Wednesday, November 30, 2005

WHERE'S MY ELEPHANT!?

Laptopiotts

I WAS SUPPOSED to get my laptop last week. Nope. I was supposed to get it today. Yep. Sort of. It arrived, I looked at it. It was broken. I get a new one, but the screen is screwed up. So I have to wait a week or more for it to be replaced. My other laptop is also taking ages! No idea when that'll be ready.

Sigh.

IESSO

"WORSE THAN DISGUSTING"

Calendar-Test-PINK

Calendar-Test-PINK-GRAY

WORSE THAN DISGUSTING was the phrase used by the UNG describing this calendar I'm doing for QCA. The lady who is supervising the job likes PINK and RED. COMBINED! I mean seriously, COMBINED! I can't stand it. I can't stand it one bit!

Sunday, November 27, 2005

JUST OBSERVATIONING...

I was at the train station today waiting for the train. There was an older couple (probably about 50-ish) sitting next to me. The wife was looking at a magpie talking gibberish as one would do to a baby. The husband looked at me and sighed.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

THE THANKSGIVING DAY HUNT

Freedom from Want

Yesterday/today is Thanksgiving depending on which timezone you're in. Normally my family has a big feast planned, but this year the oven wasn't working so the dinner was postponed. I still wanted my turkey dinner though, so the hunt was on to find it! We went to all the American steak-houses in the Brisbane CBD, as well as the carvery places, hotels and just about anywhere that had a promising lead. In the end we gave up. No turkey. Plenty of steak though (as people kept insisting) We bit the bullet and ended up under the Myer Centre at Sizzler.

Turkey-Girl

Although not ideal we could at least stuff ourselves full of foods, recreating the great feast. So over dinner I had time to think, between fulling my ob with food that is, of what I am thankful for:

I am happy with the way my life is working out. Ok sure, I have my problems, internal and external but the world doesn't seem so dark, meaningless and empty anymore. Partly because I have found someone whom I can love, but also because I may actually be able to pull off the impossible task and become an adult. I have a chance of getting a job, I have plans to travel, and I have hopes for the future.

IESSO

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

THE SIMPLEST IDEAS ARE OFTEN THE ________ IDEAS?

Anz-Poster

Anz-Poster2

Anz-Poster3

Fill in the blank:
"THE SIMPLEST IDEAS ARE OFTEN THE ________ IDEAS?"

1. Best
2. Worst
3. Easiest
4. Laziest
5. All of the above, except #1

And thus concludes the great simplicity experiment of 2005.

IESSO

WHAT THE SH*T?

Sale

This was taken at Target advertising the 'sale' of Dunlop shoes. I'm not sure how this saves money, but hey, it's on sale!
IESSO

PS. The photo was taken on my phone, so excuse the poor quality.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

IT'S SENSE-SATIONAL!

Warner-Bros

HA HA HA! Puns!
Anyway here is a random vector graphic I did. I might use it for the QCA promo book, I might not. Its random and jazzy at any rate. Or at least I like it, even if no-one else does...

IESSO

Monday, November 21, 2005

BUT CAPTAIN, THAT IS ILLOGICAL

I WROTE an essay for Professional Studies four weeks late and on the train in half an hour the day it was due, and got 6's & 7's out of 10! What? And to make matters more bizarre I wrote in the first paragraph that I did no research! And I never proof read it or did a spell check. And for the research criteria i got a 6/10?! NO RESEARCH!

Huzzah!

IESSO

PS. I am without any computer at the moment so my posts with be infrequent and imageless for a while. My 12in laptop is being repaired and then sold for scraps and I've ordered a 17in laptop but it wont arrive for another week or two. Please don't feel neglected or unloved, we both know you only read this because you're bored, and not because you actually care. ###sigh###

Ha ha! Kidding! Not upset! Don't care! Woot.

Saturday, November 19, 2005

OH THE PAIN, THE PAIN OF IT ALL!

