Wow. I really do suck at this whole posting regularly thing. What's it been? A month?

Anyway, I didn't get into DJK, but you know something? I'm ok with it. I'm taking a year for art classes at the community college.

And in the meantime, I'm starting up my business, self named "Prince Yuuri," at PrinceYuuri.Etsy.com.

The Fall/Winter Collection will be released August 1!

Already? Oh my, how time flies. And I swear my stomach just barked like a dog in the echoic distance. Mmm, creepy. Anyway, art stuffs. Not as much as going on as I really hoped. I feel a little bit in a slump, I guess. I dunno.

I've been having a bit of fun with animal anthropomorphism (colloquially known as "furry") in my sketchbook. I myself am not a furry, but occasionally drawing them is a lot of fun. I've been drawing mostly figures that would be more connected to Bastet or Sekhmet and Egyptia mythology than furry fandom, though. Probably because I've been reading a lot of Sandman, and finished up the story arc Season of the Mists about a week ago. I guess I love it as much as I do since I get about 90% of the mythological, occult/magickal references. And Gaiman wrote Coraline. I really wish I could have appreciated seeing him when I did.

Sometimes it gets me thinking about the triple goddess and Wicca. I dunno. My personal belief is that Wicca is highly. over. rated. I guess I'm one of the sensible multitudes that can figure out the it's not a survivor mystery school fertility cult that dates back to a pan-European religion (that didn't exist) in paleolithic times (b/c animism was not the thing back in the day, obviously) that was based on a very strong matriarchy (that also didn't exist). However, I can see where it has its roots in pre-Christian Europe. Celtic mythology was chock full of things in threes, especially goddesses, not to mention the Greek triple-goddess Hecate, most often referred to in Wicca since she's associated with witchcraft. But I guess I would find the religion as a whole more credible if Aliester Crowley didn't get all up in it and create his "Alexandrian" tradition, and if New Age didn't get all up in people's faces. Oh dear, I should stop now before I get into New Age.

BUT LATELY I'VE BEEN A KNITTING AND COOKING FIEND.

     I've been having some really bad luck these past couple months. I'm not saying my life sucks, but it just seems like I've had terrible luck with things, especially college. A little part of me just wants to curl up in a corner and die. I've got two more chances to get into an art school. It depresses me since I missed two because of my awful luck that I've been having.
     It doesn't help that I just found out that Mars has been in retrograde these past couple months. Now, I know, I know, it probably seems really silly to some people to believe is such things, but I do. I'm not saying I obsess over my horoscope and crap, because those are stupid, not just to the non-believers, but also the people that are a little more informed about astrology, like myself (note I said a little more informed, not all knowing). I missed on because I hesitated, yet just plowed right along. The second one had to do with a banker, and I did the most I could do. This whole thing makes me feel a little bit... hopeless. But the retrograde is supposed to be ended by to night, so hopefully things will start looking up.

The title pretty much expresses the themes of my next piece I'm doing as a project. It's supposed to be "three faces of you" or something along those lines. The positioning of everything is proving to be difficult because of all the divides. It's really hard to figure out what to classify some things, and even though I'm splitting the canvas in quarters for the meaning, I have to make sure I don't split the space in half. However, I think I've got the thing pretty much down.

My teacher said she would put my painting in the hall, but then it seemed like she forgot and she was like "I'm sorry, but I'm only putting up the ones that won medals." Then I got somewhat depressed because the only reason I didn't get anything is because of the DQ. Then she was like, "Oh yeah!" So I don't know if she's gonna put it up or not. Either way, such is life. It's sitting in the room still. I wonder when I can take it home.

And DJK has their stuff up! YES! The application fee for the Royal Danish Academy is becoming a real pain in the butt since something's going on, and I don't know what. Did he stuff make it, or did it not? It's so complicated.....

Consequentially, this means I can't draw as much as I'd like since there's only 24 hours in a day and I need 1/3 of that to sleep so as to prevent any sort of physical or psychological harm to myself or others.

I am really loving Danish, though. I've been writing my e-mails in Danish to The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and they seem to be responding in Danish. Honestly, that's helping me learn a lot faster. Even though it's probably grammatically incorrect in some spots, it's forcing me to use it, thus forcing me to learn it faster. It's hard to learn a language when you can't really talk to anyone in it, but I guess I could talk to Mrs. Kjersti in it since she would probably understand it, plus Kristen seems to understand it, too. He told me Danish might be perfect for me since he thinks I speak Norwegian like a Danish person. He also says that Danish people sound like they talk with potatoes in their mouths, so I'm not sure whether I should take it as a compliment or not. I'm trying to immerse myself as much as I can in such a limited fashion. I really need to learn how to speak it off the top of my head. Whenever Kristen asks me to say something in Danish, my mind suddenly goes blank and all I can remember is "Jeg taler ikke dansk.", "Jeg hedder Brittany.", "Hvordan har du det?", and "Hvor kommer do fra?"

Anyway, I'm tired and I ought to go to bed.

Until next time....