General Stuffz

Name: Netasha Terita Johnson

D.O.B: June 15, 1982

Current Location: Frederick, MD

Likes-

Color: Blue and White

Food: Mexican, French Fries, and Hot Dogs

Animal: Wolves and Panthers

My family, friends, and boy (Shawnie)

Sleep

Drawing and Biology

Anime and Anthro anything

Dislikes-

Spiders

Bad Smells (really accurate sense of smell)

Feeling like I have messed up/people being mad at me (God still has to work some things out with me… “He ain’t through with me yet”)

Things that are out of order (semi- neat freak)

My own TAIL

            Well... it all began with a mouse… seriously (David). In 2004, I was at a crossroad of sorts. All my life, I had wanted to be a scientist, studying either veterinarian medicine or molecular biology. Well, it seemed like God had a different plan for me. Along with my love for science, God had given me a love for art too. Ever since early elementary school, I have been drawing little funny animal characters based off of cartoons I had seen on the TV. People always said that they could tell I was different, because I would use my common sense to use on my art work. I would color out side of the lines, which a girl tried to get me in trouble for once, if I was to cut a picture out, trying to create the most professional looking piece of colored art I could. That was in 1^st grade, but I kept my faith.

            I continued to grow, falling in love with any animation that involved talking animals, and that in general had an overall feel of happiness of defeat over evil. Mostly with sacrificing one’s self to help their fellow man, even if it means dying for someone who couldn’t stand you, but drawing “wasn’t for me”. By the end of middle school in 1996, I had all but given up on drawing, thinking that if I am to have a “Logical” job to support myself and my family, biology was the way to go. So I placed all of my focus there, and ended up getting scholarships to colleges, and finally ending up going to Hood College in Frederick, MD, but I kept my faith and prayed.

            During my freshman year, after almost loosing all of my scholarship money, due to low grades, I was slapped in the face with the fact that the area I went to school in wasn’t the best  in the world, and I found myself at a great disadvantage in many of my basic academic classes. Lost as that point, God reminded me of one passion that I had put away for years, focusing on the stuff that God needed me to focus on at the time. You see, God doesn’t set us up for a lifetime’s journey in one solid direction. He places us on a track to head one way, but there are many different “lands” that we must pass through to get to our final destination… each stop being its own destination. God needed me to start drawing when I was younger, in order to use me now with what I do, but He needed me to stop so that I would not get tired of working in that field/going to school for art. It allows a greater praise to be given to Him, the giver of gifts… for a biologist/theatre major to go to art history major, to try to make a life’s career out of something she has never had any professional training in, and then to be successful in it… can not be anyone BUT God as the gift giver.

GLYASDI,

Indi