=avancna tagged me a while back with this thing - for the second time. As if the original eight random facts weren't enough... Now here are eight more. Heh.

1. I do not dance. I flwollop around my house in a manner vaguely reminiscent of a squirrel being electrocuted. This is an act which should not been witnessed by anyone, lest they collect any more blackmail material on me.

2. I am a patient artist. All that detailed stuff I do, though I don't draw and ink or color it all in one sitting, I do tend to work pretty steadily at it for several hours at a stretch. When I start to go cross-eyed, I stop for a while and find something else to do.

3. I love to read. Comics, novels, short story anthologies, fan fiction, English grammar guides... But I'm not a particularly patient reader! At any given moment I am probably in the middle of ten to fifteen different books and/or stories. I read as the mood strikes me: Some days I need horror and some days I need comics... And some days, darnit, I just need a Transformers fix.

4. I like my day job. I work as a mainframe computer technician. I find that many of the tasks I perform at work have to do with pattern recognition - I look at many different kinds of data and statistics on my monitoring tools, and based on memory, experience, and documented procedures, I must be able to identify and deal with system problems and user foul-ups. It's persnickety and dynamic; the rules change constantly. I find that this is a good way to keep both halves of my brain busy - but I strongly suspect that it is contributing to my lack of patience with the rest of the world.

5. I do not like to drive. I'm definitely not patient with the rest of the traffic, and I get distracted waaaaay too easily by blinky lights and other things. I never use my cell phone when I'm driving for that reason - I'd wind up as a wet, red statistic almost certainly. Whenever I can, I shanghai myself a chauffer.

6. What would I have been had I not decided on a carreer in Art way back in high school...? I had considered being a teacher, a genetic engineer, a percussionist, a meteorologist, or a fighter plane pilot. I still teach art workshops among friends and family, and at conventions occasionally. I gave up on genetic engineering when I realized that I couldn't *truly* make "mutant ninja" animals. I still love to study weather phenomenae; we didn't have a really good meteorology program in high school, so that idea was left by the wayside in favor of art. I didn't pursue percussion because I had to make a decision between music and art - the classes were held at the same time at my high school! And these days, I'd rather BE a fighter plane than pilot one. Yes, I know my geekdom is showing. ...And as for the computer technician thing? That was a lark. They wanted to see if someone who had never had any real computer experience could be taught to be a mainframer; I offered to be their guinea pig. That was nearly ten years ago. Now I LIKE it there.

7. I have never been stung by a bee or wasp, nor have I ever been bitten by a spider or a poisonous snake. I have been bitten rather badly by a vicious female hamster, though, and I still have scars on one arm from the back claws of a rabbit.

8. My belly button is an inny.

I now tag.... YOU! Yes, you! Hiding in the back of the room there! Eight Random Facts, GO! *mad cackle*



Upcoming art shows and conventions, in case y'all are interested (and to excuse myself when you don't see me for three or four weeks on end):

ConQuesT - North Kansas City, Memorial Day Weekend.
Union Station Creativity From the Cube - Downtown Kansas City, mid-July.
DragonCon - Atlanta, Georgia, Labor Day Weekend.
Archon - St. Louis vicinity, Illinois side of the line, first weekend of October.



I now have Commissioned Project and Print information posted if anyone is interested.



"Planning" means that I'm thinking about your project, but don't have anything on paper yet.

"Sketched" means that I have a rough doodle in my sketchbook. I don't always post these.

"In Progress" means that I've started the pencilwork, or that I'm inking the project, or that I'm coloring it.



Commissions: Open. Here's information.
Trades: Two of two slots filled currently.
Requests: Closed.
Kiribans: At 60,000 pageviews.



The Dastardly Project List

Kiribans
- A spiffy, colorful dragon. Planning.

Commissions and Trades

Commish: Tremorworks - aliens, demons, and assorted mythologicals. In progress.
Commish: Cover illo for the third Amazing Conroy chapbook. In progress.
Commish: Hive, Queen and Country monster bug designs. In progress.

Trade: Drawing of her vampiric characters. In progress.
Trade: TBD





Clubs of note:

Moderator of I've developed a book list and I have now posted a book review page for the club.

Active member of