Miedo
So I've had this feeling now for just over two weeks and I finally put a name to it last weekend.... I am fucking HOLYSHIT-TERRIFIED of graduating. It hardly seems real; May is approaching--FAST--and after May, my life will change drastically. I will no longer have easy access to a fully stocked print studio. I will no longer have access to this wonderful little community of awesome creative people. I'll be on my own. It's going to be sink or swim. I'll have big college loans to pay off. Part of what's making me anxious is I don't have anything lined up yet; it's all a big void. The Unknown if you will. Now, I can do something about that. I'm just having a hard time making myself really investigate the options. I've worked hard and have good training in printmaking, not to mention I think I can get a good recommendation from Bill Fick. If I apply to a few places, I can probably get a job working in a shop. I hope--it's what I'd really like to do.

Along Those Lines
Like last semester (and, well, every semester prior to that), I feel like I have a lot of big goals I want to accomplish this semester. But... they're not terribly organized in my head, and I don't feel like I'm making any progress on them. My mom and my friend Loren separately made the same suggestion to me, which I think is very good: organize your projects and set daily/weekly goals of things you can do to actively move toward them. So, that's my game plan. Hope it works.

Codigo
One of my commitments this semester is to engaging my mind in things outside of art. To that end (and partly because my art is inspiring it) I'm picking up an old hobby of mine again. Are you ready for this? I can barely believe how big of a geek I am. I'm picking web programming back up. LOL. I've gotten started already, refreshing my knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Once I'm feeling back up to snuff I'll throw PHP into the mix. Back in the day when I was coding regularly, I could never get AJAX to work. Now, I'm setting it as a goal; I want to get that shit down.

That's enough for now. I gotta get to bed. Buena' noche'!
-P.

I am now the lead developer on the CUSP SourceForge project :)

Thanks for the feedback guys :) I think Pierre and I are going to do some KICK ASS stuff with this project, and I look forward to working with him :)

Also, the extreme emotional and educational stress I've been under for the last two weeks is now finally at a close. I'm finally feeling better, relaxed and my breathing is no longer short and laboured. For those of you new to my lj, this is the most depressing my LJ has ever been, so it's only up from here!

-P.

Hey everyone, I'm rewriting the PHP automation script that The Shallow End runs on. It was made by a guy named Pierre Luc-Brunet, and he did a damned fine job, but there are definitely more features that the script could have, so I'm redoing it from scratch.

To help me out, please give me a list of things you'd like to see on a comic site. What are some features you've seen on other comic sites that you think are cool? What are some things that you think are useless?

Please give me any thoughts you have, even if you don't think they're apropos for The Shallow End. I may release the script GPL one day, and if so, I want to have the most robust feature list I can.

Thanks,
-P.