Long Absence Approaching

Well, in two weeks, I'm going to be leaving...  Not permanently, but long enough that it might as well be that way; coming back is going to be like starting over.  XD

Long story short: I'm going to be spending the next two years in New Zealand, serving a mission for my church.  This isn't a spur-of-the-moment decision (I hope that would be obvious O.O), and I'm doing it willingly - and paying my way.  I suppose the details don't really matter, though.  Suffice it to say that, for the next two years I will have very limited internet access, and so I won't be getting on DA (hopefully I'll find time to draw, though!).

For most people who read this, I guess it wouldn't matter much.  I already post rarely enough; what's two years of inactivity?  XD  For those I talked with a lot, well, I obviously won't be able to talk with you for a long time (unless you felt like switching to conventional mail.  I will have an address while I'm in NZ after all.    If anyone would care to, you can sent me a note about it).  For everyone else, know that I will be coming back, and as much as possible would like to pick up relatively where I left off.  That being said, if you happen to change your account or otherwise go out of contact, drop me a note saying where you went to, and I'll try to catch up with you in two years.  XD

I'm going to get a LOT of backup in my deviantwatch from this.  I already get 80+ per day, on average.  Multiply that by the roughly 730 days that I'll be gone...  XD  60,000 deviations, anyone?

Anyways, don't think I'm going to up and leave right this moment.  I'll be around just as much as always until the 21st.  I just didn't want to leave for two years without giving those who cared a bit of advance notice.

I'll update this journal if I feel there's anything else I need to say.