Iris Amelia: Thoughts, et cetra

As part of the job on the paper, my friend/editor & “superior” (I mean this in the nicest way, Eric!) writes weekly e-mails to our writers. Sometimes these e-mails contain highlighted sentences and words in different colors. I’ve described them like this: it’s as if a rainbow threw up into a letter.

I’ve said this metaphor in regards to my own work as well; a father’s day card I drew (and lost) was full of sparkling hearts, bright colors and stars; I was short of glued-on macaroni to make it a true masterpiece.

Why do I bring up this rainbow barf metaphor?

Well.

Say hello to my current desktop.

Found this great wallpaper over at Pixel Girl Presents, as well as many of the dock icons seen here!

The dock, from L-R: Finder, iTunes, Stickies (digital Post-It notes), Adium (IM client – Eve from WALL·E – cutest thing ever!), Photoshop CS3/Elements (I got bored of the standard “Ps” box), Firefox (THIS ICON IS SO AWESOME), iCal (didn’t change it because I like seeing the date on start-up), Preview, System Preferences (because the first thing that comes to mind when I think, “Oh, my, I want to change my desktop background” is a symbol of the Chinese Zodiac morphed into cuteness), Microsoft Word 2008, iPhoto, HP Scan Pro (didn’t change), Downloads (BUNNYYYY) and (filled) Trash.

I also have a great fondness for my doodley hard drive icon (from the same batch for my Finder). You can see there’s lots of bunny love here.

Eric (and to anyone else thinking of buying a Mac) – this is why you should really buy a Mac. No, forget the ease of use – look at the customization-ness! Your computer could be just as a-Doral-able adorable as mine! That is, if you want it to be adorable. I understand if you want it to just be cool, slick and/or bitchin’.

I’m tempted to leave the library now since I got some studying done for Chaucer; I specifically looked and read through the tales that’ll be on the midterm I have on Tuesday. My friend informed me of this fantastic site with superb translations of the tales in modern English. Saints be praised, indeed! But I do wholeheartedly appreciate the original text of Chaucer’s epic work; you really do lose the melodiousness of the verses with the translation.

I was amazed/amused at how much sex Chaucer puts into these tales. Everyone gets screwed, literally!

I suppose it’s back to work for me, but my computer is extremely sexy right now and I’m a bit distracted. Yes, I ♥  and many, many developers, illustrators and digital designers. So sue me.