so here i am. this is my first post. and i’m kind of happy about this whole blogging thing. i used to do it, in the seventh grade, but then i said some things i probably shouldn’t have said and got in trouble. so here i am. it’s a few years down the line, and i’m not really too into getting into trouble, though i don’t do my best to stay out of it either. but first things first, i suppose. my name is jordan, i’m fifteen and i live in rhode island: the smallest state with the longest name. i’m really into graphic design, in fact i want to major in it for college, and music is a huge part of my life. i’m into more metal music than anything else, though i listen to other things as well. some other information about me? i’m a brunette right now, but i’m naturally blonde, wavy hair, with sidebangs, down to my collarbone. i stand at 5’5″, which is pretty short in my school, and i have brown eyes and white skin.
i guess i could have just been nifty and uploaded a picture, but i already wrote it, so why delete it now?
me, myself and i!
so here i am. why? because i need someone to vent to. and if that someone happens to be an online blog, then so be it. i’m not someone who gets easily embarassed. although, i do generally take into account what other people think of me.
allright, enough about my characteristics. i want to know what people think about the work that i do. no, not in school because we all know saying that i do well there would be a waste of breath. but i’m talking about graphic design, because it’s something that i have passion for, and i’ve known it since the day i picked up paint shop pro x. right now i’m using psp9, which isn’t as nifty, but i still love it to death. anyways, i started doing graphic probably about four years ago, when i was in the sixth grade. yes, i’m a young’n. haha, but i always felt like i had a little knack for it, and all f the tutorials i read just sort of clicked in head as i read along. i continued messing around with the program and downloading patterns, brushes and fonts, until one day my grandma’s computer decided it didn’t want to work anymore. and that’s when i lost all of my hard work. it was a really sad day, and i still think about it sometimes because there was so many things on that computer that i would have liked to keep. i’m surprised i never started boycotting technology because of that, but i just love it too much. blah, so i didn’t do graphics for a while after that, mostly until a month or so ago. this was because i didn’t have the program, and i no longer visit my grandma every weekend like i did when i was younger.
but last month, after i bought my new laptop, i called her up and asked her to find the program for me. she didn’t find pspx, but i said that psp9 would do, even though i had never used it before. when she brought it i about died with excitement and immediatley went to download it. at first i was just using it to mess around with my facebook pictures and stuff, make them look a little niftier. and then i saw a blend contest on http://swimchick.net, and i thought, “wow, perfect opportunity!”
it just figures, that by the time i actually get to entering my blend, that the contest’s deadline was the day before.
it makes sense though, considering that this was my busiest week/weekend in a long time. i just moved back into my house today, because my floors have been getting redone over the past week and my parents and i have been staying in a hotel. the hotel we stayed at is across from my boyfriends house, so i wasn’t just going to sit around and make a blend when i could be out having fun with him. so, i blew it off. then on saturday, i had absolutley no time for it; i had PSATs in the morning, and then soccer and then later in the evening i had my homecoming dance.
this morning i finally got up and made the blend, and went on the site to find that the deadline was the 17th, and that today was the 18th.
but last month, after i bought my new laptop, i called her up and asked her to find the program for me. she didn’t find pspx, but i said that psp9 would do, even though i had never used it before. when she brought it i about died with excitement and immediatley went to download it. at first i was just using it to mess around with my facebook pictures and stuff, make them look a little niftier. and then i saw a blend contest on http://swimchick.net, and i thought, “wow, perfect opportunity!”
it just figures, that by the time i actually get to entering my blend, that the contest’s deadline was the day before.
it makes sense though, considering that this was my busiest week/weekend in a long time. i just moved back into my house today, because my floors have been getting redone over the past week and my parents and i have been staying in a hotel. the hotel we stayed at is across from my boyfriends house, so i wasn’t just going to sit around and make a blend when i could be out having fun with him. so, i blew it off. then on saturday, i had absolutley no time for it; i had PSATs in the morning, and then soccer and then later in the evening i had my homecoming dance.
this morning i finally got up and made the blend, and went on the site to find that the deadline was the 17th, and that today was the 18th.
finished piece (C) Jordan Arnold
i emailed the owner of the site and told her the conditions, and we’ll see what happens. hopefully she will understand and let me enter, though i highly doubt it, because she already chose the 25 people who get to advance into the next round. this stinks a lot, but if she doesn’t let me enter i’ll just have to understand and wait for the next contest.
i might be a little upset though! ):
good bye for now.
