Hopefully this year isn't as shitty as last year was.

In my personal life, 2010 was a brutal mistress. I lost connection with all the artists at school because of the schedule change. I was put in all Gen Ed classes, separated from everyone else and put in with Criminal Justice students (shudders). I also lost contact with several friends due to various reasons, most involving their own personal lives, and worst of all, I lost my hard drive to corruption back in November, causing me to lose my videos, games, game saves, and so on, but thankfully not my documents.

This year, I really hope things go better. I'll be starting my last term in college in a week, and after that I'll be looking for a job somewhere in this godawful economy. Where to start is a problem. Because the economy went to shit around the time I became of legal age to work, I couldn't find a job anywhere with anyone. The closest thing to a job I got recently was moving stuff and setting up racks at Megabrands for a day, but that was only contract work, and I only got the job because my stepdad referenced me. Part time jobs are questionable because the application process is a piece of shit, and all these stores are slaves to their shitty electronic systems. Even fast food won't hire me. The same Farmer Boys keeps telling me that their manager is out on vacation FOR THE PAST 3 YEARS!!! It isn't going to be getting any better going forward.

Working in my field (game art) is highly unlikely as of right now. Short of resorting to piracy, I can't afford all the programs I need to practice in (3DS Max, Adobe software, etc.). Don't tell me to use PaintTool SAI or Mudbox or any of that crap. From what I've been told, they want you to conform to the tools they use, which is Max, Maya, and Adobe stuff among others. I still haven't had a portfolio review at college, and I seriously don't know what to expect, especially when my college doesn't know what the fuck they're doing at this point. Classes have become Shonen Anime-style teaching; "it takes 18 months of lots of grueling practice to become good at 3DS Max, but we're going to do the exact same in 4 weeks!" It's becoming a lot more restrictive to even enter the building if you don't have a class at that time. It might just be me, but I've had a security guard and a program director go apeshit on me because I arrived for class 15 minutes early. The computers are much better than they were when I first arrived (two steps up from a Commodore 64 back then), but in order to prevent any security breaches, the administration did something to the network, servers, and computers that makes it impossible to save anything or use a USB, and only makes the systems MORE susceptible to corruption and security breaches.

As for my stuff here on FA and subsequently Inkbunny, I am working on new Lemons and Pictures, but slowly right now due to personal life crap. I'm now going to put in a suggestion box for people to submit stuff they'd like to see in my future work. Eventually I will set up a PayPal account so I can start taking commissions, but that will take a while.

Tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell Randy Gonzales about me and add me to your watchlist. Let's hope this year isn't as shitty as 2010.