That’s the sound of nearly two months fly­ing by with­out a sin­gle post. So here’s a quick update about what I’ve done. The move went very well. Austin and I are pretty set­tled now, with lots of odd jobs in the queue. We’ve already made new cur­tains, a table cloth and place mats. The next project is a lit­tle more daunting–find the right old chan­de­liers to hang in the liv­ing room as a gothic/​modern blended sculp­ture thing. Needless to say, it’s still in the plan­ning stages.

Work is treat­ing me rather well also. We’ve been swamped with projects and the days have been a lit­tle longer on aver­age. After an excel­lent three-​​month review I received a pretty com­fort­able pay raise that will help with the repay­ment of stu­dent loans. Hint has also hired a new designer, one of my for­mer class­mates and now my “under­ling”. He’s very tal­ented and it’s a new chal­lenge for me to man­age another designer.

I’m finally wrap­ping up my BFA and might have an oppor­tu­nity for dis­tri­b­u­tion sooner than I antic­i­pated. Daphne, for­merly Marua, has nearly 500 glyphs and sup­ports many lan­guages I could never hope to pro­nounce, read or oth­er­wise under­stand. But they sure do look pretty. I’m final­iz­ing some pro­gram­ming things to make the final font func­tional. The goal is to have every­thing com­pleted by the end of the month. (Fingers crossed.)

Austin started school this week, so my sleep sched­ule has been inter­rupted by NPR at 5:30 a.m. Not that there’s any­thing wrong with NPR or 5:30 a.m. I’m sure I’ll start to get used to the early morn­ings and fill them with some new project.