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So hello cold. Forgive me if I don't jump for joy, for fear of disentangling myself from my pile of blankets...

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Good news? I'm going to be doing five weeks of my student teaching this upcoming spring in PANAMA! Right near the Panama canal, the mother of all canals! I need to brush up on my Espanol, but luckily that's what fluent family members are for. I've never left the country, though it has been my deepest desire. In high school, I planed to take a trip after my college graduation.... and then I went somewhere where I would begin getting my masters degree the day after graduation, so that plan fell through. Now, I'll just take my trip as part of obtaining second degree. Anyone have suggestions as to what a visiting American should put on her To Do List while in Panama? I want to do it all!!!!!

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Downside? I graduate on a Sunday and begin classes on Monday (yeah, the next day) for my Masters in Elementary Education. So there won't be too much of a break for me, and I'm going to be using all my time between finals and graduation to start moving into my new apartment, since I can no longer be an RA as a grad student But I'm excited to have a pool during the summer, as it will be my one plus to being away from my family for so long.

I've uploaded a bunch of photos I developed in my Photo 101 class which I took as an elective this semester. It has been a lot of fun, and while I know there are some flecks of things I could change on what I added, I really want to stick to the traditional side and leave them be. Through I don't think I'll ever get the smell of darkroom chemicals out of my nose!

Hopefully I will have more time to draw, because I feel like a piece of me has been missing since my schedule has for the past few years prevented me from doing much. But I've been saying that for ages. I just wish for this summer to be different, because I've started a few pieces I'm really excited about!

Thanks for caring

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After spending the summer substitute teaching and working as an art instructor at a day camp, it's back to the grind of school. Senior year. I'm so close to my...

BA in History, 2008!

However it won't end there. As my goal is to become an elementary school teacher, I'm completing my masters at CNU too. They call it the "Five year MAT program", as in you spend 4 years getting the degree of your choice taking numerous education classes on the side, and the Monday after graduation, spend the summer, fall, and spring taking grad courses and student teaching. Only the grad courses don't start in the summer, they start NOW.

So I don't even have a bachelors degree, yet I'm taking grad courses. They're incredibly interesting and will benefit me tremendously as a teacher, but for now, they equal INTIMIDATION. And I am trying my hardest to not fall behind. However, once again no art is being produced. What a lame period of my art life.

But because it is humanly impossible to have three of one's classes be 3 hour night classes, I am working on a few pieces on scrap paper. They will one day be images of the elements as I see them. I think they'll be amazing, but hey - that's just me. And I have to think that, just like a parent lives their children unconditionally no matter what.

If you're still reading, please feel free to take a look though my gallery. I will try to get new images up as soon as possible. And if you have any suggestions of what you would like to see next, comment on this journal and let me know!

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Ahhh, college is good. Is there time to draw? Definitely not. Alas, my DA page remains a homage to freshman year when I was blessed with GenEd's that took hardly any work at all. Now I have better classes, but more commitments than I know what to do with. I'm trying my best, I assure you. My sketch book, however, remains bare.

On a happy art note, I have been hired as the art teacher for a summer camp back home! I am so excited to be able to spend time letting my creativity flow, and working with children the same age as the ones I will one day teach. Plus I get to be with some close friends from high school!

Thanks for the sweet comments I'm still receiving; they mean more to me than you could possibly know. Keep drawing, my DA gods and goddesses!

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Other than that, there's not much else to report. Still not drawing... I dunno what's come over me. Well, yes, I do. It's all my boyfriend's fault. I only used to draw when I was sad or lonely, and then I met him.... Yeah, I'll definitally take this whole being happy with Dan thing and sacrifice what art might have possibly been produced otherwise. But he keeps riding my ass telling me that I have to draw him something, so maybe if I can find the time... and my muse... it'll come....

Until then, I love my DA peeps, and I'm sorry I haven't been checking and responding to art. It's all sitting in my inbox waiting to be loved, so if I can get a Saturday or Sunday morning at brunch with nothing to read or study, I'll get on that. Hope everyone's well, keep tearing up the parchment! ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/8519968/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/8519968/ Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:58:34 PDT
Oh, and in recent news, I joined Alpha Phi! (A very NON-CLICHE sorority, mind you. I shop at for clothes at target, don't own a purse that costs any more than 15 bucks, and openly confess my love for all things Harry Potter, LOTR, and Josh Groban. Does that sound like the stereotypical sorority girl pictued in movies? No.) If there are any other Alpha Phi's out there, lemme hear ya HOLLA! Hehe!

