WOOTWOOT! I finally finished going through all the files on my Alerts list! Yes!

This may seem like a weird reason for celebration to you, but that's only if you don't know the details. I got onto dA sometime in my 12th grade year. During my frosh year at University I spent a inordinate amount of time on the web, especially fanfiction.net and here on dA, where I spent much time looking at great art, reading great stories, and leaving long, rambling reviews for the ones I liked best. Then, sometime between the summer after my frosh year and the start of my second year of Uni, two things happened.
1) I got behind on checking my Alerts list.
2) I started to develope a life off of the computer.
The end result? Up until yesterday I had 300+ notifications in my Alerts section, and I haven't been leaving reviews the way I used to. I've even sort of ignored some of the artists I really liked having review-conversations with, which has been sending me on plenty of guilt-trips, trust me. This is due to the fact that when I'm feeling cornered by something (say, a huge stack of deviations I need to look at) I tend to run off and do something else or ignore it. It's a bad habit, and one I'm working hard at breaking. Hopefully I'll be prompter in my viewing of stuff now.

Because, after two days pf intensive deviation-viewing, I'm got my alerts box down to only 16 deviations! (punches air) You have no idea how good that feels! So now that that huge number of deviations has gone down, my likiness to respond has gone up. I'd like to mention, however, that I may still take some time with some of my reviews and won't review everything. I watch somewhere in the range of 70 different artists here on dA, and those are only the ones on my alert list! I have even more that I watch simply via the good old method of making a link to their page in my bookmarks and going there every now and then to see what's new. This, combined with my ever-growing life outside of the internet, combine to mean I'm just not reviewing as much as I used to. I'll probably never reach the level I did during frish year again, and I don't want to. That year I was lonely and not taking good care of myself and clinging to the net as my source of human contact for the most part when I live in residence at a university!

But I'll say this up front: if I've put you on my alert list, it's because I think your a good artist, admire your abilities, and think it's worth being notified if you put something new up, even if I don't always comment or fav.

Hope this clears up any confusion as to why I haven't been around as much lately! Bye!

Tie-Dyed-Trickster