When choosing to seriously pursue a passion, it helps to know what you’re doing. So for the web designers in the crowd, we have an article on the semantics of design brought to you via @markfunk. And for the photographers, this photographer I know pointed out a nice article on pursuing photography full time. Enjoy!
I had a job satisfaction crisis earlier in the week. In reality it was more of a life satisfaction crisis, but a crisis of that kind is usually called a “mid-life crisis” and isn’t supposed to come until you’re 32, not 23. Besides, it wasn’t that bad. In fact, it led to a realization that, while not completely positive, is better than the depths of despair.
This particular crisis was instigated by the realization that I’m spending a third of my time on a project that isn’t mine. I knew that going in. That’s what comes with any job where you aren’t self-employed. Duh. I figured I’d make up for it with my spare time projects like I had been doing in college. For a while I did that, and I managed to get my album out the door in the process. And then it stopped.
Normally around this point I’d say something to the effect of ‘I have no idea why I stopped.’ But now I do. See, I’ve finally realized that I work best creatively in a clean environment. And my room is a mess. But logically it makes sense. Why does my room get in a mess? Because I don’t feel like I have the energy to put things in their proper place. In other words, if my life is a mess, my room is a mess. So if my room is a mess, I feel like my life is a mess and therefore cannot focus my creative energy appropriately.
Right now, my room is a mess. That’s about to change. Brittany, hold me to that.
And… what do you think? Sound off in the comments… all two of you. And no, it’s not done yet.
You can see the idea I’ve got for my theme here. Make sure you can scroll up and down.
My illustrious podcast has been delisted from iTunes due to there not being any new episodes for several months. And my illustrious car decided to start hating me last night by giving me both a seriously dead (as in you-can’t-jump-start-it-you-have-to-go-get-a-new-one dead) battery and a flat tire at roughly midnight. Fortunately, the Microsoft of the retail world is open 24 hours and the tire store that’s always having a great day is very good at changing tires first thing in the morning.
I’m dating a very awesome person who is so awesome she’s worth dating even though she lives 212 miles away.
All in all, I’d say the new blog is off to a great start. Now if someone could tell me which OpenID plugin for WordPress actually works, that’d be great.
