2005-10-24
Mid-Semester Doldrums
The semester is halfway over, and I'm feeling a little beat. It started off grandly and nothing has really changed. I just feel a little exhausted from rewriting a three-page proposal over and over, shifting my Ph.D. proposal, and trying to keep everyone happy. I participated in setting up an AAG session with another graduate student, and as I've always hated working in groups, this was a very trying task for me. I am somewhat of a control freak over my own work and ambitions, as Birgit is learning with the new Muehlenhaus Studios website! :) Fortunately she is too, so we have both begun to compromise. Of course, because we need to compromise, the site is not up yet. We are working on putting it together within a month or so.
I just finished making the figures for Colin Flint's new "Introduction to Geopolitics" book. He was very pleased with the maps and tables I put together, and Birgit and I have decided to go ahead and make a freelance business revolving around website, map, table, figure and GIS design, as well as editing and writing for small businesses. Our new business website will be available at www.muehlenhaus.com and my personal site has already shifted to www.ian.muehlenhaus.com. Unfortunately, www.ianoas.com will be defunct within a couple of months -- I pulled the last plug from the outlet that is my old surname. Instead of being depressing, it is honestly refreshing!
That's all for now. Really lame. I've been shit at writing friends that have called and written from a long way away, and I need to write them today. I saw I Heart Huckabees last night, and my mind is still kind of tripping out. I think I loved that movie, but I'm not even really sure why. I could tell that Birgit thought it tried too hard to be meaningful, and she might be right. I really want it to have been brilliant, but maybe it wasn't. Merde.
I just finished making the figures for Colin Flint's new "Introduction to Geopolitics" book. He was very pleased with the maps and tables I put together, and Birgit and I have decided to go ahead and make a freelance business revolving around website, map, table, figure and GIS design, as well as editing and writing for small businesses. Our new business website will be available at www.muehlenhaus.com and my personal site has already shifted to www.ian.muehlenhaus.com. Unfortunately, www.ianoas.com will be defunct within a couple of months -- I pulled the last plug from the outlet that is my old surname. Instead of being depressing, it is honestly refreshing!
That's all for now. Really lame. I've been shit at writing friends that have called and written from a long way away, and I need to write them today. I saw I Heart Huckabees last night, and my mind is still kind of tripping out. I think I loved that movie, but I'm not even really sure why. I could tell that Birgit thought it tried too hard to be meaningful, and she might be right. I really want it to have been brilliant, but maybe it wasn't. Merde.
