roommates.

During a particularly boring meeting at work yesterday I started writing out the names of former roommates.

I was kind of amazed how long the list became. Especially after contrasting it with my friend Randi's list.

Randi has lived with 13 different people. (We started the count with freshman year of college). I have lived with 46. That is counting the 3 girls i live with now and not counting the 1 or 2 that I cannot for the life of me remember.

It's just interesting to take note of who has been in and out of your life, if you will, because I think that you get to know a person on a different level when you have lived with them.

I would be interested to know how many roommates all of you have had. So please comment! Also any interesting/funny roommate stories are always welcome.

Oh and if you want to include the people you lived with on your mission you can but include that in a separate tally.

He won! He won! Carolyn and I entered lil Stuart in the Stake Pinewood Derby and he won. Head over to Carolyn's blog if you would like to read a full account/more interesting post of the story.

Work has be dreadfully boring today. Randi and I tried to occupy ourselves by playing tic-tac-toe and hangman. She cheats. I dont think I want to play with her anymore. :)

In an attempt to make today's work-day slightly more interesting for me, i am posting a few random pictures that have been unearthed in my desperate attempts to organize my computer.

They are just things that I have saved for whatever reason, for inspiration (?) who knows.

matt irwin for Dazed & Confused

just from getty images i think. i love simple things.

rebecca thuss. love her portfolio.

i really like this manhattan print. and the phone.

you can get it here. the print. not the phone.

'though i've always wanted a phone like that.

i want to do that to my curtains. sunshine makes me happy.

even if it's only a typographic manifestation. from Design Sponge

anna wolf.

anna wolf.

oh ad lab. (or just a few of us) we were so young. :)

no idea why this is on my work computer.

look at that pose brendita! ahaha

i love yellow. a yellow oven just makes life better. from Design Sponge

love old photos. from Shorpy.

for people who love color

as an art director one of the daily perks is the time i spend on the internet looking at pretty things. design blogs, photographers websites, etc, etc. fun fun. because of this, my desktop is always covered in millions of screen grabs and other various images—covered to the point that the images start to stack up on top of each other and i cant figure out what is what. (thank goodness I format my desktop to snap-to-grid, because if i didnt, imagine the chaos that would erupt).

To add some linear structure to my life i turned to the wonderful organizational method known as folders. Neat little folders with neat little names lined up on my desktop. inside those folders are folders and inside those are more. beautiful beautiful. organized organized.

Well only to a point.

sometimes in moments of weakness (that may happen all too often) i need to clear off my desktop really fast to make room for important things, client briefs or something, so i squish everrrrything into one special folder. enter JUNK folder. now the purpose of the junk folder is to house things that are not yet in their proper home. think of it as a cheap hotel. crowded. messy. the food photography sleeping next to the vector illustrations. yuck yuck.

well, busy day follows busy day and sooner or later the JUNK folder is no longer a cheap hotel, its an orphanage and these kids ain't ever getting out.

the other day, while trying to find a picture i know i have of a pair of sweeet oxford shoes, i discovered that my failed attempts at organization had gone too far.

allow me to give you a glimpse:

i really have no idea how it got this bad.

do you want fries with that?

did anyone else notice google's MASSIVE change to their search bar? What is that google? like 14 pt type? what were you thinking? it looks terrrrrrribbbblllleeee.

i shall now share a direct quote from google's "official blog":

(i have bolded all the moronic statements so they are easier to find.)

Now S-U-P-E-R-sized!

9/09/2009 02:59:00 PM

Search, that is. For us, search has always been our focus. And, starting today, you'll notice on our homepage and on our search results pages, our search box is growing in size. Although this is a very simple idea and an even simpler change, we're excited about it — because it symbolizes our focus on search and because it makes our clean, minimalist homepage even easier and more fun to use. The new, larger Google search box features larger text when you type so you can see your query more clearly. It also uses a larger text size for the suggestions below the search box, making it easier to select one of the possible refinements. Over the past 11 years, we've made a number of changes to our homepage. Some are small and some are large. In this case, it's a small change that makes search more prominent.

Google has always been first and foremost about search, and we're committed to building and powering the best search on the web — now available through a supersized search box.

google is about search. well how about that. you know, i really get confused when i open up a google page and all there is search bar in the middle. i mean, what am i supposed to do with it? please google. help me.

and even though i thought about it, no, i will not be switching to bing because when someone was resizing their logo they forgot to hold down the shift key and streeeeeeetched it a bit to far. and i just cant handle stuff like that. :)

dearest google, change it back. please. please. i beg of you. the ugliness hurts my eyes.

i really want to see this movie.

and it doesn't hurt that it has Hugh Dancy in it either.