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I got back yesterday, but due to some ridiculous confusion my dad never came to pick me up at the airport. Long story short, I waited for 3 hours in the airport and finally decided to spend $80 on a cab home. Kind of a crappy day, but the 5 preceding days were absolutely fantastic!

So I was mostly in San Diego and I visited a bunch of places. Beach towns, cove..towns with seals that slap each other, downtowns, mexican towns, all sorts of towns.

We visited San Diego, LA/Hollywood, and Santa Monica. Went to SD zoo, Hollywood strip, Santa Monica downtown & pier. It was really great and I can't wait to check out Cali again in the future. Next time I'm going to San Francisco.

I've been working damn hard these past few weeks, and it's all been leading up to going to California. So I announced earlier that I'm officially going to California, but I won't be going to San Francisco, sadly. We decided it'd be too much, considering the little amount of time that my cousin has to hang out with me and my mom.

So I've been working everyday this past few weeks between 2 clients and personal work. Not surprisingly I've spent quite a bit of it already. I can't help it! I got some new clothes, and a DSLR.

I've wanted to get into photography for some time, and while I don't suspect that my photos from California will be particularly artistic, I still thought this would be a great time to invest in a DSLR.

I'm pretty pumped right now because Tuesday is my last day here, since I leave at about 6am on Wednesday. Right now I'm just trying to get the most client work done before I leave, which is what I've been doing this whole past week. One of my 2 clients has specifically mentioned that he requires complete non-disclosure with the design, so unfortunately you guys won't see anything about it.. At least for a while. Sorry!

So are you guys going on vacation, or doing anything interesting?

This kind of shit makes me want to leave dA for good. I'm pretty god damn fed up, and this just tipped the glass. So I browse the D&I section and check out what's new in the Web Interface section and whadya know.. There's yet another random (and shitty) animated GIF of a gopher.

So what do I do? I play nice and tell this person that she placed her GIF in the wrong category in hopes that she'd remove it. I check back later to see that she has responded with... "i really dont care where it goes i was just looking for a file it would go on".

Not only that, but I check the deviation and it now has 60 favs, and also got a great comment from a DeviantART staff member saying "lol its fantastic!".

This is just sad.. I'm really not the radical type, honestly, but anybody with a brain can see that dA is getting out of hand. Not only does someone post a shitty GIF in the wrong category, but she gets praised for it by staff members. What happened to the days where up and coming artists & designers could get noticed? I'll take my brother for example.. A very hard working artist who's trying to make a name for himself on dA and he hasn't yet gotten that kind of recognition for something that he actually put good effort into and was actually art.