Posted by Jacee in Blog, Sibling Sites • December 19, 2011
So, it’s been another six months or so since I’ve updated, therefore, I assume anyone who’s visited the site has either wondered A) what I’ve been doing with my life or B) why this site even continues to exist. I’m going to answer both of those questions.
This past semester, I finally transferred to the University of Georgia (and, thus, gotten out of the small town in which I’d been residing since age 13–the very town that I found so small and dull that I took up learning computers and web design in the first place). My intended major–advertising–was part of Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, which requires a somewhat selective application process that cannot be begun until one is a registered student; only those accepted can declare majors within the college. Anyway, I applied and was accepted, so I can now officially call myself an advertising major. (For anyone who is interested/not asleep yet/hasn’t skipped to the next paragraph, I also decided to minor in sociology. Bonus free Pop Tart if you read this far.)
Not doing a lot of custom designing or graphic designing at all, really. My online work has been pretty exclusively confined to maintaining Web sites for Dream Maker Talent Management and Paige Howe, along with some occasional updates at Fanny Hamlin Network (including the main site and its subsidiaries).
Why, then, do I so stubbornly guard my corner of the Web–if I just let it lie for months at a time? I suppose The Art of Losing is kind of a collective to keep track of everything I’m doing in and around cyberspace. A hobby for the holidays and long weekends. I do apologize if I’ve taken my studies a little too seriously (my inner Hermione needles, “Is such a thing even possible? Nay!”). I laugh because when I created the first version of my first personal Web site (I think it was called x The Rain Falls–yes, with an X, probably), I’d recently read an article about how a girl applied for college and put the link to her Web site/online portfolio on her college apps and that helped her get in to her dream school. I guess my point is, I’ve really had a blast at UGA and feel like I’ve finally found my place for now–but it’s not like I ever told anyone in admissions about my Web site(s) and got in just fine. And, meanwhile, TAoL just lies here, quasi-dormant.
I’m keeping this thing, still, as a psuedo-blog, I think. If you truly want to follow me, try Tumblr and Twitter; those are my two newest social networking experiments. As always, I can be found diddlying around at ColourLovers. And then… I’m sure there are other links just scattered about, like Easter eggs. Feel free to contact me on any social networking medium I make public (via this site).
