So much for my attempt to be more active.

School and life have been very busy this past month. No crushing disasters or emergencies just constantly active. This weekend is the first time I've been significantly online in a while. Sorry to my friends for vanishing like that. These classes have been a little more challenging than I thought they would be. I hope everyone has been getting along well in my absence.

Looking over my earlier goals. I have been able to poke at a few animation programs now and again. I discovered one called TVPaint. Still a little pricey but not as bad as the other ones, and seems to have a lot of features. Vivziepop made her animated Die Young video on it so I'm sure it would more than handle what I could throw at it. Sketchbook pro also looks promising, and is a whole lot cheaper. I've discovered that a lot of the programs are vector based and I can't doodle or sketch in vector all that well, and I don't have a lot of extra-extra free time to learn it. I seem to be in bitmap based drawing for a while. I think I'm gonna make some hardware improvements this spring too. This will be my toy buying budget for the next couple of years. I'm justifying it partly as money I would have spent on AnthroCon if I had been going.

I really miss hanging around you all, and wish I could talk more but school has to come first or else I would be sunk. Now to catch up on notes, replies, and submissions.