Time is a wretched thief of..er.. time.  How does it get away so easily?  Sitting at the new IKEA desk purchased last weekend, I felt compelled to be creative and update such great life events on my blog. 

Actually, I felt a bit more inspired (if that can be used in a sad sense) by the current and upcoming range of friend-departures to overseas lives that are happening just now.  It seems a lot of people are moving on to pastures new.  Some are taking calculated risks (eg back in a year) others going potentially not to return.  I'm a little jealous but mostly sad. 

Winter is a gloomy time in many ways in Sydney.  People stay indoors.  It's dark by 4:30.  And, by July, it's bloody cold.  Although I adore the colours of the winter sky on a clear evening at sunset, or the cold morning mist that hangs in sheltered spaces as I trudge up towards the train station at 7am, the desire to do much more than work,home,eat,bed of a weekday is hard to muster.  

So I've signed up with TAFE to do a six week (all day Saturdays) Introduction to Graphic Design course, starting early August.  It's something I have always wanted to do, and with the Design Centre just around the corner from where I live it's a compelling proposition.   It's also a bit of a toe-dipping exercise into this arena - I've always been fascinated with graphical design and animated graphics in particular (who else can boast hundreds of downloaded clips of tv graphical idents from yesteryear and today?  Actually, would anyone want to boast that...) and I realised not so long ago that, all else being equal, if I followed my heart as a young bloke fresh out of school and going to Uni, I would never have done a Commerce degree but into Design and Engineering focused areas.

So if this pushes my buttons it could lead me on to a different direction in the future.... :-)  I'm very excited, because I have never before formally studied anything I was actually interested in before...