A lot of things are changing at work. Our contracts are coming up for some of us and we’re getting shifted around to other opportunities. It looks like my time is coming up in a month, and I’m really looking forward to it. I think. I’m hoping that it will all be for the better, though I’m not entirely confident that I’ll enjoy the temporary positions that I’ll need to be placed into until the right one becomes available. At the very least I think that in a month I won’t have to worry about being on-call, and perhaps I can work a normal work week instead of bringing it home with me. That means that I’ll have more time to finish up my classes and perhaps even some of my design projects that I’ve had to put on hold (sorry guys!!) because of all of the projects we’re working on now.

Wish me luck!

P.S. I can’t promise that I’ll be checking MySpace often, but I did finally sign up for both Twitter and Flickr and should be updating them frequently.

It’s been ages since I’ve updated wordpress. I’ve been spending a lot of time testing the upgrade and a number of plugins, etc. Hopefully my site will be a bit less rough around the edges in no time. However, I do still have a number of other projects that I’m working on for friends, and a ton of school work. Not to mention the puppy!

So if our breathing wasn’t bad enough with our recent sinus infections / head colds - whatever you want to call them, we decided to tear down a wall.

We moved everything into the guest room - and I have to admit that after living in the master bedroom that was without wallpaper, primer, or paint (a nice WWII theme), that it was nice to stay in a room (albeit smaller) that had paint on the walls and curtains.

We started demo on Friday - removing the plaster from one wall. We removed the lath (thanks Andrew!) on Saturday, and put up some drywall (thanks Pete!) and reboxed the outlets on that wall last night. We have about 80% of the wall done - but the edges are going to require a bit more work because we’ll have to demo the connecting walls to find the studs.

If all goes well, we’ll be on our way to finish up the remaining walls in the room soon enough.

My sinus infections are becoming more few and far between - as long as I take care of myself and start taking my allergy stuff at the first sign of irritation. Last week (or was it the week before already?) I didn’t act soon enough. I’m paying for that now and recovering from another mild sinus infection. I think this is only the second one this year?

Anyway. I’ve been coughing quite a bit and have a lot of congestion. I spoke too much yesterday with a sore throat. My voice did sound pretty cool yesterday though. But now I’ve lost my voice. Work should be interesting today.

Happy Halloween.

Fall is here. The leaves are changing colors - but I’m afraid that it’s been so dry lately that the color will be extremely short-lived.

I’m still working on my Design & Comp class. It’s due soon and I need to finish it up ASAP. I also want to brush up on my basic Photoshop skills because I’m headed to my first ever Photoshop seminar next week. I’m very excited about it - I’m such a dork.

Things have been significantly less stressful at work since I’ve stepped down as Team Lead. Now I can focus on all of my projects and technical work instead of trying to figure out politics.