January 2011
18 posts
1.7
• went to work, and made it through the day, despite a headache. • was SO pleased to find in my email an email titled “Thank you, Ninja….” and the body read:
…for the sweet card I received! Have a great start in the new year! 100 greetings from wonderful 23rd Street, Stefan Sagmeister Inc. 206 West 23rd Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10011 tel: (212) 647 1789 ...
1.6
• stayed home again. watched ‘northanger abbey’ online. watched ‘emma’ online. • talked on the phone with my mom. apparently dad is playing angry birds now, after she beat all the levels, and he triumphs when he makes a new high score.
1.5
• stayed home again … but was successful in securing creative morning with milton glaser tickets for the whole creative team at work. yay!
1.4
• braved up the courage to go out and mail the cards i’d written the night before, buy cold medicine, tissue, and cough drops, and go to the grocery store. • watched various dvd’s, including ‘beauty and the beast,’ which erica got for me for christmas!! after all these years! i really don’t like the ‘human again’ song being included in the feature. • tried...
1.3
• handed out new year’s cards at work and people really liked them :) mailed out the other ones i’d written. • felt like i was going to throw up and came home early. • wrote 30 more new year’s cards.
1.2
• made new year’s cards and wrote about 30 of them
1.1
• jessica’ friend jo, who had come to rosa and kevin’s with us the night before, stayed over, and we three went out to brunch at … some restaurant with ‘dog’ in the name. i forget what. we had wanted to go to alice’s tea cup but there was a long wait. i had a spinach and feta omelette. • then i went to barnes and noble near my place, but they didn’t have...
12.31
• went to urban outfitters to buy rugs for my room. the one near my apartment didn’t have housewares, so went down to the one on 60th, and they had what i wanted. hurray! • jessica came home with rosa and kevin, and i went with them to rosa and kevin’s apartment, where kevin made us vegetarian sloppy joes and we had beer and talked and kevin played guitar and rosa played piano for us....
12.30
• arrived at jfk and … my luggage never showed up. boo. after searching around for it then taking a long time to report it at the baggage office, i bought a boston cream donut from the dunkin donut stand in the luggage claim area and sat on a bench to finish the angel’s game, but was too tired, so finished my donut and grabbed a cab to get home. finished the book, then slept all day.
12.29
• desh, cob, and i were having breakfast served by my mom (of my dad’s shrimp topped with cheese, toast with choices of blueberry jam, pumpkin butter, and … nutella? i forget the third one) and coffee. and apple cider. and ben and eric arrived as we were still eating and i was still in my pj’s and we were sitting about until kathy had to leave for sf for lunch with her friend....
12.28
• had my hair done. the hair lady gave her experienced opinion on my inner ear/balance problem. my hair lady is awesome. • mom dropped me off at the mall, where i met erica, eric, ben and francis at q-cup, where they were playing the game erica, eric, ben and i will forever know as ‘pikachu.’ they had watched ‘true grit’ earlier in the day (after having breakfast at the...
12.27
• arrival of kathy, eric, and erica!! bearing the gift of joyce’s almond jelly!!! they pet pepper and coco for a bit (all favoring pepper, of course), then we went to ben’s, where ben proceeded to drive us to san francisco’s de young museum, where we met up with francis and saw the impressionist exhibition, which i enjoyed a lot. i bought a postcard from the gift shop and also a...
12.26
• dad’s 60th birthday! we went to dinner at black angus, courtesy of my brother, who failed to get dad a gift. i had filet mignon (i think) with grilled prawns. yum! • came home, took some family photos on the couch with my auto-timing skills (coco, the dog we were dog sitting, was included in the photos, as if she were our own dog!) and had tiramisu cake with the nice johnnie walker whisky...
12.25
• YAY christmas, gave my dad his ipad :) he immediately downloaded angry birds for my mom’s use. • my parents gave me money to buy a coat.
12.24
• met sung yeon at alice’s tea cup, chapter ii, where we shared a pot of earl grey and i had some kind of smoked salmon sandwich. then sung yeon came to my apartment to print her bus ticket. • i set out early, struggled down the three flights of narrow, tall stairs, determined to take the subway, which would take 1.5 hours to JFK, as opposed to the hour it took from my old apartment. but as...
12.22
• office holiday party! stayed up the night before baking mocha chocolate chip cookies, which we ate most of at work. • the party was at josh’s apartment in tribeca, which is AMAZING and has a great view of the city and is just awesome. there were the balloons i’d overheard him talking about on the phone earlier in the week. (he’d had his office door wide open and said,...
