it is. Not much telling you about my chatacter because frankly I don't want to scare you all just yet. I have found out (by recent events) that my no shit attitude towards people and my easy going personality with absolutely no emotional game playing involved is intimidating to most and off-putting by others. So I'll let you have fun with this information instead an...

The Philippines!

~BecArt — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:43:34 PDT

Alright all,
I'm gone for a bit over a month because I'll be studying in the Philippines for May!
I will return sometime mid-june, but will be getting a job, so we'll see how the summer pans out.

Best of luck to you and your endeavors!

-Becart

My japanese name

~BecArt — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:38:15 PDT

Ahhh
To wake up at noon.
Sooooo happy!

Ok, so now i've got to get to work though.
And errands (youji) are looming on my conscience.
So let me just say I took this japanese name generator online and Becart is:

My authentic japanese name is æ¸¡è¾º Watanabe (near a crossing) ç¾æ´ Miharu (beautiful clear sky).
Take your real japanese name generator! today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.

And so I'm already in a japanese class and have a given japanese name (Koizumi), I do like the Miharu name. Its so lovely.

Alright that is all for now.

Serenity

~BecArt — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:09:31 PDT

Ahhh -o- I need to get back to the basics.

I've got me some good tea and can finally relax.
Today was awful.
I nearly smacked a guy I had asked help from, kicked many doors probably broke some door somewhere, and called in early at 6pm.

I couldnt stay awake. As my old (and soon-to-be!) roommate has told me time and time again, the chocolate comatose took in and I "slept on my face". Hah.

So I missed a meeting tonight because i slept. But now i'm much happier because i got that feeling of anger out of me and slept it off.

I am enjoying tea and enjoying being me, and thats all that matters.

And, as I trail off to do some work, i leave with this.

And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines on me.
Shine until tomorrow, Let it be.
Speaking words of wisdom, Let it be.
There will be an answer, Let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, Let it be.
-a little something by The Beatles

P.S. my mood makes me laugh --->

School

~BecArt — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:07:11 PDT

Why should I have to judge myself, why should I allow others to judge me?!
I have a group evaluation form to fill out for a recent group project. Its the end of the semester and everything we've learned has been put to this project and I feel as if I was left behind on the short bus. Not willingly, but it all happened so quickly that I just dont know how to find my way back. I had given to the thought of failing the course to retake it in the fall, and now I dont want to do that, but then again I should if it means I'll understand.

Lets see, waste more time to understand better, or give it my all and more right now and get by with a C (if i'm lucky).

I dont know what i should do. I have dilemmas bigger that George Dubbya and seem to be choking on that same pretzel. Ugh.

my issue is, that I dont find myself up par on my coding skills like everyone else. I never have been good, but now that its expected of me to be good i'm really feelin it.

I'd like to be good, but i think i've passed the learning curve of the new concept and can't go back to accepting switch(n) case blah.Trigger(n) break; and all that crap.

Although the year is winding down, i dont feel any better than before. I'm supposed to be doing more now that ever! What is going on?!
How can i achieve knowledge when i'm so far behind? Taking classes costs money, if i'm to retake it thats more money that i dont have.

I'm unsure as to which path i should take. basically on my project i did most of the creative stuff with minimal coding and he did all the logic. Not to say i wasn't smart enough for the logic, but he could code it faster than me and i'm not about to say "Woah there, lets include the slow person in on this" because frankly i'm too proud, but also because i would slow down the process which was only 2-3 weeks long. Its the night before its due and we've just finished the project. now we've got documentation and testing to do, not to mention we left a few things out of the game because we dont have time anymore to add stuff.

I just went over the eval form and i just dont know what to say. i feel like i didnt contribute much in the coding area and because of that i feel like my grade will be low. but all in all i contributed a big chunk to the project and without me this project would have been something else entirely. The flow, the images, the sounds and yes even some of the code wouldn't have been as good without me.

How do i say that constructively on my eval in order to give myself credit where its due but also take in the fact that i'm not a godly coder and cannot create this masterpiece of a game on my own in even 3 x the amount of time?

