Naomii-KuroiNekoKo

...So the last time I actually wrote a journal entry or uploaded anything on here was almost a year ago.

Well, crap. Time flies.

So here's a basic summary of the past 10 months or so:

- Schoolwork.
- Coursework
- Being stressed over said schoolwork/coursework
- Offically leaving school
- Sorting out university stuff
- A Level exams
- Being stressed over A level exams
- Being relieved at A levels being over
- A Very Long Summer, consisting mostly of me either a) spending a lot of quality time with friends and b) doing nothing constructive. During which time I turned 18 (finally), went to Reading Festival (amazing), went to Soul Survivor (even more amazing) and got into a ridiculous sleeping pattern.
- Exam results. Grades were better than I'd ever speculated they could be. Got into my first choice university (University Of Bath, doing Chemistry )
- Getting ready for uni. Packing my life up into bags and boxes.
- Leaving home and going to Uni.

It's been busy. Most of it, anyway. The Very Long Summer was busy in that I was just trying to pack in as much living as I could before I left home, basically.
I'm sorry that I've been away so long. I'm not sorry that I didn't keep constantly posting journal entries about how stressed and depressed I was, because that doesn't do anyone any good.
I'm now at uni, so I won't really be posting often, but I have my own scanner, so if I do more stuff and remember and don't have craploads to do, then you might see some more from me. I know that's not much, but that's how it will go.

Uni is good. I've been here five weeks now but it's still weird having to do so much for myself and going to lectures and tutorials and stuff. It feels better than it did by a long way, although the family visiting last weekend did make me a little homesick and I'm starting to build up a workload, but I'm adjusting and enjoying my course and meeting new people and it's pretty good.

Gosh, I haven't been here in ages. I have over 5000 notifications.
Apologies to all of the lovely people who I follow, but I might just have to skim through some of it quickly and then delete my whole inbox.

Hope you're all well and that I will get back to you again soon.

Nom x

I'm back!
....for a while, anyway.
Haven't written a journal since October. Haven't uploaded any art since the beginning of November. Geez. How remiss of me. Well, basic update of what I've been up to.

-Schoolwork.
-Stress.
-Schoolwork.
-Coursework.
-Sorting out university stuff.
-More Coursework.
-Lots and lots of stress and general depressingness.

Bet you're glad you didn't hear from me now, aren't you?
Seriously though, I would have been just whinging about how much work I had to do and how my life is rubbish yadda yadda general depressing rubbish , so I'm sortof glad I didn't come back here and write a journal either, because you're not here to listen to my whining. You're here for some art. SO I'm very sorry that I haven't been uploading stuff or generally seeming like I'm alive, but it was for a legitimate reason. I did have loads of stuff to do and I was in a pretty bad way, so I didn't have much of a choice.

ANYHOW.
Hope you all had a good Christmas. I love Christmas personally, it's my favourite time of year, so even if you don't celebrate it I hope that it was a good day for you.
I'll now leave you with some art that I've completed since my last journal and a very big Merry Christmas, and a thank you for putting up with my absence. Again.

Firstly, I'm sorry I've been so absent lately. I'm really tied down with schoolwork at the moment that's driving me up the wall, so I probably will be fairly absent for a while longer. Sorry

Secondly and much more importantly, SUPPORT SPIRIT DAY. Wear some purple. Submit some art to the Spirit Day gallery here on dA. Anything you want. I was so happy to see that dA was promoting this after first hearing about it on tumblr, and what happened to those young people - and what continues to happen to others - is something that people should be made aware of and should be stopped because no one even remotely deserves that.
Things like this remind me that even when I'm having a crappy time, there are always people who need compassion and support more than I do. Please, please support them, stand up for them, love them for who they are.









_{and omg, albino llama. How awesome. Thanks guys}

Thanks to demand from a certain less-than-average sized person, I have a tumblr account.
Watch me tumble?
nomamonster.tumblr.com/

Basic summary of the past two weeks:
-Went back to school. Almost instantaneously my will to live plummets and art block sets in.
-First driving lesson - slightly terrifying but good fun
-MUSE AT WEMBLEY on 11th September - BEST NIGHT OF LIFE EVER. MIND BLOWN.
-Lots of schoolwork. Much tiredness.
-Trying to sort stuff for Japan Club at school. :S
-Got a tumblr : nomamonster.tumblr.com/ . Go look.
-Sister found out about me having tumblr. Not happy.
-Visited my cousins. Jammed a bit with the older one who's going to uni. Drew with the younger one. Art block goes

Kay, so hopefully I'll upload some stuff soon-ish. Art is one of the few things that keeps me sane, I swear.