#verdantwinter

high five for fluffy burrowing pink things

Garlic is one of those foods that doesn’t count.

It’s a spice, right? 

Therefore neutral. 

Have you tried Spotify? I just have the free one, which has commercials but I sort of tune them out. Their discover weekly playlist is not 100% but once it has enough Data on you it can be a goldmine for new music.

Back when Spotify came out it didn’t work in Canada so I just categorized it as “not an option” and went on 

but they’ve probably fixed that by now

apparently it does

I’m enjoying it. 

you can definitely learn graphic design if you want to. The issues with it aren't really technical, they're getting the client happy with what you've made. There are of course good clients, but it is a ton of back and forth and vague directions and god knows what else they'll dig up. I've only done it for myself and as a free intern in college, and even then it's just a lot of stress hunting for typos before they print 5000 copies of the annual appeal pamphlet.

You make a good point about graphic design being a client oriented field. 

I might not like the actual day to day work of it. 

I had the same sort of deal at my summer job in university. I wasn’t there to do design - i was there to do programming for the children’s program at the library - but I ended up doing a lot of the “publishing” stuff for our outreach materials. 

I did the brochures for the children’s programming. We only went to 100 printed but I definitely didn’t change the year from the previous years. I made business cards templates for the head librarians. I fixed all the letter templates for donor mailings. I think I made the logo that went on the cake when the new branch opened. It was a lot of tweaking what already existed. “We need this logo on this template, plz help” and I’d put them together. 

I loved it all. 

At the time I didn’t think of it as “graphic design” I just thought of it as “It’s ok, Boss, I know how to use this computer, I can make the template work properly and I’ll fix your fonts and alignment while I’m at it.” 

oh man it took me a second to realize why that might be a tricky search. godspeed.