A Personal Project?
Now that the project that I’ve been working so hard on has finally launched, and we’re past the “launch support” phase, I’ve finally got my nights and weekends back. For the past few years, when this has happened, I would generally start taking freelance work. I was always fortunate to have plenty of good work thrown my way. By good work, I don’t necessarily mean high paying (although some of them were), I mean projects that I actually wanted to work on. Sometimes I felt like I would learn something, other times, I felt like it would be a good portfolio piece. In any case, I kept a pretty busy schedule.
That was then. I’m not really looking for freelance now. In fact, I hope to not take any freelance for the duration of my employment at Zynga. So what do I do with all this time? I get bored easily, and I’m not really the type to sit around and just watch TV, play video games, or crawl the web aimlessly. I have no problem partying it up on the weekends, but those weeknights, after dinner, can sure get boring. In this downtime, I feel like I should make something, shoot something, do something. Without a deadline driving a goal though, I’m kind of lost.
There are a lot of things that I miss, however. I definitely miss animating and compositing in After Effects. I definitely miss studio photography. And for some weird, inexplicable reason, I miss writing JavaScript. I was about to write a little JavaScript thing tonight, but my localhost server is borked from when I was trying to install JBoss. So for the next few nights, I think I’ll try cleaning up my computer. After that, I don’t know what I’ll be doing, but I’m sure that I’ll have fun.
