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deviantART: by:ustulo http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:ustulo&section=today deviantART RSS for by:ustulo en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:10:58 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png I am still alive. http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/23358696/ http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/23358696/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:25:06 PST 'Off in the night while you live it up I'm off to sleep
Waging wars to shake the poet and the beat
I hope it's gonna make you notice'

More or less.

I've got even less time than ever apparently, I haven't made it on here at all recently even to look at the works on my watch list. As a result I've cut down that list considerably particularly in terms of the groups I'm now part of. There's not much point just being a name on a list of a group you need to take part, and I quite simply don't seem to have the time.

I got the ultimate compliment the other day though, my tutor complimented the fluency of my writing in my recent essay, from someone who is published (albeit for non fiction pieces) this made my day. I know now I'm a good non fiction writer, I think I'd make a brilliant journalist and thats not entirely false modesty but I don't want to have to go through the progress of getting there, I just want to be the best and work at the guardian with the click of my fingers. Lazy? Oh very.

Anyway I hope you are well dear watchers, I'm not sure where I'm going or indeed have been with this journal so I'll sign off! Adios!

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]]> ~ustulo Teenage Angst http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/22857607/ http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/22857607/ Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:45:44 PST 'Airs and social graces, elocution so divine.
I'll stick to my needle, and my favourite waste of time,
both spineless and sublime.'

Oh I wish I had more time for deviantart! This is by far one of my favourite websites I have ever come across on my wonderings across the internet and yet I never feel like I have the time I want to dedicate to it.

I'm more or less up to date with my deviant watch list now, but it will be on top of me again in a few days, and I never get the chance to explore art that doesn't come up on it. Sure my groups mean I find new artists/writers etc. but I never get to just browse, y'know?

And worst of all I never have the time to write myself, so last night me and =upswings (thats two links in two journals you lucky boy!) were having a conversation that inspired me incredibly, but it was fairly late and I still had several pages of fourteenth century Anglo-Scottish relations to pile through. Don't get me wrong its fascinating stuff and I love my course a lot. But a bit more time every so often to work on my novel, or simply to pull out a few more standalone pieces would be wonderful!

This journal has come across very depressing which wasn't the point at all! I'm just a bit angsty at the moment!

Anyway, how is everyone?

I think I might make use of that poll section I get as a subscriber, just got to think of a good subject now, ha!

PS. I'm not even a teenager anymore!

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]]> ~ustulo I'm sooo behind! http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/22669825/ http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/22669825/ Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:44:53 PST upswings, bought me a submission that I haven't been able to make full use of!

Hopefully things will pick up now, I've got my exam out the way and now can afford not to spend every second revising! So hopefully within the next few days and weeks will catch up with the deviations on my watch list, and you never know maybe I'll even get the little parts of my story that I've written up. They are far from perfect and are very much first drafts but as much feedback as possible will hopefully help that too.

I hope everyone's 2009 has got off to a beautiful start!

]]> ~ustulo My first novel? http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/22347912/ http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/22347912/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:07:59 PST 'So how did you get the inspiration for this book?'
'It came to me in a dream, on the night of 1st January 2009 as I shared a sofa with a friend with only vodka for substenance'

More seriously, I'm not hoping to get published, of course I'm not, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not good enough for that, and I don't have the time to dedicate to becoming a serious author. I am however deadly serious about the novel itself, I've been meaning for a long time to write a long piece, but have been lacking the ideas to do so. Whilst stand alone pieces are fun and let you explore different techniques etc. they don't offer the satisfaction longer works tend to.

And now I can't just ignore this dream, it was a piece of cinematic beauty in my head, and whilst I lack the skills and resources to make it in film, paper, pen and at least some ability to write I do possess.

I'm inspired, and excited.

In other news, it pisses me off that DA won't take my card I want to subscribe again, but it NEVER lets me. I need a new card, a generous admirer, or to steal form my parents.

]]> ~ustulo Give way to dreary days. http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/21479418/ http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/21479418/ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:26:34 PST
Third year is proving just as much work as I expected, but also far more fun. I find it hard fittign everything into my life at the moment, but I've always loved to be busy.

I;m visiting my friend from camp who lives in Brighton next week which should be pretty exciting. I've never really been to that part of the country so its a bit of an adventure, hopefully we'll get some good weather, and you never know I may even produce a photo or two!

In the meantime for more on my life, check my blog, [link] I update it far more often than I update here, so yeah!