School sucks because i EFL. And if I dont figure out how to make this work for me, then why am i still here?

Epic Smile

~BecArt — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:04:30 PDT

Hahaha, This made me extremely happy, after much procrastination, I have found my happiness!

Haha, [[link]

Anywho,not much else, just getting through college.
I am also gearing up for my trip to the Philippines!!! w00t!

And thats all.

Art to come.

EDIT:
::
:So I found this name meme online somewhere and want to remember it.
:WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: Jeanette Holmes
:STAR WARS NAME: Rusbe
ETECTIVE NAME: Green Owl
:SUPERHERO NAME: The turquoise tea
::

Mwahhahahaha!

~BecArt — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:59:42 PDT

I am now on Tegaki!
I will spread like wildfire!

Oh, and the airline companies suck ass.
You may be getting charged for your second bag now.....

I am pissed.

Bah! Bah! Bah!

~BecArt — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:59:28 PST

Gomen Nasai!
I've been stupidly "too busy" with "real life".
Hmph!
No more. These priorities of mine are getting reevaluated.

I just recently got a Bamboo tablet from my sweatheart for my birthday (yay 21!)
And I intend on using the tablet and cranking out the art!

I've got a big Programming Assignment coming up (due on thurs)
As well as a Database project (due on wed)
There are numerous events I am volunteering for (every single day this week)

Aside from school, I've actually got an assignment at work (another Database project)

On the crafty portion of my life I am finishing up a rug for my room, and starting some blankets.
Maybe I'll also make a nice scarf...
MissCyraf and I are creating a story (its gonna be bigger than HP!!!)
I recently found out about Landscape Quilting and will probably try something out for it...

There is more, but lets leave it at that.
I'm way too ambitious.

Konban wa minasan!

Buahahaha!! <--i'm in my secret lair right

~BecArt — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:43:23 PST

Yes yes! I am done with finals, done with the Fall semester!!!

stupid classes kept me from enjoying life, so I'm going to fix that for next semester. I'm just glad I finally made it through. Seemed like this semester would never end. Who cares about test results, I'm just happy its over!

So yes. I have updated, a new deviation and a new journal.. in fact I will update lots more in a few minutes because I did actually draw some while I wasn't online looking at DA.

I will have a special place (SCRAPS) for some collabs I did with a one .RewindBlack.
He is a friend of mine from one of my computer science classes... the boring one.... and so him and I passed the time by playing a little game called "you draw then I draw". So much fun.

Also, I may get pictures of some of the goodie crochet stuffs I've made recently, we'll see if I can round up the people who I gave the stuffs to and get pictures of them. I know at least 2 hats will be showcased.

Alright, other than that I've got nothin else. I am a free student until January, so I'll be up on DA a lot until then. OH! I am also doing an art50 thing... kind of like the other theme thing i've got, but the artwork for this will be crappier because I've decided I just need to make the art, and not fuss about it looking right. Because, well, I wont be making good art until I make some bad art. So there.

Ok and now I swear I'm done.
No more to say.
Probably more...

school is hard ><;

~BecArt — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:18:13 PDT

Ah so instead of catching up today, during my free 4 hours, I chose to surf the net and be ridiculously unproductive.

ugh.

Well anyways, I stumbled (and I do mean "Stumble"d) on to a site called Serendipity, basically someone made a million memes for creating typical genre specific names and also character memes. The funny one though, was the marie-suzette generator that made a short 2-3 sentence description of a female character and her plot against the world (all romance style).

Hillarious!

So I challenge you, anyone really, to draw a picture after a marie-suzette generated summary.

Here is the link: [link]

Here is an example which I am giving to my friend MissCyraf to play with:
"Catharina de La Fayette has a waterfall of copper hair and eyes of limpid grass-green. She is a famous soprano endowed with photographic memory. She can be recognized by her exotic jewelry. No one knows she is M. Gillenormand's mortal enemy."

That is all for now. Hopefully I'll draw a bit more, but its unlikely.

Missed the welcome back...

