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Welp... this is awkward.

Yeah, well... last time I was here I said that I was gong to hopefully open up commissions during January. ... And then school actually started and it just turned into an absolute train wreck. Through the JAN-FEB Session I had to work with a pair of flaky numbnuts on a group film project that was a nightmare to handle... and for MAR-APR, well.... That's when things got bad. ...

MY NEWS

Long-story-short, I realized at the end of April, after struggling with the VFX programs and realizing that it was becoming to frustrating and difficult for me to continue along that track, I made the decision that I was going to switch to a Graphic Design Masters program instead, since that was probably going to be more beneficial in me getting a job after graduating and the fact that it would just benefit me and my work more to know how to use stuff like Illustrator for logo designs and various web tools to build a social media platform. ... Then?

> Was told that I would have to take 18-21 Credits worth of prerequisite undergraduate courses before I could take the Masters...
> Federal Financial Aid wouldn't cover those prereq courses
> Would require a private student loan in order to pay for those classes
> Private loan required a cosigner seeing as that I didn't possess enough credit to get one without it
> Parents didn't want to cosign
> No money, no classes, no dorms... no school.

So now? I'm... pretty much back where I started. Sitting in my bedroom in my parents house, being constantly annoyed and belittled by my family for my failures and lapses in judgement, poor and worrying about my inevitable student loan debt which is only MORE now since I spent money trying to go for a Masters and pretty much failed out. ... Oh yeah, those last two classes I took I failed as well because... the program is just shite.

YOUR NEWS

Now I fucking REALLY need to get some money, since... fuck knows my folks don't really want to help me with stuff. ... And I just desperately want to leave; I need to just... get out of here somehow. So. I'm going to FOR REALS this time Open Commissions this weekend. I've always been nervous about doing it because it never felt like it was the right time since something was always coming up, and I was wondering whether to adjust my prices to be able to essentially live off it, but... I guess I can't really waste time now.

I'm not going to open them immediately at this very moment; I'm just here to saying that COMMISSIONS WILL BE OPEN 3PM EST SUNDAY, 05/13/2018, and that, in the meantime, Review the < COMMISSION PRICELIST > so that you can educate yourself on the pricing and what you want.

And... well, I guess that's it. Not happy to be back in the position I'm currently in; basically makes me feel like this entire past year has been a waste of time and money. But... well, whatever. Life sucks. Got'a deal with it.

Take care --

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