... simply my life

This was my "first" first friday @ the mca - interesting crowd. I cannot believe how many people were there!!

               

... via iPhone ...

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I don't get enough sleep.
And even though I know this, I sit here and type a new blog post at 11:52 PM! I am a night owl and cannot figure out how to get to bed before 11 PM. And that's all I want ... it's not like I'm trying to go to bed at 9 or something...

I have too many projects.
Excluding work (that's a whole other post!) I have a list a mile long of things that I want to do, make or create in some fashion. I get really hot and heavy into one thing and then somehow get derailed. Once that happens it takes me months to even get back to it... if I actually do get back to it.

I don't print my photos anymore.
When I was shooting film - in the pre-digital stone era - I would run film to be developed the minute I shot the last frame. Now with digital... not so much. I have oodles of photos backed up on multiple drives (praying I don't loose any), I post them online, but I don't have "photo albums" anymore.

I spend too much time in the virtual world.
Blogging, reading RSS, social networking, whatever... I feel like the world has all started living in this strange virtual way and I'm not sure I like it. I barely talk to anyone on the phone anymore - actually reduced my cell phone plan when I discovered I had over 5000 rollover minutes! Oh I get their status updates and etc., so I know what they are doing, but that's no comparison for a face to face meeting or even a live phone conversation. I wonder what this will mean for our future.

I am addicted to chocolate.
Not to the point that I couldn't live without it, but it would be a real shame. Worse is that I like the expensive stuff best. I stopped in Vosge's on Sunday for a hot chocolate and came out with three other things! Last time I was at the Merchandise Mart I found Fran's sea salt chocolate caramels and HAD to buy them. Thank goodness I don't frequent these places, but it's an instant draw for me. I'd hate to add it up at the end of the year.

I love design.
Not that this is really a new revelation, but sometimes I get sucked into it. RSS feeds are the worst for this. It gets the wheels turning - I could to this or that or oh yeah, that would be fantastic here or there. So many ideas, so little time and money.

Ok... it's now after midnight and I MUST go to bed. Sheesh!

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It's been a while since I've been able to work on an identity campaign. It's just not been the focus in the last few years - you know for a while there anyone with a computer could advertise themselves as a graphic designer. Well... that was about when it went to the back burner.

An opportunity presented itself for a startup company, so we're dipping our toes back into the graphic waters. It feels good to do something different. It will be very interesting to see how these are received. To see if I've still got it. *wink! I'm not finished yet, but burning some of the midnight oil to churn out a few sketches.

   

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