Gotta love Strangers With Candy.

Now the real reason for this entry is actually serious. There aren't many political issues I care about with great passion these days, but one takes the cake.

Most of you reading this probably never thought about what it would be like if your family didn't have legal rights or protection. It's something most people take for granted. What if no matter what, only one of your parents was actually legally your parent? What if your parents couldn't get married? Or what if you wanted to have the option to get married, but were discriminated against? And for what? Your bedroom hobbies?! Because the person you fell in love with is the "wrong" gender?! There isn't a shred of fairness in that and you know it. We all know it. And yet, every day people don't do anything about it.

A marriage equality bill was passed Sept. 7 by the California state Senate with a vote of 22-15. The bill, AB43, was previously approved June 5 in the Assembly with a vote of 42-34. This is the second time in two years that the California Legislature has passed a bill that would provide all couples with equal access to a marriage license. Huzzah! Gov. Schwarzenegger has until Oct. 14 to either sign or veto the bill. He vetoed it last time, but he gets one more chance to make a serious difference.

Here's what you can do to urge the Governator to make the right choice. It doesn't matter how old you are or where you live.

- spread the word (make a youtube video, tell your friends and family, send a mass email, write some forum posts or facebook notes etc.)

- sign the online petition: [link]

- call Arnold's office: (916) 445-2841
(you will be prompted by a recording and will figure out what to do)

A small step for California, a huge step for America.

Really I'm just tired of looking at that "Finals are over" entry.

I have some photography, writing and ads from the Spring I could put on here.
Maybe I will, eventually. I really should. That's why I have a deviantart, eh?

I'm kinda thinking about making a new account... but I probably would buy a domain before I did that. It would be an online portfolio and I'd put it on that business card I'm going to make for myself one day.

I was just going through my journal entries and deleted a whole bunch of old stuff. What in the hell was I thinking putting all that on the internet? I re-read the first entry and found out that I used to not give out my deviantart url... oh yeah. I kinda remember that now. Only Vaz and online friends knew about it. Well, all is fixed now. I bet no one read or cares about any of that anyways. Whatever, I was about 17. It's weird to realize how much my opinions about things have changed. I think I've relaxed about some things. Living in CA for a while has made me more moderate because I've come to understand some conservative outlooks being away from them. But in a lot of ways I'm still the same. Blah, blah, obvious stuff that isn't unique or important. But how much crap in a blog is ever important or unique?

I'm waiting for my dad right now... his meeting sure is taking a long time. I'm getting a little tired of listening to the Tech band. We have a busy afternoon ahead of us. Gotta get the boat ready and all that. I can't wait to ski!

Ski ski ski ski wakeboard swim ski!

And thank God for that. I'm going home to Texas tomorrow for a month. I couldn't be happier. I might even have time for some personal side projects.

All my best finals from Fall '06 are in my gallery.

This took so much longer than expected. My bad. All my stuff from college is now available for your viewing pleasure/pain. I submitted everything in chronological order as best I could remember. I'm pleased to see so many new catagories added to deviantart, even a section for advertising, my major!

At last, time for an update!

So I'm still at AAU, majoring in advertising. I got a new fabulous digital camera last semester b/c I was in this class called Drawing and Digital Photography for Advertising so I will put some stuff up eventually. That class kinda ate my brain, but I'm good now. Actually, that's a lie because I'm in Color and Design for the summer and I really need to get my midterm portrait done before Tuesday.

I still don't like much of my own work but I feel new pieces coming on to DA soon. I feel like a lot of my schoolwork is boring since I don't have the kind of creative control I had in high school. And being an ad major doesn't help.