I just added a lot of work to the design section of my portfolio, so please take a look. See, I’m kinda serious about all this.

In our apartment we have a mirror that is situated across from the front door, causing people who come in to have to look at themselves. It’s a cheap mirror with a warp, so the further away you are from it, the wider you look. Some people hate it for that, but I think it really opens the place up. Just imagine how big my apartment is through it from 20 feet away. Also, it somehow looks cleaner.

The mirror is bad for Feng Shui, though. Aside from it being warped, all of the energy that comes in through the front door is reflected through the mirror and thrown back out, creating an imbalance in the living room.

My mom’s into Feng Shui. She mapped out our old house into the corners. Ideally, each outer corner of the house represents a different aspect of life, like money or love. There are eight corners in all, so you’re in business if your house is shaped like an octagon. In our house the master bathroom was the money zone, so she hung a philodendron on the wall next to the window and a faceted crystal from the windowsill. The green of the plant symbolized money, and the crystal was supposed to reflect and magnify the money vibes. Mom often reminded me to “keep the lid of the toilet closed so money doesn’t go down the drain.”

Disappointingly, my bedroom was the refurnished attic, which had no zone in the overall scheme of the house. However, you can divide rooms themselves into the corners. Looking back, I had a very emotionally disturbing room. In the money corner of my room, I had an obviously messy dresser, and in the love zone, I had my bed. It sounds right, but one side of it was pushed too close to the wall. If you want positive love energy, you need to let it flow freely by allowing a person to walk all the way around the bed.

If you really want that positive love energy, don’t forget that the selective placement of mirrors may also enhance the performance. I didn’t get it from Feng Shui, but it’s what I’ve heard.

One of my favorite YouTube videos is this funky jam called Tony vs. Paul by Free Poster Films. Forget how many still shots there are (over 4,000, I read it in the FAQ), and just think about how many times these dudes had to jump in the air to make a lot of those stills:

I just want to start off by saying that I LOVE WordPress. I am so excited about having a customized layout that I feel like writing a million entries!

When I was in high school I went by Natalie Haynes and had a website called dinette.org that I tried hard to update regularly. Though I failed, I still had enough visitors to keep me motivated to try. I had a pseudonym and made a bunch of friends (yes, this proved to be possible even before MySpace), and it was fun. However, the burden of fraud began to take its toll after a few years, when using a fake name became more embarrassing to me than exciting. Everybody knew everything about me, except my real name—yet including my real address—but I didn’t know how to re-introduce myself as myself.

Through college, I ditched the website and fake name and wrote in a LiveJournal. Now that I’ve finished school with a BFA in Graphic Design, I think it’s time to have a personal site again.

So welcome to my new website. Along with a weblog, I also have an online portfolio. I would really like to make a living working while wearing pajamas, so let me know if you’d like to support my pajama-party dreams.