Only about two weeks ago I was given a classroom assignment that consisted of me buying a numerous amount of magazines. My class and I were to due a little visual reseearch whose specifications would bore you.
Due to my lack of funds, I made sure to buy magazines that I would actual read after its' classroom use. One of these mags was a killer design magazine, Step Inside Design. Awesome mag with amazing articles.
They had two great articles on (well, one was in actuality, an advertisement) that I thought would interest everyone adn that means you.
First, do you run a business? Do you want to start a business? Would you eventually want to market world-wide? Did you always want to get a chinese/korean/mandarin character for you name? Or you just curious? Than you might want get an expert Chinese character for your name/ business.
Secondly, and by far my favorite :
This defintely puts a finishing touch on the technology age that we are in. Plus, how can't you be amazed at someone that is, literally, connecting the world through something as simmple as a laptop?
3.23.2006
Amazing Ideas!!!
3.21.2006
A Trip down Memory Lane
Today, at work, I was asked the spelling of Thibodeaux,** in which a stroll down memory lane commenced. My mind wandered into the past on those folks that had an impact on my life, both good and bad.
Mr. Thobodeaux: This was my band director in high school. A great guy. One of the few teacher I acutally loved to be around. One day, only a few weeks before graduating, I meandered into his office. He was prepping for that afternoon's rehearsal. He was concentrating on what ever task he held at had, though looked up for aseond and said, "Angie, you have a great smile that always brightens my day." Then he went write back to work. Definitely a remark that sparked the, "hey, maybe I'm not ugly..."
Chelsea: She was a great childhood friend that has the prestige of being the hugest Jesus fan I ever met. (Even greater than Stacey.) I remember chatting to her what was to be the beginning of the end of my faith in the catholic church. I spoke about how freaking bored I always am during mass, feeling like a part of a huge congrgation of zombies. She told me, downright seriously passionate, that everytime the bread becomes body (Don't know what I'm talking about? Check into your neighborhood catholic church/website!) she gets excited. And not in the perverse way, some of you are thinking. You know who you are... It still amazes me on how a 14 year old girl had such a reassurance on her spirituality...
Lewie: This guy was someone I worked with who loooooved women. He loved everything about the fairer sex. Any woman who wouuld present herself in front of him, no matter how flaw-full, he would find something beautiful about them, and charm the shit out of them. He also was the first man to officially call me a "woman". It was weird at the time, believe me. Gawd, how I miss him. He still owes me a manicure...
Alfred: Another guy I worked with. He was extremely passionate about the arts/film/politics. He had an amazing love for cultural arts and it beamed from him. This guy got me into noticing some of the little differances that each one of us humans bring to the world.
Lynn: She was my best friend in highhscool. She treated me like shit. It took me about 5 years to notice this. Realizing how horrible she treated me was one of the few good memories I had during my first year of college. She made me realize that there is something that can't me missing from any friendship--or any relationship--: respect.
Mr. Blocker***: He was my highscool's theater director. He was (and still is) great at what he did (does). He even has won a few Big Easy Awards, New Orleans' very own entertainment awards. He was the guy he introduced me to theatre and, in the end, introduce to me that I can sing. Good. Mr. Brand had an extreme passion for musical theatre that was extremely contagious.
Alfred also once told me that there will always be peole through out your life that only have one purpose in their breif stint in your life. Of course, it will always vary what that "purpose" is. Those were the people in my life that had a breif stint, than left. Some I miss, others, well, I don't want to end my post on a sour note.... :D
**Names have been changed to protect their privacy.
*** Mr. Blocker is the exception. I always been proud of the act that my highschool had a professsional director as our director, and not a parent. Talk about luck....
