Hey there! TIME TO PARTY!!!

Wanna know why? Because I just got my shiney new laptop! It has a nifty webcam and everything! But that's not all! I got the Adobe CS4 Design Premium - Student Edition, of course. With that comes Photoshop (Extended), Illustrator, Flash, InDesign, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks. Sara is a very happy girl now. Now I can do most of my schoolwork from home and not have to drive the 45 minutes to campus every single day. And hopefully actually have time to do some art just for me. I have several commissions to work on, but schoolwork keeps dragging on and on...SIGH! Hopefully this will make things a little easier.

On another note, I went to the doctor the other day and was, not surprisingly, diagnosed with depression. Possibly manic depression. I have an appointment with a different psychiatric doctor soon to do some more detailed tests and get my medication. Yay for detrimental chemical hormone imbalances! The best part of all this is that my new psychiatrist's name is Dr. Peacock. I tried really hard not to laugh when the doctor told me that, but I think my mouth twitched a little. Also, when they were doing bloodwork the nurse managed to completely miss my vein and had to dig around in my arm to find it again, only to pop the stupid vein the second she stabs it again. So now I have huge sores and a still-growing multicolored bruise on my arm. AND I got two shots that day. I'm STILL sore from all that.

But hey, that's life. I'm feeling a slightly more healthy balance of good and bad right now. I've still got the extremely dangerous mood swings, but I have medication on the way, some shiney new toys to distract me, and-OH! I also have a job interview tomorrow! It'll be good to have some money coming in.

Now to see if all that software is installed. I've been sitting here waiting for it for over an hour. Silly Adobe, you better be worth it.