Coasters!

Sep 05, 2008
Categories: shopping, web design

I finally got coasters to protect my glossy furniture!

New Coasters!
Made by paddy

Those are all computer-related icons. I looove these! I found them on Etsy, totally worth the money. I feel like a true web geek now. :)

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Racing Queen

May 11, 2008
Categories: school, job hunting, wii, web design, life

I feel pretty lost at the moment. I’ve had a couple of good interviews in the last week though, one in Des Moines and one with a company in Chicago, so maybe i’ll have some clear-cut options here soon. Portland seems strangely void of opportunity in the field of web design, so chances are i will have to keep on waiting for my chance to get back to Oregon one of these years.

I’ve been playing Mario Kart Wii every day for over a week now. I’m completely addicted, but i suspect i’ll grow sick of it in the next week or two and slow down quite a bit. This is my new alter-ego, Rosalina:

Rosalina

My character of choice, using the standard bike. Unstoppable. My next goal in life is to unlock Daisy and see if she measures up. The little girl in me still prefers the pretty princesses, and i swear i actually race better using them.

A new crop of graduates just took their walk this weekend, among them Nina and Karl (yay!!) who will probably not be moving to Chicago this summer after all. It’s only been a year since my own graduation, but i feel like the student life is very far removed from me. I never felt like school was where i wanted to be, and i’m thrilled to be firmly out in the working world now. God knows if i’ll ever go back to school, but if i do it won’t be for quite a while yet.

I’ll be getting some important calls this week, hopefully, so keep your fingers crossed for me. I’m still not completely sure where i want to be though, so i might keep sending out those applications.

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Onward and Upward

Apr 29, 2008
Categories: location, jobs, web design, weather, life

I made the decision yesterday that i’m going to leave my current job as soon as i find a suitable new one, for reasons i probably shouldn’t disclose here. I feel relieved to have decided at least that much, as i’ve been trying to decide what to do with all these open doors since around January when our landlord started to pressure us to renew our lease for August. Hm, i could stay, or i could also leave…

So now i’ll be applying for jobs like mad, and i figure whatever offers i get will help me narrow down the next decision, which is where i want to go when this lease is up. I’m looking at:

Yeah, i always swore i’d never live in Cali, but life here where there are seasons is just miserable anymore. Besides, it would make my grandparents really happy to be close enough to feed me lots of good Italian food, since i’m morbidly skinny in their eyes and need guidance.

Moving far away would mean sacrificing relationships though, which would suck. It’s probably not going to happen, because even though i’ve always had dreams of striking out on my own and magically turning into an admirable person by mere proximity to tall buildings and bright lights, being near the people i love is a lot more important to me. Portland would put me closer to some other people i love a lot, though, so it’s not a black-and-white issue by any means.

In regards to the new blog, thanks so much for your feedback. I put a button illusion up on the header in response to popular demand, and i think you were right. It looks nice. Now if only i could get a pretty rollover effect to happen without having to slice up that image…

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Shades of grey

Apr 25, 2008
Categories: web apps, web design, photography, blogging

click the photo to see it on Flickr.Color space Hell!!, originally uploaded by amidala515.

This is a screen shot of the difference in the colors of my blog between Firefox and Safari on my Mac. I’m trying to learn about why this happens. In the meantime–i posted this from flickr, isn’t that cool?!

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You’re killing me, Zeno…

Apr 22, 2008
Categories: web design, blogging

Still some outstanding issues to fix before invitations are sent. ::sigh::

I’ll take this opportunity to see how a list looks…

Will someone please explain to me why anything designed on a Mac looks awful on a PC or printed, and anything designed on a PC looks awful on a Mac? Why are the color spaces so different???

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