Battered-Wife

THE photo look a hell of a lot worse than it really was. I had a sore arm from the tetnus shot i got for my finger and the UNG bumped me and was ultra-apologetic. But its funny, I look like a battered wife. Which is not something to laugh at. So knock it off! The photo was taken on friday night at a Japanese resturant we went to to avoid going to the exhibition. Linus and Nazlyn were there too although weren't funny so I won't write anything about them. HA!

ALSO: I've registered www.MONDAYNE.com

Expect some drastic changes in the next few months including a total redesign of the blog and the transition into less of a blog and more of a website. I plan on having a professional side and personal side in a single site. Don't worry; the blog will definitely continue, but it will be found at www.mondayne.com. Simple, just drop the .blogspot part and everything is the same.

At the moment though things will be continuing as per usual. I'll let you know when the changes are coming when the time comes. I've got to make the damn site now. But you can check it out if you want, it's only 1 page, made in WORD! Ha ha! amatuerish? You betcha.

IESSO

PS. Aren't we like the worlds most attractive couple or something? Move over... um ... Brad & Jen / Posh & Becks / ... ?? We're the new sexy people in town. Just look at that photo. We look HOT!

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

DON'T LOOK! WE'RE EXPOSED!

Polaroid1
Polaroid2
Polaroid3

LAST NIGHT was the end of year exhibition 'Friends and Family' night. I thought it was WAY better than the previous night for several reasons:

1. I got nicely drunkened.
2. I saw more folios than last time
3. I had more fun
4. I GOT THE TOP MARK!

That's right peoples who aren't in the know, young Elliott here got the award for Best Graphic Design Folio. What does that entail? Not much I guess, but I now have bragging rights over my friends, a fancy paper certificate and a $1000 prize! I also apparently will be the talk of the town for a few weeks amoungst the graphic design industry of Brisbane and will allegedly be much sought after. Which is kind of unbelievable, but that's what the head of design and the head of QCA South Bank told me... I'm not sure it's true, but hey, it might be.

Overall the night was pretty good. A few minor disasters, but overall a success. FOR ME anyway.
Just to do what you expect and dwell on the bad, here it is:

1. My parents got in a huge fight and didn't want to go, so they weren't there. It wasn't so bad, except people kept asking where my parents and were and I just kept sighing saying they weren't coming...
2. UNG and another girl had been clashing for a few weeks and I sort of got in the middle of it, trying to help out, but probably making it worse...
3. I was kind of crazy and eratic in my behaviour being very breif with my interactions between people. Sorry if I seemed rude, it was all a kind of a blur.

So basically it was good. I got a prize, some money, drunk, had fun and took photos.

This morning I was woken at 7.00 by someone installing a new doorknob on our house so I wasn't feeling to crash hot. Not much sleep and a nice hangover. Fun times.

Then when I told my mom the good news she got really mad at me about my father being nice to me but not her and started crying. So that wasn't fun. Nice and awkward. I felt guilty but also angry at my mom for being so unsupportive. I think she would've been happier if I didn't get the award. Which isn't that cool. Not cool at all actually.

Anyway I bought some new toys like a Powerbook and iPod and some other bits and peices and went to town spending loads of money! I spent $6000 in less than 2 hours! HUZZAH! But yeah the PB should be good and the iPod is crazy cool. Its funny, the screen is tiny but the movies look AWESOME! The quality is freakishly exceptional. I was expecting mobile phone quality but no! It's really nice. I watched the King Kong trailer and you can tell the gorilla is CG. That's pretty good. Not a pixel in sight. And it runs at 30fps.... But the funny thing is because the screen is so small it seems natural that the sound is small, or tinny or something but it's perfect. Ha ha! Mis-matching senses!


Anyway I'm gonna go now. Sorry to be such a bummer with the good news, but that's the Elliott way!
IESSO

Monday, November 14, 2005

LOOK AT ALL THE PRETTY COLORS!

