Ucells trump Ice-cream in the bad way
"All you need is love elves."
1) To mass produce really comfortable shoes for you.
2) Every toy in the world. 'nuff said
3) To help you defeat Mordor
I found me!
I was on my pillow. I needed sleep. The background on that is I haven't gotten a decent night's sleep in over two weeks. I'm not entirely centered yet, but there was only grains of truth. Now there is flower, and soon egg. I think I'm cake in the works. But I don't want to use sugar for whatever reason - economy, ecology? I'll figure it out.
Now that my brain is a little less muddled, what I've been struggling with is a series of conflicting desires. I'm getting married in a about a year, I'd like to live with my fiance before then - but cannot due to other commitments on both of our parts. I want to go back to school for Product / Industrial Design, but there is not a college in Texas that offers those programs. I could go back for Design (basic BA) - but I'd rather not go to UT again. I want to move abroad, but I want to pay off my UT student loans first. I want to work on Flipside stuff, but I'm all talk and even more burnt-out on the subject. I want to see people, but I don't want to have the same conversations over and over again. I'd like entertainment, but I'm too fidgety to sit still and enjoy. I want to be challenged, but I also want invulnerability. That really sums up why and how my previous post came into being. Identity is a hard thing to reconcile, especially when you're idle from indecision.
Additionally, I designed something for work today. Nothing fancy, or even artistic. But it improved efficiency immediately. Upside, I'm going to document it, develop it more, and put it in my portfolio. Downside, by employee / employer agreement all inventions I create while working for PPD, inc. belong to PPD, inc. within so much as the scope of the company. Considering that this is basically a portable tube holder for proprietary use with a particular analyzer - it pretty much instantly became PPD property. Else wise, I still get credit for designing and implementing it. Then I got to thinking, and I've also make two kinds of pen holders, documents, and a file system that keeps papers upright (instead of slumping in the hanging file folders). None of these are actually marketable though, and fall more in the scope of 'huh, that's cool.'
The only downside I can really mention about work, I think my co-workers want to be my friend. Terrifying. I actually like my job, and they pay me well. Another conflict to going back to school.
-BTW
Thanks for the Rumi, and thanks for traveling this trail already. If I replied directly to your post it would make your comment visible and I like keeping peoples' comments off the broadcast mode. But I also want people to know - We've got a great Tribe.
1) To mass produce really comfortable shoes for you.
2) Every toy in the world. 'nuff said
3) To help you defeat Mordor
I found me!
I was on my pillow. I needed sleep. The background on that is I haven't gotten a decent night's sleep in over two weeks. I'm not entirely centered yet, but there was only grains of truth. Now there is flower, and soon egg. I think I'm cake in the works. But I don't want to use sugar for whatever reason - economy, ecology? I'll figure it out.
Now that my brain is a little less muddled, what I've been struggling with is a series of conflicting desires. I'm getting married in a about a year, I'd like to live with my fiance before then - but cannot due to other commitments on both of our parts. I want to go back to school for Product / Industrial Design, but there is not a college in Texas that offers those programs. I could go back for Design (basic BA) - but I'd rather not go to UT again. I want to move abroad, but I want to pay off my UT student loans first. I want to work on Flipside stuff, but I'm all talk and even more burnt-out on the subject. I want to see people, but I don't want to have the same conversations over and over again. I'd like entertainment, but I'm too fidgety to sit still and enjoy. I want to be challenged, but I also want invulnerability. That really sums up why and how my previous post came into being. Identity is a hard thing to reconcile, especially when you're idle from indecision.
Additionally, I designed something for work today. Nothing fancy, or even artistic. But it improved efficiency immediately. Upside, I'm going to document it, develop it more, and put it in my portfolio. Downside, by employee / employer agreement all inventions I create while working for PPD, inc. belong to PPD, inc. within so much as the scope of the company. Considering that this is basically a portable tube holder for proprietary use with a particular analyzer - it pretty much instantly became PPD property. Else wise, I still get credit for designing and implementing it. Then I got to thinking, and I've also make two kinds of pen holders, documents, and a file system that keeps papers upright (instead of slumping in the hanging file folders). None of these are actually marketable though, and fall more in the scope of 'huh, that's cool.'
The only downside I can really mention about work, I think my co-workers want to be my friend. Terrifying. I actually like my job, and they pay me well. Another conflict to going back to school.
-BTW
Thanks for the Rumi, and thanks for traveling this trail already. If I replied directly to your post it would make your comment visible and I like keeping peoples' comments off the broadcast mode. But I also want people to know - We've got a great Tribe.