Rose's posterous

so I gave into gender stereotypes

and had some fun drawing these two whom we shall call Mama and Papa.

and my point is

that gender stereotypes are so deeply ingrained it will be a long time before we are free.

my very dear friend Jeremy's response to my latest injury

Hey I have a cane for you tucked under my Tusk (his home wares shop) counter... plus I have dressed it up with a couple of Mac stickers.

If I have time I will look at also attaching some rainbow streamers and a bell (and perhaps a little night light).

No, I wasn't drunk. Warning - slightly gruesome photo attached.

When I tumbled down a flight of stairs. And as I'm tumbling I'm worried about the MBP in my backpack. Seriously - as I'm tumbling ! But she's unharmed. So glad I spent $150 on a really strong well padded backpack. I'm guessing I'll be fairly stiff and sore in the morning but as my darling neighbour Greg said when I text him to say MBP was ok 'that's good cos you're much cheaper to fix".

Gotta love a small town

The Launceston Blues Club (up north) and the Hobart Blues Club (down south) decide to have a jam session midway - Oatlands. So the RSL come to the party (returned service men and women's league) and I decide to catch a bus to partake. BUT just as my bus pulls up in Oatlands a main electric supply junction box blows up. The town of Oatlands is without power - probably for 12 hours. The good news - the kitchen at the RSL runs on gas ( propane for my USA mates) so my lunch is safe and it will be quite awhile before the chardy gets too warm drink. Bad news - the musos need electricity. So one of the locals rings his mate who's in the SES (State Emergency Service) who agrees that this IS an emergency and sets up a petrol (gas for my USA mates) generator. The Show goes on.

for my car loving friends

and I'm loving this concept

but need to learn how to stop the pixelation. vector graphics ?

trying out designs for a new business card

Twitter mate @tmasteve mentioned a business card printing site http://moo.com so off I go for what I thought would be a mindless noodle around the internet before starting my day in RL. Thank the Goddess for twitter mates ! http://moo.com seems like a nice site and has easy to use templates and good prices . The only downside so far is postage rates but that is my fault for living in a pretty little town on the edge of the known universe.

So I start lining up my excuses/justifications for ignoring RL for a little while longer.

I do need a new card and I do need to practice/hone my design skills because - drumroll please - I have decided to go back to school next year. I'm going to apply for a place in a Graphic Design course . It's a very well respected course and has many more applicants than places so I need to prepare a portfolio. I vary between "Goddess! I'm good" and "dammit I'm crap!" but shall give it my best shot.

So for the last two days I've been at the iMac designing cards every chance I got. I have even managed to 'type text on a path' in CS5 without erupting in mindless rage and that is impressive !

I do somedays worry about my inability to do 'random'. Everything needs a theme or a sequence. And therein lies the reason I've been at this for two days.

When it came time to 'save as' the first design the default came up as 'businesscard_template_uk.psd' so (rather unimaginatively) I changed it to 'businesscard_template_A.jpg'. Can you see where I'm going ? I kept it up with B then C then D etc. But I couldn't stop. I had to do 26 designs - one for every letter of the alphabet.

And then I got bored with my fonts and had to find new ones. If I had an ounce of decency I wouldn't add this next web address but I'm going to share the madness that is http://dafont.com. I disappear like Alice in Wonderland in this site (and there's an image I'm sure no-one would instinctively link to me ! )

I don't want to stop but I really must venture out for food before it starts raining again.

Feel free to stomp all over my fragile ego with comments.

See you at the pub.

I am soooo fucking proud of myself

Two years ago this trip would not have been possible. My fear of becoming lost due to my non existent sense of direction had become incapacitating. I was making decisions based on my fear and I'd had enough. This year I planned several adventures. Now getting to and from train stations and hotels may be simple for you but for me they are/where terrifying. I know what you're thinking - iPhone 4 with compass but you know what ? I still got lost in San Fran even with. It was dark and I got totally turned around. I started to panic but focused and got back to my hotel. And tonight I've left my hotel room with no WiFi and no Google Maps. I'm concentrating. Found Target and bought food to take back to room. And now I've found a bar. But I shan't get too cocky. One drink and I'll head back to the hotel. Ok - you know me too well. I lie - two drinks and I'll head back to hotel. Where it will probably take me at least 30 minutes to set up all the tech with their chargers and then I shall sink blissfully into bed and watch a couple of hours of trashy TV. Sent from my iPhone

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