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STILL ALIVE

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YEP, STILL KICKIN'



BIRTHDAY
Alright, I haven't posted a new journal in forever, as you know. I figured I should first off say thank you for all the kind birthday wishes! I'm 22 years old, I'm in the best shape of my life, and I've got a great future ahead of me. I'm definitely excited! My dad helped me buy a new pistol, a .45 M1911 A1 that is absolutely sick nasty ill disgusting. (Yes, really that cool.)

PAST
As I haven't been here in a while, you may have wondered if I died. Well, nope, I sure didn't. I spent most of this year devoting a crazy amount of time to graduating with a 3.5 GPA from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. I got my BA in communication and dual minored in anthropology and philosophy. During the year I was staying extremely busy with freelancing to pay the rent, as well as searching for a career. Which leads me to...

THE FUTURE
I am now a sailor in the US Navy! After months of searching for a creative job, I realized that there was basically nothing out there that 1) interested me, 2) was hiring and offered job security, 3) was paying more than 24k a year, and 4) was located in a place that wasn't Nebraska or South Dakota. So, what did I do? I looked into the military as a career and found a lot of really good benefits. Which leads me to...

RIGHT NOW
I'm currently inactive while waiting for a commission to review board in November which will determine if I can become a public affairs officer or even perhaps a pilot. I moved back home to Midland to make some money in the mean time to pay off my ridiculous amount of student debt. I'm doing PT every single morning and I'm on the way to looking more cut than cocaine. So that's the story, if you were interested.




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Alive.

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ALIVE.



OH, HEY THERE
Yeah, yeah. I know I'm pretty much dead to most of you, but I promise I still am alive doing my thing. So feel free to send me a message; I still check every few days. This is my final semester at college, so I'm doing everything I can to enjoy my time (party, party, party, and possibly going to class) while also working while also trying to find a post grad job. I've just started feeding out my resume to companies, bought a suit, and praying for interviews. I'm not really sure what I'll do, but I really hope it's not freelance graphic design -- just not the kind of stability I'm hoping on.

SO WHAT?
Like I mentioned last time, I don't really "do" art like I used to. It's really a mixture of things that happened in my life. First, I'm putting real life obligations in front of everything in order to graduate in a good position. Second, I feel like an old man when I'm on deviantART. Yeah, yeah, I know that the people who READ my journals are likely much older than me, but I think the major demographic here is 13-17 -- and I feel like I'm slowly drifting out of touch.

IT'S NOT ALL DOOM AND GLOOM
Ideally, when my life calms down I'll have time to jump back into art. I have a lot of really cool ideas. Of course, I again feel like my ideas might be lost on the crowd, but that's not really a big concern for me. I'll do what I want to do, and pretty much always have. I'm not sure what kind of job I'll end up doing, but we'll just have to see. By the time I update this, I will probably be employed, or broke and on the street. My goal is still to get rich or die trying, no matter what happens.

FINALLY
If you want to get in touch with me, I'm actually very active on Facebook (Clay Chastain), and somewhat active on Twitter. Feel free to find me that way! Oh, and, who doesn't want to see 1,000 Facebook photos of me looking like a fool at some sketchy night club?




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UPDATES

5 min read

FRUSTRATIONS AND LIFE



WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
Hrm, that's a good question that people have been asking me. I'm not really gone, though I'm not really here. It's an interesting state in my life. I'm now just about a semester away from graduating and things have been piled so high on my plate that all I do is sit around and read boring articles and write boring papers and attend boring meetings. Then again, next semester should be easy.

ART.
It's obvious that I don't really make art like I used to. I've recently been getting more in the mindset. I finally have some pretty interesting ideas pop in my head, so be on the lookout for a few new things. As I've got older, my style really has changed, though that's not apparent from the single deviation I've posted. You'll be seeing more from me, in a much darker way in the future. It's not your comic art I used to do, but then again, that's not who I am anymore. I've debated on deleting my gallery and starting over, but I realized that without my past I wouldn't be here today.

FRUSTRATIONS.
I finished a short film project recently (although what art is ever actually finished?). And, I would have liked to posted it to my gallery through the dA Film portion of the site, but it's pretty much the worst system ever developed. It's slow, there's no progress bar, and processing takes an hour... and then fails each time I upload the file in any of the suggested formats. I've dispatched a frustrated note to the Film staff, which they'll probably read and go "you're doing something wrong try again". But, I'm going to share it with you anyway. It's 2 minutes long on YouTube available in 720p. I really would like people to see it, even if it's not on this site.





