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On Monday I gave my notice at MetaLab after 3+ years. I’m very excited to be starting at Loom in a couple of weeks.
I joined MetaLab as someone fresh back from a year away travelling..feeling pretty out of touch and naive about design and work in general. I leave it as….something else. It’s been tough at times but the good – especially the experiences i’ve had out in Canada which have really shaped the last two years – far outweigh any bad.
Entering the product world is daunting. It’s my first role of this kind, but above all i’m excited to have a change and do something new.
Maybe i’ll start to write about work here.
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I have felt like total crap all week. It’s like my body shut down after handing my notice in as weeks of stress and lingering cold/flu symptoms finally caught up with me.
I experienced extreme body aches, tension headaches, a cough which wouldn’t die. It was the worst i’ve felt in a while and since paracetamol did nothing I survived on hot water bottles and Tiger Balm.
Now, early on Monday morning, minus a few dull aches, the worst of this seems to have passed and I think I might feel human again.
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Aside from resigning and recovering the week was very quiet and I left the house only a couple of times. I had time to post a bunch of 35mm photos i’d taken in BC over the last two years..
Also had time to rewatch Wild Wild Country in it’s entirety (still such a trip). One of my favourite parts is a short montage in the second or third episode – before the mass poisonings and attempted murders and everything going to shit – when things were still in a state of utopia and everyone is happy, and this Damien Jurado track plays:
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Other films this week: Being John Malkovich (also still such a trip), half of the The Hateful Eight (beautiful but long af when you have a headache – will finish), Super Size Me 2 (three stars I guess, but really felt for those chicken farmers..).
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Doing a pretty good job at not looking at the news. Ignorance is not exactly bliss but it’s helping.
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Changed my Instagram handle to kim.zip because kimwalkr was starting to remind me too much of flickr or tumblr or any number of web 2.0 startups.
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I spend at least 60% of my time now sitting in the living room listening to ambient music and reading or tapping at this laptop. Favourite album this week:
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Photo: In the living room early one morning a few weeks ago (Nikon L35 AF).
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