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So, yesterday my sister and I went with the Art History society on a little 'field trip' up to Amarillo, Texas. It was me, my sister, our faculty advisor/professor and four others...

And....what started as a pretty normal trip quickly turned into something that was just...weird....

( Follow the cut to the stalking cows... )

It's been a while since I've updated this story... I think the last time was the beginning of January.  I wanted to post this to let anyone reading it (if anyone still is) that I have NOT given up on this.  

I've been suffering a bout of major writer's block, coupled with an extreme case of JDOCD (Johnny Depp Obsession Compulsive Disorder, seriously I've watched nothing but Johnny for almost 3 full months...Never had it this bad), and art history research papers that I need to work on (you'd be surprised how difficult it is to find good information on Renaissance artist, Raphael).  And I really need to study my Latin some more...

That's not to say that I haven't even looked at it. I have...during my free time, when I have it. I've thought about the plot, even planned future chapters out (for future 'seasons')... I've even written a couple of future scenes, trying to break free of this writer's block, but it still remains.

Anyways...I wanted to post this for those of you who may be wondering where Chapter 9 is... I'm working on it...and eventually I'll be done with it.

 :-)

There may or may not be an update today on my fanfic "Whatever It Takes."   I  have about half of it written so far but as I have an art history research paper due on Monday.... and I haven't even really started it yet... I'm gonna try and write it during my little breaks. :^)

It's for my Latin American Art class and the problem with this class is the complete lack of sources about the artists we are studying... because they aren't European so therefore art historians deem them unimportant, unless you speak Spanish.  It's actually a short paper, 4 pages double spaced so it wouldn't take that long to write once I gather my research on Jose Maria Obregon and his painting "The Inspiration of Chrisopher Columbus... c. 1880-ish

The only good thing is that our professor knows that it's hard to find sources so she gave us a direction to take our papers.  


And then.... I have another paper due the following week... for my Italian Renaissance/Baroque Women Artists class.... over "Women Artists as Fictional Characters".... this one should be a lot easier.... I already have most of what I need for this one... I just need to read the novel 'Artemisia' by Anna Banti to help prove my point... sigh


The one good thing about my university is that we are getting a lot of minority artist studying... since the art history canon is written by a bunch of middle-aged white European men, the women artists and minorities get left out of the canon... 


But all I really want to do is update my fanfic....