The Mystical Land of Pardes

* art wise: doujin's on a good steady momentum. nazine's in the final proofing stages. other work is there when i need to switch gears but not in a stressful way. not likely to add more large projects to my plate this year (other than nagamas). feelsgoodman.jpg

* haus wise: starting to purge a lot of old clutter (both digitally and physically) ahead of the end of this year when things will start drastically changing in terms of actually packing things up to move. i have a friend who recently moved to australia who i had a chance to catch up with last week in a friendly chat, and she mentioned most people don't generally need/use 80% of what they have. kinda validating how good/lighter it feels to clean up one's space, and i was already pretty minimal.

it was also v v cute to lightly tell her about my doujin <3 (she's the one IRL friend mostly aware of what zihark means to me and was so tickled to hear about this project as a cute coincidence of the 20 year anniversary. :> )

* work wise: i may have bloodlessly coup'd myself into not only managing both of my former art directors, but also getting a few more minions. long story short, department's getting a bit of shake-up right now with several folks leaving. (somewhat relatedly, it was p gratifying this past week when i had to tell VP boss 'you don't need to worry about me (imminently leaving now*), but i need a break, and we need a contractor backup' he responded with 'who do you want and how long do you want them'. dayum. :3 ).

* ((1) not a lie; i need to have my portfolio site finished first, but it's almost there. (2a) this move into management-of-multiple-IC's looks fun, i want to try it first for a few months. VP knows this and is using it as a carrot. i'm okay with that. (2b) at worst and i still need to bail, i get to add 'managed multiple people' on my resume with a slightly overdue real title bump. (2c) at best, this move successfully dodges both the AI and layoff** pile of shits and i get more clout to protect my turf from the former (or the ai bubble happens anyway). mission success.) 

(**i'm noticing an ongoing layoff wave of 'delete IC's' across multiple industries. concerning.)

anyway, chilling in my lil' corner, continuing to organize & trim things here and there & shaping where i want to go for the next few years in a way that hopefully keeps me unbothered.

nothing like getting a (metaphorical) haiku keysmash gibberish request from your VP boss who's overseas and having to translate the dang thing in addition to doing the thing. seriously it was in separate half sentences and everything.

i swear the further up one goes the corporate food chain the worse their typing skills are. :p