timely discoveries

it seems when you are at your lowest someone (god? destiny? fate? who knows) sends you a message, a reassurance, that you are on the right path. on sunday, lee and i were at container store getting a few things in preparation for our move to who-knows-what-one-bedroom apartment, i hear someone say "mea-gan" in a sing-song way that i had missed. it was robyn, my best design friend. i hadn't seen her in awhile, and she looked fantastic. i, on the other hand, looked tired and slightly crazy due to my pigtail hairstyle gone awry. she has always had a way of setting me at ease, and in the span of 13 seconds, i unloaded the heavy issues upon me right there next to the 25 gallon clear plastic tubs with wheels for $17.99. she listened and was excited for my grad school prospects, and had lots of encouragement. we agreed to get together soon, and then she was off. i kind of laughed. it was as though someone knew exactly who i needed to see, and there she was. later that evening, i decided to start getting rid of all my design magazines, and keep only the articles that i wanted to refer back to. a tedious and long task. i ripped out the articles and carefully paper clipped them together. about half-way through, as i was feeling resentful of the fact that i had to be doing this because we wouldn't have room to store all these magazines in our next apartment, i came across this article "Best of the Best (or Best of the Rest?): What prompts a working designer to get a Masters in a field where it's not required?" at first i thought, oh great, like i need this negative crap. but something sorta nudged me into reading, and the article stated "The stagnant economy has made securing quality work more difficult at virtually every creative level, resulting in a larger pool of higher-than-average candidates." huh, interesting. i keep reading, the article assuring me more and more that i wasn't a failure, and that "what ultimately defines today's design graduate student is the zeal to push beyond complacency."

thank you, whoever you are, for these 2 small, yet significant discoveries. i needed them. now only if i could discover me a million dollahs ;)