Gone Away

No more pictures of birds. That should make some of you happy. Tomoe left for Osaka today and she doesn't have Internet access there so there is no need for so many bird photos.

Instead, I'll keep loading the site with paintings. I will be having my first exhibition in March or May I think. The nudie lady drawing club rents out a gallary for a couple days and we get to display there.

Like I say, Tomoe is gone to Osaka now to start climbing the corporate ladder. At some time a year or so ago I would have envied her. Now everything they tell her about how she will be rewarded for her hard work, and how satisfying it will be to devote 120% of her life to the company just sounds like a load of crap.

I do envy the chance she has to learn, but I'm glad it's not me. I can't even manage to learn all the things that present themselves to me with my tiny little going nowhere job. But I still have time to try to learn other non-job related things too, like how to make my backgrounds and brush strokes look more even.

I just missed the application deadline for Musashino Art University here in Tokyo. I checked their web-site about a week after the deadline. Dang.