So I'm kind of in the process of slooooooooowly announcing this:

I got hired at Sony Pictures Animation, and I'll be started this Wednesday!

I need to say that I'm both EXTREMELY excited and stunned.  I mean... stunned.  As in... really stunned.  To the point where I don't think I've processed it at all.  

Like, can I explain something?  

I basically never thought this could happen.

Ever.  4 years ago, I wasn't even pursuing art.  I loved it more than anything, but I'd given up on it because I didn't think I could make a living or be good enough.  Like that was my life.  Just someone who loved animation, but had written off my involvement with it.  When I finally decided to jump in, I jumped with both feet, and have basically been myopically focused ever since.  Life and holidays and birthdays would roll on around me, and I wouldn't even notice because I had a final or a project or whatever else, and I'd just live and breathe this stuff because I wanted to do this.  I wanted to work in a studio.  I wanted to work in feature animation.  I wanted to design characters and help create stories and have them reach people everywhere.  That's what I wanted.  

And it's like all of a sudden I'm ploughing along and I hit a WALL, just this MASSIVE wall, consisting of people saying, "Oh, okay, well: here you go.  You get to do those things.  We'll let you.  We WANT you to."

And that's surreal.  That's fricking surreal.  It doesn't make sense yet, and I KNOW the people who hired me, and I don't even believe it.  haha.  I'm that version of happy that's terrified of being as over the moon as I want to feel.  I've conditioned myself into a finely crafted state of being tentative about all good fortune I have.  WHICH IS LAME, AND STUPID... but true.  

I'm seriously just... so excited.  So happy.  So overwhelmed, but in a good way.  

Dunno.  Gimme a few weeks.  I'm sure some form of reality will be there then.  hahaha

Love!