if you’ve been a regular reader of this blog, one of the common themes is trying to find ways to step up my “life” game. anyone who’s had a drunken rooftop conversation with me over the past few months knows that i’m trying to rid myself of this vague sense of dissatisfaction that has been plaguing me for a while now.

here i am, on the verge of my 28th birthday.. it’s time to start taking action. (september 18th - prepare yourselves)

as a birthday gift to myself via my parent’s birthday check, i have enrolled myself in a fall class at the visual arts center of richmond. the class is an intro to adobe photoshop cs / illustrator. i’ve always had an eye for graphic design, but never the actual skills. i can poke around in photoshop to do basic things, but i really want to learn a lot more.

i don’t think this class is going to necessarily teach me a whole lot, but i hope that it gives me a solid foundation from which i can experiment and play around and hopefully become a little better at both programs.

it could help me career-wise, just to be more knowledgeable with the programs in general, but my love for creating flyers and lolcats and other assorted online goodies should make it a lot more valuable to my personal life.

needless to say, doing anything in the name of self-improvement definitely should help with that vague dissatisfaction issue. it is something to look forward to and something that should help me in the long-run.

wish me luck!