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by Tom on Wednesday, April 11th, 2007On Sunday I experienced a creative explosion of some kind, which resulted in much scribbling and a large amount of grafting in Illustrator, and the eventual result was this new website design. Less blue and more brown is the general theme.
It’s now just over two months until we depart, and it’s now becoming apparent that there aren’t enough hours in a day to a) go to work, b) put in the training time, c) research the world, d) apply for sponsorship and e) publicise our project, all at the same time. The ‘paperwork’ is becoming a drag. I just want to leave now, and the impatience is starting to show a little bit. It’s difficult to focus in my free time because I spend all day doing a highly focused job, and my brain generally experiences complete meltdown by the end of the day. It can’t be healthy. Maybe I should start drinking Actimel. Mmm, Danone.
I’m also starting to catch myself thinking ‘what if’. I firmly believe that under most circumstances, asking this question is likely to be bad for you. ‘What if’ syndrome stops you being spontaneous, stops you carrying things through, and provides a common barrier between an idea and a happening. I will attempt to suppress any doubts that may be forming by crushing them under the combined weight of Philosophy: Key Themes, A.D. 500 - A Journey Through the Dark Ages of Britain and Ireland, The Beach, and Ray Mears’ Bushcraft, which are currently keeping me sane in a world where library-borrowed Lonely Planet guides block out the light in my bedroom, and I dream at night of random things like my secondary school English teachers randomly turning up in dilapidated South-East Asian villages.