Reflecting/Good Mornin’

It’s weird to see just how far you’ve come in one year. This time last year I was walking around Rome, Italy, thousands of miles away from my family in a strange town. I met up with a friend I made on that trip last night and we reflected on all that went on and how we wished we were back there.

In the last year I also graduated college. Huge step in my life. I also took skating up more than recreationally, too. While I’ve not competed yet, I will be in September. I have had an internship at an awesome company that brought me on as a freelancer over the last two weeks. While I was there I learned a lot, messed up a few times, and did the things you’re supposed to do as an intern and was given responsibilities that I didn’t think interns were supposed to have, like doing an design project completely from start to finish with just feedback from the art editors, and of course the client who had more revisions than I can count. I even wrote a blog entry, finally.

I spent my last day at my internship trying not to cry, even though I knew I’d be back freelancing the next day. I told my mom that I don’t know why I kept wanting to cry and she said it best, “I get it. It’s the completion of the journey. And now the real world is yours.” To me that’s still frightening, but it rings so true on every level. I’m glad for the experiences I had there and everything I learned and the people that helped shape me into a more confident designer in the last few months. I couldn’t be more greatful.

So now, here I am, wondering where I go from here. I’m going to be applying to different places to see what is out there and continue to freelance, hopefully, there and on my own. I have a few projects that got put on the backburner (sorry, Mica!) So now is time to use that free time I’ve got to play some catchup and do some working out and get myself on a better schedule. I even got a membership at the Y so I can go to yoga class every week!

At the moment now, I have the headache from Hades that must go away, and I must hop on working on a contract. Have a wonderful week, y’all! Maybe I’ll come up with something interesting to blog soon.

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What I’ve been working on.

It’s still a work in progress, but this is one of the bigger projects I have so far that I’ve been doing pro-bono because I’m an awesome big sister. It’s a website for the UNF equestrian club. They just needed something simple that they could direct people to when they recruit members and businesses. I don’t feel like it’s my best design in the least, but I’ve also been in a design slump. Hopefully playing with some hand rendered type tomorrow morning will fix that a bit. I always feel better when I do hand rendered print work. I guess it’s where I feel strongest.

 
www.unfequestrian.com

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Dear Karma,

You’re right. Maybe I shouldn’t have giggled at the hockey boys learning to ice dance and sliently sung “Toeeepiiiiick” to myself when they fell on theirs. However, I feel like tripping over my toepick and flying 5 feet and landing on my chest was a little much.

Love, Shauna

 

P.S. My pride called. It says it hurts.

Target had a sale on Tassimo pods the other day. Great opportunity to swipe up the last Starbucks pack and  Maxwell coffee house pods.

I came home and unpacked them, only to find out my Maxwell Coffee House pods were decaf. Totally useless coffee. Until I realized I CAN DRINK IT AT NIGHT.

Win? I think so.

Sunday Mornin’

I definitely planned on updating this about 3 hours earlier than I am now, because it’s definitely not morning anymore, but we can all look past that, right? Right.

I have a few hours to do some freelance work, but once it hits afternoon like this I suddenly feel less motivated because I’m counting down the hours until work where I will be scorekeeping a hockey game for 7 and a half hours, possibly 8 if they become man-babies again and fight and delay the game by 20 minutes. That happens again they get running clock.

I’m planning on knocking out the comps for the UNF Equestrian Club logo, and possibly their hand out cards before work at 4, but that’s all dependent on how many times I get distracted over the next few hours.

Going through all my books yesterday I found a bunch that I just need to sell to Chamblins, they’ve never been used and  I have no reason to use them. They’re about social change and were meant to get us all riled up for our social design class two summers ago but I’m more of a Queen of Kitsch than an activist.

I also have a ginormous stack of Computer Arts magazines that I just haven’t had the time to read and need to read because I want to go through them. I am going to have to be really picky about what comes with me to my new apartment though.

Hello. :)

So here I am. New year. Graduated. Figuring out life.

I have some small freelance gigs (emphasizing FREE on one of them) that I’ve been working on. I’ve also been interning. My internship has been a wonderful positive experience so far and I couldn’t ask for a better one. I’m also working at the ice rink.

Oh I also won a gold student ADDY. No big deal.

I went on my computer tonight with the intention of getting some of my freelance stuff done, which I managed a little, but all I want to do is browse internet blogs. I feel drained of inspiration. I had some wine and I’ve been watching 48 Hours on my laptop.

Tonight I think I’m going to work on the mock up of my own website redesign and see where I go from there, and probably go to bed soon since I didn’t realize it was almost midnight.

Over the next few months I hope to change this to a more positive and inspiring blog that hopefully will inspire others who come across it.

So here is to a new year, and new adventures. Cheers!