Oh, and I just stumbled across this stock artist while looking at art, and if you like my style with some of the historic/fantasy elements, here's a stock artist who does it ten times better than I EVER could! Check out her gallery!

That's all for now, only one new piece up, sorry. Still in my lag... Ehhhh.... ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/7727591/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/7727591/ Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:05:44 PST
In other news, spring semester has begun here at CNU, and minus the obvious and expected homework, I couldn't be happier to be back. Life is good. Friends are good. Boy-toy is good. Diet Pepsi is good. What more can you ask for?

I still won't be drawing anytime soon.... Formal recruitment for Greek Life began today, so that will take up most of my time for the next few weeks. I'm also applying to be an RA next year, so with me luck with the whole interview process! Here's hopeing I don't ever EVER end up having to bust any of my friends.... *twitch*. Ah, the dangers of a dry campus, haha.

Anyway, If you're still coming to my inactivly pathetic site, you kick ass! I just did a bunch of shit moving around my scanner, so now that I can ACCESS it... maybe there are a few mermaids that need to get put up? We'll see.... *wink* ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/6748068/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/6748068/ Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:13:55 PDT
Only Problem? The last time I drew was during Quiet Time at my summer camp job.

My inspiration goes through period of waxing and wayning. Last semester was probably the most I've ever drawn, but I just don't feel that.... thing.... right now. It'll come, It'll come....

Recent News: Back at CNU for my fall semester. Classes are going well so far. I'm taking- World History after the Renaissance (Gen Ed.), American History up to the Civil War (Elementary Edu. requirement), Fairy Tales: The Grim(m) Truth (An incrediable English Class looking at the greusome and historical side of fairy tales, with the best professor I've had at CNU), Natural Science (A psychology course for Elementary Edu. majors, teaching us how to teach scienc to little kiddies.... At least, that's what the class is SUPPOSED to be... *twitch*), and Intro to Costuming (I'm making clothes for "The Importance of Being Ernest"! It's so cool!! Mmmm.... Corsets....)

Minus the flea infestation in my building (long story...ugh), life is great. However, between classes, homework, my job, and a boyfriend, free time is hard to come by. Granted, it's not like I have a problem giving up time to hang with the boyfriend

Anyway, sorry for the delay. I hope to give you something SPECTACULAR soon!!.... After I create it, that is! ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/6081922/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/6081922/ Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:54:08 PDT
To the few of you that may actually read this, who for some unknown reason haven't forgotten that some girl named Christy or WindsweptSummer or whatever still exists.... You are my heros. And you're the reason I keep drawing (there will be art updates soon...I have tons of sketches, but nothing finished... yet!) Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for being so incrediably amazing!

If you're on my watch list, I also apologize for the loooooong delay in checking out your art. I hope you'll enjoy the messages I've left for you

I'll be leaving for CNU on the 20th of August (YES!), so the week after that, you can expect some major updates, after the partying and cookie baking and VA Beach taning/burning calms down.

Working at Pier 1 until then (slightly boring, but the people I work with are awesome and, hey, any job where you can walk around singing is cool) and my other job as a camp councelor with my 4, 5, and 6 year olds is proving to be educational. For example, only an insane person would group a preschooler with a rising first grader. And I realize that I have a low patience and stupidy tolerance level. AKA, I now know that my future Elementary Education degree will not be used on children younger than second grade. Always good to learn. But some kids are so CUUUUUTE, and those are the ones that keep you going. That, and again, I work with AWESOME people. Just amazing.

Thanks for the support, and again, I'm sorry about my 3 month disaperation

And if ANYONE has finished HBP, I'm all up for discussions! Just as long as we don't spoil... anything... for the slow readers out there *wink* ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/5479517/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/5479517/ Fri, 27 May 2005 18:40:36 PDT
In recent Christy news, if you're interested, I'm back for the summer (which lasts until the end of August) and I'm working at Pier 1, as well as counceling at a Day Camp near me with the group of first and second graders. Pier 1 isn't bad (and if I didn't need to make tuition money so badly, I'd be buying out the entire store to furninsh my future home) and the counceling job will be great for my resume as I'm getting my masters in elementary education. Behold, as parts of my life begin to fall in place.... Yet why do I feel like I'm still searching for something?

Also, I got in my first car accicent today. Officer said it was the other womans fault (Ms. I'm and 80 lady in a 2005 Jaguar and I just moved here from Chicago and can't BELIEVE how you people drive around DC! Doesn't she know Northern VA traffic is LEGENDARY?! And she's the one who cut ME off, so don't try and pull that "I was wronged by a bat-out-of-hell teenagedriver crap, cause it's not true. *twitch*)

And I've already read 6 books this summer! GO ME! Thus the severe lack of artwork.... I go through faces, and currently I'm re-hooked in Tamora Pierce's work. Young Adult, but STILL so good!!!

