Oh Vy Gott, The Voop Updated!
You bet'cher ass, I did. What the hell did I write? Well, you can of course read below and see. Apologies for rambliness.
So where the heck am I now? In a swanky Mariott residential hotel firmly entrenched in the bowels of downtown Philadelphia. I am here because of my job. More on that in a second.
The General Malaise
The summer has been amazingly droll at times, with spats of fun brought about usually by me going to seek something different when I can, but usually being stiffed by work, waiting for tem to tell me when some new projects will be coming in so that I can work again. I have a feeling that I've had a pretty long funk going on...just been rather lethargic and listless, and oft unmotivated in art and most other creative endeavours. Work for the gaming community I'm First Officer for has been where most of my creative juices have gone, helping jonesybunny and Purplecat to put together www.TheFurryPound.org, its layout and all the artwork therein.
The Furry Pound TF2 Gaming Community
TFP continues to surge in growth. This is both an exciting and frightening experience for us staffers. For those who aren't aware, The Furry Pound is an online gaming community based primarily arond Team Fortress 2 and has been created by furries, cultivated by furries, and for the primary focus and patronage of (yet not exclusively to) furries for the past year and some change. As such, we've become sort of the second most populaced furry TF2 community.
Now we're apparently the largest.
Since an unnecessary and unfortunate attack by outside douchbags precipitated the chain of events that led to the diminishing of the older CC2isCool community, we've taken on even more folk flocking to our servers for their play fix. It makes the community a challenge, but one it seems that everyone's holding their own in facing despite the occasional controvercial player or hacker. I like to think we're doing good for our players.
But I for one will hope that there'll be more up and coming spin-offs like what we did. Variety of the spice of life, and if anything, the now-diminished CC2isCool gaming community had helped add that to the pool of Furry-friendly TF2 server offerings as a whole (our sister-community the Pitt Furs in the UK not to be overlooked).
Megamorphics apazine has also started back up, something of which I contribute macro-themed furry art to. But outside of Internet dealings the Summer has just been terribly shabby. The only gleam at the end of the tunnel is the coming trip to Europe, less than a week away.
NikoCon 2 - Yurp Edition
So deemed by pegla . I honestly think it's less a 'NikoCon' and more a fun little Eurotrip, because much of the work in putting it together has the credit going to skunktaur and jonesybunny , and they are the hosts for us in this two-plus week jaunt off to the Netherlands (with a brief stint in Suhl for Eurofurence). I've been pining for this trip for a while, and rather upset at myself for blunting my excitement for it due to the complicated issue of once again becoming overworked and overstressed in the days leading up to it.
With four days remaining until the first member of the trip drops into my home to spend the night, and five arabian nights-themed badges that need completion, I'm back in the familiar taxing position of needing to cram art I promised into a few days and find a way to make them look good. As some folk know, I despise having a wrench thrown into my plans when i must have something completed or when I need to set time aside for a project.
Well, my job asking me to go to Philadelphia is a big bag of wrenches.
The Job
And thus, the job, explained. Because I'm such a good and helpful employee vixen that doesn't want to lose hir job and wants to please the superiors (and desperately needs to keep earning money on hir meager pay grade), there was no way I could turn down the request to go to Philadelphia for four days this week and work on a client's project, even when behind my stoically agreeable expression I was seething and beaming cursewords into my superiors' brains with mah eyes. I should be home, working towards completion of another badge and prep for my trip.
At least the suite they gave me is swanky. It's got a queen-sized bed and HDTV, a sitting area with couch and another chair, and a full kitchen with fridge, sink, dishwasher (which I won't use, being an oldskool voop), microwave, oven range, etcetra.. and I have it all to myself. witchiebunny will drop through now and then too considering she lives in Philly. The job I'm doing is my first job as a de facto project lead, and I'm struck by how much I know compared to the huge mass of what I don't, and I've always hated the feeling of blindly groping my way through a project, hoping to impress and perform as if I know what I'm doing where clients and co-workers are concerned.
But can I find the energy at the end of my 8am to 8pm work shifts, stuffed away in this hotel room tapping on my laptop and thumbing at mobile phones, to work properly on completing badge art and apazine art I totally forgot was due by the end of this month? I don't really know..knowing me, the odds aren't good. And it's annoying that I somehow find myself in these sorts of situations.
The Closer
So that's where I am now: on the verge of a truly fun vacation to Europe, my first international trip and first furry con other than Anthrocon and..well, hell, my first everything until prismo , kamberlane , pathia and I all return the first week of September. I'm in a strange marbled mixture of negative stresses and positive exaggeration, and frankly hoping this week passes swiftly.
