Jinked

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, [...]

I met up with Mary after work at Uptown Cafe for a creative sort of evening. I brought paper and scissors and glue. Notebooks. Pens. We wrote and talked, doing what we could to make the things we needed. We need the drive, the urge, a push from all directions to make things happen. Spur creativity. At the end of 2009 I had lost the [...]

One of the projects I’m undertaking with my contract work is building a blog that is managed with WordPress. Since 3.0′s unveiling, I haven’t really messed with any of the new stuff or realized the extent of the changes. Just looking at the new default theme TwentyTen was enough to boggle my mind, and not in a “oh, that’s so cool” kind of way. It’s [...]

Today was just one of those days where the stars aligned and everything clicked. Or maybe it was because it was Friday and I got to spend it giggling in an office with CSS all over my computer screen, midst the company of development geeks. Days like this are just wonderful, so full of sunshine and kittens and yeah, that’s going a little too far [...]

Good memories of an open concept work environment. So, work today was nice. Laid back. I’m opening up and the people around me are opening up, which is exactly what I needed. Maybe the storm brought us together. It’s what I missed most about working in an office: the random noise of other people. I’ve been a part of open concept spaces for over half [...]