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Ken & Allyson Got Married!

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Posing for photos

I recently returned from a trip to Ohio to see my good friends Ken & Allyson get married! It was the most fun I’ve had in a long time and totally relaxed the hell out of me. I was pretty on edge and stressed before I left Austin due to work and other things. But the weekend was absolutely perfect. They were married at the Columbus Athenaeum, a stunningly beautiful old theater located in the heart of downtown. Our hotels were just a few blocks away. Hilariously, there were two conventions staying the hotel. One was a gay bowling league and the other a women’s roller derby conference. There were tatoos and bowling laminates every where and made for a comical juxtaposition with the wedding crowd. You should’ve seen the pool!

Ken designed and ordered a custom gobo to shine upon the reception floor. Very neat!

Ken also gave me this lovely humidor as a wedding present. I will have to fight the urge to smoke cigars more often.

Mouth cancer, here we come!

Family time in Ohio was great too. I had to work on my laptop a lot of the time, but most people were occupied during the day anyway. I spent lots of time with cute babies and catching up. Overall, a  lovely time. Back to the grind in Austin. It’s hot, I’m tired, and desperately in need of some  alone time. Cheers to Ken & Allyson, old friends & family!

Facebook Friends

Friday, March 5th, 2010

I get a lot of flack for having many friends on Facebook. People love to make fun of me for it. They generally accuse me of “trying to look popular”, “wanting to feel popular”, or “trying to stay in touch with too many people”. All of which are marginally of insulting.

Here’s the scoop… Facebook is a social networking website. It does not reflect real life. I’ve never once consciously looked at the number of friends that a person has. Why would you? Who cares? I’ve spent zero minutes thinking about the number (except for when I get made fun of about it).

I feel lame for attempting to defend myself but I will present a few theories for the exorbitant amount of friends with the following:

A) I have traveled a lot, met a lot of friend’s roommates and friends in other cities. Playing music for awhile and crashing with strangers will score you a few folks.

B) Photographing weddings will guarantee making a few new acquaintances each time because it is such an intimate experience. You never know who you will have a nice connection with. Joey, the bride’s brother, wants to learn more about photography and requests me… Am I gonna say no to this guy and be an A-hole? Come on! (Job from Arrestd Development voice)

C) I accept any request unless I absolutely don’t recognize the name or that person gives me the willies.

D) I belong to an enormous improv community inundated with tech savvy and amiable folks.

E) When you do freelance anything, networking is the name of the game. You meet a girl at Bennu who does design but wants to outsource HTML projects, you slip her a card and she requests you. Shaboom.

I should write a “how-to” book.

So to all you haters out there, why are you counting? Are you jealous for some silly reason? I suppose I could go through and delete all the friends that didn’t quite stick in my life, but why would I waste my time. If you want more facebook friends for some reason, trying being nice to people and leaving your hometown every once in awhile.

Less hating, mo lovin’ Speaking of Mo, Happy Birthday!

Journaling

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

I’ve realized that I want to document day to day things in my life. This is mostly because I find my memory slipping. I used to be able to remember EVERYTHING. Maybe it’s improv that’s destroying my memory. So much happens and slips away that perhaps it’s contagious in my brain. I probably will not post to this journal much anymore. I will try to use it for professional postings once I return to the full time freelance world. For my personal life, I’ve created a livejournal account. Mostly because it seems to be simple and geared towards introspection and not blogging. If you are on LJ and want to read it (for some reason) let me know and I’ll send you the url to it. I do a lot of private entries. For once, I’m doing something for just me and not publicly exposed. It feels nice!

Maybe

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Maybe I’ve been wrong all my life. Maybe there’s no point in talking about your problems, negative things, or figuring life out. Maybe the only time well spent is on delighting yourself and others with things you love.