So it's been a while since I've used DeviantArt. Things have changed. Now I'm 17, nearly 18, and currently in the second semester of my first year at Barnard College of Columbia University. (Yeah, I'm an intellectual snob, but I worked my ass off to get here.) I've done a fair bit of growing up (gasp!) in the past year, and I think a bit of that is reflected in my obsessive need to document everything on my camera. For a while I tried to take the perfect picture of myself, something that I could look at and say, "This is me." But after trying to do that, I've realized that nothing says more about me than my entire portfolio, the way I compose a scene, where I place the camera.

I've never taken a photography class but I know what I like.

I suppose I should submit more now; I got a good digital camera as a graduation present, and I've taken 2500-2600 pictures in 7 months. I've also written a bit of poetry and done a few stencils, though they're fairly nerdy stencils (of Michael Palin from Monty Python, on whom I have developed a massive fangirl crush). I did a lot of art journaling and collaging a few months ago, but I haven't done much lately; I've been trying to get out and do things and enjoy life.

I came back to DeviantArt on a whim, but I think I might stay a while.