We finally released the 3rd episode of our 3-part series, Clay to Wax. Sorry for those who were waiting that it took so long! There are a few more episodes in the works, so more content should be flowing reasonably soon. Keep pestering us about new episodes! It really does help.
Nuri is busy, busy, busy!
Since moving to Charlotte, a lot has been going on. I’m working on finding some local geeky stuff to do, taking martial arts for the first time since elementary school, and even keeping up with work.
NaNoWriMo is going…well. Well for me anyway; my goal was to make at least 500 words per day, with an optimal goal of 1667 a day. I’m somewhere in the middle.
Jewelry is on hold, considering that I’m not going to be vending at cons any time soon. Thinking about just sending jewelry out with distributors instead of doing it myself. Have several orders from ANIMAZEMENT that the customers haven’t contacted me back regarding details of the order, so I’m stuck there.
Art is going well; I’m working on a book cover for a friend’s project and it’s pretty interesting. I Haven’t drawn much in the way of Sci-Fi type stuff before, so it’s a good chance for me to break out. On an unrelated note, I’m also learning about drawing steampunk elements.
The Podcast seems to be on hiatus this month, as I don’t have time to edit. We’ll be back on schedule in Dec.
Seeing In Stereo is going pretty well; Mica sent me a bunch of scripts so I don’t have to horrify the readers with my poor comedic timing.
I also have some sewing/leatherworking projects, but they are on hold for NaNoWriMo. As is pretty much everything at this point, besides keeping up with the webcomic and my job. I will post updates as they come!
Jewelry Orders on HOLD until I finish the ones from Otakon!
So, I’m finally recovered from Otakon and Pennsic. Nevermind that Otakon was a month ago, and I got home from Pennsic two weeks ago. I finally washed the last dishes from Pennsic yesterday, and started catching up on my online stuff. The clothes are clean, school has started and I’m actually keeping up with my homework and reading for once. AND I got an awesome job as a TA, even though I’m an undergrad. By awesome I mean I love it, not that it pays well. I mean, it pays okay, but it’s not something I can make a living from by any means. I’m teaching Dendrology students to identify plants, and I get to quiz them too! Bwahahahaha!
So, things I have’t talked about yet.
Trinoc*con was great! It was really small, but that made it very personal. I got to have a few one-on-one critique sessions with some pro artists, and got a few artist interviews in while I was at it. The con report and an interview with the artist guest of honor, Patrick Meadows, will be up on the next episode of Artist Alley. I had hoped to get that done before Otakon, but…well…yeah. Pennsic prep took up too much time. I had 4 outfits to make for Evan and 3 to make for myself. Michelle helped out with that a lot, but we still didn’t manage to get the cast up and ready.
Anyway, while I was at Trinoc I hung out with Rich Sigfrit (my official ConBuddy(tm) for the weekend), who gave me the rounds. I met Christiana Ellis, the author of the incredibly fun book Nina Kimberly the Merciless. On Saturday night we ended up at Mur Lafferty’s birthday party, which rocked. We weren’t there for a terribly long time, but while we were everyone was enjoying themselves thoroughly. With all of us gathered and drinking, the temptation became too great and Mur broke out the podcasting rig, which resulted in hilarity (and an in-depth commentary of my con-pants.) Afterwards, we headed back to the con to hit up the Stellarcon party, where we picked up Davey Beauchamp. And of course, everyone being either slightly or deeply intoxicated, we gathered up a group to go to IHOP.
Rich and Davey ended up crashing at my place (I live 15 minutes away, and neither of them had a hotel room yet) and the next morning we headed back to the con to just hang out, get some interviews, and buy last minute stuff. Overall, a very fun con, and well worth the money I paid for my student admission.
Of course, I ran out of time afterwards and didn’t get to sending out my usual flood of emails to all the people I met. So I’m sorry if I missed sending you a thank-you, but eveyone I met was great!
Otakon was next, and since we were headed straight up to Pennsylvania for Pennsic after the con, we had to pack all of our Otakon stuff AND our Pennsic stuff into one ‘96 camry. That was quite a feat…we ended up driving to Baltimore with a wall of stuff packed up to the ceiling right behind the two front seats. No rear-view, no checking your right-side blind spot. Somehow we made it safely.
Now, the whole reason we ended up going to Otakon is that my good frind Rym (of GeekNights) offered to buy my admission. Since this pretty much made the con free (I have family in Baltimore to stay with), I couldn’t pass it up. He also got me free space in the Alley (sharing a table with his friend Yuko (a.k.a. Aido), who is awesome and cute!), so I spent most of my time there making and selling my polyhedral dice jewelry. At which I made quite a tidy profit…enough to enable me to buy several small things at the con, eat, and buy food and gas for Pennsic confortably. Michelle and I also picked up a few interviews for the podcast while we were there, so we’ve got a few featured artists lined up. ^^
Pennsic time! We were going to leave Baltimore on Monday, but we didn’t have anything to do once the con ended on Sunday so we just drove straight up and got there around midnight. Since we were there for two weeks, I won’t give a detailed summary. But I made some more money working for friends, picked up a bow and some decent arrows of my own (finally), and took quite a few awesome classes. I also picked up some leather to make myself a quiver, which has been fun and looks great.
Did I mention we were camping for the entire two weeks?
Anyway, I got home and found out that my financial aid award hadn’t come through yet (and it still hasn’t) so I’m working in a bit of a budget pinch. Borrowing money from Evan for textbooks…food…rent…it’s wonderful. -_-
Anyway, now that everything is settled in, I can order the dice for the custom orders I took at Otakon and get those babies cranked out. It’s taken a little longer than I expected to get started because of the money thing, but it shouldn’t take me long at all once I get the dice. (Now that Michelle has found my jewelry-making supplies. Bless her.) Also, stay tuned for a new episode of Artist Alley coming out soon; as soon as I have a spare moment in a quiet place I’ll record Patrick’s intro, and then it will be released!