OK Okay I am writing a blog now.
I am sorry this might be a long one. :/
No, seriously though I apologize for my absence. Especially to
Brynnmawr since he paid for my yr membership. I just was super stressed out with school since January. All my classes required me to do huge drawn out projects. Especially my senior portfolio class which was basically an internship class, filled with irrelevant busy work. I didn't like the teachers because they are super unorganized, and very contradictory when dealing with this class together. So we couldn't have that time to work on our project we chose for the community client project. which was the whole point of this class.
Anyway for my project I chose to build a website for tattoo shop in a small town in Iowa. It actually turned out pretty awesome and everything the client wanted, but I went through a whole lot of shit to get there.
Rant:
SPOILERS! (Click to view)
Before I go into the shit I went through to get it done, I will fill you in on why I chose this project in the first place.
I wanted to do something that I was super interested in, that way I would be more interested to create it and able to just have fun with it, and what better thing to do then a website for a my tattoo shop. I just love the alternative style and I wanted to incorporate that in my project. So after I came up with the idea I talked to the owners of the shop and they were ecstatic, because they didn't have a website and they were thankful I wanted to do something like that for them! So they said "yes, please!"
I was so happy and even though this was going to be a challenge I wanted it and I was determined to do this for them. I mean all they had was a FB and a Myspace and it was missing important information and I wanted to help them give a more professional feel to them, so a detailed website, was my plan. As graphic designer who's track is print for my major, web is still important to know to get hired. So since my web teacher that was suppose to teacher me how to use Adobe Dreamweaver two years ago, doesn't even know what he is talking about and is clueless on web pages. I ( and everyone else ) didn't learn anything in that class. So I basically had to re-teach myself how to use Dreamweaver. Also DREAMWEAVER IS THE DEVIL!
Anyway I wanted to make sure I got there full cooperation if I did this, so I let them know I needed that from them. They were so understanding and nice about that, but when it came later they were lazy and forgetful when it came to getting needed content for the pages. Mind you I was SUPER flexible and I tried to move things around to give them more time, because I understood that they were a business and things happen, but seriously it wasn't that. They just kept forgetting to do what they said they were going to do. THAT GETS FRUSTRATING when you give them from the end of January and they wait to get all the information to you the week before my finals( end of april)! AHHH I wanted to pull my hair out. I gave them 3 months to get that stuff to me and they waited until the last minute. Also I had to do what the class called them as status reports, and my client made it so my status reports rarely changed because I couldnt move on to the next step with out the content. Also meetings with the client and "photo-shoot" kept getting pushed back because of weather and unfortunate events, etc. I tried to be organized but things just kept getting ruined. It was so stressful and it caused me to work until 8am Monday ( first finals) morning. So I had to go to a final with no sleep. That is never a good thing. I am just glad it is over.
So on top of that I didn't have a car either to get parts of the project completed, so I had to work around everyone else's schedule, it seemed. I had other huge class projects to do( 6 classes to worry about), other drama, family members making me feel bad for missing out on events etc. I had no me time except for the forced "me" time I made to watch hockey. I didn't miss a single game of the Avs (except for the few that were on the night of my night class :-/ ,but I still kept updated on my phone) and paid attention to the Bruins games, because that was what made me happy, and released stress. I tried hard to stay calm and collected, other methods I used to release stress was stargazing, which I did that a few times. Also I took a trip to Boston with Alyeska in the beginning of April. WOWIE did I have fun. It was nice to see her again and forget about all my worries for those four days. lol Also the lovely _Indica saved me as well, with her sweet texts and beautiful pics of herself that she sent me. That helped with stress as well. So thanks ladies!
I am just happy to be out for the summer and I only have one semester left and then I can graduate and get my BA! YUS!
I promise my next blog will be happier, but I just wanted to explain my absence because I feel terrible.
