horribletak

hello all~ it's been a good while since I've spent any significant or useful time around devART, so I thought I would write a good update. at the end of April, I finished my master's degree, and completed the semester having participated in two immensely rewarding class projects in the community (a national register historic district nomination and the drafting of design guidelines for a historic district). I officially graduated a couple weeks ago. Whew! I think I'm done going to school again for a while, but I'm not ruling out doctorate study. if that happens, it probably won't be for a little while. so in the next couple weeks I'm movin

is anybody else as obsessed with this site as I am? for the uninitiated, Poupeegirl is like the bastard child of Candybar and Gaia Online. like Candybar, you get an adorable, large-size avatar to dress up, but like Gaia, the currency to buy things for your avatar to wear comes from community involvement. what's the community involvement? well, taking photos of your cute clothes and accessories and uploading them, and then commenting on other people's cute clothes and accessories. there's a kind of interesting social dynamic since most of the userbase is Japanese. this means that a lot of comments I leave consist of only emoticons. >_> and

First of all, :heart: :gummybear: :rose: HAPPY HEARTS DAY!! :rose: :gummybear: :heart: I hope everybody has a sweet and lovely day filled with red and pink and candy. Valentine's day makes me feel pretty gushy--there's nothing like bringing sweets and warm colors to a dreary February! moving along, hello! I told you guys I would write a real journal soon. thank you for weighing in on the unpaid account gallery ad issue on my last one. I was glad to have some support. I especially must thank JessicaMDouglas (https://www.deviantart.com/jessicamdouglas) because she is quite possibly the sweetest thing on earth. I guess we'll just have to see how it plays out--I feel as though I woul