darkphoenix

Is this thing still on...?

So apparently it's been a day or two since my last journal entry.  I've been ... busy.  My latest endeavour has been an image I've been working on in Blender, and I just popped in to upload it...  Most of my digital art to date has been work in progress, or extracts from larger projects, and as such has gone into my scrapbook -- but this one is all my own work (albeit done for a competition) so it's gonna join my poetry 'n such in my gallery!

Yay... :-|

Eighteen months ago, I didn't exactly leave, and now I'm not exactly back.

I called in for one of my very infrequent visits to clean out my inbox -- at least in part because somebody apparently requested my password (I'm sure it was a case of mistaken identity!)  I decided it was time to make a quick post -- although really there's nothing much to report.  A couple more novels under the belt (neither of them completed though) and a couple more HLDM levels to my name.  I really haven't been doing anything worth putting up on deviantART.

The site looks a little sleeker and shinier these days, and I almost find myself tempted to re-subscribe.  I'll wait, though, see if I come back soon, or if my next absence stretches to months.  After all, I won't be posting art, and I doubt I'll have time to venture back into the forums (in fact, I'm more than a little afraid to venture back there, lest they turn out to be just the same as always... )

*shrug*

Time will tell, I guess!

Cheers,
Pete.

"The time has come..."

Is it still trendy, I wonder, to throw a fit, pull all of your artwork down, storm out and slam the door behind you, as the words "I am leaving" echo hollowly around your now empty user page?  That is not what I am doing -- I never was particularly trendy at the best of times -- but I am, for now, saying "so long".

I guess the fact that I no longer know what's trendy around here says it all.  I just don't spend my time here like I used to.

I'm not leaving.  If anything, I've already left!

Back in the day, I would spend my every waking hour haunting the forums, writing long posts on a wide variety of subjects.  I just popped back into the forums for a last look around -- for quite possibly the first time in six months -- and I didn't recognise any of the names (although it has to be said: the topics on offer looked all too familiar!)  There were a couple of familiar names in the Seniors forum -- and I really should pop over there and say toodle-pip, although even that feels like it might be making too much fuss over nothing.

I guess my interests have simply shifted away from this site.  I'm pretty busy these days, and most of the extra-curricular stuff I'm doing is not really suited for posting here anyway.  I barely have enough time to complete the projects I want to do, let alone spending any of it here where I'm fairly sure I've said all there is for me to say.  I could argue, I suppose, that it was the change in regime, the politics, that drove me away from the place, but that's not really true; if anything, there was a change in tone of the place -- and possibly it coincided with said change in regime, or possibly it just happened as deviantART became too big.  It went from friendly little village to thriving metropolis.

*shrug*

So, I'm not leaving as such.  No doubt I'll still poke my nose in from time to time, and I'll leave my art -- such as it is -- up for people to see (or read.  Whatever! )  But I will not really be here anymore.  Not for a while, anyway; I guess there's always the possibility that I'll be back and that this is just another hiatus.

If anybody wants to reach me, you can contact me through my website's "Contact" form -- the link to my site is on my user page, I believe -- or you can use the email address (old, but not yet obsolete -- a little like myself, really!) that's on my devID.

Take care, y'all!

Cheers,
Pete.

Time for a journal update, I guess, since it seems the NaNo graphics are no longer being served, and since NaNoWriMo 2006 is long over.

So where am I now?

Well, I'm struggling to keep above water at the moment.  My '06 novel still needs quite a bit of work before it's ready to give to my friends who are clamoring for it.  I'm also making the attempt to get my house clean and tidy (-ish).  I don't have time for either, because I'm now cooking for myself again -- now that my kitchen is no longer a breeding-ground for Pilchardella (like Salmonella, but cheaper and oilier) -- which leaves me no spare time between getting home from work, and going to bed.  Apparently it's healthier, but while I haven't actually poisoned myself yet I can't say I've seen the benefits either.  Early days yet though...

And then there's my blossoming social life -- well, more or less, anyway.  I certainly seem to go out more often than I used to on the weekend, or stay in for visitors -- which is nice, but it doesn't leave me a whole lot of time.  Oh well, take it while I can get it, I guess!