This has been a great past half week, primarily due to the amount of successful distractions I’ve had! Seems like every night I’ve managed to be out somewhere with people, usually around food, and away from the Dungeon Of Pain that has become of the daytime.
Thursday night… dinner at GPK. Congrats to Fi and Hooj for their current work placements, if even only temporary, is a great step forward. Good dinner celebrating that!
Friday night… late as dessert at Maisys. A great catch up, and surprisingly good sticky date pudding! Late night.
Saturday night… saw V for Vendetta finally, it rocked. Fantastic 1984-esque theme, and retained brilliance all the way through. After that, food again at big fish little fish… again surprisingly good coffee - last time there it was flavoured water - tonight it actually tasted like coffee! Anyhow another fun night, another good catch up.
What do all these events have in common? No alcohol. Hah, well that’ll be fixed later.. but.. they have all been a great distraction from my ‘day job’… which I run away from at every opportunity right now. I’m currently spending my days diving right into OOP in flash (actionscript 2, object orientated programming, joys) and while quite uber cool (and not new - ninjaman was very OOP-ish in an as1 way), it does my head in diving in so quickly. So I enjoy time away, haha!
In case you were wondering (and as I haven’t finished putting up all the sections on this site), what… do I actually do for work. Well, three things.
1. ********* games, a start-up studio I’m helping to found. This has been a bit lax as our CO has been overseas the past few weeks, so I’ve taken time out to bone up on new hotness (as2 - stuff I should have learned long ago). Everything relating to this is really exciting, and really pushes me to think outside of what I’m used to. Also gives a sense of ‘things rely on you a bit sonny’ when we’re planning, discussing, communicating with others outside of the studio, etc. My year will revolve heavily around this, so look out for some shit-hot stuff from us 
2. Freelancing gigs. What effectively is the money right now. First there a bit of work with switch.tv, then jonohennessy.com, both of which were fun and different projects. The latter looks to be flowing on to further freelance work, which is great.
3. The final prong. Went for an interview at digital eskimo after the creative director there contacted me, unbeknownst to me for a full time position. Upon knowing that’s.. simply not possible for me particularly with commitment 1, we’re evaluating potential freelance or part time stuff, depending on if I want to do flash or flash+html+css. Browser incompatibilities suck so… I’m leaning towards the former..
Anyhow, that is the state of my day life. For some reason it involves me driving around to lots of people often, I feel like a door to door salesman at times. The getting out is fun, the finding time to DO stuff can be difficult! So a final ho-rah weekend and back to the hecticness on Monday. Looks to be hotting up on all three fronts come monday..
I (heart) Distractions, for a limited time only!
Oh, and check out this months cofa magazine - apparently I’m in it, along with Jason and Johnny - the ninjaman crew - with a half page article on us/ninja/hotness. Cool! I’ll post a scan of it when I get a copy.
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May 14th, 2006 at 1:16 am
omg! another blog entry in less than 1 month? heheheh
well congrats to you on all the jobs that you’ve been getting. i still envy you not needing to write resumes and cover letters. let’s hope this job thing works out for me so i don’t have to write anymore damn cover letters for a while!
May 14th, 2006 at 1:18 am
Fiona (heart) cover letters!
May 14th, 2006 at 4:01 am
Nice to know you’re enjoying distractions… I’m totally into them too, and not for a limited time only. Sounds like we both look forward to things other than our day jobs anyway!
Anyway, you know I wasn’t impressed by V for Vendetta. Funny you mention it was 1984-esq, did you notice the guy playing the Chancellor (John Hurt) played Winston in 1984 itself? Irony++
And oooh, OK, will check out the COFA mag this season. I always get a copy but actually never, ever read it haha…
May 14th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Stephen can u grab a copy for me as well? Since I’m never at COFA anymore.
Hmm, i can also say i didn’t enjoy V for Vendetta as much as you Adam, mostly because i don’t it’s background and i got lost in its political ideals.
May 14th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
You should have done 1984 at school then
Political repression of a country’s people. hawt topics
May 16th, 2006 at 2:05 am
heh.. I know one of the guys at Digital Eskimo. Another one that’s come through the BDM ranks..
But yeah also loved V for Vendetta.. It’s actually started up a costly interest (give it time and I’m sure it’ll be an obsession) in graphic novels.