Random Things I Cry About Part 1

Because I realized that it'll be interesting to see what made me cry when I look back.

1.) The song "The Fighter" by the Fray.
Bawled when I finally stopped and listened to the lyrics to that song. It is also a very real out Thought there have been several interpretations of the song, I still think of it as the literal meaning with an actual Fighter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW7FJkeIfLI

2.) A half run over cat.
Probably the saddest thing I had ever witnessed. There I was, riding a shuttle to visit a house my friends lived in and minding my own business. Right at my stop, I noticed two cars had pulled over and turned on their hazard lights. Hopping out of the shuttle at my stop, I glanced over at the accident, thinking automatically that it must have been a slight car accident. But what I saw instead was a poor cat half run over! You must be trying to picture a half run over cat right now. Half of its body that includes the tail, two hind legs and its lower torso were pretty much flattened. What was even more heartbreaking was that it was still trying to crawl around. One of the two cars had actually run over the cat, the other car was the first cars' friend that brought a cat carrier, in an attempt to draw the cat in and take it to a vet. I cried halfway walking to my friends' house. In my mind, it was still crawling around, trying to live.

3.) Frustration.
Not that I was crying because I was sad about the argument. It was purely frustration. And in my head, I was already plotting that persons demise. Like dipping their toothbrush in the toilet *insert evil laugh*

4.) Books.
Especially when my favorite character dies. Or in romance books, because were is the romance without some angst.

Adobe

A quick doodle for today. Oh Adobe, how I want thee.

My classes require me to use several of Adobe products, but since I don't own a copy, I usually do them on school computers which luckily have the Adobe Suite loaded on all of them. The cost for the suite is kinda of crazy ($799.00) for the student edition. But to be fair, the student pricing is incredible compared to the regular price ($2,599.00).

One day you'll be mine Adobe Suite.... one day... *shakes fist*

Some thoughts as a Graphic Design student

Like a lot of novels, sometimes the first few chapters are dreadfully boring. I can imagine that this first post will be snooze-fest to a lot of people. While making this blog, I was unsure what my first post should be about. Its like writing the opening of an essay or deciding if you should play the good guy or the bad guy in a video game or if I should really be eating this eighth Tootsie Roll (I never should have made that stop into the Safeway candy isle...)

Then I got to the point of designing the blog. Blogger is really easy to use and most of the templates are nice and basic. Choosing one wasn't a problem at all.

The problem was choosing the font of the title.

That is nearly the most mundane task in setting up a blog, and I'm sure a lot of people do not even bother changing the defaults in the template. But there I was, sitting here for a ridiculous amount of time scrolling through all the fonts, shaking my head no and thinking there has gotta be a better typeface.

Its typeface by the way. Not font. The memory of my Graphic Design History teacher stabbing his finger in the direction of the student that accidentally used the word font will always stay with me. "Don't use the "F" word!!" the professor declared loudly. He then went on about lowering grades if he found that word used in our papers. Whew.

It was like a small victory filled with satisfaction when I finally picked one. I hope when I look back at this post, my future self will also nod in agreement. (Okay, it looks like just a plain typeface. It looks bland. But trust me, these things are hard on a graphic designer!) When I look back on my past projects in college, picking the typeface took the most amount of time. A fellow GD friend agrees. Its the small basic things that set up the feel of the entire media (in this case, the blog). No wonder there are companies out there that are commissioned to make specific typefaces out there (House Industries is truly drool worthy for anyone interested in typography).

Sorry, sorry. That's should be enough of me geeking out about GD. Honestly, if anyone kept reading until the end of this, I applaud you. You must be crying tears of boredom.