This’ll be quick because it’s late and I’m tired. I’ve been helping out with ushering and the box office/concessions booth for New Play Project’s production of Swallow the Sun. You know, box office is a lot of fun. And I didn’t even expect to like it as much as I do. :)

During the show I man both the box office and concession booth, which basically means two hours of dead time because everyone’s up watching the show. And so I’ve been working on some plays to submit to the next New Play Project festival, “Long Ago and Far Away.” As I’m wont to do, in fact, I’ve gone a bit overboard and have seven plays that I plan to finish and submit by the deadline (June 3). Yeah, I should probably just focus on three or so and make them really good, but almost all of the seven ideas are compelling and I really want to see them come to life. So we’ll see. Time constraints will end up affecting how many actually get written, of course. :)

And finally, I’ve been slowly working on redesigning the New Play Project website using MODx, but I realized tonight that I really ought to just switch over to WordPress. I’ve got far more experience with WordPress, it’s a more popular platform, and it’s focused on blogging which is just what we need. (With MODx I would have had to write my own blogging system. Reinventing the wheel. Pointless.) I need to get approval on switching to WP 2.5, but I’m pretty sure that won’t be a problem.

In other news, I’m juggling a handful of small freelance design projects (book covers and brochures and such), reading the first book of the Bartimaeus trilogy (loving it, too), and consistently getting to bed later than I’d like. :)

I’m not doing such a good job at updating this frequently, am I. Lately I’ve been in more of a design mood than a writing mood, with the current project on the burner being our ward directory. I used the old look for a solid year, and while there’s no real reason I had to change it, I did want to freshen things up a bit. This new design (no screenshots yet, I’m afraid) uses a circle motif and feels a bit lighter — which is good, since it’s for spring/summer. I’m hoping to have the whole thing done within a week.

I redesigned Top of the Mountains yesterday. Here’s what it used to look like:

And here’s what it looks like now:

It’s a cleaner design, more in line with my current aesthetic sensibilities, and done pretty much completely from scratch. (I did use 960.gs for the grid, though. I love 960.gs :))

On days when I’m tired (like today), it seems like designing is a whole lot easier than writing. Drafting out the new stake leadership directory went smoothly, but even just the thought of writing was enough to make me want to take a nap. (Which is what I would do if I had time…) Not sure why that is.

Speaking of design, I just rediscovered f0nt.com, a site with Thai fonts. The SIPA collection is my favorite so far — not only do the fonts work in Photoshop and all, but they even have beautiful OpenType alternates. I’m in heaven. :)

A couple weeks ago I designed some cards for stake conference:

I did it all in Photoshop, then got them printed double-sided at a normal business card size. A fun little project.