While I’ve been jobless, I’ve learned a lot about myself and about the things I like doing with my free time. I found out that I really like writing, translating, keeping up with fashion, politics and tech trends, singing, and using computers to make stuff. I also know a lot more about making websites with JavaScript now after having taken a brain-frying Java programming class at Stanford, so I’m going back into hand-coding my own sites. And I found out that I’m a movement–> sound synesthete, which is why I’ve revived my childhood interest in animated GIFs.
So when I’m not looking at job postings, I’m probably doing one of the following:
- Reading the news (and a couple of productivity blogs if I’m really procrastinating)
- Eating ice cream (my family at one point had five kinds in the freezer… in February)
- Hanging out in the Mission
- Walking or playing with my dog
- Translating the Japanese Prime Minister’s blog
- Making epilepsy-inducing animated GIFs
- Looking at other people’s art
- Writing and tweeting for my sister’s blog
- Singing for a trance producer
I’m thinking of translating articles from L’Officiel so that I can brush up on my French as well as my Japanese, but I now have a part-time internship at a TV station to work on, so I don’t know if I can take on much more stuff. But I’ll probably just translate a couple of articles for the hell of it– they have all their editions online anyway, and I’ve got a friend who’d be interested in the one about Alber Elbaz of Lanvin…