More art will be up soon, hope this explanes the lull a bit! Thanks for watching! ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/5077265/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/5077265/ Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:20:58 PDT
In my free time, I'm putting together a photomanipulation which I LOVE so far. I took a cute picture of Disney's Cocker Spaniel, Lady, and am recoloring it to look like my adorable dog, Tori, a Caviler King Charles Spaniel. So far it's just blotces of color, but it's strange seeing Tori as a cartoon, haha! I really hope you all will like it I think I'm bordering the "I love my dog a little TOO much" line, but I couldn't care less!

Ok, back to writing Thank You's, doing homework, watching General Hospital, and getting myself ready for Bikini Season. Oh Dear God.... ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4894325/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4894325/ Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:31:29 PST GAlindaWithaGA). She's been dying to see it, and my Mom and I let her believe that we forgot about it, and said she wouldn't be able to because she had a soccer game and I wasn't going to be home from school. So on Friday (play was on Sat.) I suprised her by showing up at her practice with an early birthday present of two tickets for Rent. Hehe! God, what a GREAT musical! Jonathan Larson's One Song Glory, and well deserved.

So, a question for college kids, and those who have already graduated: English or Art History? *sigh* I'm having a hell of a time deciding! I'm going into Elementary Education, but I first need a BA in "something". As of now, I'm English, but I also love Art History, and both have their ups and downs. Why can't I just major in chocolate eating? Or Diet Pepsi drinking? Better yet, BACON eating!! Haha, too bad CNU doesn't offer ALL the subjects I love! ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4750941/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4750941/ Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:43:13 PST
Took some pictures of artwork around the house, but unfortunately most didn't turn out too well. I was a little pressed for time when I rememberd to do it, and not being a digital camera user on a regular basis, I didn't realise how washed out things would end up looking. Especially the oil paintings. Oh well. Next time, perhaps, without a flash. I have tons more regular artwork to upload, though, with the retrieval of my sketchbook from my "Drawing and Drafting For the Stage" class. While it was hard to stray from the people/fantasy art for a whole semester, it gave me the chance to try something new, like flowers and buildings. I think I'll stick with my old style, however, haha!

Oh, and "Wicked" is coming to DC this summer! YEAH! So GO! Go and save up your money for tickets (either in DC or the stage-nearest-you) because this is one play you WON'T want to miss! TRUST ME! Even if it doesn't have Idina Menzel.... *sniff sniff*.

Oh, and who hated Beyonce singing with Josh Groban at the Ocsars? It would have been SO much better if they had just let Josh sing on his own, the way he sounds best, the way the song sounds best. Argh. Too sad. Their two styles shouldn't be mixed. Oh, and Josh, even though you didn't win best song, I still cheered you on! You deserved it! And happy belated birthday; if I had the money, I would have contributed to your birthday auction for the tsunami victims. That was a very sweet thing you did! ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4637107/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4637107/ Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:44:25 PST and everyone else stopping by! I hope you enjoy my work as much as I enjoyed making it! I love you all!!

Extra note: SPRING BREAK BEGINS ON THE 26TH!! And I'll be visiting my bestest friend, Lindsay, at NYU! Catching a brodway play, helping Cristo and Jean-Claude in Central Park, and hitting on all the hot, theatre loving college guys! *heh heh heh* I can't wait, Pawprints!

Plus, I'll be able to upload the work I have at home, hanging around my house. Woohoo!

Happy END of Winter! Just think.... It'll be SPRING soon! *sobbs with happiness* ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4519550/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4519550/ Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:32:02 PST TwilightsDawn, our friend Steven, and I went to the *gasp!* JOSH GROBAN concert in Norfolk! YES! IT-WAS-AMAZING! We had made shirts with the concert info on them during the winter break and wore them to it. SOOO many people came up to us and commented on them, and it led to so much!

There were two older couples in line behind us in the half hour wait in front of Chili's, and we talked to them during that time. (They were so sweet!) During our meal, one of the men came up to us, asked how our food was, and said that we would be missing the check that night because they were covering us. STRANGERS! We protested, but he said no, that we were college students and couldn't do this, but they could and they wanted to. OMG! How sweet was that?!

