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Andrea  

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  • Female/United States
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  • Deviant since Apr 7, 2004, 6:03 PM
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Reflections

Journal Entry: Mon Apr 14, 2008, 5:15 PM
  • Mood: Irritated
  • Listening to: Three Days Grace-Riot
  • Reading: The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft
  • Playing: Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core
  • Drinking: Mud Slides are my new favorite drink.
I was looking over some of my past journal entries today. I really like to complain about my life. At first I thought it was a bit immature, and I sounded like some emo highschool kid who is just craving attention. But then I realized that writing is one of the only avenues I have to vent. So, maybe it's not all that bad. You all don't have to read any of my entries, and/or care. I just want to put my thoughts out there. It makes me feel like I'm storing them in some safe place so I don't have to carry them around all the time.

So, as some of you may know, I haven't submitted anything on here since last summer. I'll tell you why... I guess I don't really consider myself an artist anymore, to be honest. Sure, I went to school for art, but that doesn't really mean anything. Will I ever get a job in the art field? No... probably not.

After working at FedEx and lifting 1000 boxes an hour for the past 2 months, I realized that I should've thought more about my future before I made the decision to switch to art. There are not a lot of jobs for artists out there. Sure, there are tons of Graphic Design jobs! But as an Illustrator who was not good enough to get into the Design program at Uconn, and knows nothing about website building, those aren't really options for me.

I just got a new job at Foxwoods, which is actually a downgrade from FedEx. Less pay per hour, but less work too. FedEx is awful. Don't ever work there. I'm serious. The job is crap.

And as I was job searching, I realized I will never have a decent paying job. Even with a college degree, unless you have some sort of valuable skill, the real world does not give a crap about you. One thing is for sure, I should've learned HTML and CSS. Because most of the art jobs out there require some sort of previous knowledge/experience in said subject.

So needless to say, I'm seriously regretting my switch from engineering to art in my college days. All you highschool kids out there, I don't mean to make you nervous, you can do anything and be successful if you put your mind to it. All I'm saying was that, I wasn't a very good artist when I switched majors, and I never really made much of an effort to improve myself, so I ended up screwing myself in the long run. I guess my problem was that I always thought I was an awesome artist until I got thrown into art school and saw that everyone else was much more original and had more drive than I did. But I didn't want to admit that people could be better than me, which is probably why I never applied myself. *sigh* So... I guess what I'm saying is, a person should be more careful about falling into that envious, denial cycle otherwise you might end up like me; working at FedEx, and downgrading to a less stressful job. Cheers guys. I hope your futures look much brighter than mine, and sorry if I depressed anyone.

Devious Information

  • Current Age: 23
  • Current Residence: Willimantic, CT
  • Interests: Well, seeing as the majority of my art consists of Final Fantasy characters... What do you think?
  • Favourite movie: FFVII Advent Children and The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Favourite band or musician: Nobuo Uematsu
  • Favourite genre of music: Mostly Videogame stuff... Yeah, I'm a huge dork...
  • Favourite artist: Yoshitaka Amano ^.~
  • Favourite poet or writer: Lynn Flewelling
  • Favourite style or digital art: Fan Art, and Fantasy/Sci-Fi
  • Operating System: Mac OS X (Tiger...mrow!) Wooo! Go mac!
  • MP3 player of choice: iTunes. ...It eats your soul! and Winamp on my PC
  • Shell of choice: See below
  • Wallpaper of choice: Anything with Sephiroth on it
  • Skin of choice: See above
  • Favourite game: Oh come on... take a guess. ...I dare ya. I'll give you a cookie!
  • Favourite gaming platform: Playstation, PC, Nintendo Wii
  • Favourite cartoon character: Uhm...Does Sephy count?
  • Tools of the Trade: Tablet, digital, and occasionally watercolor

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Devious Comments

~SephirothAndSara:iconSephirothAndSara: Apr 4, 2008, 9:59:36 PM
lol thanks... s'ok that u didn't get back ^^

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"Being GORGEOUS is not being skinny.
Being GORGEOUS is not wearing makeup.
Being GORGEOUS is not acting insulting to others.
Being GORGEOUS isn't always having a pretty face.

