みなさん、ただいま。。。
Hey, hi, hello there...I'm back. Aw, heck, I never really left - old Laina was always here in spirit, waiting, watching...lurking...and now I'm damn near close to menacing! Why you ask? Gather round children & I'll spin ye a yarn, a tale of woe & passion. Like, the kind of passion Bratz had for fashion...before Monster High toppled them anyway. But yeah, the tale will explain my "begging" part of my topic.
So, as you mayor may or may not know, I've been M.I.A. for a while. The reason for that is I'm finally back in college. Yay me, feelin' all self-actualized & shit. Anyway, that didn't make me drop off of the face of the earth, it just really ate into my screwing around time, which was a majority of my time spent here. What made me drop off of the face of the earth was my inability to pay the interwebs bill - cable companies aren't exactly known for their charity. Thankfully though, I'm to a point where that shouldn't be much of a problem...for a while anyway.
Now, the begging portion of my reintroduction thread...
So, you kooky kats remember how I said I'm back in college? Well, I'm kinda sorta set to go to Japan this fall for one whole year on my school's exchange program. That simply puts me over the moon - it's been a near lifelong dream of mine to travel to Japan & experience it firsthand. That's the great, passionate part. The woeful, begging part is this...I'm not exactly an heiress & travel to Japan ain't exactly in my budget. Guess airline companies have taken a page from the cable companies on their business model...but, I digress. In order to help ease some of the burden of the costs to get my pale bum to Japan, I've turned to Booster.com to maybe kinda sorta ask for some assistance without resorting to outright begging in the streets...or walking said streets...as a "working girl"...
Alright, back on point. If any of you care to do so, wander over to Booster.com (links to follow) & check my on-the-fly designs that used Booster's art exclusively, save the "超かわいい" saying - I made that text on my compy a little while ago. Like I said, they ain't great, but I didn't have a whole lot to work with & was a little frazzled as I worked. Check 'em out though if you're so inclined & if you're a big, sweet Georgia peach of person & purchase one, well, gosh, I think I love you.
*EDIT: I just sacked the t-shirt campaign & have moved onto a pure donation campaign model. Thank you to everyone who looked! Here's the donation campaign address:
https://www.booster.com/japanexchangefund Great to be back, Dungeon!
-Laina