drea2design

Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve posted anything up here. I’ve been busy, but I’m still FunEmployed. Let’s see, where did I leave off last time…

Hmm, last I wrote about was The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. That was about 3 weeks ago. I applied for an online editor position, did a trial for a week, but haven’t heard back from them. I guess maybe I’ll email them and see what’s going on. I did some freelance, just 2 days. Traffic was a bitch and I really don’t want to sit in traffic. I’m hoping I can find a job closer to home. I finally got my first unemployment check. Geez took over a month. Almost done with my HTML coding class and the Letterpress class. Now to figure out my next steps.

The Japan Film Society has also been keeping me busy. Sending out press releases, designing the website, the latest events and all the meetings. We had a special screening of Mothra on the Sony Studios lot. The family of Jerry Ito came to the screening, his wife is really cute. I enjoyed talking to her for a bit. The turnout was great. Next will be The Winter Shorts @ The Royal/T Cafe in Culver City. If you’re in town, come by and check it out. Should be fun.

There’s so much going on, I don’t know where to start or if it’s even interesting enough to blog about it. Yes, I’m still unemployed and so are so many people in advertising. It’s scary and it doesn’t look good in the near future. Adweek is reporting that BBDO might be shutting down their Detroit shop end of January. About 145 jobs will be cut. And the cuts keep on happening. I just read on AgencySpy that Ogilvy will be cutting 90 jobs today. Many of my friends that still have a job in advertising are worried. Clients are cutting budgets, things are slowing down, print is dying, but interactive jobs are flourishing.

Ok, enough about all this. Need to concentrate on making a million dollars soon. Can’t really say “by the end of this year” cuz it’s coming up fast. But it will be soon. I’ll leave you with pics of my latest crochet projects.

Penny Poo, was so tempted to keep her.

Headbands, still working on perfecting them.

Piglet, a little gift for my friend's baby girl.