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It doesn't take much to tear the meniscus, something as stupid as tripping on rocks or wet grass and twisting just the wrong way can do it. What mine did is not only tear, it "bucket-handled" and flipped under the bone. Since it had already torn, I was able to pop it back into place, but it was still obviously painful. Instead of going to get this fixed asap, I kept on working and putting stress on it, making it worse. And every time I bent my knee too much, it flipped into the middle of the bone again, locking up and causing a lot of pain.

Between the first Orthopedist App and the surgery yesterday, I was on Percocet and Motrin 4 times a day, And adding the first Orthopedist app, the MRI, the pain meds, and the finally the surgery, I would have racked up around $20,000 dollars in hospital bills. Luckily, and I attribute God to this, I found out that I am still on my father's army insurance and all expenses paid for.

So, come surgery day, I was up at the hospital at 5am and made it into the O.R. around 11. I remember sitting there, taking to my dad, getting the IV put into my hand and then being wheeled into the operating room. After that, aside from about 1 minute of talking, I don't remember a damn thing. Afterwords, they got me hold up in a hospital room for the rest of the day, night, and half of the next day. I have to say, the army makes great freakin food. Can't really beat free eggs, bacon, sausage, french toast, and hot tea for breakfast, room service style. All the nurses were really nice too, but only one actually took the time out to know more than my first initial, last name, and birth date.

So, I'm home now, with a nice big bandage wrapped around my knee and an immobilizer strapped on top of that. And tomorrow I'll be back up to the hospital (1 hour drive) for a bandage change. For the next 6 weeks, I've gotta take it easy. Doing physical therapy 3 times a week and taking pills when I'm not doing that.

Doc says I'll be walking like normal again in 6-8 weeks, and I'll be able to slowly increase the weight I put on it after that, depending on how fast I heal. With that in mind, I freaking miss work like hell. Don't get me wrong, I like laying around all day with no responsibilities as much as the next dude, but after more than 2 months of doing that, I fucking miss the smell of the bakery :]

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I bought a disposable camera from CVS like 3 months ago and have gone through about 4 rolls as of yet, basically just taking pictures while driving or doing whatever. It's the hobby I don't invest in, especially considering that the camera comes with a free roll of film when you develop the first one. It's a steal of a deal for an $8 camera and $5 per photo cd. I've got some awesome shots actually.

One of these days, hopefully, you'll see a photo or two.. or twenty. We'll see.

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We got the information report and all and they sent us on our way.... thanks for the help guys. I gotta take it over to Brady's tomorrow to get it looked at. My brother gave me a rough 50-60 dollar estimate to fix the lights and all, but the front chassis is bent up a bit and pushing on the radiator -but I'm not sure if that'll end up being a problem or not. I'm fine, he's fine, and hopefully this won't end in court. Like I don't already have enough to worry about with a negative $900 bank account listing. My life is looking up.

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A lot of the more recent projects I've been working on are simply silhouetted or high-contrast images I've found on the web and decided to draw. Usually I'll take it into Photoshop, make it the right size, adjust the levels a bit so it's clear, maybe sharpen it a bit, then just take a piece of light paper and tape it to the monitor. Crude? Yes, but damn it it works! Once I have the lineart I usually just flip the page around, put another page under it, and retrace it on the other side. THEN, try and follow this, I flip it BACK AROUND and do a graphite transfer right into my sketchbook. And thats it, a few more hours to make it crisp and photo-like, fill in the dark, accent the light and it's done!

More artwork coming soon, plus a look at my new laptop as well :]

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]]> ~Messokori http://Messokori.deviantart.com/journal/17595026/ http://Messokori.deviantart.com/journal/17595026/ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:43:09 PDT really engaging and rewarding. So far I've done
maybe 5 different head shots! Take a look, if
you like what you see, message me.
I may do one for you :]

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All sketches and things of the sort will strictly be in Scraps while anything I've spent a lot of time working on will be included in my gallery. Basically, anything I've worked on collectively for over a week -which is quite a few of my newer stuff. Most scraps will be turned to Gallery images sooner or later, so check em out.



Oh, by the way, I turned 18 3 days ago. My sister got me a fish and two lotto tickets. :]

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Lately my biggest project would have to be the "Da vinci" series I started. Basically, if you haven't heard of it, it's a method he used to recreate photos realistically by drawing a big grid on them and then drawing each square one by one, lightening the load of the whole drawing while making it more realistic.

So far I've managed to finish only one photo like this -a portrait of Future Hiro Nakamura from that show on Sci-Fi "Heroes". I plan on doing at least 3 more in this fashion at the moment: head shots of Amanda (from Dresden Dolls), Mike Shinoda, and Clea Duvall.

Keep an eye out cause the second I get my scanner working I will be cleaning them up and posting them asap.

Oh, and I've decided to take my old site from Freewebs and close it. I'm gonna try to go from scratch this time and make a real website, complete with my personal header and a domain name. It's gonna take a long while so keep an eye out.

]]> ~Messokori http://Messokori.deviantart.com/journal/11592811/ http://Messokori.deviantart.com/journal/11592811/ Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:16:07 PST ::cue drowning crowd::
"hi mike."
::/EndDroning::
...and I'm an old deviant. I kinda got sick of my old account, and started to hate my old name, so I made myself a personal website, got myself a new account, and still haven't gotten out of this drawing funk/rut/block. Though, recently I've done a few unfinished sketches and as soon as I pick a day I can dedicate it to, I'll try and post some new things. As for the small collection of art in my gallery, it is from my old account and it's only a handful of good ones, the rest were crap and more crap.

EDIT:: I've been reading/loving this horror series by Brian Lumley called Necroscope. It's all about this guy named Harry Keogh and his ability to talk to the dead. Theres Necromancers who can rip answers from dead-people's corpses, ESP-agents, ESPionage branches, vampires, ... god, I'd suggest this series to anyone with a good commitment bond to books. I'm currently reading book 5 of 13; "Deadspawn". Lately I've been thinking about doing a 5-piece art series about 5 of my favorite characters; Harry Keogh, Harry Jr, The Lady Karen, Boris Dragosani, and Mobius. This will take me a pretty long while to do, seeing as how at present time, if I look at a drawing for more then an hour, I hate it. So, I'll keep you all posted, just make sure if your watching me, you have your setting set to watch this journal too!

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