Then we arrived at the Scope Arena, and guess who was opening for Josh. Chris Botti! The top jazz musician in the country! OMG! Even my mom likes him! (My mom and I have reverse mother/daughter roles. I love Broadway, classical, Celtic, etc., she loves Shania Twain, Matchbox 20, and all new things on the radio, lol!) I bought her the CD of Chris Botti's that she doesn't have, because guess who signed autographs during the intermission! CHRIS BOTTI! He was very sweet, and the three of us got a great picture with him.

While in line, we met another wonderfully sweet woman who liked our shirts and was a fan club member. We were so jealous! ($40 a year... we're using our money for the concerts instead!) She had hours of video tapes, calendars, posters, more than she knew what to do with, she said. She gave us her number, and wants to have a Josh Groban party, because she lives near our schools! WOOHOO!

And the concert.... In a word: Beautiful. He opened with "Oceano" and "Per Te", two of my favorites. After that, there was a break when he talked to the audience, and at one point there was a silence between him talking and the audience cheering. AKA, silence. Together, the three of us scream "WE LOVE YOU JOSH!" and he said "I love you too!" Then I yelled "YOU'RE MY FAVORITE!" and he said "You're MY favorite!....We'll talk later." AHHHH! There were so MANY older people at the concert, which was fine, but they were so QUIET. And if you ever know me personally, "quiet" isn't often in my vocabulary, especially at the concert of my favorite singer. So we compensated for all the quiet women by screaming louder! (The woman in front of us had her ears plugged at the end of each song). In the middle of the concert, when I screamed "YEAH!" in responce to a video game comment, he said "Is that the girl right next to the sound box?" OMG!! IT WAS ME!! I was RIGHT NEXT TO IT! So I just screamed louder! *sigh* He said it was hard to hear where sounds were coming from in the arena. He knew where I was sitting! A bit obnoxious of me, perhaps, but I couldn't help myself! Especially with so many BORING people around me! I'M THE GIRL! THAT'S SO FREAKING AWESOME!

Unfortunately, the closest I'll probably ever come to meeting him, but it was beautiful, none the less. I only wish he had sung "All'improvviso Amore", but alas, no. (Not that we didn't scream the name of the song many times....even if he couldn't understand us. It's hard to yell an 8-syllabol Italian phrase when you don't have a voice!)

Possibly the best night of my life. And I'm still on such a natural high from it that I can't come down. I wish you all could have been there.... It was... amazing..... ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4484054/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4484054/ Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:13:12 PST [link]", and the translation of "swamp" is "FEN". WOOHOO! Finally something to go on! And by finding a list of Futhark symbols, I now have my symbols, in the most accurate representation of my last name I could find. Now all I need is to find some jewler who can make it into a necklace.... Just wanted to share my happy news!!! ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4449791/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4449791/ Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:56:51 PST ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4401338/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4401338/ Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:51:06 PST ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4314938/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4314938/ Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:46:24 PST ]]> ~WindsweptSummer http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4312779/ http://WindsweptSummer.deviantart.com/journal/4312779/ Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:43:46 PST
Interests: MUSIC- Josh Groban (hands down, my favorite singer in the world. Amazing voice, but what really makes his fantastic are the clips of him goofing off with the band members on his DVD. He seems like the kind of guy you wouldn't mind hanging out with for hours, which, to me, makes ALL the difference in the world.) Celine Dion, B-R-O-A-D-W-A-Y, namely the play WICKED (Idina Menzel...my HERO. If I could be Elphaba sometime before I die, I'll die happy) and anything Celtic. ARTISTS- Jim Warren. For the love of all things good, check him out! Plus Leo and Mich, of course, and Edmund Blair Leighton. BOOKS- Harry Potter, LOTR, Rhapsody Trilogy, da Vinci Code, Out of Time Series, and anything by Tamora Pierce. MOVIES- LOTR *sigh*, Under the Tuscan Sun, Braveheart, Ever After, Princess Bride, Phantom of the Opera.... CURRENT PROJECT- Teaching myself Italian. I *WILL* go to Italy one day, hopefully to live. Plus I love Italian songs (blame Josh Groban). If anyone has a good website for teaching yourself languages...let me know!

Also, I must command you to visit Meadowhaven ([link]), the website of Adele Sessler, who, without knowing it, is the reason I decided to become a member of the "Internet Art Community" back in Middle School! And I'm proud to announce on her behalf that she is now a PUBLISHED writer and artist!! Go and by her book 'The Rover's Cripple' off Amazon NOW!!! I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU ADELE! CONGRADULATIONS!

'Keep Mona in your heart, and David in your bed.' -APAH 2003-2004 ]]> ~WindsweptSummer