crazy, crazy, crazy

I recently commented how BUSY work was for me and I heard an interesting reply. "Well, that's why they hired you, isn't it? They had tons of work for you to do." I smiled and agreed. Yup, that is why I got a job in this tempermental economy. They had work for me. While things have been pretty stressful... God has been breathing into my life. There is a storm. He is the calm. These projects are for his glory.

no longer temp

I have accepted a full-time position as a Communication Specialist. So many things are great about it. I love the variety of my work. I love the flexibility and the opportunities for growth in my area of study. I wonder how I am going to transition from a 200% throttle for temporary work down to a steadier 100% for a long haul. How do I turn down the stress level and still produce high quality all the time? hmmm.

life as a communication specialist

3 weeks done. 5 weeks to go. Like expected, I continue to move at lightening speed to finish projects accurately and in time. No time to catch any breaths. But I am learning.

I have battled the Quark monster more than once and it no longer wins every match. Occassionally I take the win and walk away with something usable.

I was able to sit in on a meeting with a outside designer which rocked! I was pretty stressed and tired so I'm not sure how I appeared but the meeting went well. My brain even functioned during most of it. [side note: I've been dealing with some brain malfunctioning recently.]

I've been building and packaging images for laymen and designers alike to use. Also working on some very basic supplemental material for their Leaders Live Evangelism event. I wish I could do some more serious design work for them but supplemental is still something. Right?

I am updating the Web site whenever called upon. Sometimes dipping into the dynamic pool of php. I'm not changing the water at all-- just what is inside the water right now. I'm working on learning php though. I also field questions that come through our webhelp email address. Those are fun. ;)

Summer of Marsha

2 days back at Stonecroft. AHHHHH! jk, but it can seem overwhelming. Learn Quark, learn php, figure out their database structure, mess with quark, want to throw up on quark, update site, update site, update site, did I mention update the gosh darn site? Oh wait-- I don't have the right admin access to update the site. Pause.....

But I know after this work things should settle down some. And I can put on my resume about three different times-- ADAPTS TO NEW SETTINGS UNDER HIGH PRESSURE SITUATIONS. Thank you. More later this week.

Blog University freshman year

Wow! I can't tell you how much I am learning from some amazing blogs out there. My design abilities are starting to shoot through the roof. My Web knowledge is slowly beginning to bud little leaves. It is almost overwhelming what I can learn. Here are two I'm frequenting right now:

http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk
http://tutsplus.com