Ugh. Did not go shopping. Spent all day swearing under my breath about The Accountants. Stupid overly-complicated file.

Went downstairs and grabbed a beer-Lonerider's Sweet Josie. It's yummy and aiding in my after-hours work.

Now that everyone is elsewhere (aside from kaylyssa and a few others) I may come back to write a bit. Probably not, this will be a one-off ( Read more... )

Financial situations have ruined the color green for me. The beloved color is now stamped into my brain as a movement, not a lovely blend of cerulean and merrigold. Marketing has taken photosynthesis and turned it into A Thing, if not The Thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm okay with the 'movement.' Like most movements that pique my interest I'm in ( Read more... )

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Scene: Sitting at work. Rainy and cold outside. Steve Miller Band comes on the Pandora shuffle. Can't stand that song. Decide to change channels to "Billie Holiday Radio." First song to pop up? "Gloomy Sunday ( Read more... )

Who says blogging doesn't pay? Because of the name drop of the newspaper I'm going to have my face in the publisher was google-alerted and sent to my lj. She then saw that I had a portfolio. She then looked at said portfolio. She then contacted me, interviewed me, and gave me a job all in one day to do all of the layout work and creating ( Read more... )

I realized (if anyone cares...) that the literal translation of the title and subtitle of this blog does not do well on online translators. I named it right after I got back from France so I'm gonna go ahead and back-assume that it's colloquial and right. It says: Mouth without noise: because it's writing. FYI because no one cares but me...

I feel so posty today! OK so some things ( Read more... )

The first thing I do when I finally get a new apartment? Obtaining a contraption like this:

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If anyone is interested in seeing my "professional portfolio" you can now. It's kind of always a work in progress, especially since a lot of files are stashed away in a UHAUL storage facility in Raleigh. It's a pdf so just click it and download to view. It's pretty small, don't worry.