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New Goals

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Now that I’m feeling motivated again, I have decided some goals for the year. However, I’m not going to hold myself firmly to any of these. If they don’t happen, whatever. I just want to have fun during the process. In no particular order:

  1. Obtain a car
  2. Take more weekend trips to Texas locations and visiting friends in relative distance
  3. Spend less time thinking about what I should be doing and just do what I want at that moment
  4. Only do photography projects that interest me
  5. Continue learning Spanish, hire a tutor
  6. Exercise even more, scheduled preferably
  7. Start painting again
  8. Going to lunches, meals with more people one on one and really getting to know them
  9. Talk about myself less (ironic that it’s on my journal entry that’s all about me)
  10. Show / Find my family I appreciate them in other ways than just gifts and calling them
  11. Kill Dave Yakubik and his evil plans for dominating a hemisphere (he hasn’t picked the hemisphere)
  12. Discover more music / movies
  13. Record music to some compacity (even if I don’t show it to anyone)
  14. Do a photography series and show it in a gallery / coffeeshop
  15. Camping, tea party, canoe, ballroom dancing, two-stepping, gardening
  16. Habitat for Humanity
  17. Improv, obvious, but I don’t know to what extent
  18. HAVE MO FUN!!!!!!

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What a Day… Again!!!

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

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Whew! Wowzers. I haven’t told many folks this but I have taken on a new job as creative director for local software awesomeness, Orgsync. They develop what they call “Collaborative Software for an Online Campus”. It’s essentially a localized version of Facebook with 1,000 more practical features such as sharing calendars between student organizations to paying your fraternity dues online. Pretty cool eh? Saves tons of paperwork, time, and makes it easy for a student to consolidate all their college happenings into one single package. My job is redesign the interface. It’s been a great experience so far. I’ve made huge leaps in designing for 508 Accessibility standards, advanced usability, and working with Ruby on Rails (fallen in love, madly). On top of that, I’m working to revamp the front end and bring the site home to a full scale presence bursting with networking and integrations.

Unlike previous companies I’ve worked with or for, Orgsync’s appetite for innovation is insatiable. They’re not just concerned with having the best and coolest features, but using the best methods with agile development to get there. I remember the days of wanting to change things and not being able to due to old school developers. That’s out the window. We all call the shots on a daily basis and we all are there to catch each other’s shortcomings, rather than pointing fingers. Pretty cool environment, I must say. It’s a lot like a good improv troupe (but anything can be compared to improv).

This is becoming a long post but eff it. Today I did the following madness:

7:00 - 8:00 - Worked on a friend’s site

9:00 - 10:00 - Did some Orgsync stuff at a coffeeshop

10-11:00 - Did passport photos for a friend / associate

11:00 - 2:00 - Worked on Orgsync

2:00 - 3:00 - Food lunch time with my good friend, Clinkenbeard

3:00 - 7:30 - Orgsyncing at the library (had enough coffee that day)

7:30 - 8:30 - Foodage at East Side Pies

8:30 - 9:45 - Awesome improv jam at the New Movement Theatre

10:00 - 11:30 - Spoke with great friend, Luke Eddy, via phone

11:30 - 11:45 - Wrote a worthless blog post explaining what I did today, as if folks cared… (meta)

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Hungry…

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

I woke up this morning feeling so eager to get to work. Not just for my business but on my life. I wanted to do dishes, email people back, call my best friend, etc… I am so hungry for activity.

A year ago I was so lost. I was living in downtown Austin and wishing I had creative endeavors to do while I was not working. Now my creative endeavors have become my work. I never thought I would be getting paid to do photography on a weekly basis let alone making more dough on my own than at a company. I can’t believe my life sometimes.

But, I still am hungry for me. Every improv show just makes me crave the next one. I cried a little when After School Improv ended (and I haven’t cried for a few years). I want to be constantly creating things that I’m proud of. I want to see a photographer who is better than me, and get mad & jealous until I can do similar quality work. I want to see a web design that is way more badass than mine and figure out how they did it.

So, as usual, I’m making goals for myself. By 2010 I would like:

  • To own a car so I can make road trips again
  • Do volunteer or community service at least 2-5 hours a week
  • Be in 3-4 improv shows a month
  • Give some moolah back to my folks more often, even in forms of silly gifts
  • Start seriously thinking about grad school
  • Substitute teach in public schools
  • Buy another camera to fully utilize my opportunities at events
  • Start establishing a network of designers / programmers to get passive income
  • Sell more stock photography
  • Meet more people in Austin
  • Grow a beard
  • Finish things
  • Start oil painting again
  • Exercise more regularly
  • Record an album
  • Have a tea party
  • Ride on a hot air balloon
  • Date a French or Russian woman

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    Hipster Me

    Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

    I just realized I’m very close to be a textbook hipster but I’m missing just a few components

    I don’t have a vinyl player
    I don’t wear sunglasses
    I don’t have any tatoos
    I like Metallica
    I’ve only dated one “sad” girl
    I don’t playan obscure instrument like the theremin or didgeridoo

    I do have the other components pretty well covered:

    My job pays a lot but I work so few hours that I have no money
    I use an iphone
    I drive a scooter
    I am jaded on music
    I live in Austin, TX
    All of my friends are in bands
    I frequent thrift stores
    I don’t have a TV
    I go to the coolest laundromat in town
    I love NPR to death
    I’ve never heard of Hinder

    Please realize this is not a goal of mine to finish the list. I’m just making fun of myself right now.

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