Romantist-Egoist

Life has continued moving in a linear trajectory, so I am grateful for that.  I have spent the last two years pursuing my master's in library science, and I will be done in December, which is great! After school wraps up my husband and I will be moving to Colorado, so I will finally leave Portland! My husband has been instrumental in helping me get my life back under control and muster up the confidence to do things I never thought would be possible, and I am excited to see what the next year will bring in a new city.
It has been so amazing watching from afar as old friends have mastered their crafts.  You are all so talented and continue to improve with each passing year, and I am so pleased that everyone seems to be doing well.  I want to keep working hard and make sure that I continue to push myself as well.

Urgh, fuck me. I looked at the top of my page and it says "deviant for nine years."
Bleh.
I can't sleep so I thought I would update this thing.
A lot has changed for me in the last few years.  Obviously I'm not making much in the way of art anymore, I have found writing/editing-related stuff to be far more lucrative for me.  I spend my days playing Commander with high-schoolers (I work at a game store) and my remaining free time playing WoW and being a freelance writing tutor and editor. 
I don't know, I guess I am doing OK, but things could be better.  A month ago today the light of my life walked out on me, and after spending nearly nine years with that person I realized that I don't really know how to do anything by myself.  So I am slowly trying to figure my shit out. I am so lucky to have the amazing friends that I do, so many people extended a hand and pulled me out of the pit of sadness and did their best to cheer me up.  This whole experience would have been absolutely unbearable if not for the people that still care about me.  Last week I was finally able to move into a new apartment, and so far so good here.  I just hate that I am so fucking old now and I have to start all over again.  I wasn't meant to be alone, I have too much love and happiness that I simply can't keep all to myself.
Anyway, maybe I'll start drawing again.  It is enjoyable, I just always knew that I wasn't very good at it, and that is OK.
Thanks for reading, I hope you guys are doing well.

Well I found it more difficult to leave than I thought -_-
I just wanted to bump the older message off and say "I'm still here!" lol

Yes, there will be a kiriban for 5000 page views.  Still a little ways off I know but it is going to happen!  Who will be the lucky one??

I have been sketching a lot lately, but I find that doing the line art digitally is entirely too tedious (even though it looks good).  Can anyone recommend a good pen for inking?