Exposition
So, it's that time again...

where the brain is brought back on line after a long period of dormancy

where the hours of sleep per day is drastically reduced, and the number of hours awake doing stuff increase tenfold

where expectations and responsibilities return like a flying ton of bricks.

school's here, and boy is it a slap in the face.



I thought last year was busy (well, the second half of it), but, oh heck, this year looks like it's probably going to kill me. This is the last year i can consider myself a youth; after this, it gets serious even more serious.

I didn't think much about how serious this year was going to be, academic-wise, but, well, i'm not that great at looking ahead.

So basically this semester is pretty much the same as the last, just three times harder orz. Here we go again, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, and Advanced Functions (of which there is no AP program whew). While I don't have to worry about math this semester (seriously, piece of cake this semester), Chem has doubled in load, Physics is just more, and Biology is a heck of a lot to read and memorize; all this AND i gotta know everything I learned last year like the back of my hand.

Okay, what I'm getting at is that, if I want any hope of getting through with decent grades so that I can get into University, I'm going to have to work twice, nay, three times as hard as I did last year, and that basically boils down to no-more-wasting-time-on-the-computer.

So uh, looks like I'll be falling into a long, long hiatus on dA. I know, it's hardly been three days of school, but we've already plunged ahead into everything, and each class is expecting homework + 1 hour of study of the topics for each class. Physics actually expects 1 1/2 hours of regular study every day. That pretty much means I'm learning or studying, or doing homework for almost 12 and a half straight hours every weekday. The remaining 2 hours I'm awake is devoted to eating, travel, and staring blankly into space in an effort to take a break from looking at everything that is important to my education, or doodling if I need to wind down.

Now, weekends, starting Friday afternoon to Sunday night, i'm hoping I'll have at least some free time; at least this weekend, I know I do.

What Does This Mean?
Firstly, I will be posting dramatically less, over a longer period of time. I'm aware I still have requests, I haven't forgotten, those are at the top of my "do in free time" list along with my side project with ~ecarg1157, but due to my apparent lack of free time, it looks like those are going to be delayed longer than I thought.

Here's the thing, over the weekends, I will be doing my best to finish outstanding requests, and that project I have with ~ecarg1157. I'm hoping I can finish =LadyCalypso's request at least two weeks from now, if i'm lucky and fast, maybe sooner, working only weekends. *WishIWould will take a little longer, and I'm hoping it won't take too long, but knowing me, I have a penchant for horrifically long orz. I'm still going to post on dA, but anything I do post will only be anything outstanding I need to do to full completion; so nothing new for myself, and no works in progress or sketches or doodles.

This "official" hiatus will last until at least the end of January, but this is no guarantee that I will be active after the end of this semester, because AP exams are in May, meaning, that even in second semester, where I only have two classes and band to attend, I still have to regularly review everything I learned in the last two semesters, so, by no means is there going to be any sort of submission explosion during March Break.

Any Final Words?
I think that's all i really wanted to say. I'm sorry if you were expecting new art out of me, but the fact is, i can't afford to do it in abundance and take too much time on it if I don't want to be brutally slaughtered by my parents, and by myself if I can't meet the expectations placed on me.

I do doodle from time to time, but I won't be posting it here. Instead, they'll be over at my livejournal ([link]), but it's probably not going to be worth seeing, really (I only doodle little things at night before i go to bed)

That Which Needs to be Done Here
Request for =LadyCalypso - in colouring stage
Request for *WishIWould - in posing stage
Project with ~ecarg1157 - MGS-9, SSBB-26, awaiting rings and straps