Thursday, February 27, 2003
mr. rogers died yesterday. that show was such an important part of my childhood that i find myself genuinely sad. goodbye, neighbor! Saturday, February 22, 2003
it's mardi gras again. parades are going by outside my window as i write this. insanely loud. always a good time of year in new orleans... so i'm still having a hard time believing it - but my first two days on the job were incredible. i'm already beginnning to feel at home there, my co-workers are great, the work is diverse and challenging - and i've already started working on some projects. it's strange and kind of trite, but everything feels different now. good different. and i'm definitely back, as far as unapologetic is concerned. i like writing here, it's that simple, and i like interacting with all of you who read it. it was nice to take a break, but i missed it. so i'm back. i feel some changes coming on, though - at very least a new look, for real this time. and maybe a change in the tone of things, just as a result of my being genuinely happy with the course of my life, personally and professionally, for the first time since i started writing here nearly two years ago. and thanks to to so many of you for the congratulations, and for the encouragement and support you've given me over the past two years while i've been trying to get to this place. i can't tell you how many times comments and e-mails from this site have helped fix my broken days... oh great. now i'm getting all teary-eyed. ahem. that's better. so anyway, keep reading. i think it only gets better from here... Thursday, February 20, 2003
you see down there in that last post, the thing about me hitting rock bottom, but remaining surprisingly optimistic? well talk about optimistic surprises - i got a job today! a real-live full-time not-being-a-lawyer graphic design job with a design/production studio! finally, after nearly a year of sending out resumes, I finally did it. unbelievable. doing what i want to be doing, for a relatively good wage, great benefits, in a pretty good location, with my own (smallish) office & my own title (art director) and with what look to be some pretty cool people at a pretty cool company. lots of motion video and dvd graphics, lots of print, lots of web work... I am so excited... and I start tommorrow. today. whatever - thursday. and oh, did i mention, i got a JOB! Tuesday, February 18, 2003
of course I'm late on the uptake here, but it looks like if blogger was still in financial trouble, their worries are over - blogger/pyra labs has been bought by google. good for them. a quick happy birthday to my friend rod, who i know religiously avoids reading unapologetic even when i am posting regularly. just in case being snowed in up in DC forces him online or something. as for me and my freelance career, i think i've just about hit my professional/financial rock bottom just about now - well, i think that was yesterday, actually - though i remain surprisingly optimistic. career-wise, at least - all it takes is one good phone call, right? sorry you've missed the play by play over the last few months, but it hasn't been very exciting or pretty to watch. lots of resume sending-out and doing clerical-type work and the occasional small design project. this week however has brought a few interesting experiences: on valentine's day, amy and i went to "find the phil" which is when the louisiana philharmonic orchestra plays at some random place just to mix things up a little. this time, they were at the new orleans vespa dealership (how cool is that? vespas as seats!). what was even cooler was that the LPO was guest conducted by david amram, who was the jazz musician and general musical genius behind the beat poets. he's 72 and still just vibrant and energetic and excited by his art, and talks and acts like he's 30, and i spoke with him after the show and he's just one of those amazing people you meet and can just feel the genius in his presence. very cool. (and i can use the adjective "cool" so much in this paragraph because the guy was one of the beat poets, for god's sake! what's cooler than that? be thankful i didn't throw in a "daddy-o".) i also got to see neko case this weekend, for the second time - bigger club, bigger crowd than two years ago... and of course she was amazing - a pretty lady, a great songwriter, and an unbelievable, beautiful voice (especially in contrast to her opening acts, who were of coffeehouse-folksinger quality at best.) anyway. enough for now. baby steps... off to hunt more jobs and do more work... Thursday, February 13, 2003
look! a new post! see, i AM still here. "who could you take in a fight?" might be the best thing the onion's done in years, and it's on the onion av club, which isn't even supposed to be funny. some of the answers are really interesting - i liked joss whedon's and berke breathed's. Monday, February 03, 2003
that, and now phil spector gets charged with murder. damn shame. Saturday, February 01, 2003
god. another space shuttle tragedy. too sad. my friend jen, in tyler, texas, said it shook her house, and there's debris in a friend's front yard. sometimes life is just this grim.
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