12.21
• dinner with nina at bonchon, korean fried chicken • was waiting for nina outside and she texted me: “Walking there now. I forgot ur gif and had to go back to get it.” and i responded, “dammit! you got me a gif instead of a jpg?!” and i was VERY pleased with myself. • we had fried chicken and spicy dumplings and fries and coke
12.20
• got my ipad christmas gift from work!! then went immediately to the fifth avenue apple store after work to buy a case for it so i could play with it without fear of hurting it! named it rupert milo.
December 2010
5 posts
12.14
THIS WAS AN AWESOME DAY
• had jury duty and was among the first to be sworn in as a juror for a supreme court trial, and was sent away at about 1pm while they chose the rest of the jury. so i went to work. • dan from lady danville texted me about the ben folds show that night, saying that the venue screwed them by giving them only 5 tickets instead of the 20 they’d promised them, so they...
12.12
• went to workshop’s studio to help make decorations for the aiga holiday party. it was lots of fun! there was pizza, coke, beer (i didn’t have any because i was cutting and gluing stuff!), cookies, and hot coco. i made the sign for james victore (it was a circle that said james, then below that on a string a mustache, then below that a circle that said victore, and below that a hand...
12.11
• bought my dad’s ipad!! with case and dock and stylus. it’s gonna be a great birthday!
12.9
• i walked into class and there was one other student sitting there, while ed benguiat was smoking a cigarette at the teacher’s desk, a pack of marlboros in front of him. i laughed and he said, ‘do you see me smoking?’ and i said, ‘no,’ and he said, ‘do you see me smoking?!’ and i said, ‘i don’t know what you’re talking about!’ and...
12.10
• had a conversation with gretchen and james in the conference room about my concerns regarding coming on staff at scrollmotion, and it went REALLY well. i’m not really sure what i was expecting, but they completely understood my issues of not being focused on design, etc. first i showed them my portfolio, because gretchen had only seen my website, and james hadn’t seen any of my work...
November 2010
1 post
11.4
• bought adobe cs5 student licensing with my sva continuing education schedule. YAY. • showed ed my portfolio during class, because he and dotty are looking for a junior designer. he said i’m not quite what he’s looking for, but said that i’m very qualified to be hired by somebody, and that i had good work. yay!
October 2010
24 posts
10.22
• YAY got to be a production assistant for stefan sagmeister’s happy film! arrived at 12:30 p.m. at what turned out to be stefan’s apartment on 14th street. when i came in, ben the producer introduced himself, then stefan stood up and shook my hand and introduced himself, and so did hillman curtis. as if i don’t already know who they are! they were discussing going to union...
10.21
• stayed home sick … but got in some good rest and cleaned the room a bit
10.20
• went in to work for a few hours before leaving to have lunch with mom at the upper east side shake shack. then we shopped around at h&m, peed at barnes and noble, then bought some groceries, before she had to leave for the airport. it had been such a nice visit. • ran some errands at adorama and the container store before meeting adri at katz’s delicatessen (the meg ryan/when harry met...
10.19
• had a meeting with jessica young at scholastic about the book clubs logo. she was so nice! she was really fun to show my portfolio to, and she told some funny stories about regifting gifts if you get something from someone you don’t like haha. • met mom at grand central and she showed me the whispering area, then we got food from the oyster bar. we walked through the market, which i...
10.18
• got sick, so i stayed home at worked from home, with a 3-hour nap in the middle • mom went to the moma, then made her way down to the hand-pulled noodle place to buy frozen dumplings for me. i can’t believe she found her way there!!
10.17
• mom and i went to the whitney • we came home and she made me korean seaweed soup and we had a lovely dinner. it’s been so long since i’ve had homemade rice and such in my apartment!
10.16
• slept in, then mom and i went down to the lower east side to take a look at the grub street food festival, but ended up eating at the hand-pulled noodle place. • went to the barney’s co-op in soho then stopped by bed bath and beyond, then sat at the korean bakery in k-town a bit to rest. i had a boba milk tea, mom had shaved ice. • then we went to macy’s and i bought a bathrobe.
10.15
• went to work while mom went on the grand central tour, and we met after work at an italian restaurant near scrollmotion. had a shrimp appetizer and a meatball pizza. • then we went to the majestic theater to see the phantom of the opera! but the girl who played christine that night had the most ANNOYING voice ever, she ruined everything!! ugh. but the phantom was amazing.
10.14
• mom arrived early in the morning, we did my laundry and had sushi • went to help out at the aiga gain conference studio tours. my ‘studio’ was knopf, and it was pretty awesome to see all the great book designers, including carol devine carson, barbara dewilde, and the ever-loved chip kidd. had chip sign jessica’s copy of ‘the learners’ which i’d gotten for her...