MORE FRUSTRATIONS.
To continue my whinging, I thought I'd also try to catch up on commenting on dA since I have a backlog of thousands of messages, etc. Unfortunately, it's impossible to do in one sitting because I get the message: "Error: Couldn't post the comment, since the system thinks it's spam."

Thanks deviantART. At least prompt me with a Captcha or something. I don't get how it thinks it's spam because every comment is different. So it must be a frequency thing. It seems like it's missing the proper variables to actually detect spam, and pisses me off to no end. (I hope THIS journal post goes through!)

ANYWAY
I don't want to end on a sour note, so I will say that I recently made some chocolate chip cookies and they were delicious.




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7 YEARS

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7 YEARS



I'M OLD
Yep,it's official. I'm old. Today marks my 7 year anniversary on dA. It's been a wild ride. I've been everything from a n00b to a staff member to a stalker to a lurker in this time. I think it's pretty amazing that I've lasted this long, especially without getting banned.

NOSTALGIA
When I joined this site, it was to get wallpapers. I found voodoo-prophet along the way and learned about vectors. The rest is history. From there I learned to love the site and I've given it a huge amount of time.

ANYWAY
There's not much more to say except that I love dA just the same as when I started. I'm now old (and I know some of you are even older than me!). I plan to be here for the next 7 years too. Promise. Thanks to everyone who has supported me along the way.

FINALLY
I owe you guys a big :heart:. Without you, I wouldn't be here. I'll see you at 8 years!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST
There's a very exciting official Llama Birthday Contest which is still going on right now. DO IT: news.deviantart.com/article/88…



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A FITTING TRIBUTE



YOU'RE TWO DAYS LATE, JERK!
Yep, you're right. I am, indeed, two days late. On August 8th, I moved to San Antonio into my own apartment, finally. Which meant I missed the birthday because of preparation and packing, and I missed the llama's birthday because I didn't have cable or internet hooked up. That said, I still could have got to this sooner, but I've been on the phone with the insurance/repair/car rental folks all day -- on the 8th I slammed into a baby deer going 85 MPH which pretty much ruined the front end of my car. Don't worry, I'm fine, but Bambi got annihilated.

NOW FOR SOMETHING IMPORTANT!
August 10, 2005 marks the day that the newly created :llama: received its fame. While some people laughed, others went into a panic. Llama Day was a day of mixed emotion for many, but for the few special clowns in #clowntown, it was a hilarious time for the community.

Who would have thought that a 43 x 97 llama could fuel the fires of deviants? Revenge, plotting, outrage, disgust -- these were all things developed on August 10, 2005. This day marks the special journal, which launched the llama emoticon into deviant stardom: The Llama Conspiracy.

For those who have seen my journal for a while, you've probably seen that lone stamp. "Llama = Conspiracy". Was the llama a tool designed to insult and hurt the community? Was there some master plan behind it all? Would the shoutbox ever be safe again?

To cut it short: no, no, no. The llama was created out of sheer randomness. On that fateful day before receiving my seniorship status, I mentioned to spyed and lolly that the lack of a llama was a "dire situation" and that "[llamas] are an important part of life" and they agreed.

No less than 10 minutes later, neo-the-foxycoon had an impressive emote lined up for use. It was huge. It still is huge. And it was hilarious. And it still is. And then it was made an emote. And it still is. spyed called mccann and asked him to restart the entire dAmn server, just to see it in action. logey had the luck of being (probably) the first person on deviantART to get her page llamanated (I'm sure she felt proud). A tribute to the llama, designed by a-r, was even made a part of deviantWear history: www.deviantart.com/deviantwear… . The llama has since appeared on many deviantART products, so be sure to take home a piece of history. You can find the llama in the Moods system as well, in case you were feeling particularly llama-like.

The llama, to this day, remains a 43 x 97 statue of deviantART excellence. Every August 10, I wish for you to celebrate Llama Day with a full heart and lots of laughter. Make sure you give your friends, family, and love ones a special treat on this very special day:

A :llama:.

Thank you. :heart:

LAST BUT NOT LEAST
There's a very exciting official Llama Birthday Contest which is still going on right now. DO IT: news.deviantart.com/article/88…



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TEXAS DEVMEET INFO
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