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.
