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Oh my, my heart. It's beating like a big brass band. I'm so excited! Graduation day. A new life. A new beginning means a new diary!
Three years of art school, and boy did it go by fast. I made so many friends, and it's just gonna be hard to say goodbye!
But it's never the end, only the beginning of a beautiful new... well... beginning!
Yeah... I just used the word 'beginning' three times in the past three sentences. I guess that's why I didn't become a writer. Haha!
Anyhow... now what?
I think I'll just go enjoy my first day off, honestly. It's like, the end of a long journey calls for celebration. Canterlot is the best place to party, too! Gosh, I love it. I love the atmosphere, I love the ponies, and especially the castle. It's the perfect town where dreams really do come true.
And this is my chance to make it!
I'm gonna go out and grab a carrot juice, hit the art stores, maybe even see if I can't find a job somewhere!
Well that was a fun trip out! I'm bushed. Went to some of the galleries, went to my favourite muse spot behind the castle courtyard (you know, the place where the sun hits the west tower just right and it creates this amazing silhouette) and even picked up a bunch of job leaflets.
What I have to do now is just sort through them. I'll find me a job if my name ain't Brush Dancer!
You know? I wonder about that. My name has so much to do with what my talent is; even my cutie mark has something to do with painting. I wonder if there's a correlation.
Nah, I'm just over-thinking it!
That's what happens when you have a wild imagination. You start to think of weird things and connections that aren't there. I gotta remember to keep that in check before, oh, I dunno, I start painting a mural about the huge conspiracy of our history or something.
But boy, wouldn't that be a laugh!
Anyway, leaflets... leaflets...
Here's one asking to paint the ceiling of a chapel for restorations. It sounds kinda bad for the back, but the pay seems good. It might be easier if I were a unicorn, but I paint traditionally, so I guess this one's out.
Let's see...
Oh, here's one for some kind of guerrilla chalk drawings. I... don't think this is an official leaflet, now that I look at it carefully. It seems to be printed on low grade paper and by some unofficial company, and also they're asking me to deface public property.
I don't think that's a job.
Argh, so many leaflets!
Oh wait.
Whoa!
Hey now, look at THIS!
"Traditional Painters wanted for Portrait of Princess Celestia for Winter Wrap-Up. Apply at the castle"
Wow.
Man, I don't know.
It's like, it would be really, REALLY fantastic to have this under my name. I know I graduated top of the class and all, but still, this is high profile stuff.
Man, my heart's beating out of my hooves.
You know what?
Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
I'm going to trot down there first thing tomorrow morning and apply!
Better get my portfolio ready!
Ooooo so exciting!