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| This semester was one of the hardest yet. School was bad enough, plus trying to find a job, an apartment, make wedding plans, all the family health issues, etc.
School is done now for now; I survived and my grades weren't too bad. I have one more class to take, so I'll finally graduate in December. Somehow, though I don't yet have my degree, I managed to wrangle a job at an actual design company here in Tulsa. All I have to say about job searching is, you really ought to send a thank you card (mail, the old fashioned way) if you're really interested (and try to relate it back to things from the interview). Also, the expression "if you never try, you'll never know" is always quite encouraging. I start the job tomorrow. I'm super nervous and excited.
Also exciting... I don't live in Stillwater anymore. Hopefully, I won't ever live there again. It was kinda boring there after a while. Jared and I moved in to our apartment and are in the process of unpacking. I have way more art supplies than I thought.... not really sure where to put all of it right now...
This is my life right now. It was a lot of change at once, but maybe after a week of working I'll get into the groove of things. It's exciting stuff.
In the near future, two of my friends are getting married in two weeks; I get to be in their wedding, which is flattering. The next week, my sister's getting married. That'll be wonderful, not just for the actual marriage but also so I get to see our family. Then, in July, Jared and I are getting married. I'm really excited, naturally! We're going to Hawaii for our honeymoon, so hopefully I'll get to see some lava. Then in September we're going to Seattle, which we both love. So we're really fortunate. And excited!
As far as xanga's concerned, I'm not so hot on it anymore. But I'll be around to check on you all, so don't worry about me.
Hope everyone enjoys their summer. Remember to wear your sunscreen!
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| Well, I will say... things seemed to suck on my spring break, but they did get worse. Not that I needed a miraculous break; I still appreciated being away from school and around my family and friends. But there are all sorts of ailments affecting my family right now, they all suck and it makes me sad to see such wonderful and loving people suffer. My main concern is for my grandpa, who I don't get to see nearly often enough and miss very much.
In other news, my weekend activities were post worthy for once, and thought provoking in my opinion. Though no, I didn't go out and party like a good college student would. Nope, my weekend was spent in class. That's right. Friday, 6-10 pm and today, 9 am to about 5 pm, I was in History of Rock and Roll class. It was technically the second segment of the course, so we started off with Bob Dylan. It seemed fitting to listen to and discuss Dylan and others in a classroom setting...until we got to Quiet Riot and that general era. Then it got a little hard not to laugh. We all giggled, as our teacher discussed the relevancy of songs like "She Blinded with Science" and "Video Killed the Radio Star". It was bizarre listening to clips of these in a classroom setting.
Spending all this time listening to music, seeing genres trigger other movements and also seeing a clear relation, was pretty interesting. Our teacher asked us why we consider certain things "Rock and Roll", what that means. And yes, we did cover rap in there, too. She also raised the question of why we react to certain music the way we do. So much of culture evolved from music, it was fascinating to see so many similarities between my generation and that of the late 60's (a seemingly endless war that many disagreed with...sounds familiar, right?), and also somewhat the frustrated Punk generation.
We also saw the logical progression from one type of music to the next, but why do we embrace the music we listen to now? She asked if we were happy with what's on the radio now, and there was an immediate and resounding "NO" from the class. Interesting. But I wonder, if what I listen to were on the radio, would I still listen? Music certainly is a provoking topic.
We never did find a logical excuse for Disco.
After recently seeing a very significant graphic designer speak (and yes, I got his autograph. and he put his arm around me for a picture!), he made some extremely interesting points, one of which led me to the conclusion that I need to get my thoughts out of my head more often. Having now done that, I'm off to paint!
Bye for now.
p.s. thanks everyone for your input on the job issue. not an issue anymore, since they hired someone else. (not that I'm not absolutely perfect, it's just that I couldn't start working until May. Don't get the wrong idea.) | | |
| So it's technically only the second day of spring break and I have: visited a photographer, bought an interview outfit, updated my resume, went to an interview, helped my mom find a mother of the bride outfit (a lot harder than it sounds, right mams?) and looked at 6 different apartments. Not many fun activities listed there, you'll notice. But maybe tonight I'll be able to get some painting done. I had hoped to frequent the local parks and sit idly, enjoying the arrival of spring. This hasn't happened yet, due to the thunderstorms over the past four days or so.
About this job interview. Here's the situation: I'm majoring in Graphic Design, with an emphasis in illustration. This basically means I'm useless. A straight GD degree would make me applicable for a design job, at a studio or something. But focusing on illustration means I'm not quite experienced enough in straight design, and my portfolio is not quite there, either. It will be after next semester, but I need a job for this summer, preferably one I can keep during next semester, too. Though next semester I'll be in a class in Stillwater, only twice a week in the afternoon.
So, do I take a job (like the one I interviewed for) that is at least a little bit related to design, though the pay sucks and I'll only get 25 hours a week? Or do I do something completely unrelated, just until I graduate, like be a teller at a bank?
This job is at a sort of factory, where you use templates to crank out 12+ designs a day. Most of the work I would do would involve replicating logos into vectors from pixelated images. So maybe I could claim it as design experience, and it would work with my class schedule. But I wouldn't have any creative freedom, I'd just be plugging stuff into templates, and the pay would suck (but maybe I could work nights somewhere else during the summer).
What do you guys think?
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| When going out of town for a week or more, I like to clean my room as well as time allows, so I can come back to a happy room. Part of this process involves my art closet. Yes, I have a whole closet for my art and the supplies needed for making it. The problem is, I am also a pack rat, with interesting bits of magazines, fabric, buttons and other miscellaneous items that could presumably contribute to my art. Point: I have too much of it, and it's time to clear it out. Rather than throwing it all away right off the bat, I'm going to take a box of it home with me for spring break. And I'm going to make something for anyone who asks me.
note:
-if you give me a prompt, i might be more inspired.
-if no one asks, I'm going to make stuff anyways and leave it around the city. (but not like litter....i'll hang it or post it.)
-these won't be fine works of art, but they will be objects that someone other than yourself has spent time with, formulating and whatnot.
Really these past few weeks have been alternatively crazy, exciting, scary and inspiring, but that's another post. So, until next time.....
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