This was a great<\/i> weekend, highly needed and coming at just the right time. I went to a party on Friday night thrown by a girl who went to Kenyon but who was in a slightly different circle than my own. As a result, I met up with a bunch of alums that I only knew a little back at Kenyon, but seeing them now was really terrific. I found myself oddly self-aware for a lot of it, but I had a great time – and,<\/i> in a moment of true surrealism, I ran into someone I knew from elementary school,<\/i> who didn’t go to Kenyon but apparently knew the host through some different channels. Further, one of the girls from Kenyon had at one point been best friends with a girl I dated back in high school. It is the smallest of small worlds.
\nOn Saturday, I went with Talon and his fellow DePaul DePeople to go see a children’s theater show based on a modernized African folk tale, which was beautiful and wonderful and a whole lot of fun. After we came back, I took a look around the apartment and started taking notes. The place needed a good cleaning; T and I had done a big cleanup a week or two earlier, but there was just clutter<\/i> piling up, mostly my stuff. So I rolled up my sleeves and went to work. It wound up taking the rest of Saturday and a huge chunk of Sunday, but the place looks great, and I feel a lot better about things. Which probably then directly tied into my working on Sunday evening, building two new designs for projects which had been bugging me for a while. The new designs are beautiful and elegant and straightforward, just the way I like ’em. I’m hoping the clients go for them. I’ll post something here when things move forward.
\nI also had a new idea for a media project this weekend, one which might – might<\/i> – be able to be done quickly, exhibit the kind of thinking I want to demonstrate for my grad school applications, and might demonstrate new applications of technology to do some really nifty things, but<\/i> be built with existing materials and off-the-shelf hardware. I’m hoping I can go out and do a proof-of-concept for this project this week, but we’ll see how my time works out. I’m hoping<\/i> this will happen, but like I said, I need to see how things shake out. If so, I’ll provide a link and a little demonstration here. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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