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Let me set this up:

A while ago I went on an interview with a company that sent mobile content to people’s cell phones. The company was kind of boring and unremarkable, but that didn’t stop them from thinking so much of themselves that they half-heartedly adopted Google’s purported policy of messing with interviewee’s heads. Over the course of our interview more and more people kept walking in and asking increasingly ridiculous questions until we were all sitting there with a guy (built like a truck) who only wanted to talk about he how hung out with Kanye West. As he asked me questions about the life and times of Kanye West, the others would interrupt him to ask me questions such as the age of my brothers and sisters and occasionally the standard questions about past experiences with difficult coworkers. After all, if they were going to be my coworkers, I surely was going to have to be able to resolve aimless conflicts. I thought the whole thing was ridiculous and could not understand what playing mind games with a prospective employee really accomplished. Any which way, I ended up ripping the guy’s business card in half and using it as a bookmark and… well… I found it the other day and wrote him a letter.

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This was really fun! I asked my partner to hand me something I could hold, but I didn’t look to see what it was. I drew the big one in the middle first.  I knew what it was right away, of course, but it was interesting how details I could only feel were different than ones I could see. Next was the lower right one - looking only at the object, not at the paper at all. I think it’s my favorite. Top right, only the shadows. Lower left, concentrating on texture. I remember now what the fifth one should be - draw only the outside edges of the thing. I’ll probably add that in, *maybe* even re-scan it. Later.

I was playing around with patterns today and came up with this floral Easter theme design.

This is the artwork that I will use to screen print for another Thing-a-Day challenge.

For Day 9, I will print and frame some inspirational photos for my yoga area.

Today: I blog about getting into university and getting stuck in the house. Also about people’s weird reactions to being reminded that wheelchair users have specific access needs.

Yeah, that’s about it for today.

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