extracurricular stuff...

I was talking out loud in my cubicle at work the other day. 
I do this because I don't know if anyone is on the other side of the half wall or not, I'm shoved away from society so I can do my data entry work. Anywho, I announced, "I want shrimp and grits for dinner tonight" and I heard a little "eehh" from the unknown beyond. I continued my rant about being Southern and how to cook the shrimp and that I don't like my grits soft and runny, but no minds were changed. A few people did poke their heads around to tell me they liked shrimp and grits and wanted to try some. I went to the store after work, bought some shrimp and made this dish. I invited my boyfriend over. He didn't know what a grit was (he's from Mexico, so he's excused), but he was willing to try it. Guess what? He liked it.
Now, the next day at work, I was able to convince the person who said "eehh" to try pizza burgers and my famous pizza fries. She agreed that sounded better.
Please enjoy this drawing I've made of shrimp and grits. I made it using my Adobe Illustrator program…yay me!

Also, I'm funny because my friend posted this on Facebook and look at my reply:

I'd like an internship, please

About 8 weeks ago I knew I needed to apply for internships. Having an internship is part of the curriculum, we get graded on it. If you don't get one, you have to drop the class, and if you don't have one by the time you graduate, I don't know what happens. But it doesn't matter, because I got one!
I had been asking people who had internships and my teachers for leads. I got a few names and wrote a few letters (and by letters, I mean emails). Then my friend Nick comes along and says, "oh, hey you could intern where I'm at because she needs a lot of help." So I write the lady and she responds within the hour, and just like that I had an interview set up. I go to the place and she explains what they do there and I ask what she would need from me. Since they never had interns before (except Nick and he's quite casual about pretty much everything), I explain what I was told about the program and tell her the hours I'd need. She explains a little more about what she does, then looks at me and asks, "So, you think you'd be interested?" And I was like, "Sure!" So, just like that I got an internship, unpaid, but oh well. I start on Monday at 1 and I'm nervous about working for a professional company using my Adobe Illustrator skills. But, I'm good at following directions, so I should be ok for a while. I hope.

Here is one of the last things I made recently in school for a final group project: a logo for a fake company so we could make a direct response ad campaign for it.

another end

So the end of another quarter of school is here. I made 3 A's and 1 B. The B was from my web design class, which I do not care about, but it's part of the curriculum for anyone in any type of graphic design course. And, as I am majoring in Advertising, it's considered a graphic design class. We had a mid-term practicum where we were given a sketch and told to write the code for it using html and css. Well, I would have done a lot better, I believe, if I had a better teacher. The way it was explained to me from the beginning made no sense. So I failed the test. I say fail like I made a 60 or something…no. I made a 31 (that's out of 100 points). For our final, we had to turn in a 5 page website designed from sketches we turned in previously. I asked my friend Brad to help me. When he arrived to help, I had already most of the html written and he said it wasn't that bad. Now I had to write the css, which is what adds the "pretty" to the page (margins, backgrounds, letter size…) The way he explained everything made perfect sense. Why couldn't my teacher do that?? Anyway, I was able to write all my pages a week ahead of time and turn it in. Everything worked and was set correctly and I was happy with it. I saw my grade on it today. I made an 85 on it. Meh. I don't care, but what makes me upset is that she marked off for something I think is really stupid: my choice of font for the text in my web page. I chose a serif font. I don't remember seeing in the rules anywhere that I couldn't have a serif font, but she marked it as wrong. WTF?? I know most websites these days use sans serif, but there are plenty that use serif and I think they look just fine.

I feel comfortable enough with what I know and understand to design the front-end part of the website, and hand it to a coder and say "ok, here, write this."I'm sure I can find a job where I don't have to code. I need a t-shirt that says "I hate to code".