lucy's updates

1. applied to a job on CAR, didn't get it. oh well!

2. creating a profile on Brill Street to get job leads (need to work on this.) this is actually a very involved job site, so it's taking a while.

3. submitted resume and information to Creative Circle, job suggestions are coming in weekly. Thus far I have not been duly qualified for the jobs they are suggesting-- mostly web/marketing jobs that I need a bit more experience working with in order to confidently say I could do it. also, they are mostly freelance--and one thing i have learned about myself is that i do not want to work freelance yet. i get WAY too annoyed. My work @ M****a is actually preparing me pretty well for familiarity with social media/marketing, SEOs, and web optimization. So, it's another possible direction.

4. I want to start a blog-- but what do you guys think? I post eeeeeeeverything on Facebook... I don't really want to be redundant. I also have a website of my 'portfolio,' should I integrate a blog into this? Instead of creating a blog on wordpress.org or something, should I just have a blog part of my website and write + have control over it there? I like things to be integrated... I don't like having a blog be totally separate because traffic (not that there'll be a lot of it, but you never know) is then split and if you see my blog u won't see my website/portfolio and vice versa. What I like about facebook is the ability to upload via mobile phone, and to allow people to comment. I know of photo blogs that allow you to upload via mobile but don't allow you to write along with them. Maybe this is God telling me i just NEED an iphone. ;) So whaddya guys think: separate wordpress blog or add a blog integrated into my website? if I sit down and upload to my server instead of uploading to wordpress it'll take me about the same amount of time after i create a blog page in general. i think i'll do it on my website. little did I know when i paid for my hosting for 3 years that i could have done it on wordpress! at least now i know i can independently build a complete website. good skill. wow. i'm rambling.

5. gym: stopping by xsport on ashland with the roomie sometime this week--i have 10 more pounds to lose and there is no possible way i can lose them without exercising. also, i'm weak, and being an athlete my whole life--it feels terrible.

6. write to my teacher/dean in rome. lucy, NO FEAR. i am afraid of going to rome because of all the logistics... but i have never been so passionate about anything in my whole life. lucy: you will never know what the possibilities are for you to return if you don't ask. better to ask and turn it down than never ask at all. i love roma. viva roma!

7. take some time to listen to my italian immersion CDs. i was watching a Reuters video about something in Vatican City yesterday and I could understand EVERYTHING the italians were saying, and on the train the other day two italians boarded and i could understand them too. i don't want to lose it, and i need to be able to speak it. french is fine--i have a feeling i could jump back into that pretty well. i learned it well enough as a kid that i can understand it and fake it pretty well when i'm not mixing it up with italian! yikes! italian is more fun to speak, anyway.

8. lucy: keep job hunting. I am going to need to make a very rigid schedule/goals for this. life is SO hectic it's easy for this, coupled with my present jobs and responsibilities, to be put off indefinitely.

9. alabama! i am going to alabama nov 26-30. laura + grace thank you for rearranging schedules so i can go. i am totally in love with my grandfather and it is important for me to have him in my life, and see him. my dad was not around for a long time, and now that i feel as close to him as i do, i don't want to lose it. i am taking my relationships with my family into my own hands--something my mom had been encouraging me to do my whole life when i complained about my dad's absence--but i guess i wasn't strong enough to do it (and i don't think he was ready to put forth the effort, either,) until recently. but damn am i glad we both grew up enough to do it. :) i love my daddy!

10. i can't fight it anymore: i need a digital camera. i'm sick of not being able to take pictures all the time, anytime, in any light, without lugging around a 10 pounds few-thousand-dollar manual film camera. sometimes that camera is appropriate. at the bar with my friends? ehhh...

11. i need to update my projects on my website. i have some new ideas for photo projects that i actually already have images for i just need to organize them/edit them/ upload etc. ALSO-- i have lots of new, good graphics from my other job that i made-- i need to put them up, too!!!!

12. laura! we need to find time, somehow, to work on shirts/bags/accessories/etc.

that's... just about it. any ideas/comments/whaaaaaatever lemme know!