I'M CHANGED FOR LIFE!!!

Alright so have you ever learned something and after you learned it you couldn't look at things the same way again? In my case I can no longer look at street signs, billboards, magazines, anything that has letters on it the same again! Last semester I learned about typography. For example serifs and san serifs--serif means having tails (like that in the typography image) and san serifs means no tails. Now everywhere I go I pay close attention to things such as that. Also in magazines I'm starting to pay attention to the indents, paragraphing, font sizes, font types, and just how magazine stories and pictures are arranged. Before I just used to read magazines you know! Am I alone on this? Please let me know if you do the same so I don't feel like a psycho? Check out the link also. I think I'm going to attempt it. If it works out, I'll post the image.

http://www.artext.co.uk/html/tutorialtwofont.html

LIFE'S TOO SHORT TO BE SERIOUS ALL THE TIME

I understand that I'm growing up and need to be serious about life and work and all but you can't be serious all the time. "Don't get your panties all in a twine grandma! It is going to be okay." Take time away from being serious all the time. For instance I played double-dutch with some classmates yesterday. I was somewhat rusty on my jump roping skills but we still had a lot of fun. Later I did finish my homework so don't think I didn't. I challenge YOU to do the same---go out today and do something fun with a group of your friends and take a break from the homework, school, work, or whatever. Believe me it will be worth it!

"SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY$"

Okay so I'm not getting paid.....as of yet, but I have been working hard since last week. I've been working my tail off on a couple of tasks to attempt to get a summer internship with a St. Louis company, ZIPATONI. Quinine Jeans--for the Ultra-Sophisticated Her. Do you like my tag line? I like it. They asked for me to make the logo for the high-end denim company (which is made up by the way), a poster that will be displayed in the store or handed out to consumers, a catalogue cover and a possible two page spread telling the consumer where to purchase the apparel. Sounds like a lot huh?!? It was! I was somewhat pleased with the final results but you know what they say, "You are your toughest critic." So I'm very nervous about whether or not my work gets accepted considering Zipatoni is only accepting 15 interns or what they're calling Zipterns. If accepted this will be a very good experience of how life and work are in the "Real World". I set high expectations for myself and coming up short will only push me to work harder the next time around. So look out world because CLAUDIA is ready to take YOU on!


http://www.zipatoni.com

ALL IN THE KOOL-AID AND DON'T KNOW THE FLAVA!

So on Thursday Ms. Anna Nicole passed away. Let's take a moment of silence to pay our repects..............alright. Please someone tell me why it is that everyone is up in everyone's business but their own??? Everyone is saying that she was on drugs and OD'd on them which come to find out is wrong. Do you want to know what I believe? I believe she died of a broken heart. Five months earlier her only son passed who she had a very tight bond with. I can't imagine what she must have been going through. And on top of that the public is all up in her kool-aid over who is her baby's daddy!!!! Why do they care? And then there's her mama. The person who she should always have been able to go to for anything but she couldn't. Yesterday on the tv Anna's mama said she's worried about her granddaughter in Nassau, Bahamas (who she's never seen by the way) and was going down there to get her. Anna and her mother didn't have a strong relationship so I think that the grandmother was going down there just to try and get the baby because the baby is heir to Anna's $400 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!! It's sad but you know it's true. Anna Nicole's relatives and the public lead her to those anti-depressants so she was just a wreck. I pray that her daughter Dannielynn grows up with a normal life and doesn't have to go through what her mother did. So what's the moral of today's story????? STAY OUT OF OTHER'S BUSINESS AND WORRY ABOUT YOUR OWN OKAY.

Do You Know What Month It Is???

February is recognized as Black History Month. An entire month to bring national attention to the large contribution of African-Americans in history. It has been celebrated annually since 1926. Carter G. Woodson, an African American, Harvard-educated historian, first conceived the second week in February as what was then known the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Woodson selected the week in February that embraced the birthdays of both Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. If you are reading this and are an African-American embrace your culture, your skin, and your heritage. But if you're not...go out and research the contributions African-Americans have made for this country through out history.

http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/

"Step outside yourself, then look back, and you will see how human, yet how beautiful and black you are, how very black, even when you're integrated." -Langston Hughes