I had a really good time at AWA, but am relieved it's over.

I'm hoping that as 2009 winds down I will have time again to do some creative work. That said, next year I only plan to do local area conventions as an artist and will spend more off time (if I have any) doing things that are a bit less stressful (eating, drinking, taking in scenery), etc. Conventions are really competing forces for my time and energy; I fear that getting ready for one doesn't always entail me putting energies in the right place.

So looks like next year I'll be only doing Momocon and AWA (assuming I get a table at both).

Anyhoo - also transitioning my portfolio site to point back to the DA Portfolio app. As much as I wanted to do things manually , Picasa and Simpleviewer were fighting one another today and I just got annoyed enough to give up. I want tighter control (without a lot of need to use html and stuff) over content and make sure it's not hard to update.

Hopefully the change takes place fairly quickly sometime today. I do miss the beautiful layout of Simpleviewer, but I also will not miss updating .

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On a last note, the contest stuff is over. Congratulations to the winners. It was really hard reading some of these comments on the entries. I know that some of the artists who entered did so out of a strong wish to honor the memory of . I was deeply touched by the things people put together in her memory.

Thank you to those who entered.