James's Weblog

One of my coworkers had a birthday last week, and to honor the occasion, the rest of us decided to surprise her by vandalizing her office with chinsy birthday decorations. I unexpectedly was given the task of writing “Happy Birthday” in big block letters across her whiteboard. Naturally my lettering came out awful, and what’s more, I didn’t even use a good style. (For some reason it didn’t occur to me to use the lopsided, cartoony letters that seem to permeate everything I do. Instead I used a quick, harried, angular, and totally unreadable, undisciplined mess that I rightfully abandoned many years ago.)

Anyhow, at this point I realized just how out of practice I am (which is all the worse since I was never very good to begin with). I hadn’t done anything remotely creative or artistic in months. (The last time was when I made the ambigrams.)

So last weekend I started getting back into the groove of fiddling with Photoshop, and now I’m once again my wanna-be artsy mood. I wonder how long it’ll last (and more importantly, if I’ll get anything accomplished).