anne is an artist

I cannot shake this flu. I am home on a Friday with another mystery sickness. What better way to spend my time than to upgrade to MT4? For anyone that is a closet-nerd like myself, you know that it is a Friday well spent. But don't tell anyone I told you that.

Really though, I need to buckle down and get professional about this site and the portfolio site. Not that I have any desire to do a bunch of free-lancing, heavens no. But next weekish I'm going to be talking to MIAD students about self-promotion and technology and how the two can combine wonderfully to put you on top of the Google search....

But I know that they are going to go home and Google me and see my less than impressive, ancient, half-assed, broken-link site. Which probably doesn't make me too much of an authority on the subject.

I opened up my Etsy Shop! I will be putting original pieces of art work from thesis and senior year. After that, about every month I will update with new pieces. I work pretty small scale so they are nice and affordable. Go take a look and tell me what you all think!

Well, you are now reading the blog of a RESIDENT MANAGER of my apartment building! It is 15 extra hours a week, but the perks are free rent and storage, art studio, larger apartment and extra $$ each month!

I'm going to be able to buy groceries!

So this winter has been pretty cold. Very cold. Yet I think it is also the first winter where I have actually gotten used to it. I didn't feel as absolutely depressed about winter as I have since moving to Milwaukee.

Now that it is March, I think this needs to change. It's March, for crying out loud! What is up with being in the 20s? When I get outside in ten minutes, I'd better be experiencing at least 40 degrees of wonderfulness. Nothing less. March it is time you shape up and start acting like that lamb I keep hearing about.

So on the new job! I took a tour of the building. Definitely photographic material. It is an old OLD building built probably in the early 1900s. It looks like it used to be an old hotel. Currently I live on the top floor but I'll be moving sometime in the next week to the second floor to a bigger apartment! Also! There is a studio space. As in, a studio space to make art work in. No excuses anymore, Anne. Oh Happy Week!