Hello! It’s week three but I’m going to start my blog from the very beginning with pictures so it might take a while for me to catch up to real time. Here it goes.
may 28 wednesday
It’s 2:17am here. I just finished taking my superfreezing shower (they turn the heat off after midnight). The windows are open and I hear people having sex. Well, it’s more of squeeky bed and dude making sounds from starting point to the…culminating point. No girl sounds or any second participant which is weird. I’ve never heard real people having sex and it was an OMG moment turned gross after the first 5 seconds. Cringe.
I surprisingly woke up early today at 6:15am waiting for my alarm. I wore my tank dress today which throughout the day became an increasingly good idea since it was hot and I was able to deliver air flow all throughout with my fancy fan. We started off at 8 by the Arch of Titus beside the Colosseum then taking the subway to Piazza del Popolo, the entrance into the city. I thought it was bigger honestly. Then we walked nonstop from church to fountain to piazza to building working our way down to Campo de Fiori where we had super awesome Italian food.
I consider myself a big foodie so it was heaven and I have proof of the 2 hours meal. It was a 4 course meal starting with antipasto (prociutto, mozarella, pomodoro, lentils and olives) then the primo (pomodoro pasta con parmeggiano), the secondi (some meat, veal and meat balls with eggplant and homemade potato chips) and finally the dessert, strawberries and some cake. I was full after the antipasto and the food just kept on coming. 23 euros worth every penny.
We walked a bit more to the ff places: crossing narrow streets while dodging scooters, trucks and cars. I loved walking through the winding walkways with real italians looking enviously fashionable. That’s my thing, people watching. They’re all always in some sort of laid back, I’m-so-hottt pose as if someone was taking a picture.
When Rus fianlly let us go, we ended up playing frisbee in the Circus Maximus. Imagine. This elongated stretch used to be for horse racing and other events nd sat 250,000 Romans at a time and we were in the middle of all that. We had some gelato and went back home to prepare for our 17-euros-for-10-people dinner at the guy’s apartment. Yay for saving money. The day ended with me, Morgan, derek, Yoshi, Rob and Brad going through gay block (with really really hotttt gay dudes) and hanging out alongside the Colosseum in the cool night breeze.
Can’t wait for tomorrow.
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June 19th, 2008
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Proof that I didn’t get scammed from getting a contract job on craigslist.
The downside to freelancing? Working from home is UBER distracting. And since I make my own hours, I tend to make my own sleeping/waking hours too. Getting up at 2pm is the opposite of awesome. It’s non-awesome. Although, being home all day means eating in which has been great for my figure. Goodbye jelly belly.
Now where’s my boyfriend?
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May 11th, 2008
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It’s still raining! But a lot warmer so it’s not so baaaad. This is for Virginie and her little card business. Now I’m considering making it a Threadless sumbission….for more $$$. Contract sez I can’t use it until after 6 months AFTER the contract is over in 6 months. If you understood that last sentence, that makes a year. Aww…
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May 3rd, 2008
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Ugh. That was a bad pun. I’m going to Seattle in a few hours for a good ol’ girly shopping trip. I’m thinking shoes, hopefully a cute pair of Nike Dunks or those lemony colored Vans with laces that I’ve been eying. Also, we’re going into the city so if the outlet fails to be a success (which I doubt), there’s always Goods in Capitol Hill for some sneakers or some design books from Peter Miller.
For this month’s desktop, I wanted to try the new/old trend with the vintage, geometric, rainbow gradient look. Thanks to PSDtuts for the cheat sheet. I added some bling cuz it’s no fun without some diamonds. I think I’m slightly blind now thanks to a month of hot pink April.
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April 30th, 2008
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Steffi, Tina and I went to get our haircuts today @ the Chop Shop on Granville Street. Downtown East Side! Here’s me with long, messy hair and now with still messy hair!
And here’s all of us in Mae’s place at UBC with shades!!! Summer’s here…not.
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April 21st, 2008
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Now that I’m a freelance designer (who? me? gosh…) I get to live one of my fantasies of getting paid while sitting in bed.
Well, it’s more that just that. I have to do work work, which is fine since I like what I do. Sitting in front of the computer playing with Photoshop and Illustrator is a dream. This week, I’ve done 9 hours of work for Patrick and his TOP SECRET project (that’s why I haven’t posted any drafts or samples of this). It’s been a flurry of font tests, icon making and color swatches. Am I there yet? Possibly. One thing’s for sure, I now have $135! Giggles.
