I’m addicted to RSS. It’s quick, you don’t have to look at ugly sites with great content, and you don’t waste clicking on a link, waiting ’till the pages appears and then start reading (or realizing that there is no new content and start all over again).
But! It has its disadvantages too. Every article in my RSS-reader looks the same, so bye bye great designs with great content. That’s the biggest negative point about RSS for me. I love design, but I also love learning. And before I discovered RSS, I combined both (but I didn’t learn as much as I do now – see the time wasting point above). I clicked on every possible link I could find, hoped the design was beautiful, and hoped the content was equally beautiful. Now, those 2 things are mostly separated from each other. I open my RSS-reader and I learn. I open my browser and I click away to find beautiful designs.
I wish there was a way to let my RSS-reader know which site is beautiful, so it could load the design too, instead of showing only the text.
When you are at the point of graduating, you start thinking about your future a little bit more. Or at least, I think about my future a little bit more. Most of the stuff I want to do, will be very weird for a girl who studied something in IT, and most of my dreams already existed before I made the choice of studying IT, but somehow, I will get there.
- I want to help organizing a huge festival. The most normal step for me would be a technology conference, but at the end I really want to do something in the music business.
- I want to be found on a huge stage. The people who don’t really know me, will say that this will never happen and that I’m too quiet for the job, but my close friends know that sometimes, I do crazy stuff. I already did some TMFawards dancing in Antwerp, and, I totally enjoyed it! From time to time I’m still doing crazy stuff on a stage, so I hope those stages will become bigger and bigger by the minute. By the way: I don’t want to be famous, let someone else stand in the spotlight, I just want to help them.
- I want to design something that blows people’s minds. It doesn’t have to be on the web. I adore print design as well, but I didn’t really study for it. And that also goes for furniture or clothing. Someday, you will have a wow-moment with something I made.
- I want to know all there is to know about online communication in combination with advertising. I already saw some good online campaigns, and I hope I can work on some in the future. At the end, I also want to teach others what I’ve learned, as a teacher, or as an author. Or both.
- That brings me to my writing. I want to publish something, something that people will read because they want to, not because they have to.
- I want to be a producer of a show. I want it to be a funny show, relaxed, but still, people will learn from it. People will start thinking. People will talk about it.
- Ow, and I want to be on a cover of a magazine, without people saying “Are you that girl I saw …”
The list is not complete, far from it. I want a lot of things. But at the end, all I want is that others get a wow-effect. And I want to help producing that effect. I want happy tears, I want smiling. I want to go home, cuddle on the couch and realizing that I make people happy, even if I don’t know them directly.
I made the deadline for our final report. The last thing I need to do is present it for the jury and then I can go to back Belgium. The presentation is in 12 days, so I have all the time in the world.
What does a girl like me do with that time? Well, mostly, the first day after finishing a project, I have to clean up my computer. I always say to myself: put the stuff for that project in that folder, and nowhere else. Guess what happens in the heat of the moment.. My desktop is filled with clutter and 1 or 2 files I eventually used. Clean up time it is!
Oh, and when I don’t open my RSS-reader for 3 days in a row, I have to make time for that baby too. Too bad most of the news already hit twitter, so no big “ooohh, I didn’t know that” there.
The most important mails already went out the door, so no big deal over there (although I really want to have an inbox zero)
Well then, time for some personal time! I have a lot on my to do list, but first of all, I’m going to finish reading “Yes is more” and some marketing books. I’m already working on some type-stuff, so I keep on learning, and after my project, I’m in the mood for another Wordpress-design, so.. I won’t get bored!
Oh! I almost forgot! The sun is shining also, so I hope I can read outside!