~BecArt — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:57:55 PDT

Wow, so I forgot to say that I was back from my trip.

It was hellah good. I went to Brussels (Belgium), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Remes (France), and Paris (France). Had many great experiences and met many great people. I bought lovely Belgian chocolates for souvenirs and many gifts for family.

I nearly missed the deadline for DABR because I was in Georgia until the 15th. Savannah is gorgeous and seeing relatives was fun. The best part of it was Tallulah Gorge Park, and the drive through the Great Smoky Mountains.

All-in-all I had a blast and am finally sad the summer is going to end and school is going to start. Moving in to my new townhome gave me the opportunity to realize I don't like moving (again) and that I hate getting used to new things (like how people cook compared to what I've known my whole life).

My drawing time should be going up soon. Besides work everyday I just need to finish painting and decorating my room. Since I am in the DABR contest I need to get crackin' on my assignment... have my Irish punk lass with a whip kill a ninja with wrist blades.

If you don't know what DABR is then check out Coffee-Brown's page for more details.

So I've fixed my computer's problem of missing the CD drive... although I somehow downgraded the type of drive I had... so its a fix, but not a good one. But now that things are better for my computer, I can freely work on my art without pang's of responsibility to my material objects (like my car! ugh..)

So in the works:
-DABR contest- scene against ninja
-Pokemon trainer contest- original trainer (I grew up with pokemon, so this is pretty sweet)
-M/A mini contest August- theme is music
-16 elements contest- Chaos and Energy

and possibly
-Harry Potter 7 contest

all of these above can be found in my Favorite News section, or just by asking me!

Besides the many contests I am interested in, I still have the 100 theme to work on, as well as a few ideas of themes I'd like to go through... such as art nouveau, 7 deadly sins, fan arts, fashion. Such as that.

So, off to work! (which is stupid, because I'm at work...)

A new leaf

~BecArt — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:10:43 PDT

Ah yes, the empty promise of turning over a new leaf. Haha.

I uploaded all my old art work and some new artwork (not particularly in order) and a couple bits are in the scraps section to start with.

NOTE: Most of my art I recently uploaded will be moved to my scraps gallery in a week.... scratch that, I wont be near a computer in a week, so instead I'll say roughly two weeks.

All of my art is traditional, nothing done on the computer so far. I am also just a sketch artist at the moment. Trying to better my overall style and quality of pose/line/perspective/anatomy/composition. I am looking forward to starting digital coloring though, so my art gallery wont be full of pencil and marker pieces for too long.

So, I'm a bit more motivated on DA now because I bamboozled my former roommate to join and submit her art (really great fantasy pieces!) Here is her art

Alright, its getting light outside now... I stayed up all night... Its because I had a cup of coffee at 730pm.... Stupid slow coffee... taking its time through my system... urg..

Goodnight and Good morning!

A new Upload!

~BecArt — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:14:42 PDT

Wow, i'm the greatest procrastinator! I started up my new DA account before new years and said i would create a new years pic. but i obviously didnt, and not only that, but i havent been back on DA since january.

Well so i took some art courses for may and june and uploaded my big works, maybe i'll upload some scraps later. I hope to get back into working on my art atleast once a week.

I will definitely be trying out some contests, so if you're hosting one, post it on my page and i'll work on it!

Thats all for now, i've got some lunch to make.

I'm new!

~BecArt — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:26:27 PST

Hello Hello!

I was on DA a long time ago, never did much with it, and forgot all the info i needed to log back in (or find it!) so i've made a new account and hopefully will upload many new works

Happy New Year!

[i'm going to try and create a NY2006 pic, we'll see]

I've watched a couple artists throughout the years, i'll post my favs in my favs section, i really do enjoy art, i usually watch an anime because i like the style!

Yes, i'm an anime artist, American, in college, I am drawn in to Japanese culture and language, into MMORPGs, animation, and computer science.

I will more often than not be too busy to update, so bear with me at those times, college is stressing

More to come later, please welcome me to the community if you get a chance, i love comments

-Bec