So I haven't made a journal entry since my 20th birthday. We're halfway through October now, a month and a half later, so this must be my record time between journal entries, eh? LOL.

I've been pretty good overall. Back is still bothering me daily, but part of that is my fault for not doing my therapy exercises enough. I am doing them, though, at least.

School's been really busy, but good. I get moments of overwhelmed feeling, but am doing all right with that overall. I think I have at least a B in everything I'm taking, which is 9 class totaling 18 credits. Some of the classes are 3 credits each, some of them only 1 each, one of them (German) totaling 4 credits. So that's keeping me pretty busy. Most of my free time is spent studying, doing homework, rehearsing, practicing, catching up on Facebook, and trying to hang out with friends. It helps that my entire department are my friends and we all do our homework and socialize in the same area (the main hallway of the music department), so I get a little social life while doing everything else, too. Problem is, I haven't made any time in too long to work out... and this isn't proving to be a good thing... I'm SO glad Homecoming Week is over, though, because I actually have evenings free now to do things I need to do, like homework, rehearsing, etc. Homecoming Week basically sucked and I am not a fan of Homecoming. I decided not to be in marching band this year, but discovered I do miss it, so I think I'm gonna do it next year, even though my back might hate me... We'll see.

I still go home every weekend to have full-time computer access (our weekend library and computer lab hours are STUPID as hell), a good bed (I really don't like my twin dorm bed, never have, even with my plywood board under my mattress to firm it up a little for my back), and to be able to sleep better... but due to a few things that happen too frequently, I usually end up feeling uninvited and unappreciated, so might hafta kick that habit, or at least lessen it... that'll be hard, though, it's such an engrained habit, I've been doing it already for a year or so...

Not much else to say here, though, I guess. Besides school, I don't really have a life, which I'm mostly OK with, sometimes not... Midterms is this week and the next, so I'm busy preparing for them, but they should go OK, even though at least two of them will be hard.

How is life going for y'all?

P.S. I know, I know, I only ever pop into the chats (#AMAReborn and #FanArtDA), like, once a month or so, for two seconds... sorry... I don't have time to hang around there much anymore, and even when I do, people never talk or are AFK, so... what do y'all expect? I check messages and such at least once a week, though.) OK, shutting up now.

P.P.S. I just noticed tonight I have passed 13k pageviews. I haven't been keeping track of that AT ALL for a few months now. Thanks to all who have checked out my page and my art and favorited/commented/whatever! Much appreciated! More art to be posted up as soon as I can afford/have time to go to someplace beautiful, like the North Dakota Badlands, which are a 30-minuteish drive from where I live and one of my favorite places in the world, yep... or something.