3.19.2006
11PM Quiz Habit
| Official Survivor Congratulations! You scored 75%! |
| Whether through ferocity or quickness, you made it out. You made the right choice most of the time, but you probably screwed up somewhere. Nobody's perfect, at least you're alive. |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Zombie Scenario Survivor Test written by ci8db4uok on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
| WIN AN AWARD You're most likely to do something! |
| Whatever it is you do, you want to be the best at it. You are competative, but this will surely pay off when you become reknowned for your skills. Your award isn't likely to change the world - a Nobel prize may be slightly out of your reach - but you will nevertheless display it proudly in a room at home, and spend the remainder of your life trying to win another one. At reunions, everyone will no who you are - although, beware. People may avoid talking to you as you always mention your award! |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Most Likely To...? Test written by headkase on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
| Starving Artist You are 28% Rational, 42% Extroverted, 0% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant. |
| You are the Starving Artist! Like some sort of emaciated Frenchman, you sit in your fancy little chair and contemplate beauty, meaning, flowers, and all kinds of other ridiculous crap. You are more intuitive than logical, and are primarily guided by your heart and emotions. You are also very introverted and gentle. Of course, this does not mean that you do not have an ego. In fact, you are surprisingly arrogant for someone so emotional and gentle. This is why you are best described as a starving artist. You are very introspective and quite sure of yourself, as any accomplished artist is, yet your views are impractical, guided by feelings, and overly gentle. You probably find math, logic, and similar intellectual pursuits offensive to your artistic sensibilities, and you prefer the open-endedness of artistry because it's infinitely easier to ponder the beauty of a sock than to build rocketships. So really you have no reason to be arrogant, you big doofus, because the skills you value (emotion, spirit, art, etc.) in yourself are valuable only on a subjective level, meaning your arrogance is purely masturbatory, like the insipid self-pleasuring of some twat who spouts artistic nonsense only for the pleasant tinkling sound it makes upon his indiscriminating ears. In short, your personality is defective because you are arrogant, introverted, introspective, gentle, and thoroughly irrational...posessing most of the traits needed to be a starving--and useless--artist. So get out there, write a few short stories that are allegories for the indestructible spirit of socks, and starve!
1. You are more INTUITIVE than rational. 2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted. 3. You are more GENTLE than brutal. 4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.
The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The following image was made by Stephan Brusche at http://www.sb77.nl, a real-life "starving artist". Check out his website if interested. |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
3.18.2006
Wocky Jabber
"Umpteen bureaux gossips. One mostly schizophrenic Jabberwocky auctioned off Mercury, because dogs telephoned umpteen irascible televisions, yet progressive elephants grew up partly cleverly. Pluto quickly untangles one almost obese botulism. Two speedy pawnbrokers sacrificed silly poisons, then five progressive botulisms laughed cleverly, yet irascible orifices tastes five silly Jabberwockies, because one speedy orifice laughed. The slightly bourgeois botulism very lamely auctioned off two televisions. Quixotic tickets mostly noisily marries one progressive orifice. The cats laughed, even though one Klingon towed pawnbrokers. Umpteen speedy orifices lamely bought two dogs.
Five irascible wart hogs abused Phil. Umpteen orifices kisses one silly pawnbroker. Umpteen schizophrenic bureaux auctioned off Paul, because two progressive Macintoshes noisily telephoned one pawnbroker, but five dwarves extremely quickly."
And for you Star Trek lovas'.....
"Vagh QaQ jonwI’S ah pe’vIl Suq tera’
Joq vatlh lotlhs HIv loS tlhaQ vetlhs.
Vagh qej bIQ’a’S ba’ jaS
Ach loS noSvaghs Suv wa’ ’ejyo’.
Vatlh neHmaHS qIQ.
LoS jej ’ejyo’S nep vatlh muDS
Joq loS yIHS chu’ QI’tomer.
Vagh rojmabs jaH.
Vatlh let meHS legh wa’ yuD ’u’.
LoS ah Dung Hoqra’S po’ tIj Qo’noS
’ach tera’ Suv vagh HoDS.
Wa’ Qut puch qoy’ ah jaS.
LoS nIQmeHS lon wa’ yIH.
Vatlh neHmaHS bol
Joq wa’ tlhIngan nom toj loS wo’S
’ach vagh loSDIch meHS Qagh
Ach vatlh vaghDich nIQmeHS jaH
’ach wa’ Qav nob qIp vatlh Dung rojmabs
Joq wa’ Hurgh qoy’."
My all time favorite line...
"Five schizophenic elephants abused about two Klingons."
Have a nice Day!
3.15.2006
I'm still here
I know, it's been awhile. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how ya' look at it) I've been quite busy with the activities of work and school. Did y'all know that as you get closer to graduating,the more your teachers will give you un-imaginable amounts of work to do? I didn't know, so that's why I tell you.
Gawd, I can't wait to graduate.
Speaking of school, I came face to face with the strangest possibilty: my magazine cover design that I'm working on might make it to print.
You see, one of my classes is Computer IV, a sort of add-on education to my previous lessons of QUARK in Computer III. (Quark's an amazing editing program, just in case ya didn't know.) The currrent assignmenet we are working on consist of me and my classmates making four roughs (another term for an elaborate sketch of your idea) of the cover for our school's "literature and visual arts" magazine. These will than be viewed by the english and art department where the educators will pick out what they feel is suitable for the current year's theme.
My teacher told me repeatedly that she liked mine. (She even did it once all bugged eye, like she was amazed at what I did...beleive me, it wasn't that amazing. Just plain amazing. :D )
It's just strange thinking that I could have designed something that will go into print. Totally cool, too!
Oh, and before I forget...HAPPY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY DREW AND STACEY!!!
