{"id":69,"date":"1999-11-07T17:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/11\/07\/whats_going_on\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T15:40:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:40:11","slug":"whats_going_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/11\/07\/whats_going_on\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Going On"},"content":{"rendered":"

An online journal is a stupid thing for me to try,<\/strong> considering how much I prefer to just keep my mouth shut about my life. I suppose it’s another attempt to make myself be a little more candid. Catch me at the right time and I\u2019m actually quite chatty about what’s on my mind, but I admit to a certain self-consciousness about being as fickle as I am. I find it a little embarrassing to explain why I change my mind about big things so often. I try, though, to keep in mind the wise words of my friend Casey: “Life is a journey. Whatever.” Considering the sheer force of will it takes for me to conquer this little quirk and be straightforward about things, I also get frustrated when that effort is not reciprocated. (The gentlemen to whom I am referring may never see this page, but just in case…)<\/p>\n

Latest developments: Following up on a rare opportunity that presented itself when I went to Baltimore in October, I\u2019ve been interviewing for a job with a software company<\/a> in Darien, Connecticut. I figured it was time to buckle down and accept the commute and the regular schedule in exchange for a big enough slary boost to get myself the hell out of debt once and for all. I don’t mean to sound so cynical — I wouldn’t take the job if I didn’t think I\u2019d have fun and learn a lot. I’ll get to travel a lot, they’ll pay for my lunch every day, and I’ll take another step down that long, unmarked road toward integrating my computer nerd side with my art fag side. <\/p>\n

And it gives me a good excuse to tell Pratt<\/a> to “fuck off” once and for all. As much as I enjoy the classes I\u2019ve been taking, I also realize that I\u2019ve spent thousands of dollars and an aggravating amount of time on two semesters of graduate school during I learned almost nothing new of any substance. Pratt’s program is good, but I have too much experience as a designer to get much out of it when I can only concentrate on it part-time. It feels more like an arts-and-crafts camp with a lot of work more than anything else. I’ll almost certainly learn more stuff at this new job about the particular design\/technology issues that interest me than I would have from getting my degree in design, anyway. <\/p>\n

We’ll see, I suppose. Wish me luck.<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, one more thing. I just saw the film Last Night,<\/i><\/a> which was pretty good and raised an interesting question: If you knew for certain that the world was going to end at a specific time, what would you want to be doing at that time? I\u2019m still considering my choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An online journal is a stupid thing for me to try, considering how much I prefer to just keep my mouth shut about my life. I suppose it’s another attempt to make myself be a little more candid. Catch me at the right time and I\u2019m actually quite chatty about what’s on my mind, but … Continue reading “What\u2019s Going On”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77372,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/77372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}