I haven't forgotten about this place, just haven't really had any reasons to write or check it. Quite frankly, many of the things in my life have been passively attended to for the last few years.

Graduated high school in May 2005 and have been working through college since. Last year was a particularly poor year for myself, dropping classes here and there, but I've long since turned a new leaf and hope to reform my ways for the upcoming years.

My declared major is in Information Systems, at the Business Administration school at UT:Arlington. I'm already hours away from completing my general education requirements so I may take a full load of classes dedicated to my major, but until then, it's just the same. As the peons in Warcraft said, "Werk Werk...".

Throughout high school I bumped from video game to video game, homing my addicting from one enterprise to another. First MMORPG I ever played was Earth & Beyond, run by EA Games. Entertained my wildest creations for over a year and a half with the endeavor, but ended up leaving for a game that was something of a different setting. I picked up Ragnarok Online and played with a good friend of mine named John for another year or so, adding other friends to the empire, Matt, Eric, and Molly, to name a few. Not going into great detail, it's safe to say that I felt a major impact in my life from the experience, and it also helped me decide what I truly wanted to do in my life. Ragnarok Online went on a downhill scale, inversely related to the rise in popularity of Halo 2, which my friends and I staretd working on. As we honed our skills at that, we still found ourselves with a larger goal ahead of us. College. We tried to pick a game we could play as a team and work together towards a common goal, and saw World of Warcraft as a solution.

After several months of it, though, I disconnected from my friends and my life. I became so addicted to the game that I shunned out the majority of my primary contacts in life and practically went underground. It took me almost a year to wake up from this lusid dream.

Once I realized something was wrong, I worked to fix the issue. First order of business was to ween my craving from the gaming. I picked up a copy of EVE Online, started playing casually and whatnot, but did not give it the same attention I did with World of Warcraft.

I'm now currently a college sophomore with 42 hours of credit towards my major and in the second week of my fall semester here at UTA. I'm enjoying my courseload for the most part this year. On mondays, wednesdays, and fridays, my work consists of Introduction to Information Systems, Macroeconomics, and Organizational Behavior. On tuesdays and thursdays, I get a healthy dose of US History to scrape by on.

I have two roommates here in the dormitories, one named Shervin and another named Terry. Terry is an ROTC guy and keeps to himself most of the time, and Shervin is a genetics major who is a pretty fun guy to hang around. Being a business major, we all are a pretty strange bunch, but nonetheless, life works out.

My parents are coming to visit this weekend, which will be a relief of sorts. I'm not going to lie, I do enjoy seeing them. My father is visiting Aruba starting tomorrow for a week, and my mother and stepfather are coming to the Dallas area to visit my stepbrother, who lives with his mother.

I got a car over the summer break, a 2003 Toyota Matrix XR. I truly enjoy it as a vehicle, has just enough storage space for my fuckloads of crap, and yet still gets really snazzy gas milage, a notable plus for college students.

I'm currently working on a piece of artwork that is actually honing my skills as a photomanipulator. All my pieces in the past, well, looking at them now, had some good and bad elements to them, but I still felt they were amateur. Hopefully, this will be a revelation and practice of sorts, hoping to bring new light to something I have hidden away for some years.

My pageviews have been apparently more than I had expected to get over my absense. Over 4k, sheesh, I had 2k when I left and was still posting!

Deviantart has changed quite a bit from when I used to frequent it. What is this, skin #8? I'm going to attempt to learn the controls, but even the 'Deviation Manager' isn't working correctly from my side... unless, of course, it just takes time for things to dissapear. Then, I will see how it works.

Hope this clarifys any questions that the readers might have about where, who, and what the fuck I have been doing over the most recent chapter of my existance. Dont hestitate to comment, however, and I will try my best to respond in a timely manner.

~Kenny