Updates (This is several entries in one)

Job:
I am working as a designer for a software company. My tasks are really enjoyable and the time seems to pass quickly. I will be doing print design soon as well as a plethora of electronic design (user interface, icons, websites, &c.) already in progress.

My boss, a self-admitted nerd, (honoring me with the “nerd” label too) recently gave me a Motorola Q phone. Now, when your boss buys you a toy (even if it does pertain to actual work), surely, most technological obsessifetishists will reserve a special place in their heart’s core for the boss. Hey, he even bought me a MacPro to play with work with even though he’s an ardent Microsoft man!

We’ll be developing stuff using Silverlight technology soon. I have been learning to use Expression Blend too, which, right now, is essentially a Flash competitor. Soon, it will be a viable application development platform.

Silverlight, as a development platform, means that designers and programmers will have the access to use Windows app code as a plug-in in websites, drastically improving the kinds of work that websites can do. We can build applications and interfaces that reside immediately on the page itself, rather than waiting for server communiques with the client. (at least it‘s how i understand it so far.)

I spend the weekend in Dallas, TX, for my grandparents’ birthday. It$lsquo;s the first time that i have even visited them without them asking me how school is going. in fact, when i first walked into their house this time, i reflected that it was the single proudest moment at which i had ever entered their house, for now i finally entered as a graduate, but especially as an employed graduate.