I'm already counting the days down to the Christmas break, not because I'm fed up of uni, or even because Christmas itself is particularly exciting, I'm just looking forward to going home and seeing everyone, haven't been there nearly enough this year!

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]]> ~ustulo Autumn Days http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/20717962/ http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/20717962/ Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:40:43 PDT
I've always liked Autumn, there's something gloriously beautiful about sun dancing off golden and bronze trees. The hustle and bustle of children and parents as they head back into schools. The sighs and puffs of students as they once more haul fifteen million library books home.

I had the best summer of my life this year, and I miss it everyday, the people I met and the places I went, but I for one welcome in autumn. Its an exciting time for me,I'm embarking on the final year of my degree, and look forward to writing my dissertation, not only that but applying for my teacher training courses, its the beginning of the next step of my life, something perhaps more commonly associated with spring than autumn.

All this and I find the added shill in the air often offers me more inspiration than the summer days where instead I enjoy doing nothing. I've found myself reading more in recent weeks, partly because I've had more time, but partly too because I've found more impetus to do so. And reading for any wannabe writer is surely key.

'Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.' ~Stanley Horowitz

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]]> ~ustulo Random blabberings. http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/18614317/ http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/18614317/ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:12:10 PDT
I don't really know what I'm blabbing on about to be quite honest.

As you may have noticed I've joined a couple of clubs (displayed below), which is soomething I never really got into before, but is a great way of discovering new art and artists actually. And I've submitted to the 100 themes challenge a couple of times, so its nice to get a bit more exposure to my work as well.

Anyhow, despite all that, I'm not likely to be around much in the coming weeks as I'm jetting off across the world on thursday to spend the summer working on a Girl Scout Camp in America, and I don't know how much internet access I'll have. So I guess its time to wish everyone a good summer, and I'll see you when I see you! Wish me luck!

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]]> ~ustulo Chapter One (Or is it five?) http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/17910279/ http://ustulo.deviantart.com/journal/17910279/ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:56:44 PDT
I won't bore you with who I am such as one would on myspace, but I'm in love with my life right now, I'm a typical student, who drinks too much, sleeps too little and does all my work the night before my deadline. My interests are extremely varied, and can probably be found listed around the place. For the purposes of DA, I do a bit of everything really, I used to be more of a traditional artist in terms of drawing mainly, but now I find myself writing more and more, but there's the occasional photo thrown in for good measure!

A quick explanation of the name, ustulo if Latin, meaning to burn, scorch or singe. Originally I was just looking for a nice sounding Latin word which had some kind of meaning behind it, and well I stumbled across this one. And its seemingly more relevant than I orginally thought, I have been described as fiery on numerous occasions, whether this is a compliment or an insult I'm yet to really decide, but no more to the point fire is fairly uncontrollable and tends to do what it wishes, its a bit of a free spirit. Like me. At this point it seems fitting to point out that . . .

I have been on DA for many years now, hmm nearly four years maybe? And in that time I've had numerous accounts, as I'm a bit of a wanderer, I get bored every so often and disappear somewhere else, or more commonly I run out of inspiration and hope a change of account will help. I think as well, I've changed a lot in the four years I've been on DA, I'm nearly 20 now, so those years were probably some of the formulative in my life. I think it would be naive for me to now say I m fully grown up, I am the person I will be for the rest of my life, but I'm a hell of a lot nearer that than when I started. And so, I expect this will *hopefully* be the last of many accounts here.

It is normally at points like this I promise that I'll submit more work than I have been doing etc etc. And I have recently turned over a new leaf in many respects that I shan't bore you with here, but in reality I can't expect to do that. I'm in the second year of my degree, not only that but in a couple of months I'm off to America for the summer. So instead patience should perhaps be the key word. Things will appear here occasionally, when I hae the inspiration or time, and hopefully that'll be worthwhile.

More than before as well I'm here for other people's artwork and not just my own, and I've certainly grown out of the 'ZOMG how many pageviews do I have!?!?!' stage, which is probably justas well as I'm not expecting many!

Anyway I have made this ridiculously long for a first entry, but I suffer from verbal diarrhea when I get started, probably because blogging or journals allow you to say everything in your head uninterrupted. Which links me quite nicely to my blog, chances are this journal won't change often but my blog can be found at . .
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So if you do find me interesting enough to warrant reading about thats the place to go.

And with that I'll leave you, well any of you that are still reading that is.

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