Movie-Posters

Movie posters are generally pretty mediocre, at least we're past the awesome* posters from the late 80's but still, they're usually pretty lame. Recently they've become a lot less lame, or at least SOME of them have. Here's a few from new-ish and upcoming movies that I like.

Damn UNG and her getting me hooked on color! I particularly like the Everything is Illuminated poster with it's Magrite-like imagery and general quirky sophistications.

IESSO

PS. I admit this post is kind of void of merit but I was getting sick of looking at the Cooper family! What was I thinking?! A post about fonts?! Am I some kind of nerd? .... and if so, what so kind of powers do I have? HA HA. Inside jokes rule.

PPS. I just realised that movie TransAmerica isn't about crossing America as much as it is cross DRESSING in America. HA HA. Hmmm.......

PPPS. Possibly the worst advertisement promoting a new technology. Be warned, this is a real ad for Bluetooth usage. It scares me too. CLICK HERE. It's good cheesy music, weird Flash animations and best of all: Comic Sans with horrible kerning! HA HA! Dangly-bits.

* I mean awful. Truly, truly awful. Words cannot express how awful they were. Except perhaps the word awful. That expresses my sentiment nicely. ... a little... too nicely .... ???

Saturday, November 12, 2005

ALL IN THE FAMILY

Cooper-Family

I'm just gonna start off with a little speil about Cooper. It's totally my favourite typeface, but the weights other than black are so cool, yet so underused. What is up with that? And if anyone knows where I can get the roman versions of the non-black weights, let me know. Thanks

And now for our feature presentation: THE EXHIBITION

A generally successful night despite the high levels of stress, nerves, tension and anxiety. Nothing a few beers couldn't fix anyway. Arrived at 4pm to set up my folio, nope still being built. I didn't really help out at all, didn't feel so good, and my finger was hurting so didn't really bother. The space looked pretty good though. I was quite impressed. Or at least I was expecting a lot worse.

Hung around till 6-ish then went to the pub for a pre-exhibition beer and smoke. Calmed my nerves. Went to an EXPENSIVE Japanese resturant with UNG to eat something (hadn't eaten since lunch the previous day) and we ordered some crazy foods. Nothing too insane, but a whole deep-fried pike with a gross filling was not your average student meal. Anyway Nazlyn and Linus joined us, and it was good. I felt bad because I was spending Linus's money and ordered a big meal, but he didn't have enough for his own food. Um.. yeah. Sorry about that dude. I can understand you being pissed off.

Anyway we went to the exhibition, it was full of people. Talked/listened/pretended to listen. I wasn't really in a good mood for mingling so I was kinda awkward the whole night. I'm sorry if I offended anyone. Not my intention. ANYWAY stayed there for a number of hours taking photos (which will be posted soon!) and blah blah blah.

HEARD OVER THE GRAPEVINE:

1. THE GOOD: Colin wouldn't tell me my mark, but did tell me it was 'very high', over 82%, which is good. He was being very coy about it all. Which is puzzling.
2. THE BAD: The thing Sebastian said about me. Which is kind of upsetting. See post below.
3. THE UNBELIEVABLE: Mary came up to me after talking to the head of Minale Bryce [a big-name design studio] who told her that he liked my folio the best of all of them. Which is odd. It's flattering, but also strange because the work they do, and the work I thought I did are very different.

Afterwards we went to the Ship-Inn for some drinks and THAT was fun. I so much prefer sitting around with friends and beers talking and joking than pretending to be adult and professional. Hate 'networking' like you wouldn't beleive. Colin and Don [our lecturer + head of design] came down to the pub, drunk, and joined us. That was good. Colin said some very encouraging things, although I'm not sure how much of it was real, and how much was drunk-talk. He also said Sebastian thinks very highly of me too, which is so confusing. He's friendly to me, joking and whatnot, but behind my back to my peers he says mean things, but to my lecturers he says good things? I'm not sure what his story is, but it hurts my feelings. I looked up to him, and to have your mentor treat so strangely isn't nice.

