I love the shirts at threadless.com. I visited their Ravenswood office during the HOW Design studio tours, and had to buy two shirts before I left. I bought "Permafrost Pollution" because I like the polar bear at Lincoln Park Zoo, and "Who I Am" because it’s a great design on a light shirt. In addition [...]
After mostly being cooped up in the house for the last week and a half, I got out into the city for the day. First, I had an interview. I enjoy meeting people, seeing people’s offices, and talking about my work. But I wouldn’t say I enjoy interviews. Interviewing is a lot like presenting a [...]
It really started out a lovely day. I chose a different way to walk to work and picked up a chocolate frosted donut on the way. Nice. But when you sit down to your computer, you don’t have internet/email access, and you’re greeted by your boss from another office who you’ve only met three times [...]
I’m sure I posted about this a while back – but I’m back on my history kick again. To recap – I didn’t pay much attention in my high school history classes. Actually, being a teenager, I didn’t pay much attention in any of my high school classes. But now, over a decade later, I [...]
The wicked pisser about having a blog is this: there are a great number of things that happen in your life that you’ll going to want to bitch about. And unless you live your life like there are no consequences (did that for a summer once, and it’s a bad idea) you probably can’t write [...]
Ten years ago, if I had known the drama that would be involved in my career choice, I would have been a dentist. And I hate dentists. Well, actually I like my current dentist – but that’s only because he has cavities too. But I’m getting off the point. The point is that between the [...]