I'll have more coherent posts in the future..as it stands, I just needed to make some sort of update. Take care, folks. :)
So where the heck am I now? In a swanky Mariott residential hotel firmly entrenched in the bowels of downtown Philadelphia. I am here because of my job. More on that in a second.
The General Malaise
The summer has been amazingly droll at times, with spats of fun brought about usually by me going to seek something different when I can, but usually being stiffed by work, waiting for tem to tell me when some new projects will be coming in so that I can work again. I have a feeling that I've had a pretty long funk going on...just been rather lethargic and listless, and oft unmotivated in art and most other creative endeavours. Work for the gaming community I'm First Officer for has been where most of my creative juices have gone, helping jonesybunny and Purplecat to put together www.TheFurryPound.org, its layout and all the artwork therein.
The Furry Pound TF2 Gaming Community
TFP continues to surge in growth. This is both an exciting and frightening experience for us staffers. For those who aren't aware, The Furry Pound is an online gaming community based primarily arond Team Fortress 2 and has been created by furries, cultivated by furries, and for the primary focus and patronage of (yet not exclusively to) furries for the past year and some change. As such, we've become sort of the second most populaced furry TF2 community.
Now we're apparently the largest.
Since an unnecessary and unfortunate attack by outside douchbags precipitated the chain of events that led to the diminishing of the older CC2isCool community, we've taken on even more folk flocking to our servers for their play fix. It makes the community a challenge, but one it seems that everyone's holding their own in facing despite the occasional controvercial player or hacker. I like to think we're doing good for our players.
But I for one will hope that there'll be more up and coming spin-offs like what we did. Variety of the spice of life, and if anything, the now-diminished CC2isCool gaming community had helped add that to the pool of Furry-friendly TF2 server offerings as a whole (our sister-community the Pitt Furs in the UK not to be overlooked).
Megamorphics apazine has also started back up, something of which I contribute macro-themed furry art to. But outside of Internet dealings the Summer has just been terribly shabby. The only gleam at the end of the tunnel is the coming trip to Europe, less than a week away.
NikoCon 2 - Yurp Edition
So deemed by pegla . I honestly think it's less a 'NikoCon' and more a fun little Eurotrip, because much of the work in putting it together has the credit going to skunktaur and jonesybunny , and they are the hosts for us in this two-plus week jaunt off to the Netherlands (with a brief stint in Suhl for Eurofurence). I've been pining for this trip for a while, and rather upset at myself for blunting my excitement for it due to the complicated issue of once again becoming overworked and overstressed in the days leading up to it.
With four days remaining until the first member of the trip drops into my home to spend the night, and five arabian nights-themed badges that need completion, I'm back in the familiar taxing position of needing to cram art I promised into a few days and find a way to make them look good. As some folk know, I despise having a wrench thrown into my plans when i must have something completed or when I need to set time aside for a project.
Well, my job asking me to go to Philadelphia is a big bag of wrenches.
The Job
And thus, the job, explained. Because I'm such a good and helpful employee vixen that doesn't want to lose hir job and wants to please the superiors (and desperately needs to keep earning money on hir meager pay grade), there was no way I could turn down the request to go to Philadelphia for four days this week and work on a client's project, even when behind my stoically agreeable expression I was seething and beaming cursewords into my superiors' brains with mah eyes. I should be home, working towards completion of another badge and prep for my trip.
At least the suite they gave me is swanky. It's got a queen-sized bed and HDTV, a sitting area with couch and another chair, and a full kitchen with fridge, sink, dishwasher (which I won't use, being an oldskool voop), microwave, oven range, etcetra.. and I have it all to myself. witchiebunny will drop through now and then too considering she lives in Philly. The job I'm doing is my first job as a de facto project lead, and I'm struck by how much I know compared to the huge mass of what I don't, and I've always hated the feeling of blindly groping my way through a project, hoping to impress and perform as if I know what I'm doing where clients and co-workers are concerned.
But can I find the energy at the end of my 8am to 8pm work shifts, stuffed away in this hotel room tapping on my laptop and thumbing at mobile phones, to work properly on completing badge art and apazine art I totally forgot was due by the end of this month? I don't really know..knowing me, the odds aren't good. And it's annoying that I somehow find myself in these sorts of situations.
The Closer
So that's where I am now: on the verge of a truly fun vacation to Europe, my first international trip and first furry con other than Anthrocon and..well, hell, my first everything until prismo , kamberlane , pathia and I all return the first week of September. I'm in a strange marbled mixture of negative stresses and positive exaggeration, and frankly hoping this week passes swiftly.
I'll have more coherent posts in the future..as it stands, I just needed to make some sort of update. Take care, folks. :)