Held hostage by daisy dukes and cowboy boots during a brief hiatus working in a bar during Stampede week. Absconded to Vancouver to apartment hunt. Wrestled 20 years of Calgary life into one moving van and dropped myself smack dab in the middle of a major city that I hardly know at all. Unpacked, settled in, got my bearings. Dealt with the set back of a broken computer. Turned another year older. Broke a couple hearts along the way. Picked up some freelance work and found a part-time bartending job. I blinked and now it's suddenly halfway through October. Yeesh. This was all on the heels of up and deciding to quit my full time, salaried (read: safe) design gig in a bid to do that ultimate artistic thing – go in search of my dreams. Or in this case my dream job, among others.
Some say big risks reap big rewards. Upheaval? Change? It ain't no thang.
So now my portfolio is very nearly updated and refreshed. And I mean that literally, not in the way I've been saying it for the last six months. To prove it I'm posting a sneak peak at one of my most personally beloved projects a book entitled Heartsong, on the Scottish Highland Games and the tradition in Canada which I wrote, edited and designed in my grad year. Seeing as I was operating on vats of tea and maybe a three hours of sleep in a week at best in those last weeks of my degree it was pretty cobbled together at the time. It's been immensely pleasurable and rewarding to have some time to rework some of it into full potential.
Ok so change is stressful and hard as well as exciting. I think 'coping' is more accurate for how I'm dealing right now. I'm definitely missing a 9 to 5 schedule. Shh. Don't tell my parents I said that.
But hey here we go! Game on Vancouver!