Anyway the friend and family night is on tuesday so I'm gonna take the rest of my photo's and then post them all up together. WITH CAPTIONS if you're lucky.

See ya then.
IESSO

PS. Overall it was a fun night, don't get me wrong; I had fun, and I intended this post to be a happy one, but it turned out a lot less happy than anticipated. I think I might be in a sad mood right now. Not so sure why. A few things in my personal life are a bit consuming of my thoughts, and the whole Sebastian thing has really got me down. Ordinarily my head would be HHHHUUUUUGGGGEEEEE from all the nice things people said, but it only takes one bad apple to spoil the broth? I might have mixed metaphors there...

Friday, November 11, 2005

SUPPLIMENTARY MATERIALS

Kat was talking to Sebastian about her folio; he said it was "Okay, I guess". She replied; "Well at least thats better than what you said about Elliott's". He said "Yeah, but he deserved it..."

Ouch. I'm Elliott Scott, hopes and dreams crushed, signing off

PS> Got photos to post up but I left them at the exhibition. Stay tuned for further updates! HUZZAH!

Thursday, November 10, 2005

HER FACE SAYS IT ALL

Working

Yesterday was a LONG day. Here's the story. Listen good there might be a pop-quiz after.

I woke up a 6.30am tuesday to go to work. We had meeting with a client about a christmas card we had to design. Got to work for the 10 oclock meeting. It was cancelled. "OOps, forgot to tell you guys", said Sebsatian. Tuesday was our last day to do the folio before it was do, I was in no mood to mess around so i was naturally annoyed. I missed my fashion test because I hadnt studied so I failed the class. Will probably have to repeat it now.Graduating? Probably not till next year. Whatev.

Messed around at work for a bit nothing to do. Needed to go home to print stuff. UNG and her sister were there. We went to my place to use my printer. Got to Helensvale, messed around at the mall, got a nice headache from her sisters talking, she's 15 so I dont mind so much, but still was somewhat grumpy and stressed. UNG took her sister home at 5, I went home to start without her.

UNG arrived at 6.30 and we began working properly.

Printed out my folio and her folio, finally got the printer to print nicely. I already spent close to $1000 on the printer, and another $60 on paper, and $50 on ink, and she bought some more ink and her own paper. But the paper I got didn't work so I had to spend some more money on paper, which had no gaurantee to work! It was catridge paper, feels like cheap rough paper which was perfect for my needs... luckily it worked. But as soon as we started printing the photo inks ran out so we couldnt print high quality! It worked out ok though, so no big deal.

I finished printing around 1am, with UNG having a bit more to print. We took turns in case there was a problem, if we were going down for bad printing, we were going down together! She finsihed at about 2am. All was good, it was looking pretty nice. We were exhausted but generally happy with the work. Time for cutting.

And by cutting we mean the folio, not my finger. Unfortunately I didn't get that memo and sliced a 2mm deep, 12mm long chunk out of my finger. It didn't really hurt. At the time. It didn't bleed either. I freaked out though, in my own little way. For about 1/2 a second I had a little panic attack, stood up, hopped around grabbing my not yet bleeding hand wondering what to do. I got the the bathroom sink, and the bleeding started. Blood was PISSING OUT! It looked like I smashed a bottle of ketchup in the sink. It was soaked in blood. SOAKED! I got some bandages out of the cupboard wrapped it super-f*cking tightly around my entire finger and waited for the bleeding to stop. It didn't. Soaked right through the bandage. I took it off, washed my finger, THE PAIN STARTED. It hurt like f*ck! I'm not talking "Ouch, that smarts", or even "Auuuugggghhh!!!!" but so much pain the world went silent. I couldn't hear anything and if I screamed it was either silent or I couldn't hear it. It hurt. After I pathetically washed it, wrapped it up again with some heavy duty bandage even tighter. And went back to work. By the way, UNG is afraid of blood and stood by the bathroom door with a disgusted screwed up face. It was cute/silly, but kind of annoying cuz I needed her help. Oh well.
FINGER SLICE COUNT: 0 HOUR

