Because I need one here. Ride around and answer trivia questions and then get money for it. Sigh. Sooo much financial trouble right now. My friend is about to get her car repossessed and I can't help, and my parents are losing their jobs... I have to save up for tuition and books, too. I was gonna say more, but it seemed like whining for attention, so... let's leave it there.

Also, today I found out a buddy at school died on Jan 4th in an accident involving a drunk driver. We weren't close, so I'm not wrought with grief, but... Jesus that's shocking to hear about. I picked up this week's edition of the school newspaper and flip it over to see the picture, and it's this goofy photograph of Will giving double-thumbs-up. Then I read the caption below the image and it says he died from "accident-related injuries". Those being head trauma that had him on life support for a day and a half before he died. The other four people (drunk driver included) all had concussions and minor injuries. In the article it said the driver had a blood-alcohol level of .23 an HOUR after the collision. If that much time passed then presumably his BAL went down a little, so how fucking high was it when he crashed?? (For the record, Will was stopped at a red light at 2 AM with two of his friends in the car, then the other car with the driver and his friend came at high speed and smashed into the vehicle Will was riding in. I don't know who was driving his car.)
it's so unreal to think about, that this person you liked and everyone liked and had so many friends and was doing well in school and was just so cool and friendly is dead.

On a totally unrelated note, am I the only one who... doesn't really know what to think of this dA design? The website seems to be constantly updating itself and adding more TOTALLY COOL!!! features that, to me, just wind up looking like a clusterfuck of green boxes. Someone on my watchlist says that it looks more professional, but I don't agree. It seems more like a "meet people" web site now. I mean, you don't see PROFESSIONAL on-line galleries with a million things all over the place like this, do you? Usually they're a lot more basic, trying to draw attention to the art rather than everything around it.

edit* I can't believe that DA has added all of these SWEET FEATS but you STILL can't have a "signature" at the bottom of your journal entry. -_-

well here's this if anyone is actually interested. I'm considering doing 5-10 dollar sketches instead of 10-20, for the time being...