Life on Forest Lane

Two weeks ago I came home from work and there was a moving truck blocking my parking space, so I just parked somewhere else. I saw that stuff was being brought from my upstairs neighbors apartment. I yelled "NO!!!!" and ran upstairs to see what was going on. Her company is moving her to an office in North Carolina, so she's moving. I slowly went back downstairs to my apartment and spent all my wishes on wishing to get another upstairs neighbor like her: quiet, reasonable hours, doesn't listen to tv like she's at a drive-in, doesn't stomp around and says "hello" every once in a while. Totally opposite of my last neighbors and I just don't want to get another one of those!! If you'd like to refresh your memory of those days past, look here: squeaky floors, elephants and rhinos. And if you pray, please pray for me to not get another neighbor like that! I've only got 9 more months of school and hopefully I can move out immediately after graduation.

As far as school goes, one of the things we have to do before graduation is obtain an internship in our field of study. My friend Nick found a graphic design position at this apparel company and he told the lady about me. She said, "we could use another intern, I'm so behind here." So, he told me. I really wanted an advertising or marketing gig, but I'll take whatever I can get for now to fill the requirement, and anyway, graphic design is the basis for my field in advertising. I sent out a few letters (emails) and filled out a few applications, but didn't get called back for any of them. I finally gave in and wrote to this place Nick told me about. Within hours she contacted me and the next day I had an interview and the following week I had an internship. It's unpaid, but it's ok, it's only 8 hours a week and it's literally 2 miles from my apartment. The place is called One Team Apparel and in my first assignment, I organized and developed a file for blank outfits, so the patterns and new school designs can be dropped in without having to design the whole thing all over again. Then last week, I started drawing in Illustrator my own patterns. The place is new and there's some construction going on and the production building in next door, so everything is made in the good ol' USA. It's a small staff and I think I can bear it for 11 weeks, even though I'd really like to be working on an ad campaign for local businesses.


here is a pattern I've started. I need to add a leopard pattern. this wasn't my idea, but, it's my internship job…