3.5.99

    I've just started a new project. I'm so excited. The project is for a women's group and the woman that is heading it up is just awesome. She's a member of Webgrrls so I've met her before but we went to lunch yesterday to work out the particulars and I just had so much fun. We talked for three hours with only an hour spent on the actual project. It was great fun. We seem to have a lot in common and I have a really good feeling about working with her.

    If there's one thing that I've learned this year it's that intuition is something not to be ignored. I had a bad feeling about the Vigorous Idiot from our first conversation in email and it only got worse. I ignored it, however, thinking that perhaps I was trying to subconsciously sabotage myself. Think of all the trouble I could have saved myself if I had acted appropriately to a snake in the grass.

    Right now I'm trying to look at the artwork they sent me. It appears that the zip disk is Macintosh formatted, though, so I'll need to take it somewhere and see if I can transfer it. It's so nice to have artwork to play with. So much of my designs is just coming up with something and I'm glad not to have that whole creative stress. The print stuff I've seen is just beautiful and the mood of their ads is exactly the kind of thing I try to do with my designs. It's gonna look good.

    I wrote an email the other day to this woman who does some really great stuff on the web. I'm on her mailing list and about once or twice a month I hear what she's up to. Right now she's doing freelance web design and seems to be fairly successful. So, I took a deep breathe and wrote her an email. I wasn't sure quite how to phrase it but I ended up asking just what it is that she does. I'm so curious about the people that are doing what I want to be doing. How do they do it? Are they happy? Do they have extraordinary skills that I lack?

    I wasn't sure what kind of response I would get, if any, but I was so surprised at what showed up in my Inbox the next day. She wrote a rather extensive email about herself and went through my site and made several suggestions on what I could do better. It was so nice! She gave me a renewed sense of worth and a bit of oomph that I badly need right now. She also gave me a bunch of good reasons to register a domain. So... watch out, kids, a domain name is coming. Although, I'm not exactly sure what I should get -- any ideas?

    By the way, I try really hard to answer every piece of mail I get from this site. I have a couple that I'm still getting to but I do like to hear from people. So, if you've been holding back, now's your time!