C O N V E R G E

The Foochow Anniversary ride was tons of fun, such good people I’m sad I barely make it out to the rides anymore (due to homework, usually.) Pete made a short route around Alhambra and San Marino, really nice route, not too many crowded roads, slightly hilly, equally nice downhills. I don’t know why but its always kind of weird riding through neighborhoods with fancy houses. It’s so quiet, no one really drives on these streets except for coming and going from their homes. These gigantic houses that have driveways as big as my house. They’re nice to look at but I’d never want a house that big.

The after party was intense. A lot of people from foochow I hadn’t seen in several months. There was a lot of beer…a lot of beer. Someone had also brought a lot of home prepped bbq for the grill and it was just barbaric. Beer in hand, grilled meat sitting on a cutting board that was placed on a lawn chair–no plates. Guillermo got super drunk and almost got set on fire, later on in the night he would ask me “I can’t feel my face. Is that normal?” That kid is crazy.  I think I enjoyed partying the most with people I had only previously met on a bike, some really cool people and it’s always nice to find out that bikes aren’t the only things we have in common.

Ah, I’ve always felt incapable of putting my own voice into my work–mostly because there’s not always a place for it. However I could do it if I was clever enough and willing enough to do it. I think it has something to do with personal issues I may have with opening up or being too reserved. Of course though, I always find myself envious of work that makes me laugh–because I can’t seem to quite find that balance in my own work. In general, I know I am capable of a lot of things by the time I graduate, I’m beginning to feel more and more competent and capable of working professionally–unlike when I started. What it boils down to though is the kind of work I want to make, not only in graphic design but everything else. The kind of work I enjoy, the smart, clever, slightly low-brow stuff I’m always getting yucks from. This really just goes back to re-organizing my own process, which I’ve been trying to evaluate and deconstruct. It’s mostly time I’m assuming… mostly time.