Well lets see, I havent posted an image in over a year and a half, looks like I have some explaining to do.

First off, my life has completely changed since last I was here. I recently graduated from Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management with a dual bachelors degree in Finance and Entrepreneurship.

So what am I doing with this degree? .... basically throwing it away.

For those of you who remember (or care to read my journal) I posted a while back about seemingly having a lack of emotion. Well I found my emotions, and they came from a most obvious place, just took me a while to accept it. ... Children.

Throughout college I had been doing work study at the University's daycare center. Through my work here I began to work with children with Autism. The more I worked, the more I realized that this was what made me feel most fulfilled. Slight problem ....

This "realization" didnt occur until my Senior year. There was no way I could afford another 3 years of schooling to change my degree at that point, the only real option I had was graduate school. I still couldnt afford it though, so I decided that I would just finish up my management degree, get a job for a few years and return to school when I had enough financing.

That all changed in Feburary. One of the parents of an Autistic child I worked with at the day care center approached me about home care for her newborn son. Normally I always declined home babysitting jobs, but it just so happens that the previous day I was told that my work study hours were being cut in half because I was using up to much of my alloted funding.(Meaning that I would have used up all my available time only half way through the semester.) I took the job.

After only a week of taking care of their child, the family did something that was completely unexpected. They offered me room and board in their house, in exchange for being an Au Pair, should I decide to pursue a graduate degree. This changed everything, suddenly I started to scramble to get the needed information together, recommendations, transcripts, and funds to apply to graduate school.

After a few hicups and minor difficulties, last week I was offically accepted into Syracuse Univerisity's graduate program for a Master's degree in Early Chidlhood Special Education. I have determined my class schedule for the coming academic year, and all looks well (also found out i get a 30% discount on tuition since im a SU undergrad w00t!).

So that about brings everything up to date. As far as deviant art goes, after I returned from my London semester (dec. 2003) I no longer had access to a lens. So for the past year and a half I have had a $1500 D100 body for the great uses of a paperweight/flashdrive (a bit on the expensive side huh?)

With the money I had recieved from my college graduation (and some assistance from ~trymax400 I was able to obtain a Nikkor F3.5/5.6 28-200mm lens for my camera. In addition I was also able to obtain a much needed DVDR drive since I only shoot in RAW format, and those arent exactly skimpy on the HD space.

There are two slight problems though:

1.) No home internet, so my access is limited to the time after the kids finally go to sleep and I haul my ass to main campus to login the school network.

2.) No desktop PC, I'm back on my lappy. While its better technically then my desktop, its the LCD i dont like. I cant get the colors on it correct, and as such when I think I have an image the way I want it, I go and look on a desktop monitor and it looks completely different.

I have begun taking images again, but most of the images have the children I take care of in them, and I will not post them as I do not think their parents would like images of their children on the internet.

I will try to get some images posted soon though hopefully, and if anyone who reads this knows of a good way to remedy the whole LCD problem it would be greatly appreciated!

Ok well this is much longer then i thought it would be ... oh well . Thanks for reading.