50 Reasons Not To Date A Graphic Designer

So I found the funniest post the other day and had to share.
(The bolded ones are ones that I am guilty of. o_O)


1. They are very weird people.
2. There are billions of them in the world, like colors on the screen of your computer.
3. They will analyse conversations in layers.
4. You will spend the day assembling furniture from IKEA.
5. They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.
6. They hate each other.
7. You’ll come out the last out of the movies because you have to see the full list of credits.
8. They cant change a light bulb or without making a sketch.
9. They fuck up all the tables with their cutters.
10. They rather study the paisley pattern on your outfit than listen to what you have to say.
11. They will fill your house with magazines and whatever is out there that has drawings.
12. You never know if it is really an original or a copy.13. They make collages with your photos.
14. They do not know how to add and subtract, they just understand letters.
15. They idolize people who nobody knows and speak of them as if they were his colleagues.
16. They take pictures almost daily and all are cut in weird shapes.
17. They ask your opinion about everything but  they do whatever they want.
18. Everything is left justified, right or center unless they arrive late.
19. They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica.
20. They use iPhone for everything, because everyone has one.
21. You can not decorate the house without consulting them.
22. They steal street signs.
23. Always carry their hands painted with something.
24. They buy dolls unfinished for them to paint.
25. Everything becomes something other than what it really is: cards as tickets, cards as …26. When arguing, you will be nicknamed like the OSX spinning wheel (not affectionately)
27. Do not know how to dress without consulting the Pantone book.
28. They hate Excel.
29. They read comics.
30. They want to save the world only with a poster.
31. You will spend the day brainstorming.
32. On vacation they will take you to countries that you do not know exist and have no beach.33. Museums are their second home.
34. They know more positions than the Kamasutra.
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
36. They listen to music you have never heard of.
37. They can´t cook a normal dish, they always have to experiment with new ingredients.38. They read rare books: stories of children, Semiotics …
39. When you are going to tell you something, everyone has read it in their facebook and twitter.
40. They have own iPods before you knew they existed.
41. The orgasm they remember is when they heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia.
42. They have their own shops just for them and there are the most expensive in the city.
43. They want to spend all the money in the Apple Store.
44. You will never understand their gifts.
45. They see ordinary objects and laugh.
46. You wake up in the middle of the night hearim them screaming “When is the deadline?”
47. They see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
48. They dream of the day nobody will make a single change to their designs.
49. They rather pay for a font than for a special birthday gift.
50. They are always sleepy because they work 24/7.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important

Water For Elephants
by Sara Gruen

Again, I shamelessly read this book after finding out it was a Reese Witherspoon/Robert Pattinson soon to be flick. And it's been in the back of my mind to read anyway because it was another one of those books that were on the bestsellers for months.

I love that it's one of those flashback novels that cross between the past and the present. In the present, you get Jacob Jankowski, who can't remember if he's 90 or 93 (But at the age, does it even really matter?) that's living in a nursing home trying to hold on to the bit of sanity he has left.

The heart of the story is that the circus comes to town and one of the new people at the nursing home claims he carried water for elephants, which all the old ladies go ga ga for, and  pisses Jacob off.

1. Jacob knows its impossible to carry water for elephants. 2. You find out why throughout the book with his series of flashbacks to his life working for a circus.

And this is where the past Jacob comes in. After the tragedy of losing his parents and being left with nothing, he irrationally jumps a train (a traveling circus of all things) and he ends up getting a job as the circus vet. And he ends up falling in love with not only the animals and Rosie the elephant, but the boss' wife, Marlena.

And so the story begins.

Without giving out too much detail, the book from this point on is literally a circus. The shows were entertaining to watch, but Jacob quickly finds out that the circus is a cruel and cold world to be working in. You almost have to be able to have no conscience working for The Benzini Brothers Greatest Show On Earth. And for a little background color, you also get a little history of life during The Depression and Prohibition Era too.

By the end of the book, 2 things have happened that I thought was a nice little bow ending. In the beginning, he escaped his uncertainty about life by joining the circus. In the end, he escapes his uncertainty about life back to the only thing he knows, the circus. Fitting, I think.

I can't really give you an awesome review like I want, because I would tell the whole story. So read the book, or wait until the movie comes out. I'm excited to see what it's going to look like on screen. =)

Water For Elephants: Approved