I'm slowly making my way through more than 3000 deviations that have piled up in my message center. There are more than 200 Journal Stacks.  Catching up with dA after being gone for a while is some serious work...

Anyway, I do feel like getting back for a bit. In the recent months, a lot of stuff happened (I guess not only in my life). The short version: in March and April, we (~mosaicked and me) had our very first exhibition in the real world. Yes, our pieces of work are very different, but actually that provided a nice contrast - her wonderfully drawn and rather colorful works and my pretty dark and often bleak pictures (which were a pain to print out...). Albeit the exhibition was small and still quite a bit of work, it was a new experience and definitely very interesting.
Also, in April I have started a full-time 'job' (actually it is more of an internship) in a research facility, the Austrian Institute of Technology - indeed, it is not a coincidence that this reminds you of the Massachusetts  Institute of Technology, it is the famous model for my working place. There I spend a lot of my time looking at data and trying to interpret it or teach the computer how to work with - I like the term 'Machine learning'. It is also the first time I really appreciate the methods of statistics, which are pretty awful theoretically, but immensely useful in applications.
Besides that, I'm getting serious about finally finishing my studies at the Technical University of Vienna. This fall, I hope...

The problem about all that - these three things somehow drained most of my creative energy. During the past months I almost never felt the urge to create something (there's been one sad occasion, which led to a picture I'll probably upload the following days...). Neither did I really want to see what other people did and thus spend little to no time on this site. But, I guess it's just one of these downs everyone experiences in a while. And the mood is rising again. So, enough about that, let's see if it really works out. It was time to change my journal anyway!

How has everyone been? Your plans for the summer, which has already begun? (It's getting too hot for me already...)
If you're still there and watching, listening, lurking...