Okay. Redesign is not happening yet. I had set myself the deadline to finish it by the May 1st Reboot, but to no avail. I think the main problem is that when you spend 9 hours of every day working with websites, primarily programming, the last thing you want to do in your downtime at home is feel pressured to design a website for a deadlineBefore India I had a knack for rubbing my eyebrows if I was stressed, making them quite thin. And guess what, it happened again. Not healthy, and not worth it.. To be fair, some of the main features of the site are there in terms of structure, which has always been my favoured part (mathematical systems ftw), but visually I am not at all happy.

This particular redesign is important. This one needs to put more emphasis on my work since soon I’ll be moving into part time freelancing while at University., Needs to be visually enticing. Needs to be professional yet personable. Needs to be ‘the shit’. And it needs to be on my own terms and it will be only be there when I remember to have fun designing.

Is this an excuse? Not sure, but I need to record the justification for leaving the redesign for now for my own benefit, to let me relax. Basically fighting against myself.

Sidenote: The Omega Man

Finally watched I Am Legend last night, and personally I thought it was pretty good. The book, which I read a few months ago, was very enjoyable morbidly powerful. I describe it in that way because you do really live through the desperate isolation of Robert Neville, the main character, which is an interesting trick seeing as you do in some way become his companion. One of the most moving parts of the both the movie and the book for me, being a dog lover, was the death of Sam (the dog) and I’m glad they kept that in the movie because it is such a pivotal event. Overall, a good film, but I must suggest you do not watch it after 1am, it’s not one of those movies that will soothe you to sleep, as I should have known.

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