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the room

Monday, February 18 2008

tonight i baked the best banana bread i’ve ever tasted and made milk from walnuts. i bought a blender the other day, and it works quite well, thank you very much. what a wise seven dollars i spent. who’da thunk you could make milk from walnuts? it’s delicious, too, it tastes like soy milk. only i know exactly what’s in it, and i know that it’s only healthy ingredients. that’s a good feeling.

i talked to nick today, and ca.

a thought occurred to me. as a professional designer, and as a freelancer especially, i need a blog. it’s a marketing tool, for one, to very easily and very accurately let people know who i am, what i think, and what i’m like. this blog does that, for a very select group of people. yes, it’s available publicly, but it mostly talks about what i did today, where a more professional-centric blog could more highlight my skills as a designer, programmer, and artist. yano?

this photoblog has gone through some crazy ups and downs. it started as a way to make sure i was actually using this crazy expensive camera i’d bought. it then turned into a way to let my friends back home know what was going on in maine. it documented the last few years of my life, in great detail mostly. there were times when there were no readers, and there were times when i had no idea exactly how many readers there really were. i’ve gotten to redesign, experiment, show off, and bitch.

my perspective has very suddenly changed on the direction i need to go with my life. not drastically, i suppose, and my goals aren’t very different than they’ve always been, but the closer i get to graduation, the more i see the value in things i’d never much taken heed of previously.

that’s why i’m suggesting i let this blog lie. it’s had a great life, but just as my college life is soon to end, so should, I think, this diary. my career is about to begin, and so should, I think, a new chapter. i don’t expect it to be uninteresting to those of you that are just trying to keep up with what i’m doing, mind you. if i take some beautiful pictures, i’ll want to show someone. if something important happens, i’ll want to talk about it. but i want to transition from something intended just for my friends to something that’s beneficial to a wider audience. i want to include more people, more ideas, and give myself a more professional edge.

i’m giving you a week for a rebuttal. if i hear some kind of outcry by a significant number of readers by next monday night, then i’ll reconsider. in either case, it wont necessarily be taken down so quickly, as that depends on how much time i’ve got to finish my online portfolio and get it up and running. but unless i hear some kind of objection, that’s my plan.

it’s sad, in a way, to suggest that i let it go, because i’ve grown to really love this thing. i just think it might be time to grow it up a little bit. i suppose we’ll see. i suppose we’ll see.