10.13
• met nina at the container store after i got off work, and we got new anchors for my shelf. then we went to home depot to get some other sized anchors. we came home, she spackled the holes in my wall, and then drilled the hooks and hangers in for me. then we tried to put the shelf into the wall, but have discovered that there is a brick wall behind the dry wall, and the dry wall part is too short...
10.12
• left work early to go to volunteer at aiga. was very early, when i got to the flat iron district, so wandered the little market they have there going on until next week. ran into amanda next to the flat iron — she was with a friend who was visiting. good thing she looks up, unlike me. • got to aiga early, so had a chance to look around at the 365 winners. such beautiful work! anthropologie...
10.11
• happy birthday desh!!!! quarter life crisis time!! for some reason, when she responded to my text saying something about how then she’d live until 100, i couldn’t stop snorting with stifled laughter, and had to walk away from my desk at work, because i was sounding like an idiot. • nina was at work again yay! we chatted more while working haha, though we are very good workers, let me...
10.10
• went to check out the ING cafe (yes, the bank has a cafe near 60th street) to meet with liana, who happens to be my age, who went to nyu tisch film school for undergrad, then spent the last two years in korea teaching english. she is a black girl from queens, and she found my site while searching around the web for graphic design stuff, while she was still in seoul. she’s apparently done...
10.6
• volunteered at aiga small talk about w/____, a really cool art space in chinatown
10.9
• rosa and kevin hosted brunch at their new apartment on 35th and lexington. their place is really pretty, with a glass balcony/patio thing. it was nice to see everyone. jess and i brought fruit, and we saw adri, nina, maya (and her boyfriend that she never goes anywhere without), jesse, mika, tom, armaan. • picked up the package joyce sent me! she sent me a tin of almond roca from hawaii, kona...
10.8
• met with david vozar at scholastic at 10 a.m. he always dives right in, asking what i’m up to and giving me advice. as always before, he’s urging me to create a greater diversity of work, both in style and type. he also said, ‘i’m going to give you some work,’ and offered me the chance to come up with ideas for a new scholastic book clubs logo. i am so excited! •...
10.7
• class with ed … he showed a video about the history of type, and he was interviewed in it! he was much younger then. when the narrator said ‘blah blah blah ed benguiat’ we were all surprised, and he said, ‘it’s all bullshit,’ as he appeared on the screen. • allie surprised me with her internet skills
10.5
• pay day … but nina’s only working fridays and mondays until we can get a work station for her :( • had dinner with nina at saint’s alp tea house. had ramen with chicken wings and a milk tea. so good! we gabbed about the weekend, her last couple days at work, my trip to toronto. • jess offered me some wine • had a good chat with joyce online
10.4
• went to cora’s for brunch, where i treated liz. i had a spinach and cheddar omelette. • went to main street unionville, which is the cutest street with the cutest shops/houses • packed my stuff and liz dropped me off at the airport
10.3
• liz made us toast, eggs and english breakfast tea, which we also had with banana bread her mom had made the night before • went to the art gallery of ontario, which was really lovely • got more poutine at harvey’s, liz had a burger, which we ate in the car, then rushed to catch the 7:10 showing of ‘the town,’ which was a really good movie. • stopped by a boba place, then went...
10.2
• liz made us beans and toast, which we had with english breakfast tea • went to casa loma • went to queen street, where we had poutine and tim horton’s • went to see the small production of [title of show], a musical liz was helping out with, since her friend is artistic director • went back downtown to go to nuit blanche, the all-night art event • got home at 5:30 am
10.1
• was going to leave my laptop home on my trip to toronto, but had to bring it because of the lady danville job. this was lucky, because when i got to the airport and went to my gate, it turned out my 11:15 flight was cancelled. luckily, they automatically put me on the 5:15 flight. the lady next to me was angry that she couldn’t get on a flight but i could. i think it was because i’m...
9.30
• nina’s first day at scrollmotion, helped her get the job! • class, got an A on assignment • got an email from dan from danville asking if i wanted to do a cd label design for lady danville’s tour ep they’ll be selling on tour with ben folds
things that happened this summer (and also in...
• started work at scrollmotion • made the woogie logo at scrollmotion • met ina saltz, who photographed my tattoo • had a portfolio review with jessi arrington and creighton mershon from workshop • moved in to my new apartment • after being told that the ikea alex drawer was discontinued, found the holy grail answer in new jersey, where they had the drawer in stock and everything else i needed...
July 2010
28 posts
7.25
• got lots of cleaning done, felt very productive.
7.24
• took care of some errands (i can’t even remember what now … uh … hm. i know one of them was getting rose a house warming gift) then hung out at argo at columbus circle for an hour and a half or so until rose’s housewarming party. • oh, i remember! got the house warming gift at urban outfitters, then went to the flea market that popped up on bleecker street just by my...