WU Logo Contest (Again)

Okay so two (very exciting!) pieces of news today:

One, my design for Writer Unboxed logo competition is up on their site and available for voting. If you have a few seconds to click over there and vote for Design #1, I will be eternally happy!

This is a huge opportunity for me, especially since… I have opened a new site at kristycondon.com, my new professional domain from which I plan to start offering freelance graphic design and copywriting projects. I am still working on getting my portfolio formatted and up to the new site, but I will be providing services in book and magazine cover design and layout, including e-book formatting,  as well as logo design, business cards, and other branding materials. I will hopefully be offering web design later this year as well.

If you have a project for me in mind, please let me know! I am still broadening my porfolio and my rates will reflect that.

So to sum up, vote for me (Design #1) at Writer Unboxed!

Then, check out my new website at kristycondon.com!

Then, hire me to design things for you!

Kristy

Writer Unboxed Logo Contest

Hello! My life is crazy as always, but somewhere in between homework assignments I managed to design this logo for one of my favourite writing blogs, Writer Unboxed. A couple weeks ago they posted that they would be having a contest to have a logo designed for the blog, and I thought I would give it a whirl. I didn’t expect my submission to go anywhere, but lo and behold, it was selected by blog founders Therese and Kathleen as one of their top 3!

My design is going up this afternoon on the Writer Unboxed website as a finalist for voting, so I am going to shamelessly beg you all to head over there and lend me your votes!

I keep getting 403 messages and can’t access the website right now (it’s driving me crazy) so I don’t actually know if the post is up yet or whether or not my name is attached to it, so here is the one to vote for:

My logo submission!

Thank you all in advance for your support!

Home Movies

Here’s to my very first post from the other side! The other side of what? A couple things, I suppose.

• The provincial border, for one. I’ve been visiting my parents for the past couple of weeks and I have never been more aware of how deeply I miss BC. I am seriously starting to look forward to my upcoming move.
• A seemingly endless Bachelor of Arts degree. I updated my resume a couple days ago from “will have completed a B.A. by Dec 2010” to simply “B.A. 2010.” I don’t think it’s quite hit me yet, but I’m sure when I get back home I will really start to feel the absence of a full-time school schedule.
• The new year, of course! I think graduating in December has been especially nice since it’s like I’ve gotten a clean break at the new year mark. I have no idea what wonders 2011 hold in store for me, but I can look back from here and say that 2010 really was an overall wonderful year, despite a few bumps along the road.
• Writing e-grouppage! In a bout of motivation combined with new year’s ambition, I started an online writing group a couple of days ago consisting of several of my classmates from my university writing classes. I am really looking forward to reconnecting with my support group and all the fabulous feedback we’ll be trading in the future.
• Adulthood. This one’s a little more obscure, but bear with me here. I feel today like I have officially bridged the gap from young adulthood into full-fledged grown-uppedness. Completing my degree has been a huge part of this, but another huge part has been watching home movies every day since I’ve been here (I unwittingly volunteered myself as family archivist and have been spending full days painstakingly dubbing all of our old VHS tapes onto DVD). In the past weeks, I have observed myself at ages 4-17, and of course 22. This has (as you might imagine) placed me in a state of self-reflexivity, and I’ve been able to draw a fairly interesting graph regarding my development up to this point.

The single most fascinating point of interest to me is that today I am more like myself at age 6 than myself at ages 10-17. I have nearly come full circle. I look more like my adult self, talk more like my adult self, and act more like my adult self at age 6 than I did at any other age in between. For some reason, this is evidence to me that I have overcome the mountain that is adolescence, and am now back on the life path I started in my first few years of school. If anyone would like to point out how ridiculously flawed this logic is, feel free but be aware that I will ignore it :). I am entirely and utterly convinced that this is proof enough that I am now an adult that I am now free to stop looking for reasons to prove I am an adult.

Thanks and adieu for now,

Ms Kristy L. C.
B.A. 2010

Hiatus

Sorry I haven’t posted in so long–my computer died and I’ve had extremely limited internet access. Long post coming Tuesday night! Brace yourselves.

Hi, I’m a Bunny.

Dear Blog

In two hours I’m leaving this arctic wasteland to return to my native province of BC, to join my lovely friend Heather in Victoria, and perhaps drop in on some of the Spring Olympic festivities in Vancity. Vacation is no time for blogging, so sayonara until next week!

Love, Kristy

Things I Don’t Want to Do

So, today I picked up the article I’m supposed to read and present to my LING 420 class in March:

“Examination of Perceptual Reorganization for Nonnative Speech Contrasts: Zulu Click Discrimination by English-Speaking Adults and Infants”

I cannot possibly express how much I do not want to read and translate this 15-page abomination. However, it has now successfully skyrocketed to the top of my list of Things I Don’t Want to Do, meaning that I’ve actually been doing some writing as a way of procrastination. I estimate that I’m now about 2/3 finished with my newest story, currently entitled “Ted.” I like where it’s going so far, but unfortunately I think I’m going to need to figure out what exactly I’m trying to say before I can finish it coherently. I have never been great at organizing my thoughts.

Return?

Today I was inspired. For what exactly… I have not yet decided. I came upon an amazing/atrocious idea for a story/novel/play.

While zoning out during my Phonological Acquisition class (can you blame me?), my mind went through the following creative flowchart:

It started, as it often does, with dinosaurs. They are reptiles. Cold-blooded.

-> What does a dinosaur taste like? As a rule, people today don’t seem to eat very many reptiles. Why not? I feel like they would be really chewy.

->When an asteroid hit the Earth it made big clouds that blocked out the sun, causing really low temperatures that killed most of the cold-blooded dinosaurs.

-> Global Cooling?

-> Global Warming!

I need to give this some thought.

Beer Goggles

Writers are the best people to get drunk with.

Just sayin’.

P.S. Why is it so hard to eat anything less than a whole container of cottage cheese in one sitting?

Blogg’d

Narcissism at its best: the online blog.

I suppose the most obvious reason I’m participating in this particular cyberfad is because I feel like I have something invaluable to offer to the world, something unique and important enough that I must preserve it for eternity in cyberspace. That is why people blog, right?

Unfortunately, I don’t know exactly what it is yet, so I’m just going to write down my every thought until I find it.

“Write down the thoughts of the moment.  Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable'”.  ~Francis Bacon