well, darwin would actually welcome you, as I found out fighting with OS X _all_ day.

All Day.

I've found that installing programs under OS X is frustrating when the developers cop out and just give you lightly edited UNIX directions.
*sigh*
The company is actually based in Germany. On top of the whole OS X Server issue I'm dealing with, they also have vaguely inaccurate English translations in their manuals. The sentences themselves are in fact good English, but with the occasional additional negative, or inversion of similar terms that start with 'C'. (catalog vs. collection)
*sigh*
What was fun was that after about 4 hours, what unix commands I know (or saw other people typing) began to float to my forebrain. I was using VI the whole time because TextEdit sucks ass (it reads everything as rtf's so you can't edit the actual code.)
*sigh*
So in the end I've managed to get the install 2 steps behind square 1. (where we started this morning) The good news, is I did get to explore OS X more. I think its actually a pretty good operating system because its unix + mac. Considering the tangle of installation, this was actually better than it could have been. I feel mildly bad for my boss, since he sees 'unix' as foreign as I do at times. What is sad is I think I have the most knowledge about unix in the office.
Yeah, we're in trouble.

But not as much trouble as I'm about to cause.

But I must back up. I took a class a year ago called corporate identity. The guy who taught it actually helped to hook me up with the job I have now at uss. He's some type of IN, with possibly an F J/P action happening. Suffice to say, he things about things quietly until they break out of him quietly, then he runs away to think again. (very much my father's way of thinking) This happened today.

It is his advice that instead of looking at a second BA at AIP, I should look at a MASTERS in Multimedia at Duquesne. Same amount of time. Same amount of money.

Gah. Masters. Hrm.

What would this mean? It would mean this:

GR BA (5-6 quarters)
Print Experience
Photography
Basic Web
1 year of polishing of my skills

MS Multimedia (4 semsesters)
Flash
Dreamweaver
ASPs
SSI and other server scripting
Javascript
Digital Video
Then 1 of 2 tracks: Design or Internet

His point was that with my current skills, and an associates in graphic design, than the addition of this degree would place me on the nexus of where graphic design is heading. With the additional BA I would be just another graphic designer.

How I see it, it would be intelligent kzoo type classes about all the o'reilly books I could ever want to read.

....

A real conundrum.

....

Mainly this is an issue because I *just* put in my applicatin to AIP for the BA. There is actualy time for me to retreave it back from the jaws of admissions, but not very much.

The immediate plan is to research. The long term plan is to pray. Somehow, I never seem to get to the long term without my mind made up. I'm probably doing it wrong. :(

Speaking of praying...so I've decided to take my rogue down the path of becoming a paladin. (this too, has serously been on my mind) Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. The character was definately leaning in that general direction, but the first gaming session after the switch just didn't jive with a)what had happened to her and b)who she had been before. I need to think a bit more on how this particular character would react to a)divine knowledge, since that is how the dm decided to introduce it to the story and b) handling new "powers".

The problem is I've got her personal motivation down, but not how she would interact with the rest of the group. Especially after a "revealing." I have an urge to send her off into the hills to "wrestle" with this knowledge for awhile and come back in better balance. Like coming out of the closet. Or st. paul racing off into the wilderness.

Revelation