August 2010
2 posts
Dislike me
Everyone seems to have found a reason to dislike me.
You don’t like my face because it has too many acne spots.
You don’t like the flab on my tummy.
You don’t like the fact that I can make money and still take a vacation every month.
You don’t like the fact that I don’t make enough money.
You don’t like that I Tweet too much.
You don’t like that I...
July 2009
1 post
Life's Deadhouse Gates
I find myself uncannily edging toward a feeling of being utterly lost.
Everything I do, say, see or believe, feels insignificant and that feeling itself seems futile. I fear that despite all this toiling, I will look back at my life and know that it was wasted. I could have done so much more and been so much more. The heightened sense of frustration is extremely unnerving. I feel like a child...
June 2009
27 posts
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is...”
– James Nicoll (via srsly)
It might be considered quite ambitious - even idiotic - to claim to want / wish to be the most well-known logo designer on the planet. But heck that’s my ‘wish’ / ‘want’. Unlike most, at least I have one. And unlike most others, I’m actually doing something about it. Cheesy / cliched maybe, but it works just fine for me.
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a...”
– Nicole Krauss - The History of Love (via 52books)
The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide...
(via a-silhouette)
Long distance relationships might work if you’ve already spent lots of time together. If it’s a new relationship, long distance will be the death of it. There’s ego, misunderstandings, language, semantics, mind-fuck, external factors like friends and family and the whole ‘no-touch’ business that will ruin it. When it’s new, you also don’t really know the...
“Turning down money to make money; sounds like a dodgy strategy, but it’s more...”
– Andy Rutledge
Sometimes I wonder if my ego wants to impress my clients or other fellow-designers. Am I designing to satisfy clients with good work or am I designing to live up to the expectations of other designers? I like it more when a client likes what I designed for them rather than when a designer compliments my work. The latter, feels unsatisfactory.
The Game
I believe one of the reasons my boyfriend gifted me a copy of Neil Strauss’ [ @neilStrauss ] book, The Game, is because I was forever complaining that I got ‘hit’ on a lot. He thought I’d probably internalized some behaviors that made men feel I was available. Reading page after page from the book, I realized that I had been repeating behaviors like ‘negging’ -...
“More than expecting others to trust my judgment, I need to allow myself to trust...”