I tried working for a bit, but was getting tired. Did I mention I didn't eat anything? And that it was about 3am. Well thats what it was. Anyway we worked for a bit more, readying things for the next morning. I was getting dizzy and sleepy what with the bloodloss and the stress and all, but UNG needed to do a bit more work so I tried to stay awake. I couldn't really so I watched TV untill she was ready. She finished her stuff and helped me with my stuff too. She cut all the extra things I was making (so nice of her) WITHOUT cutting herself [I'm banned from stanley knives now] and we went to bed.
FINGER SLICE COUNT: 1 HOUR

Owwwy

Or at least that was the plan. We did go to bed, but we didn't get any sleep. And not because of sexy "hooray we're done, let us have wild animal sex to celebrate!" oh no, it was much much work. And a lot less sexy. We didn't sleep because I was in too much pain. I'm telling you, this finger REALLY hurt. I took 3 panadiene forte's (which about 10 times more codeine than normal panadiene [or something like that]) and it didnt help. They make you drowsy too, but I was too scared about wednesday and the work we still had to do, and about my finger getting gangrene from the bandages being too tight. UNG got a few hours of sleep I might have gotten about half an hour. I was feeling really crap trying to sleep and the UNG was hugging me. I can't express how wonderful that felt. I was in so much pain and discomfort and the simple act of touching me and hugging me almost made the pain go away. Still couldn't sleep, but without her I probably would have went insane, started crying and given up long ago. THANK YOU UNG!
FINGER SLICE COUNT: 3 HOURS


'Woke' up at 6.30 to finish working and get ready. We gathered our stuff and left for the 8.10 train. The plan was to get to uni finish binding the folios and hand them in before 10am when they were due. Then I was supposed to go to the city, collect Linus's and hand his in too. None of this happened. I called Linus the night before at 3ish to tell him what happened about my finger and that I'd try to help him but wasn't sure. At 6am I called Will to try to get him to go to the city instead of me. I was worried I was gonna wake him but I didn't really have much choice/concern... luckily I didn't wake him. He was busy, tried Glen. He was awake too and agreed to help (thanks dude!)

Got to uni at 9am, binded the folio and rested untill UNG was ready. Sebastian was asking me all sorts of questions about why I did this or that, and why didn't I do this? I was in NO MOOD to talk. He was complaining about the printing quality, and he was asking why I wouldnt care. Hmmm a finger thats on the verge of falling off?! I don't know.
FINGER SLICE COUNT: 4 HOURS

UNG finished her folio at about 11.30, a bit last but we didnt care. What are they gonna do? Not let us graduate cuz we were 1 1/2 hours late?! I think not. Besides. My finger hurt. It still was bleeding. I went into the bathroom to change dressings. BLOOD EVERYWHERE! I wrapped it up with some napkins and tape and we went to the hospital to get it looked at, possibly stitched up.
FINGER SLICE COUNT: 9 HOURS

Got to the Mater Hill hospital, which by the way has the dumbest emergency ward location EVER! Its at the top of a hill around the corner, at the back of the hosptial. Nice and conveinient. We nearly passed out walking up the hill from the heat. Not cool. At. All. Anyway walked into emergency, went to the counter and saw the triage nurse (we know what triage is right? Its the assesment of patients based on seriousness of their condition) She classsified my injury as "BLOODY OOZE +++" which may or may not be bad, but it sounded bad. She asked if the cut went to the bone. I didn't think so. I didn't think that was even possible with my amount of pain, it hurt but not THAT bad. I thought a bone cut would be really REALLY bad, so I wasn't sure. I waited about 5minutes to see the doctor, which is not a good thing, it meant I was serious. She looked at the wound, and went to get a second opinion. A second opinion?! That's not a good thing. That means something is bad. My finger was numb. I had nerve damage. It will heal, but not for a few months. No stitches though. Not because I didn't need it, but because after 12 hours of a skin flap there's not much stitches can do. The flap will either fall off or it won't, stitches won't help.

