Not Another Papercut!!!!
I'm not sure if it's because the weather is dry or my hands are dry or another reason, but I seem to be getting so many papercuts!! ARGHH.. as soon as one heals, I get another.. !)@(#*!@# (maybe it's just because I'm working with so much PAPER..bah)Life is pretty busy. My to do list is a mile long and people have many requests of me. Not minding the work, the only problem is my energy level. I've been really tired the last few weeks - I think the time adjustment thing really hit me hard.
I recently finished working on two websites. One is for CCANB's 30th anniversary (located at www.ccanb.ca) and the other is a performer's website (click here). The first one took me a long time to do - playing with the colour palette was a big headache as I was trying to work with orange, in the end, I still had to resort to using blue (which I was trying hard to avoid as it's probably the most common colour people use on websites since it's a more neutral and eye pleasing colour). Anyhow, the 2nd website was pretty easy since I used a template to create it, it was just a matter of working with images and doing some coding. I've become a tad anal with website coding ever since Chien Ee taught me to use notepad and not Dreamweaver to do my editing. In fact, taking a look at CCANB's official website (click here) is making me irritated.. I am itching to clean up the code (actually, to be honest, I've already started to work on coverting the code over to CSS but I'm no where near finished and I have a ton of other things that require my attention, so to the backburner it goes!).
Actually, one of the things I've been working on at the ECC is designing posters. They have a bunch of conferences or whatever and they wanted to bring a bunch of information posters along to use. SO, they give me all this random stuff and ask me to try to compile it into a poster for them. I tell you, I procrastinated down to the last minute before I thought of what I could do. I actually had some help from Chien Ee in terms of the technical stuff. Website design & graphics are actually very interesting to work with! I don't know if I would have the patience and the creativity to do it as a full time job, but definitely would like to do it on the side. In fact, when I presented the poster to the director at the centre, she was pretty thrilled with it and even asked me whether I had considered a career in graphics design (HAHAHAHA.. ya right.. I'm basically a copy cat when it comes to doing all this stuff).
This brings me to a new update. I'm probably going to be sticking around the centre for the summer. I don't think I mentioned it before, but they are working on a Early Childhood Curriculum funded by the NB government - worth a couple of million dollars. Anyhow, they've asked me to work on the technical aspects of it, with a graphic designer (who is really great!), so I'm pretty excited to learn from her. I'm also hoping that I'll be able to get more involved with the more educational aspect of it so that I can expand on my teaching knowledge. Before I get ahead of myself, still need to find out if it's full time or not..keeping my fingers crossed.
As some of my loyal fans (haha..just kidding), I mean long term readers, know, way back when I started this blog, Chien Ee, YC and I were attempting to go into freelance webdesign. Recently, I've been thinking of going down that route again. Perhaps this summer.. it'll require a bit of prep work and initiative but even if I could get a project or two, it'd be nice. We would still have to put together a portfolio, but I don't think that'd be hard given the number of sites we've done so far! SOO, if you know of anyone looking for a webdesigner .. you know what to do ;) (I'm not computer programming pro as some of you would happily vouch, but Chien Ee has very strong programming skills).
Anyways, besides that, spring seems to finally be on its way! I'm looking forward to the warmth again. I'm also itching to go outside and jog.. I'm getting sick of the elliptical machine and sometimes it's just such a pain to make it down to the pool as they have such terrible hours for lap swim. Plus, the chlorine is bleaching my hair again! ARGH..
OK, I'd better stop here. I've two posters to try to finish for tomorrow. *YAWN*. Ciao.
posted by jaryee @ 3:09 p.m.
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