As for Virginie’s cards, shes going to send me a contract in the mail soon with a couple of my cards printed out. I’m going to do the cliche graphic designer picture of me holding up my work with my fingers and put it up on my portfolio. Oh yes.
And here’s a picture of me taking a call from a client in my office.
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April 18th, 2008
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So I’ve been going through my photobooth folder and I’ve decided to be a copycat and put it out for the world to see. Here’s a few of the events that went on this semester. It’s over, by the way. It’s over.
That’s Paula pretending to write on our imaginary invention for IAT 333. It’s a tablet as our fake interface and she’s our fake mom writing an event on her digital calendar thing.
This is Morgan on a sunny day in the hot tub. Why? It’s one of the few places on campus where they didn’t shut down the power. Why? They don’t want us studying in the study areas. Why? They’re fucktards. Check out Morgan’s Mac/PC!
We also drink in school! Here’s wine tasting day! I couldn’t stay long because of work so I didn’t really participate…officially. There’s the wines with the bottle openers from Alessi. Guess who has the giant scar on his arm.
Derek and I ideating like the smart people that we are. We like to write to organize our thoughts and draw relationships between all the research that we do. Plus it makes us feel extra intelligent. Good thing this room has wall to wall whiteboard.
Here’s Manuel and I working on IAT 404. Manuel likes to procrastinate and he gets easily distracted. That’s why I quit.
This is what Manuel likes to do: make things pretty. Doesn’t it look super after Photoshop? This is the final prototype for our concept, Sustain-a-Stack. Derek and Manuel made the website. We made a glorified plant box with lights and watering controlled by a widget… but not really since it didn’t fully work. Whatever, the teachers love us.
Nothing eventful here. My face just looks nice and my bangs are where they’re supposed to be. Say hi to Derek and Karen!
There you have it, me in school. I’m was there almost everyday more than I was at home. I go home to shower so those pictures with my hair down means I went home and those with my hair up means I didn’t. Gross huh?
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April 17th, 2008
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Finals week is finally here and as interaction design students, we don’t need to do exams. As a replacement, we get to do final projects or portfolios that sum up the whole design process of the entire semester. Woohoo. There’s 333 due tonight at midnight(tuesday), 404 due thursday, 391 presentation on friday and Italian exam on saturday.
I quit a long time ago. I’ve stopped to care. After I do my part, I stand back and watch. Not a very good thing to do but it’s already officially summer in my opinion. So today while waiting for Azmina and Paula to finish up the documents, I completed my mother’s day card. I took off the wings since Virginie was worried that they wouldn’t fit in 5×5. She was right.
It’s now 12:29am and Derek is still in front of me finishing off his own project. Poor Derek.
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April 9th, 2008
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Yes, mom. I got the job.
Well, sort of. For Patrick’s consulting company, he wanted to hire someone to do branding and a whole functional community-based website thing. I wouldn’t be doing any of the coding but that kind of things was out of my league. Website-making is not my forte. He hired another guy for that job but he hired me too just for the branding stuff and logo. Yay? Yay!
We had a meeting yesterday (Sunday) at his super awesome office downtown on Richard’s Street, a block away from Waterfront station. The place was an old original building with exposed brick and old school radiator (the one that coils up like a snake). He furnished the place with Wassily chairs and other stuff from Yaletown Sofa and Koolhaus. Now I kinda wish that this job was an office job instead of a contract work-from-home deal. Boo. After the meeting we had a nice lunch at a sushi place which he paid for as a “business meeting”. Free meals are always more delicious.
Virginie, a nice girl who wants to start her own card business, also let me do some of the designs. Totally up to me whether I want to do it. No pressure, which is nice. It’s not much pay but I didn’t really expect that anyway. So here’s what I’ve been working on for mother’s day. She wanted a tattoo style “I love mom” design since she saw the stuff I did for my website. Honestly, I’m getting a bit tired of those. I like cute, colorful, Tokidoki stuff. Whatev.
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April 7th, 2008
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If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I’ll ever ask of you
You’ve got to promise not to stop when I say when
Stuff I’ve done/thought recently:
- My new desktop wallpaper!
- I suck at making website layouts
- Still fat (f*ck)
- School stuff
- New hot guy at school: Shawn Desmond (white guy, tall, shaved head, muscle-y, hotttt)
- Looking for new sneakers
- Saw Foo Fighters <3
- Just came up from a game of DDR with Andrew at the mez
- Need a haircut soon
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April 1st, 2008
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