Anyway after she cleaned it with saline solution, wrapped it up properley and gave me a tetnis shot, which don't tickle one bit, in fact they hurt, not then, but later (now, as I'm writing this!) I was feeling woozy. No, not from the blood, I can handle that, but from the heat, the no sleep, the no food, the pain, the stress and the cigarettes I had to dull the pain. I threw up. The doctor said to UNG "He's a bit of a wimp, isn't he?" I resent that. But she fixed my hand so it's ok.

Anyway after that was all done we went back to uni and chillaxed for a bit. Then we left and went to the Roma St gardens to chillax properly. We walked around for AGES trying to find a nice quiet, shady spot away from people. Eventually we did, hung around till 3.30 and parted. I got to Helensvale at 4.30, waited till 5 for the bus and got home. Stayed awake watching a hilarious movie called 'The Hebrew Hammer', which is like a jewish 'Shaft' and feel asleep at 8.30pm. I was awake for 38 hours. And those were the most intense 38 hours of my friggin life. INSANE. In the membrane. Or maybe insane in the brain.

Anyway that's my story. If it was a soap opera that would have taken about 3-4 years to show. And I guess my evil twin would have been in it, but nonetheless, it was utter madness!

IESSO

BELOW: The Mondayne branding. There's the folio, the sample bag and the business cards. There's a few more suprises but you'll have to wait till friday to see them. They're fun and goofy. And it's all about the gimmicks!

Mondayne-Branding

Monday, November 07, 2005

READY?

firingSquad

IESSO

UNAMED MODEL

Model

I made the unamed girl model my shirts for me for the catalog. But because I didn't actually print them I had to do some photoshopping. And naturally the photoshopping would like lame so I avoided the whole thing by doing dodgy vector graphics. They look cool cuz of their small color palette. And her expressions work well, for eg. "blow me" has her face all screwed up, and "what would jesus do" she's thinking. All the pictures have goofy expressions. It's awesome!

From left to right, TOP ROW:
1. Parsley Makes it Fancy
2. Chairmans Mao
3. Mondayne Tee
4. Eat Out
5. Don't Blame Texas
6. Blow Me

Left to right, BOTTOM ROW:
7. Slave the Whales
8. Bandwagon
9. Miso Horny
10. Faded Black
11. What Would Jesus Do?
12. DJ's Suck

IESSO

Saturday, November 05, 2005

STUFF

1. BEST GIRLFRIEND, EVER!
UNG: You know what, I love technology.
ME: *Gives her a big hug*

2. PORTFLASHIO
The online portfolio action is nearly done, and uploaded check it out by clicking HERE. It's pretty good. It's got some bugs but hey, they'll get fixed soon enough.

3. THE DEADLINE MONSTER
Four days to go...

4. THE SHAME
Went with Tanner to town to hang out, cruise around and play pool. We were succesful in all those areas, but also very disappointed with the people we were hanging and cruising with; they were high-schoolers. Lindsey seems to only have friends vastly younger than us, and so whenever Lindsey wants to hang with us we end up feeling like idiots amoungst kids half our age...
LINDSEY: Come on guys, mingle!
ME: (Thinking) I have NOTHING in common with these kids. They like cars, getting drunk and are in high school. I'm a pretentious designer who thinks he's better than these kids who think they're better than me. WHAT am I supposed to talk about?



IESSO

Friday, November 04, 2005

THINK OF IT AS AN INVESTMENT?

SHIRT

Ok so I'm selling some groovy Mondayne themed shirts at the exhibition night. Actually just taking orders, but if you want one, let me know and I'll make you one. Of course they are not gonna be going cheaply! I'm using Giordano tee's for their price and quality ratio and handprinting myself. So the cost is $45 each! It may be high but I don't really mind not selling many or any... so yeah, buy them now if you want one, or regret it for the rest of your life! OH HELL YEAH.

