Things are going very well since the start of the school year. I ended up dropping my ceramics course, because I was not enjoying working with clay. However, I love painting with oil, and I plan to continue painting with them for a long while.

My grandmother loved oil painting, and she had tons of paintings that she had done over her lifetime in her house, some of which I now own. She was a very good painter too. Unfortunately, I didn’t get involved with art until just after she died. I wish I could have connected with her through art, and understood what some of the stories and reasoning’s were behind the paintings that I now own. I find it interesting that we both loved the same medium, but were completely isolated from really sharing it due to the generational gap.

I have been working as a ResNet Computer Consultant (or RCC) at my school, as well as my old job working at my college’s helpdesk. I really love working as an RCC, as I get hands on experience with troubleshooting computer problems. All of the people I work with and for are fantastic, and they are also a great resource when I need troubleshooting with my own problems.

Things with my boyfriend are going very well. We have gone past the seven-month mark of our relationship, and we are still loving every minute we get to spend together. He has made himself an account here, , and has been enjoying playing with his new SLR.

Jeff and I purchased a 120 gallon aquarium, and are now housing Blizzard and Gringo along with 11 corydoras, 7 of the original, and 4 albinos that came with the aquarium. With the purchase of the 120, we adopted the fish from the previous owner. We now have two red parrotfish (a species I would not normally buy or recommend buying because it was man-made), two neon tetras, a danio, and an angelfish living in our 20H. Tar is now living alone in the 55 gallon, because he has proven multiple times that he cannot play nice with any other fish. He ate one of the original 8 corys, and ate a common pleco that we put in last week. So much for algae control. We also have four female bettas in with the baby bristlenose plecos, to control some infestations with the tank. Last week, we bought 12 young corys to put in 120, along with 2 chocolate albino plecos. Unfortunately, the corys were too young and too small to be in the same tank with the oscars, and we now have only 8 left (munch munch). We moved the survivors to the tank with the bettas, where they now are living a life without fear.