{"id":135,"date":"2003-04-06T19:15:43","date_gmt":"2003-04-07T01:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/share.cassity.us\/?p=135"},"modified":"2015-05-01T20:02:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T00:02:59","slug":"135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/135\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got that internship in Massachusetts. I will be moving there at the end of May most likely, I still haven&#8217;t figured that part out yet&#8230; I am excited, I feel like I am just going to sit around waiting to move. I will probably try and pack as much big city fun in as I can before I leave. I will miss my people here.<\/p>\n<p>This weekends guests included Peter Heffner and Darren Finnigan. We had a swell time that included drinking beer, talking, riding in cabs, eating, and shopping.<\/p>\n<p>the cute show was last night. I think it was a moderate success, as a show everything had a graphic nature to it, and seemed to work well together. I think over a 100 people were there in all, mostly art kids who don&#8217;t buy art. I got a lot of compliments and many were puzzled.<\/p>\n<p>KU basketball is out of control.<\/p>\n<p>I am excited to go back to Kansas next weekend. I will see the folks and go to the mega-event called KALLIDE Tell all of the Lawerence area people you know to go. It is Monday, April 14 at the Granada, starting at 10pm. I designed the web site! I just realized that I won&#8217;t be able to post the weekly column next week though as I don&#8217;t get back until Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what else to write about, I am exhausted&#8230; here is what I typed in my jounal last week:<\/p>\n<p><strong>31 Mar 2003<br \/>\n<\/strong>No big revelations in the past couple of days. My mom visited over the weekend and it was nice. I got to show her around, the bus and train were a hassle. She is addicted to Diet Coke and wanted to spend money while she was here. Consumption = entertainment. She got some placemats, which I can at least see some use for.<\/p>\n<p>I appeared on some web site and the caption was a &#8220;sad, sad boy&#8221; I am rather sad looking I guess. I wonder if I will ever be depressed in the future.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1443\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/9.jpg\" alt=\"9\" width=\"491\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/9.jpg 491w, http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/04\/9-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turns out I may spend well over $700 on this little art project of mine. Beginning to doubt it&#8217;s value. I could do a lot of other more useful things with that money. I would rather spend it on something that I could easily have a multiple of, like a print. That is the graphic designer mentality, which I like. Hopefully I can sell a couple of these deals and make my money back. I don&#8217;t really want to deal with moving them, especially if I go to Mass. I seriously doubt anyone will buy one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Apr 2003<br \/>\n<\/strong>Everything I can do for the cute show is out of my hands at least for now. I am starting to work on the piece for the staff show&#8211;unmotivated though \u2014\u00a0partly because of money. I am forcing myself to do it. Hopefully it will be worth it. My confidence is really lacking right now.<\/p>\n<p>Today I met with the design director for the museum. I dropped off my portfolio for him last week to get his feedback and plant the seed in case a job comes up there. He really liked everything, gave me some good criticism, and lent me the Megg&#8217;s design history textbook (he saw the glassy-eyed look when he was dropping names). Then he went into this 30-plus minute monologue about the state of graphic design and how much he doubts it&#8217;s purpose, it was pretty interesting and I didn&#8217;t have much to add since I am pretty inexperienced compared to him. It was an ego boost to hear that he likes my work, but that was all balanced out when he was talking about how worthless a lot of our efforts are in the end. In regards to that I am wondering what is the best\/most worthwhile way to apply my skills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Apr 2003<\/strong><br \/>\nHuge drop in confidence today. Felt like I wasted almost the entire day, mainly because I tried to take advice that I didn&#8217;t believe in or understand. I nearly always regret the outcome when I don&#8217;t trust my gut feeling, be it design or life decisions. As far as design goes I am becoming a bit of a style-whore, relying on the same old tricks for my work. I don&#8217;t know what I need to do to fix this.<\/p>\n<p>Very anxious about the Massachusetts internship. I think I am just going to intern for the rest of my life. No money \u2014 no worries. I am also anxious about this weekend. I have one goal for the art show&#8211;don&#8217;t look like an idiot. I think I will achieve this goal by not getting drunk and smiling a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got that internship in Massachusetts. I will be moving there at the end of May most likely, I still haven&#8217;t figured that part out yet&#8230; I am excited, I feel like I am just going to sit around waiting to move. I will probably try and pack as much big city fun in as I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/135\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Roundup<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}