Fishes in the sea

...ok. Not in the sea. It's my fish tank. I have 3...NO, 2 fishes left in it. How incredibly pathetic.

Last week I found out my fish XiaoHouXi ("little monkey") ended up missing. Missing usually means he's in the belly of one of the other remaining fishes. When I populated this fish tank about 9 months ago now I had 3 feeder fishes and about 15 blue neon tetras.

One by one the tetras would disappear suddenly and I SWEAR the big fat feeder fish would be innocently swimming around the tank whistling to himself.

Then finally all I had left was the 3 feeder fish. I told myself, "well, at least XiaoHouXi" is here. He's an ugly feeder fish but I was proud of him because he was the tiniest fish in the tank at one time (thus the name -- tiniest rascal in the tank) Now even he's gone. I only have these 2 fish here.... this psycho Jack Nicholson fish who's probably eyeballing the other one right as we speak. /sigh.

I woke up at 4am today and then I made the mistake to think about my project in bed. End of story...I couldn't fall back asleep. So I got up to see if Christy was awake...sure enough she was! It was nice having her to talk for a while until I got back to bed. She's doing alright except for a flu she picked up the other day. No...not bird flu. At least I hope not!!

The project I was thinking about is the Lawyer one. It's actually coming out quite nice, I'm pretty happy with it so far. But what I might like could end up being trash to my client so I've learned not to celebrate this early in the process. I just have to do the best I can then offer this to them and see what they like or dislike.

It's very bold...strong colors. The cool thing about it is that I managed to actually make use of the practice photos Andy and I took the other week. So this camera is working out for me already. Because it's such a hi-rez, I managed to used the cool shapes and patterns I found around the building itself. Hard to explain but I'm pretty excited about how it's turning out.

I have to reveal the first take to them on Wednesday. I pray to god they like it. This one could be a little dangerous because so far they're doing "design-by-commitee". They go around asking everyone to comment on it. While this is a natural thing for people to do, it doesn't bode well for the design process because you can never make everyone in an office happy. You still need one person who can make a decision and stick with it. I have my fingers crossed....lawyers should be decisive right? RIGHT?!

Going to take a work break today. Shopping for X-mas already..... help me.