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Today was the much anticipated Chicago Zine Fest. I had attended last year, with some mixed feelings, but this year nothing was mixed up. It was such a positive experience. Invigorating. Life-enhancing. I felt as if I were walking around on clouds the entire time, uncovering stories and art and adventure. I didn’t want to leave. It was fun to meet the people whose zines [...]

In the last handful of months I’ve been reconnecting a lot with some of my old friends from high school. It’s a little odd to see the different directions that life has taken us. Some paths I expected. Others were a total surprise. But no matter where the paths diverged years ago, we somehow found one another and came together to reminisce about the “old [...]

This morning I jolted awake to the alarm on my phone at 7:00 in the morning. This was to get myself showered, dressed, fed, and ready to catch the 9:08 train in order to make an 11:30 interview with a creative staffing agency in Chicago. I needed four and a half hours to get to an 11:30 appointment. How do people commute? But as Ben [...]

I’ve been feeling down lately, and there are lots of reasons why. Financial crunch, dating anxiety, questioning myself and the things I think, the actions I take. All sorts of things. They have a way of piling up so high, so precariously, and when I’m left to my own devices, alone in my apartment trying to work on the things I should be working on, [...]

Just a quick fast-thinking post about Chamber Networking Night. Fun. Productive. I dropped my business card into the hands of a few design places. Will follow up soon for any chance of contract work. Talked. Schmoozed. (I think I’m pretty good at schmoozing if I do say so myself.) I had my lung capacity checked by the hospital people. Doing that test is a lot [...]