Jinked

Life has been upside down and a little backwards lately, not to mention hella busy which I why I’ve been neglecting this blog. It feels strange to be typing an entry on the computer. I’ve been so used to writing longhand in paper journals on the train. I’ve also taken up letter writing, sending cards, postcards and other randomness to family and friends. There are [...]

I do. It’s pretty much all I’ve been doing lately. My life as a commuter. It’s weird. A degrading yet entitling kind of feeling. I spend two hours and thirty minutes on two trains (South Shore and CTA) every single weekday. It was pretty rotten at first, and in the beginning I thought about quitting, or at the very least closing my eyes and wishing [...]

Many know about the news, but it’s worth mentioning again. Late last week I was offered a front-end, designing position with a small company in Chicago. I start in two weeks, and while I haven’t worked a single day there yet, I believe it is going to be a place in which I can learn, thrive, and most of all, be creative. Also, turnover at [...]

I remember calling my father late in January of last year, my fingers shaking over the keys of my cell phone, and asking him if he thought it would be foolish to resign from my job. I wanted to take time off. To do creative things. Deep inside myself I was afraid he would confirm my fears, and that I would be stuck forever in [...]

In the midst of the Snowpocalypse I have been ever-diligent in looking for a place to call “my employer.” I’ve graduated from job boards, now looking at individual websites of small creative shops, boutiques, and companies in Chicago. Last week I exhausted what few options I had here in Northwest Indiana. The more I think about it and the more that I look for places [...]