Man, I haven't posted anything here in a while again. Oops. Been busy as hell again. This past weekend was devoted entirely to 'work' for starters. And I don't mean I spent it in the office.

Friday night was a trip to Michaels and a mad rush to work on some bookmarks with my site on them, which I wanted to have with me for Saturday night. Saturday started working on a craft commission. Remember that blue floral hair clip I made a while back? Well, I got commissioned to do one in pink/yellow/white for a quinceanera, so I spent the afternoon working on that. And then in the evening I had a poetry reading in Piscataway--my first paid gig whoo! heh--which I think went over pretty well, though I still talk too fast. Whoops! I'll work on that. My mouth and brain just refuse to move at the same speed! Sunday was Dre and Paulo's Wedding! We got majorly lost between the ceremony and reception, but all's well that ends well, right?

This is the art I made for their wedding gift:

(Which I can finally post now that they got it first.) Overall I'm pretty happy with this turned out, so I'm making signed matte prints available. Use the 'Contact Me' form @ http://subsequentvisions.com if you're interested. Signed 8.5 x 11 prints are priced at $25. Mini (half page) prints can also be made available upon request.

And now that that nonsense is out of the way, I have been OBSESSED recently with Xenosaga. I know, I'm way behind schedule on that one. I haven't been able to stop playing since like five hours into the first game. Now I'm nearing the end of the third and I'm convinced that:

a) Shion is kind of a bitch.

b) Ziggy is the most awesome person ever and

c) I don't understand 90% of the religious references, but that's fine because most of the characters and the story overall are just awesome (even if the battle system in the second game was complete trash.)

And best of all, it seems I can stay on my 'Girls Only' schedule as long as I write like mad on my lunch breaks, which is a relief. I can actually have some illusion of free time! To play more xenosaga, of course.

Since the reading my muse has really been into poetry again, but i only expect that to last another day or two at best. Though, I'm already 40 pages into my next manuscript thanks to it so far! haha. I won't be looking in the mouths of any gift horses, you know?

As things stand, I don't think I'll be able to do Nanowrimo this year after all, as much as I'd like to. We'll see how October goes. (Can you believe it's already October?! Where the hell has the year gone?!!!)

Well, that's all I really have time to say for now. Will try to update again soon.