XlionheartX

HI GUYZ. OMG, WUTZ UP??!!
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Ahem...let's try that again. Greetings, my fellow artists. How goes the struggle? Have you found any meaning to this tedium that we call existence yet?
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Er..one more time. Hey everyone. ^^ It's, as I say in the title, been a while. Is it 'a while', or 'awhile'? TIME TO GOOGLE. BRB.
Alright, it's actually 'a while', two separate words. 'Awhile' means, for a time. Like 'I'm going to be gone awhile.' I hate how if you look at a word long enough, it stop looking right, know what I mean? Awhile. That looks like the name of a Pokemon or something. WHILE-AWHILE-WHILE.

Ah, it's happening again. I'm digressing. SO. Back to the point. Here in New York, things have been pretty tough lately. The hurricane didn't hit my part of town too badly, but a lot of other places weren't so lucky. A teacher of mine, my high school art teacher actually, lived on Long Beach. Suffice it to say, his home is uninhabitable now. Thankfully, he's found a house to rent in the meantime in another town. But still, it makes me really count my blessings. A few of his ex students, including myself, have decided to start a sort of fundraising campaign for him, and hurricane victims in general. We're designing and selling t-shirts. I'll be finishing up my design today--no promises though, because I never follow through on those. I went into the city the weekend after the storm hit to volunteer in the relief effort. It was really nice to see so many people turn out. Restored my faith in humanity, you know? ^^

In other news, I recently took the second part of my CPA exam. It was 9:30 at night when stepped out of the building onto Third Ave, the city lit up and busy all around me. I didn't want to go straight home, so I started walking towards Fifth Ave, where Saint Patrick Cathedral is. It was a weird feeling, because I wasn't terribly confident that I passed the exam. Truth be told, I was trying to figure out how long I should study for it again before I take it a second time. But at the same time, I felt really relieved, because I'd been studying for this thing for so long, and it was just nice to get it over with, even if I may have to take it again. So I walked along, listening to my music, drowning out all the debits and credits, and smiling like a lunatic.

As the weeks passed, I didn't check the website for updates on scores like I had for the first part. I waited for the email instead (they send you an email with your score some time after it's posted on the site.) On friday, this friday that's just passed, I checked my yahoo! account. (On that note, I really need to switch to gmail. I use gmail at the office, and it's SO much better.) So I checked my yahoo! account and lo and behold, there was the Score Notification Service email. Ahhhhh.....

I was anxious, and clicked the email and downloaded the attachment at at least twice my normal clicking speed. I didn't have a whole lot of time to get more nervous, as the attachment loaded and my eyes darted around the text to find my score. One word caught my eye. PASS.

Ahahahah, so, good people, I've done it again. This makes two out of the two parts that I've took thus far that I've passed in my first try. Yeah, it feels good. It feels very good. Now there are two left, but the parts that I took already are arguably the hardest. For comparative purposes, just know that the material that I used in preparation for the part I just took, FAR, Financial Accounting and Regulation, was 51 hours of lectures. The next part I'm planning on taking, AUD, Auditing and Attestation, is 20 hours worth of material. Less than half. So, hopefully, it's all downhill from here. Wish me luck! ^^

After the exam, I bought this book, Drawing the Head and Hands, by Andrew Loomis. It's a very good instructional book for anyone interested. Here's a link:www.amazon.com/Drawing-Head-Ha…
I was working from it during the storm, and will post up some of my sketches along with my design for the Hurricane Relief thing.

I need to draw more.
I need to write more.
I need to read more.
I need to exercise more.
I need to start looking for another job.
And of course, I need to start studying for the next part of the exam.

I write these things down to give myself motivation. Haha, please bear with me.
Anyway, I hope you're all doing well. I hope everyone that was affected by the storm is okay, New York, Jersey, and everyone else. Thanks for reading, and peace out. ^^