Spring semester ended with a buzz of activity, and I have been enjoying my summer break for almost two months now.<\/p>\n
May was filled with Visual Art Society work for the Gala & Art Auction that was also that month. I tagged along to Cathedral Caverns with the Photo in the Field class, went Cosmic Bowling with the Art Alliance and finally started painting on the mural project (which is still in progress, but coming along nicely). I am\u00a0now enjoying my first summer off from both school and a normal job schedule\u00a0in 11 years! I was hoping to\u00a0do an internship this summer, but\u00a0didn’t\u00a0get one set up in time, so I’ve been working on my\u00a0personal to-do list (I love to-do list), and also doing a bit of freelance work for various clients and friends.<\/p>\n
June was pretty\u00a0 much the same as May with a variety of personal, school, and freelance work. A few highlights included Karl & I visiting some friends in Mississippi for a bit of fun, and the parents of my brother’s girlfriend Anna, who\u00a0flew in from Germany and stayed with my family for two weeks. AnnaMaria, Jason, and I were invited to have breakfast with each of the three candidates brought in from the assistant professor of graphic design position. All three candidates seemed very strong in different areas. The three candidates are John Mark Lawler<\/a>,\u00a0Jinsook Kim, and Sharon Wasden. I’m looking forward to finding out who they bring in since\u00a0I want to squeeze in\u00a0an\u00a0independent study with whoever they bring in.<\/p>\n I ordered CS5 around the end of May and have been having fun learning about Dreamweaver and illustrator. I’ve mainly been watching video tutorials online at Lynda.com<\/a> which is an incredibly awesome resource. The videos are really great and they have a variety of lessons on each product or topic with videos for both beginner and expert users. I highly recommend it, even with the $25 a month subscription fee.<\/p>\n As far as fun stuff goes, last week Karl and I went on vacation to Jacksonville, FL & Savannah, GA for a few days. We\u00a0visited the MOCA & the Cummer museum in Jacksonville, and saw an awesome exhibit of graphic jazz portraits by Paul Rogers<\/a>.\u00a0 We toured two different forts, an old plantation, did a lot of driving around admiring architecture and played in the ocean, which was fantastic. I can’t wait to swim in the ocean again, hopefully in August when I take a girls trip up to Charleston, SC. As always this summer is passing by way too fast and I’m still less than halfway done with my main to-do list. I did finally manage to rework my portfolio site so that it’s functional, carolrecord.com<\/a>, it’s pretty simple, but\u00a0still needs\u00a0a bit of attention\u00a0and\u00a0my more current work. I’m continuing to work on it as I learn more about CSS and building in Dreamweaver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spring semester ended with a buzz of activity, and I have been enjoying my summer break for almost two months now. May was filled with Visual Art Society work for the Gala & Art Auction that was also that month. I tagged along to Cathedral Caverns with the Photo in the Field class, went Cosmic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","category-journals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XnUB-1X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}