If anyone knows anyone who works for a video game company, I’m looking for a job as an associate producer or level designer.
I have three years of experience in the industry. Email me for resumé; my design portfolio is on a dead server and will be resurrected soon..
When I was carrying in the groceries on Saturday, I cut off the blood supply to my left pinky.
Pretty badly, as it turns out, as today – Tuesday, 72 hours later – my pinky is still tingly like it’s asleep.
Typing feels weird.
It’ll get better though, it has already improved. It’s rather a lot like when I got my wisdom teeth out and my bottom lip was numb/tingly for a few weeks afterward. In any case, the experience will teach me to take two trips when carrying many bags of heavy groceries.
And now, to organize my thoughts:
Work: There is little to nothing going on at work. I found a freelance web design job from a fellow dog park attendee – it should hopefully be pretty simple but she needs quite a bit of help deciding how to sell her product (she translates medical books into Spanish, or has Spanish-English books on medical topics. Vocabulary and whatnot). She wants to start selling cds instead of booklets, as it’s cheaper and then she can include pronunciation files, but I’m afraid that she will want ME to make the cds… so we’re discussing the terms of the contract and figuring out exactly what she has and can do and wants to do before things get going.
Also, I have many resumés out at many companies. Whenever I can recover my portfolio from the dead server, I’ll get that online and then start applying for Level Design jobs in addition to all the Associate Producer jobs I have applied for already.
I have a phone interview next week, and am hoping to hear back from someone I have been emailing with as well. I’ll probably contact a recruiter early next month if things are still languishing.
I’m also working with true-edges on a game mod – we’ve decided on using the WarCraft III engine for the first one, seeing how that goes. I’m looking forward to trying something that requires a bit more customization, adding models and changing textures on things, just to try something new and exciting… but to start, simple is best. We can always recreate our game with another engine in the future, and make it closer to the visions in our heads.
Crafty crafty: I’ve done a lot of spinning. I gave away four skeins of yarn to family and friends, and went through everything and did another culling of the stash. My “teaching yarn” bag is a bit bigger. I finally finished the blue-green purse made from cayswann’s handspun, hand-dyed yarn. I just need to line it, sew it up, and find handles.
I’ve also been making a Wisp from knitty.com. That picture was taken July 3; I had completed four and a half repeats, now I have 8 repeats done. I am sort of knitting this for the wedding/honeymoon in September, but I don’t really anticipate needing a light wrap (and if I do, I have plenty of cloth ones), so there’s no pressure to finish it. It’s a simple-but-not-boring pattern, and I’m enjoying it a lot.
I still have just one Elfine Sock completed, because I don’t think they will fit their intended recipient. We shall see.
Anything else going on? Yes, wedding readiness stuff. I alternate betweeen being completely terrified that all 200 people we invited will show up, and that no one will be able to come. I’m sure I’m a joy to live with.
Also, Alan is mean, cruel, and vicious.
Evidence:
[11:27] Alan: it is done, haha
[11:28] T: what?
[11:28] Alan: surprise for you
[11:29] T: ???!?!!
[11:29] T: I don’t like surprises
[11:29] T: well I do
[11:29] T: But I hate knowing about them beforehand
[11:29] T: it’s torturous
[11:29] Alan: 
[11:29] T: YOU’RE SO MEAN
See what I’m saying? Evil.
I know the Yarn Harlot just covered this topic, too, but I don’t know how much overlap we have and the word MUST get out.
While I appreciate the ability to keep a knitting “to do” list (aka project queue) online, it’s SO EASY to add to it.
I have 17 knitting projects queued, and 4 works in progress. I’ve also favorited a few patterns. The danger is, as the YarnHarlot explains, that everything is connected. You click through someone’s profile, look at their wips, fos, and queue, and find something you like. Click! Added to queue. You’re surfing the internet, find a pattern you like – Click! That “add to ravelry queue” bookmarklet is a dangerous bit of text on my bookmark toolbar. I have queued more sock patterns than anything else! And I don’t really like knitting socks! What am I thinking?!
I heard of Ravelry because of the Lime’n'Violet message board, so I when I got my login I posted there – I have many friends now (plus I added Miss Lime and Miss Violet and Brenda Dayne and the Yarn Harlot and Eunny Jang and Amy Singer.. my knitting heroines). One of the other LnVers is living in my hometown! Small world, huh?
See? It gets you into its web and it doesn’t let go. Ravelry made me take pictures of my current knitting and spinning projects this morning. Ravelry is going to make me catalogue my yarn and needles (and books). Ravelry is going to take over the world.
So, as some of you may know, my college pc was turned into a FreeBSD webserver that we kept in our apartment.
Being nearly eight years old – and having been sent cross-country several times in those eight years – much less having been ON nearly every day for eight years was bound to take a toll. The fan in the power supply finally passed away, overheating everything and making it shut off. We haven’t yet plugged the parts in to a different computer to see if the motherboard can be salvaged (not that it’s worth it, really).
So, anyway, I am starting over for now. I am hoping to try out some new widgets and tinker with this fine-but-monotone template, and see what happens.
