March 17, 2006
Hello, fellas
I get a strange feeling typing in this window again. It's like climbing back into your childhood treehouse as a 45 year old man. Familiar but distantly alien, creepingly uncomfortable. I can't believe I wrote as much as I have in this weblog. It's of course all just spare change, but when I reach in my pockets now, all I find is the pocket. You'd think there would be something to say, living overseas, allegedly away from everything I know. But in truth, life is the same over here as it would be anywhere else in the world. It consists of waking, eating, getting into some kind of trouble, eating, and then sleeping. I do like tossing things up, though; I'll often eat while getting into trouble.
Blogging. God, I'm "blogging" again. I just felt myself wince.
We're going to make this interactive. It's going to kick ass. You like pictures? You like profanity? I fucking thought so.
So, my mouth tastes like onions. That's because for my lunch break, I decided to drop EU 3.- (~USD 3.65) for a Dueruem (shards of roasted turkey with lettuce, yogurt sauce, tomatoes, some other bullshit, and onions). If you click the following picture, you can follow the trail my onion breath left behind as I made my way back to work.
That's a small glimpse into what I do from 10am till about 6pm. To dig a bit deeper, I am working as what I would call a "support designer." In addition to burning CDs and making copies, I also do character design and frame animation. I've dealt with print media as well as material intended for a more, shall we say, "digital" medium.
One morning, my boss handed me a digital drawing tablet and my world changed a little bit. All the things that kept me from drawing throughout my life (erasing through the paper, lack of pencils, expensive materials, limited everything) were suddenly no issue anymore. And so I have sort of taken up drawing. I spent about 4 extra hours at work one night playing. What I came up with was an amaturish attempt at a pretty girl, but I don't have the confidence to put it on the internet. I am working on something else though, which I will put up when it is finished.
I have a lot to do in the coming days, not the least of which is start existing in the lives of other people again.
I'm sorry I'm such a specter.