IESSO

THE C IS SILENT IN CHANUKAH

Greatest-Photo-EVER

I'm making a clock for my mom for chanukah. Well sort of. I'm actually just printing on the face of a clock. ACTUALLY I'm not even doing that, I'm just replacing a clock face I did a few years ago for chanukah. The old one had a picture of me and my now ex-girlfriend on it, and everytime I saw it I got a bit annoyed/upset, so it's overdue for an update, a facelift as it were. So yeah, blah blah blah. This is totally done using the snazzy new LiveTrace function of Illustrator 12 which some of you might care about, others (most) won't. It's not entirely LiveTraced, some of it has be retouched to fix up details, added colors and delete weird tracing elements. The functions isn't perfect, its not even good, but I'm anxious to replace the face so this will do for now. I'll probably update it again soon.

IESSO

Thursday, November 03, 2005

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Greatest-Photo-EVER

I was gonna write her name, but she'd prefer to remain 'the unamed girl', so that's what it's gonna be. Anyway we bought a polaroid camera and tested it out. Doesn't it look awesome? Polaroids rule!

IESSO

PS. I had a long day full of insanity, insults and insecurities, but I want to try remain positive, so instead of posting about that I am just gonna bottle it up and freak out one day!

PPS. F*CK THIS "Think Positive" crap, here's what happened: Sebastian was a real jerk today so i left LW and didnt do any work; drowned my sorrow in shopping.. he said my portfolio was "SHIT" thats a quote. what a jerk. i cried. thats right: CRIED! it was pathetic, but it really cut deep. im really fragile at the moment. he apologised later: "i'm sorry i upset you elliott, but i stand by what i say". thats not really a good apology. in my books anyway. it really hurt my feelings. if he doesnt like it so much, perhaps suggest an alternative, not simply insult it. and try sugar coating it a bit more. especially when elliott is running on no sleep, loads of tea and cigarettes and under high levels of stress. did i mention i cried?

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

MY FRIENDS = AWESOME

I admit I don't know the first thing about Macromedia Flash. My friends Linus and Patrick are kindly giving up their own time to help me do it. And when I say help I REALLY mean help. They rock. I just wanted to thank them for their hard work. Specially Linus, who's given many hours to help out his idiot friend.

IESSO

RESUME THE POSITION

Resume

Ok so I finally finished my super cool resume for professional studies. And oh boy, is it sh*t or what?! The dimensions are a sexy 29x29cm.. which is freakin massive. and its printed on a hearty 300gsm stock. So even if they wanted to crumple it up and throw it away, they can't. It's fool proof. Or foolish. One of the two.

IESSO

PS. If you can read the name there on the bottom right corner, that's right, it's Tanners. I listed him/you as a character reference. Or something like that. Its actually a bit of bullsh*t. This is only the class resume, nothing pro like. I might put a REAL name down. ... um... not that yours isn't good, but soomeone in design perhaps?

PPS. I don't know what's going on with that pixellation. Oh well. Don't worry about it. I'm sure the final version will be better. Hopefully.

POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK

Before I begin my little (and lame) anecdote, I just want to point out that in this day and age the saying used above isn't really all that appropriate, neither kettles nor pots are black anymore. Usually.

WHERE: Walking home
WHO: Me and two guys
WHEN: Tonight, 11.45pm

I walk past the two guys who are walking with arms around each other on the other side of the street. They yell out to me; 'FAGGOT!'.

?IESSO?

IS IT JUST ME OR WHAT?

I didn't think I would ever be alone in the labs with my girlfriend ever again, but as luck/fate would have it, I am. It may be different labs, and a different girlfriend, but the general concept is much the same. It's very strange. Now why would this be the case? I am the kind of guy who likes girls who work late in labs, or are my girlfriends the kinds of girls who need to stay back in labs for long hours at the last minute?

Just a thought. Don't worry about me. It doesn't need to make sense anyway.

IESSO