imaznation

Yes, I know, this site still looks crappy with its default WordPress theme. I’ll get around to it, I promise! I’ve even got a design mocked up in Photoshop. I just need to find a free weekend (okay, so I guess this is never happening) to code the theme!

Speaking of which, this upcoming weekend will be my only free weekend until probably next year. Sad, isn’t it? Maybe I should find some time to do work after work. I mean, work on personal stuff after work. Because, you know, you gotta keep your work/life balance right? At least that’s what everybody seems to be saying at work these days…

I always knew After Effects existed. People told me it was the Photoshop of video editing. Unfortunately, I tried it out many years ago and didn’t think it was all that great. After Effects has gotten a lot better, apparently, and I’ve re-discovered it today.

Thanks to a bunch of tutorials and my years of Photoshop experience, I should be able to get up to speed with creating fancy effects in no time. This, combined with my experience with Flash and my 1080p HDTV, will allow me to create some awesome videos, I hope. If not, then I’ll just make really cool-looking intro animations.

One thing that I noticed about Seattle is that meeting new people is hard. Very hard. Especially if you’re somebody like me.

The upside about people here in Seattle is that they’re relatively young, relatively rich, and relatively social. Unfortunately for me, that’s a bit too relative. I’m in my early twenty’s. Everybody else is in their mid- to late-twenties or thirties. I like to party like you party in college. They like to party like they have kids or something. For some reason, hanging around and making smalltalk at a bar/lounge just doesn’t seem all that fun. And they don’t know how to dance either. As somebody who DJ’s and goes out a lot, that is simply unacceptable. Come on, people! Dancing is a basic survival skill! Learn it! And by dancing, I actually meant bumpin’ and grinding at a club. People here may be able to salsa, but they can’t get low even if they tried. Although with most of them in their late-twenties or early thirties, that may be a good thing.

Anyways, so that’s my rant about the nightlife here. Introduce me to some cool kids please.

Today’s episode of Heroes was awesome. This season is definitely turning into an exciting season. Which means that my Monday nights are now dedicated to watching TV.

In other news, the rest of the shows on TV aren’t that great. I’ve been watching Chuck and High Rollers as well, but they just don’t have the same appeal as Heroes for some reason. Probably because they’re new shows and don’t have the back-story that Heroes does. Maybe it’ll be better after the first season. Maybe.

College. Is over.

I never thought I would be at this point in my life. And all of a sudden, I’m done. College is over and I’m working. Honestly, when I was a freshman, I never thought that I would be working a full-time job. For some reason, I always thought that I’d be starting my own company. Now I’m doing the exact opposite–working for the world’s largest software (plus services!) company.

I have mixed feelings about this. Half of me is thinking: “Wow! This is such an awesome opportunity! Who else gets to work at such an awesome company fresh out of college?” The other half is thinking: “Oh man… I graduated a year early just to move thousands of miles away from my friends and live by myself in a town where I barely know anyone!? What was I thinking!”

So yeah, this is definitely a new chapter in my life. Learning to live on my own has been a huge learning experience. For the first time in my life, I’m in charge of paying my own rent ($1250 a month!) and utilities, keeping track of my own bank accounts, investing into my 401K, stock purchase programs, and investment accounts, all while trying to figure out how to do my job and trying to meet new people. I guess it sounds a lot harder than it is.

All-in-all though, I like it here. One of the reasons why I decided to move thousands of miles away from everyone I know to work at a place that I’ve only read in storybooks is because I wanted a different perspective. Living in Texas the majority of my adult life until now, I think, gives me a very distorted view of everything. Living anywhere for a really long time will always give you a distorted view of everything, I suppose. I wanted to take a risk, take a step into something unfamiliar, and challenge myself to see the world differently. Slowly, I am.

So I decided to start blogging again. Hopefully my posts will be a lot more regular now that I live more-or-less a regular schedule.

Anyways, so the point of this blog is for me to keep track of my life (remember all the stuff I do) and for everybody else to keep track of my life (since I’m not in Texas anymore). I’ll just keep this one short, to minimize the boring-ness. How ironic.