The sun starts going down here at about 4pm, and the view from my window of the city all in gold is pretty spectacular, distracts me from work despite the perfect music.
I could be happy designing to Kid A in New York at an old age... Maybe not fulfilled, but happy.
Went down to the tea shop last night after being lost in the maze of subway construction (no R to Union and my world becomes very very confused). Luckily I'm not afraid of walking. Chris and I worked on our web project, which is closer and closer to being completed, we're pouring over the rather lengthy proposals for our programmers in India, which gets very frustrating now that its stage 26 of revisions and there's still things included we wanted removed ages ago. Facebook's new design from a few months ago destroyed the idea of using Facebook apps completely as well, which is wasted thought processes and programming time (just happy i'm not one of the developers who thought my facebook app was going to be the future, they really got killed by the redesign, I haven't used an app period since that happened, and I was engaging in several prior, Scrabulous was amazing).
Anyway we're prepared for more discussions with our web company, we both have the sinking feeling they're going to try and screw us at the last second with hidden costs.
Example A: On the last version of the proposal they asked us when we we're going to provide them with the upload system for our images and data.
Alright. Not to mention we're hiring YOU to make our website from start to finish, what about our characters/backgrounds etc. suggests that we have the ability or knowledge to create this?
Fine, they know more about Chris' background, my background suggests I could know this, but still.
Sigh, we got our good cop bad cop routine ready for action. The worst part is all these discussions are steroetypes out of Harold and Kumar or any movie you've seen stereotyping India, where no one has any idea what anyone else is saying...
Anyway, spent the whole day sending out various Silver Medallion materials and designing, new invite below.
