Soul stealing

The Big Picture

Now I know what I'm doing with my afternoon.

Running out of excuses

The Art Institute of Vancouver has a Right Brain vs Left Brain Creativity Test. I've been doing a lot of self-debating lately over my future prospects with the designing/crafting stuff I'm looking at getting into and thought the test could be a good gauge for me to see if I do have what it takes.

Just a bit of background - I was never pegged to be a creative person in high school. With all the aptitude tests we took, my results always came back with more labour-intensive jobs than anything. I never flexed my creative muscles in high school - I didn't start doing anything creative, outside of typical childhood crafts, until I was in my third year of university and joined the student newspaper. And, as they say, the rest is history.

My results:

Thank you for taking the Creativity Test. The results show your brain dominance as being:

Left Brain	Right Brain
44%	56%

You are more right-brained than left-brained. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body. In addition to being known as right-brained, you are also known as a creative thinker who uses feeling and intuition to gather information. You retain this information through the use of images and patterns. You are able to visualize the "whole" picture first, and then work backwards to put the pieces together to create the "whole" picture. Your thought process can appear quite illogical and meandering. The problem-solving techniques that you use involve free association, which is often very innovative and creative. The routes taken to arrive at your conclusions are completely opposite to what a left-brained person would be accustomed. You probably find it easy to express yourself using art, dance, or music. Some occupations usually held by a right-brained person are forest ranger, athlete, beautician, actor/actress, craftsman, and artist.

Dead on. And scarily so. Except for most of those occupations - definitely not cut out to be a forest ranger, athlete, beautician or actor/actress.

So maybe it's not so far-fetched that I could be successful at this design thing as I thought. Guess now that I have the printer, and these results, I have no excuses not to take the big leap and let people see my work and maybe, just maybe, buy it.

Or not.

Who knows.

Pessimism, thy name is me.

Pushing aside

I have a feeling, that like my last blog, I will write about procrastinating more than anything else.

So... would that really be procrastinating? Perhaps it's more of an aversion than procrastination. An aversion to what, I don't know, but it's there.

But that's beside the point.

I just spent 15 minutes cleaning up the inbox for an email account I haven't used full-time for 6 years. The last time I cleaned it up was probably in 2007. I had 4058 unread messages, most of them spam. Made me happy - yet again - that I moved over to Gmail when I did.

I wish I spent my time procrastinating more efficiently. Instead, I start reading gossip blogs and I'm sucked in for half an hour. I used to spend that half hour at places like NOTCOT or The Canadian Design Resource. Or, if I was in the mood for a bit of randomness, I'd click the 'Stumble' button on my toolbar for a while, looking for something - perhaps educational - to spend some time with.

I feel like I'm burning through brain cells like there's no tomorrow. I need to rectify this. Only question is, how?

Hrm... I guess this is where I should proclaim that I will avoid the cesspool of gossip blogs I visit every day and start moving back to the good side of the internet to keep my brain from turning to mush and leaking out my ears. But I'm a procrastinator - guess which choice will win.

Streamlining

I tend to procrastinate about almost everything in my life, with the exception of my daughter, who won't let me procrastinate when it comes to her. And as such, I'm already falling into a nasty rut with this particular blog in terms of frequency of posting. As in, I'm not that frequent about it.

I spend a fair amount of 'free time' online. That'd be time where I'm not feeding, playing with or just hanging out with my daughter. My time online is spent checking the same sites over and over and over again, usually a couple of times - each - in 10 or 15 minutes. Shockingly, things rarely change when I'm away from those sites, even for a few moments.

So, I am, right now, going to attempt to post here, on this blog, at least once a day. Even if this place becomes a massive link dump, at least I'm doing something.

Right?

I'll try to keep things from getting to dry or mundane, but I tend to be dry and mundane in real life, so it might be a bit of a stretch.

That said, here's a lovely, wonderful site to get lost in on a Saturday afternoon.