Atil's blog: "My ramblings..."

Here I am, sitting at home on a Saturday night, so I log into Cherryland. Why am I home on a Saturday night? Loser? No friends? Actually, I got tattooed for five hours today & three hours yesterday. Tonight, I will have an oh so exciting evening of washing, applying vaseling & re-wrapping the new work. I take the aftercare very seriously. The sleeve is coming along very nicely. Actually, it's almost done & it looks fucking awesome! Anyway, here I sit, logged into Cherrytap & I see one of my photos gets rated...gets rated... wait for it...a '1.' Do I care that some random stranger thought that it would be a good use of his time on a Saturday night to cruise by my profile & rate a photo a '1?' No I don't, but it got me to thinking. I think a lot. It's a blessing & a curse. When I'm bored, I will peruse profiles for people that I think sound interesting or have something to say or have interests common to my own. If I find that, I will rate, comment & check out photos. If not, I move on. I guess, this place operates much like any real bar you may go to because at any bar you will meet cool people to talk to & hang out with, but also, lurking there are those you have nothing in common with or who just annoy you. I think this is a great place & I've "met" some awesome people. I won't be leaving any time soon. I do think, however, that the automatic '10' rating is a little bit artificial & used to get points & to level up, by some. At the same time, though, my momma told me a long time ago, if you have nothing good to say, keep your trap shut. I guess, I just don't get the '1' rating for anything around here. Do you remember earlier, I mentioned that I think a lot & it's a blessing & a curse? I think, in this case it's a curse because here's 15 minutes of my life I'm never getting back. I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

...if I turn on the tv & see one more report about Paris Hilton going to jail, I'm going to friggin lose it. While there are wars going on around the world & closer to home, children are abused & go missing & people starve on the streets, Paris Hilton is not news. Actually, she's not EVER news, but particularly now. If you haven't figured it out, I think she's a useless waste of space who thinks she's above the law & an attention whore. Send the bitch to jail already. Rant over. I know return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

Did you know that the skin is the largest organ in the human body? I just got home from 8 hours of having ink injected into it. My arm looks awesome & is tender as hell at the moment. Sitting for that long wasn't a problem, but I can't say I would want to do it that often. Pictures to follow.

I got my right sleeve started on Saturday (Feb. 24th). I have a stylized sun design on my inner forearm that will be incorporated into the sleeve & a very poorly done celtic design that I got when I was 18 that will be covered up. I discussed the design when my artist was working on my left arm. You can see pictures of that tattoo in my gallery. I hadn't seen the drawing prior to Saturday, but I wasn't worried. Let's just say when I saw it I was blown away. It is nothing short of awesome. It will take about 20 hours of work & won't be done until June or so. I can't wait. Now there are many great tattoo artists out there, but I have to say again, mine is awesome. If you'd like, you can check him out at http://www.clintdanroth.com. Tattoos are turning into a bit of an addiction. I've already got the idea for my next one.

I'm single, have been for a while. It's not by choice, it's not by anything. I just haven't met anyone that I've been interested in pursuing. Now, if I have to hear one more time, "I know someone perfect for you. If she wasn't involved I would totally set you up." I'm going to scream. I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.