Poor xanga. I hope it gets some lovins soon, cause facebook is ruling the roost. Which is also kinda sad, cause facebook seems like its close to jumping the shark. S'what happens when you make things less exclusive and more mindless.

Anyway...!

My last two quarters have been full of exhausting, hard work, but it was worth every minute, cause my art is looking alot better, and I'm finding I have a style. Just to update.

If you're not aware, I'm spending the summer in an apartment in Savannah, and spending a summer away from home is more stretching than I realized. But its pretty cool too, cause I'm noticing already how God is changing me, and how I'm realizing things about myself and others than I'm not sure I would have if I was doing the same old-same old.

I'm taking just one class, Illustration Self-Promotion, and that alone is wonderful. My professor is not only well-informed and skilled, but she's also a Christian. What a sweet relief.

Alot of folks ask me what self-promotion is, and its kind of self explanatory. I'm learning the art of advertising my business of illustration. 85% of illustration is freelancing, so I likely won't get jobs unless I spread the word to art directors (and family and friends ha) that I'm an artist who'd like to work (and eat, sure). At the moment I'm working on my mailer, which is a cryptic word for a postcard. The postcard is an illustrator's business card. It grabs your attention more than a tiny scrap of paper that only has your name and contact on it.

Or you can do things the easy way and get an agent to represent you and spread the news of your skills, but they take some of your money, too. Oh, the humanity!

I realize I'm probably rambling about boring things to absolutely no one, cause no one uses Xanga, but I'm okay with that. It's called catharsis.

Though, in all honesty, I might get a blogspot or livejournal or somethin. I'm not sure I like all the changes xanga's made to the interface, and I'm kind of enjoying rambling mindlessly to no one. Takes the pressure off of impressing people!

Four more months and I am entirely finished with school. Scary? Sort of.

My temporary website; I'll have a new one in a few weeks, still deciding on a domain name. http://ellembee.carbonmade.com/  Alot of the comics are pretty dated, I'm sure you'll figure it out.

~Laura (needs food badly.)

I'm engaged!!!!

Just kidding.

Though if you wanted, we could say I'm married to SCAD, with all the time I put into it. Sometimes I cheat on SCAD and mess around with Mr. Computer, though. I'm so full of scandal.

Just had a meeting with fellow Disney Campus Reps this morning. Was kinda fun to talk about the good and the bad, or just talk about Disney with other normal people, and learn lots of cool little secrets. Like about the upcoming ground breaking of their new super secret awesome and somewhat unmagical park. Ooooh...

Realized this morning that I get this pass that gets me and up to three people into the parks for free. Which is pretty keen. Spring break will definitely be in the southern hemisphere this year. Anyone interested?

And the trip on my birthday was pretty cool, with the exception of the rain that soaked every little princess and pirate in sight.

Nothing deep to talk about today. I'm working on very little sleep. I'll post some art someday.

My sequential professors were right. Drawing vomit is alot funnier than it sounds.

I think we've established that my nerditivity is whats official, today.

At least Mary still likes me!

~Laura (currently wants her ear to stop ringing)

Thanks all, for the well-wishes on my last entry. Those mean alot, more than you know.

Classes are in full swing and its either my morale or God's grace (probably both), but I feel ready for the chaos, which doesn't even feel as chaotic as it could be.

Medieval Art & Architecture: My last art history class at scad. The subject matter isn't exactly, um, epic, but the professor seems pretty keen, so I think he'll make it interesting. (And he's loud enough that I can hear, whew!)

Pencil & Inking for Comics: We're not even doing any inking, cause the department is changing this class as its being conducted. Sucks to my assmar. I'm a little dissapointed with that, but on the plus side I'm gonna learn alot and have great deals of fun with Larison's last quarter here. He shall be missed.

Children's Book Illustration: Exciting! This is something I wanted to do when I 'grew up'. I was five at the time. (weird kid, I know.) By brainstorming with Rinzee (we're like the wonder twins or something) I got slammed by what I think is a really good idea for a manuscript. Or good enough; at least now I won't have to resort to jacking a fairy tale or just doing an alphabet book. Class should be alot more fun once I have my idea set in stone and approved!

In two days of each other, two guys asked if I wanted to hang out, or something along those lines. Even if its just as friendlies, this is so foreign to me. So foreign that I'm tempted to take my mace everywhere with me. Wouldn't that be a good excuse.

guy: so what are you doin after this?
me: ehhhh, I better not. I left my pepper spray behind.

Happiness is learning how to rip french disney music from youtube onto your ipod.  J'ai fait mon choix!

~Laura (currently chewing eclipse gum, to which she is addicted)