Being GORGEOUS is being the REAL you, not the FAKE you."
SephirothAndSar
~AerithHojo:iconAerithHojo: Apr 4, 2008, 8:53:55 AM
woah, I haven't gone on this site in forever. Sorry I haven't responded to you. Anyway, send me a note and we can chat. I don't want to write a huge post on my own wall. heh.
~SephirothAndSara:iconSephirothAndSara: Jan 3, 2008, 7:04:04 PM Mood: Peaceful
Hey I saw your pic with all your plushies!!! it was super cute! ^^! Hey, how did you make yours? I love Final Fantasy btw... especially Sephiroth! Hey, lets talk sometime =]
~AerithHojo:iconAerithHojo: Dec 14, 2007, 7:02:56 AM
Man, that guy has an AMAZING camera. Those shots are crystal clear. I love the preying mantis photo.
~Gweedz-Puleedz:iconGweedz-Puleedz: Dec 2, 2007, 6:32:34 PM
You will LOVE this gallery.

[link]
~Xadaj17:iconXadaj17: Nov 24, 2007, 6:23:47 PM
:hug:

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my Height is 5'10 and my Weight is 130. yeah I am a short bug and I was also born around October 17. and I have an scar over my cheek givening by my friend Eliskuya and I have an robot hand can shoot alot of things, and my hair is very long..and hot for
~Annemar:iconAnnemar: Aug 22, 2007, 11:36:09 AM
Thanks for another fave! =D

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Your organs are MINE!!! :evillaugh:

[link] <= my gallery

clubs: *Lolth-Scourge *The-Yaoi-Closet ~Abyss-Dragons
~Annemar:iconAnnemar: Aug 21, 2007, 1:42:25 PM
Thanks for the fave! =D

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Your organs are MINE!!! :evillaugh:

[link] <= my gallery

clubs: *Lolth-Scourge *The-Yaoi-Closet ~Abyss-Dragons
~AerithHojo:iconAerithHojo: Aug 20, 2007, 11:16:57 AM
No problem. I have a lot of respect for your work. I only hope people can stop being jealous and learn from what you do.
~Brashen:iconBrashen: Aug 19, 2007, 11:02:33 PM
Hey there thnax for stopping by and saying a kind word!! :hug:

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Fame is but the meanest of steps to becoming a Master Artist. - RAR
~AerithHojo:iconAerithHojo: Aug 12, 2007, 6:53:27 PM
Thank you very much. I think I need to lose the fan-art trend though.
=jo-po-17:iconjo-po-17: Aug 10, 2007, 2:00:12 PM
so creative! i've never seen anything like this before!

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:gallery: [link]
~AerithHojo:iconAerithHojo: Jul 25, 2007, 2:46:17 PM
:hug: Right back at you ^^
~cloudstar225:iconcloudstar225: Apr 24, 2007, 4:18:06 PM
oh! heh thank you ^^ thank you very much! :hug:

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wahahahahaha!!!
ya... I'm random, so what?
~AerithHojo:iconAerithHojo: Apr 24, 2007, 12:41:26 PM
No problem. You deserve lots of favs.
~cloudstar225:iconcloudstar225: Mar 15, 2007, 5:16:58 PM
^^ thank you for the fave

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wahahahahaha!!!
ya... I'm random, so what?
~AerithHojo:iconAerithHojo: Mar 2, 2007, 11:34:55 AM
Oh hey Miin! sorry I rarely check my front page. can't wait to see your stuff!
~ScarletArrow:iconScarletArrow: Feb 14, 2007, 1:32:56 PM
Hi Andrea!! It's Miin. I just started an account but no pics loaded yet. I was browsing and one of your pics came up. So I just wanted to say hi.
~AerithHojo:iconAerithHojo: Jan 25, 2007, 3:37:43 PM
Yeah, I'm pretty handy with a sewing machine and I like to just make stuff randomly.

Sorry I didn't friend you on myspace. I don't really like friending random people.
~pulis104:iconpulis104: Jan 19, 2007, 5:38:14 PM
nm i just noticed they were in your gallery and saw that you had made them haha

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Trying to be someone else is a waste of the person you are --- Kurt D. Cobain.....
If you love me youd go here [link]
--Dan P. Pulis woot
~pulis104:iconpulis104: Jan 19, 2007, 5:34:13 PM
k i knwo i am a guy and all but where did you get those ff7 stuffed animals? as that is my most favoritest game ever

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Trying to be someone else is a waste of the person you are --- Kurt D. Cobain.....
If you love me youd go here [link]
--Dan P. Pulis woot
~AerithHojo:iconAerithHojo: Dec 18, 2006, 1:26:43 PM
sorry it took me so long to reply. finals was a mess. thank you! And I've played Warcraft III/Frozen Throne. Awesome games. ^^
~AerithHojo:iconAerithHojo: Dec 18, 2006, 1:25:59 PM
Wow, tons of stuff on my userpage I haven't replied to yet. Thanks. ^^