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Learning My Lesson

I made a very poor decision this morning.

As I was nuking my Kashi Honey Cinnamon hot cereal, I spied with my little eye… Zebra Cakes. In the vending machine. OMGsnackies. So, I took my hot cereal and my glass of water back to my desk, and returned with dollar bill in hand to get an extra goodie for my breakfast. And I ate both the Kashi and the Zebra Cake.

And I felt SO sick for the rest of the day. The only time I felt better was when my cubemate gave me a stick of mint gum to settle my stomach. Not even Lipton tea helped.

Let that be a lesson to me. Don’t eat 30+ grams of sugar for breakfast. Your body will rebel against you and let you know you done a baaaad thing.

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Ann Arbor Art Fairs

In lieu of a full rundown of the day, I present to you: The Dancing Man.

This guy was dancing in an alley, and attracting quite the crowd. It took me a moment of gawking in amusement before it occurred to me that my digital camera can record video. So, here is a little slice of fun for you, direct from the Ann Arbor Art Fairs.

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Branding

For the longest time, I used a simple blue square next to my name (in Avant Garde font) as a logo of sorts for myself. It was easy to recreate in various applications, like Word, but it still gave me some identity.

I’m jumping on the Photoshop bandwagon now, updating my cute little blue square into something a little fancier:

(The tagline may or may not change. I decided to go with the painfully truthful schtick for now.)

That was fun. Now to come up with some more thumbnails for the actual site.

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Got The Bug Again

I think that the current incarnation of my portfolio website must hold the record for the longest-running web design I’ve ever created without redesigning.

That streak may be broken soon.

I’ve got the itch to redesign my site — especially since I’ve learned SO much more about stylesheets since I first designed my current portfolio site. I need to fix my freelance (aka “services”) section to reflect what I’m truly comfortable freelancing, punch up the design a bit, and update the examples of my wares. Maybe remove the stuff from back in 1998 that doesn’t look so hot compared to today’s standards. I also need to make sure everything works in IE, Netscape (I guess), and Firefox. Everything doesn’t right now.

I don’t think I’ll redo it in Flash, although I really should put some of that pricey (for me) Flash workshop to use. I get so much stupid blog traffic from Google, though, that I’d rather my portfolio site be indexable.

Sooo… I may be embarking on yet another project. Hopefully I’ll actually finish this one, or at least have the decency to quit it before I get in too deep.

Update, 10:40pm: I hate it when I get the design bug. For inspiration, I go and look at sites like Cameron’s, and then I wonder if I’ve really ever discovered my own design style at all. I never think my shit looks slick enough, no matter how much my husband assures me that it kicks ass. Damn.

Update, 10:45pm: I should totally make my own “blogroll” database. I could easily make one of those little popup windows and populate the current URL and add it to my own SQL database and even make little icons for my links later, if I wanted. And maybe even a “shoutbox” of my own, too, although I’d have to make sure I didn’t leave any security issues out there. …But I was talking about redesigning my *portfolio*, not tweaking my blog. Right…?