jhaumann

Hello to the few of you who still watch this page! I realized I haven't been on here too much lately other than to fulfill my club duties. Heck, my journal hasn't been updated in nearly two years. In the two years I've written that journal I got hired at a job in Maryland, got laid off in April of last year, spent a year in unemployment purgatory, and got hired at a new job in Virginia. In those two years I put doing art off to the wayside due to a combination of self doubt, depression, and stress from either working at a job or trying to search for jobs. After attending comic conventions with my friends, meeting cartoonists and reading lots

10/10/10 Look at the date, straight tens! In other news, I just got a job! I got hired as an entry-level geospatial analyst at a firm in Rockville, Maryland that does a lot of government contracting work. I'll be working with them on a worldwide mapping project using LANDSAT data, which could be for the government or firms like Google and Microsoft. The pay's pretty decent for an entry-level job ($19.50 an hour), plus I'm getting paid more to work evening shift but that means I'll no longer have my weekday evenings free. Everyone there seems really nice. It kind of has the same collegiate atmosphere as my geography classes back at GMU where

Sorry it's been awhile since I've posted anything on here. I went over to the Small Press Expo, an independent and underground comics convention in Bethesda, Maryland with a couple of friends yesterday. I had a good time, throughout parts of it I had to struggle with my shyness/anxiety disorder to talk to some of the artists since this was the first convention of any kind I've gone to. My friend Dustin was happy because he got to meet Jeph Jacques, creator of the webcomic series "Questionable Content". Here were some of the highlights from the convention: * I got to meet Danielle Corsetto, creator of the webcomic series "Girls With Slingshot