Posting on LJ! Yeah!
So I'm joining the hoards that are trying to revive LJ again! Yay!!! Admittedly I do miss blogging on here, even if I'm too busy to really keep up with it and everyone on my flist. :C Even now I'm typing this up on notepad at work so that it doesnt look obvious that I'm blogging on LJ. xD
Ummm, what's new? Nothing much I guess. I do nothing but work work work work. ;x The usual, I guess. When I'm not at work, I'm working on my Java homework or other projects for different people, or my grad applications. Fun life, huh? xD
My car got stolen last week. xD Crazy stuff. But the police found it on the same day (good going San Diego police!), so it was ALMOST in one piece. When I recovered it on the weekend, it was missing its right rear wheel and my boots in the back trunk. :( But hey, at least now I don't have to buy a new car!!! :)
On more depressing news, Disney rejected me for their product design intern. :( I'm pretty bummed, but only because I would've loved working for a big company like Disney. Otherwise it was in a totally different direction than I would've liked....I really really really dislike doing product design. :S Like, bedsheets and packaging and ugh. It just sounds like a headache for me. xD I guess I'm really more of a web and UI girl at heart.
It's just depressing since, after I got the job with Mitchell, the whole year has been a string of really exciting possibilities and heart breaking rejections. :( Probably the worst was Yelp, I was really amped for that and it was the perfect internship. The rest just sort of weighs down on me too, like Flickr, ScrollMotion, Disney, Hulu....they were all such disappointing rejections. And now I'm scared it's just going to be that; series and strings of rejections over and over and over again. I keep telling myself that I just need to make more high-quality works and that they were all pretty big companies anyways...but rejection is awful no matter what direction of optimism you take. ~__~;;
I'm living in a land of painful mediocrity... ;~;
At least work got a Lynda.com account, so I can secretly steal some video tutorials and resources. xD
Otherwise things are good! I've been becoming more and more engrossed with the tech world as of late, learning more about the different products and OS's that are popular right now. (Which is why there's an increased stream of hate for the elitist and painfully-difficult-to-work-with iOS comments and anti-SteveJobs comments on Twitter.)
For those who don't know, AppendixSquared is back up live! I would love it if you guys could spare the time to pimp it out or whore it out to any other designers or casual art-makers you know. And I'm planning a revamp of my portfolio, since there's a million bad practices going on in there. There are a few new things, but not a whole lot other than what I add in from work.
How's life for you folks?
Ummm, what's new? Nothing much I guess. I do nothing but work work work work. ;x The usual, I guess. When I'm not at work, I'm working on my Java homework or other projects for different people, or my grad applications. Fun life, huh? xD
My car got stolen last week. xD Crazy stuff. But the police found it on the same day (good going San Diego police!), so it was ALMOST in one piece. When I recovered it on the weekend, it was missing its right rear wheel and my boots in the back trunk. :( But hey, at least now I don't have to buy a new car!!! :)
On more depressing news, Disney rejected me for their product design intern. :( I'm pretty bummed, but only because I would've loved working for a big company like Disney. Otherwise it was in a totally different direction than I would've liked....I really really really dislike doing product design. :S Like, bedsheets and packaging and ugh. It just sounds like a headache for me. xD I guess I'm really more of a web and UI girl at heart.
It's just depressing since, after I got the job with Mitchell, the whole year has been a string of really exciting possibilities and heart breaking rejections. :( Probably the worst was Yelp, I was really amped for that and it was the perfect internship. The rest just sort of weighs down on me too, like Flickr, ScrollMotion, Disney, Hulu....they were all such disappointing rejections. And now I'm scared it's just going to be that; series and strings of rejections over and over and over again. I keep telling myself that I just need to make more high-quality works and that they were all pretty big companies anyways...but rejection is awful no matter what direction of optimism you take. ~__~;;
I'm living in a land of painful mediocrity... ;~;
At least work got a Lynda.com account, so I can secretly steal some video tutorials and resources. xD
Otherwise things are good! I've been becoming more and more engrossed with the tech world as of late, learning more about the different products and OS's that are popular right now. (Which is why there's an increased stream of hate for the elitist and painfully-difficult-to-work-with iOS comments and anti-SteveJobs comments on Twitter.)
For those who don't know, AppendixSquared is back up live! I would love it if you guys could spare the time to pimp it out or whore it out to any other designers or casual art-makers you know. And I'm planning a revamp of my portfolio, since there's a million bad practices going on in there. There are a few new things, but not a whole lot other than what I add in from work.
How's life for you folks?