Is it weird that I am actually looking forward to going back to work? When all I had was a 2 day weekend? I guess being lonely is really getting to me, and I'd rather be at work where I can engage in social encounters. Sadly, most of these encounters are getting a little on the annoying side. I'm not a senior graphic artist, but sometimes I feel like one when I have people asking me design questions. I love to answer them, but there are a couple of people that I feel as though I am holding their hands throughout the shift. I'm flattered that they always want me design advice, but again… a lot of the times its stuff I figured that they would pick up on. I understand how they feel though, and it makes me rethink feeling annoyed by them. They sit next to 2 very opinionated designers who cut corners to build graphics. We work in a business where producers will reopen orders because of a mistake on their part, and when we have to open files made by these designers… it's nearly impossible to make a quick fix to the problem. I've been trying to teach everyone to take the extra time to make our graphics easy to fix, this way when we get an order that wants the very same style of another… we don't have to completely redesign it because someone made it simple for themselves.
Anyway, we have too many design perspectives, and thats what you get when you work in the design industry. Everyone has a different input on what they think the graphic should look like, and there are those who value their own input over everyone else's. Don't get me wrong, I can be that way… when I have a vision that moves me, its nearly impossible for me to take advice to go a different direction. My only problem is that I do want people to make things simple to edit for later production. There is nothing like animating a map in english, and then a spanish station asks for the EXACT same map but to change the labels in spanish, and we find that the map's labels are all merged layers… Can't edit… Nearly have to redo the map. Something that could have been a 5 minutes fix, is now a 30 minute fix. Ah well… :/
My mother's puppy, Xena, has 4 kidney stones… I had to hand feed her on saturday, and she was shaking up a storm. I felt so sorry for her. She's the little princess of that house, and it would be horrible to see anything happen to her, especially when she brings so much joy to my Mother. Same can be said about Zorro. He's been around for 9 years, and he is a joy to have around. Both of those puppies are very special. I just love those dogs
Going out to see Captain America, tonight. Have not been to the movies for a while, but thats also due to my unexciting schedule. Work 3p-12a tuesday thru saturday, does not give me much of a social life… still, it's far better than the horrid 7a-4p I had… never got enough sleep, and I still worked saturday 3p-12a. Everyone I know, here in Texas, is at church on sunday morning, eating lunch, then going home to nap. Thinking about hitting up a bar every sunday night, tired of sitting at home, working out or watching tv… although eh working out part kicks ass. Getting my energy back!