5/11/08, 9:30 PM: Things have gotten slightly worse...I now sit here with a bad dog cable burn on my left outer ankle. It stings from time to time, and is oozing some sort of body fluid...my stupid dog got loose, and when I ran outside to go after her, my other dog on the dog cable went nuts and ran around like crazy, tying up my legs in the cable. He kept pulling hard and fast, and I was hurt kinda bad...I couldn't really walk at first. I'm feeling better, though...still going through tons of messages, so keep checking for more updates.

Hi, all. Let me start off by saying I feel like a total load of shit.

Here down where I live, it's half past twelve and I feel shitty. For the past several weeks, I have been totally unable to access the DA for the most part. Thinking I was on a roll, I signed up to draw several characters I liked that were up for adoption, only to find that I didn't even have access to a computer for my own pleasure anymore. My parents, seeing my grade in Math stagnating, went straight for the kill on the computer and Internet privelages first thing, and I was threatened with beating if I was ever even seen on the computer and not doing homework.

Now, just as I am slowly getting readjusted to life back on the DA, everything is in shambles. The characters I'd once applied for were long gone to other people simply because of my stupid parents and their damnable grounding. This is a serious blow to me, because I really, really need new characters (especially equine ones) that I can adopt and roleplay if I can even seriously think about entering the Horse Art Game, or even just in general, roleplaying with other users. It's not very fun having only about two equine characters that you actively roleplay.

And my stupid dial-up at home. MY GOD. I cannot even begin to describe how much I hate the crappy dial-up Internet that I have at my house. It is the only form of Internet I have at home; not even high-speed is available, not even statellite. Because os this, the Internet connection is slow but efficient at best, or not even working at times (which happens a LOT). The only high-speed I even have access to is at my mom's office, and it's her work computer. Nice.

Now that I'm back, I'm trying to get everything all sorted out before exams and summer. I will still accept art trades and requests, but they won't be immediate. My first priorities are clearing all of my DA messages and replying to my RP's, now that I deleted over 1,000 deviations from my DA watchlist.

Other than that, I hope you huys are doing swell, because I sure ain't.

PS - I'm starting to suspect more and more that there might in fact be a conspiracy against my presence here on the DA. Let's just say that I torked off a few people in the past, and things got worse from there. Several times I've tried to RP with various equine artists, they're dropped the RP after we've been at it for some time, or just ignored it for months on end, for no good reason or explanation. It's probably nothing, but you never know...I've learned my lesson, and I try to be as nice and considerate as possible now to others, but I'm afraid that some of people I've angered in the past have not given up their grudges.