Ah, the weekend. A weekend morning. Always the beginning of so many possibilities. The crossroads. The vortex. In a few hours this sense of beginning will be lost and I will be commited to something or other for the day, but I savor this balancing act, the moment before the cart rolls down the hill.

I did just about nothing useful yesterday at work - I received no email, phones calls, and only one or two aims from coworkers. Worked on this mainly. I think I am going to seriously consider more web design training. I personally think I'm close, but I can't seem to make that next step into a professional looking websites. Not with text pad and photoshop anyway. The thing that I don't think design folks understand is that I design for unix/linux as well as pc/mac, so a lot of my engergy goes into addressing that problem, with out scripts and things. (many anyway) The aip folks are usually more impressed that I know what dreamweaver is doing with the code. I think I might just bite the bullet and get the training, so I can design fore web as well as print. It will hopefuly silence my heart of hearts.

I'm getting help from that old irc friend I mentioned before - he's one of the few people I can actually take critism from because he is acutally helping me understand what I messed up, not just critquing or fixing. I hope with all the uncertianties at the moment on the job front, that I might be able to pick up some minor freelance work in time.

The pre-portfolio review went pretty good. She had some good suggestions for solving some of my problems.

For the record, some of the pieces rated "good" were:
palatino
scarlotti's (for the logo mainly)
insight (as an ad)
quilt (to be cropped and cleaned up)
amok
fell venus (it looks better in person)

Some of the surprises, of items that were dropped were:
the cups
webtrack logo
in the pit (viola)

(see portfolio
for more information. )

The over all comments were:
[paraphrased] You have great ideas, but employers want to see these ideas applied. You have a number of pieces that are currently not applied in anyway - turn these into ads, book covers, posters, pamplets, etc. and you can keep them.

I thought that was a fair evaluation.