Well, it's been over a year since i last updated, and boy things have changed so much since then.

To start, I started my life at TRHS with a bang. One my first day there, i was asked to join the football team, which i did. We ended up coming 3rd province wide, losing to BMHS and Fredricton High.

After the season ended, i found my little niche at the school, and made some friends, some better than others, others turned out to be real pains in the ass.

After the christmas holidays, i got a job at the university kitchen, started out washing dishes, etc. Now, almost a year later, i'm cooking pretty much constantly now, which i much prefer to washing dishes.

My taste in music also changed. Slowly as the year went on, my taste in music got more and more towards heavy metal, which is where it is today for the most part.

i also had a girlfriend for the better part of the year, in fact, one week from today would have been our 1st anniversary together. But sadly, she moved to Moncton in July and broke up with me when i came back to civilized areas after being away for a couple weeks.

I was distraught from that still when i found out that my grandmother and great aunt were both terminally ill with cancer, which sucks. they both passed in mid September.

A couple days after i got home from the funerals, I started working on my masterpiece to date, the cardboard Gears of War armor for halloween, which is cool.

As for my social life, i'm finally starting to get my weekends off, thanks to the manager at work in charge of scheduling, he's trying to give those of us who've been around for a while the weekend off as much as he can, as a thank you kind of thing to us.

Back to my social life though, i'm becoming more and more ingrained in the university social network than i am the high school one. Not that i mind of course, the girls at the university are a lot better looking than most of the high school girls.

Anyways, im in with the anime crowd right now, working on the local anime convention set for this coming march, at which i will also be wearing my armor. being in with the university anime crowd is interesting, because i get much insight into life being around these people.

On to my gallery: hopefully I can really start doing work on costumes and what not and documenting them, as well as going back to my writing roots and get a bunch of work done on my star trek series, which kinda died after the break up.

Anyways, i think i've rambled long enough to catch everybody up on the year ive been gone.


this is Duke signing off for now

Semper Eadem, Semper Bellator, Semper Fidelis