Let us pull up a chair as the dining room proudly presents...your dinner

I cannot be getting another cold. I pride myself on having a good immune system and I tend to only get sick once a semester, that's all I'll tolerate. But i've already had my one cold this semester and I fear I'm getting sick again. It started right before today's sorority initiations (for the newest girls) with a cough and the cough won't seem to go away. It's that annoying one that tightens up your chest and you cough incessantly. I really hate when people whine about getting colds as if no one besides them has had one before and it's the end of the world. I'm sure with an abundance of vitamin C and some nyquil, I can stop this cough before it turns into a full blown cold and gets in the way of a good Thanksgiving weekend. Sara told me a funny story today about her trip to the ER recently for mono and how the nurse gave her an IV, but there wasn't any fluid injection going in, so she was basically just sitting there with a needle in her arm. Not so funny at the time I'm sure, but very much so in retrospect.

I'm so glad I subscribed to this magazing called Print. Not only is it one of the best graphic design magazines that I've found (yes, there are several out there as random as that seems), but they sent me their annual design review. it's got about 100 pages crammed full of some of the best graphic design out this year broken down by region of the US. What's great about that is it includes the names of the design firms that created each piece and where theyre located, so I have a bunch of firms to look into. I found a few great ones up in Seattle. One in particular is called Sub Pop Records and created the album designs for both of The Shins cds. I would love to work in Seattle. Or really, maybe I just wanna go anywhere else. Get a sense of another place in this world. 15 years in LA is enough for the time being. I need to become worldly and now that my england semester is out of the picture, I find myself looking at places I would normally consider for when I graduate and am gonna start looking for a job. There's a difference between the magazines that show design just for the sake of being artsy and the ones that show graphic design in the real world, through advertising and promotions or for some sort of viable purpose. Oh man, I think sometimes I am the only person remotely interested in this stuff. But its my major and I'm a firm believer that you must ADORE what you do or youll be burned out within 5 years of graduation.

I guess that's about it for now, I thought there was more I wanted to write, but I'm not one of those people whose minds function well late at night...in fact my mind is slowly starting to shut down. A sure sign i need a good night's sleep. So until tomorrow, goodnight.