I've been in Oxford, England since September 1st and have been traveling all around Europe since then. I've been incredibly busy and had a pretty horrific summer after A-kon which ended in me getting on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety as well as going to counseling. I've lost 3 people very important to me and so many lives around me in the past two months. But overall, I'm doing very well. My job has been steady, I have my family with me, and I'll be returning to the states in less than a month and spending Christmas happily with my wonderful boyfriend. I've been interning as a tour guide and curator in a small cathedral and doing independent studies on English art. I wrote a study on Neuroscience and Art and how it makes people happier which I'll be working on having published hopefully in the next few months, and I'll be doing a comprehensive study on Thomas Woolner to submit for an Art History journal as my own personal step into the Art History profession.

I'll be looking for paid internships for curating and continue doing art for myself personally (and for my classes), but Art History and Technology is where I am firmly placing myself as far as professions go. I've explored quite a range of subjects and careers concerning this, and this is where I feel the happiest and what I really become passionate for. I'll be certified to teach art in about a year, and I guess a new passion and dream is to start an art museum for children that offers both art history classes as well as just art classes (especially figure drawing and painting). I don't know what, when, or where that will happen, but it's nice to have an idea of what I want to do. With my job as tech support, there's a LOT I can do with all of the things I've learned and have been exposed to this semester. I am extremely happy with where I'm going and I feel so much happier and comfortable now than I did a year ago.

The only thing for certain in my life, though, is this: I love creating. I love art. I will never stop creating. I will never stop being completely taken over by art.