The herbal tea sits next to the coffee jar in the kitchen mocking me each day as I ignore it. I did have one herbal tea yesterday though …ahem…better than nothing.

I’m trying to at least ban the ‘flask’, I think it leads to excessive consumption - I’m making myself go and make each individual cup and the kitchen is three flights downstairs.

I’ve only had one coffee today! I’ve made myself wait until 11am for the second. I’m sure by 6pm I’ll be here with a flask full of the stuff, slurping at it like a crackhead.

One that constantly reminds me that I’m a professional designer is my un-ending and to-date fruitless search of the internet for a hack that will allow me to use the wireless “Mighty Mouse” from my Mac on my PC.

That’s a designer/developer/IT person with Google.

xx

I’ve been out of herbal tea for about a month at least now though and have failed to find time to purchase more, hence my coffee addiction is in full swing phase now and I’m having something hideous like 8 cups a day, gargggh….

Googling everything….I hear you, I must stop thinking that Google is the best solution to every problem or question in life, ha ha. ( But secretly, come on, we know it is…;) )

Have you seen that episode of The IT Crowd where Moss’s office (the IT department) is on fire and he sends an email to the fire station to come and save them!! ha ha….that is Soooo what a designer would do.

If you haven’t seen ‘The IT Crowd’ you need a good spank. Watch it asap, it’s genius.

6. When you do something in every day life like knock a cup over for instance, you can’t quite stop yourself from thinking ‘un-do’ in your mind.

So true - Always doing it, actually nearly everything on that list made me laugh - explaining to family what you do is hard, as it’s always more to it than just ‘Graphic Designer’ - what do you say when people ask?

Herbal tea is not that nice, but you do get those bloody health concious days when you think is too much coffee bad for you!!! and then you google it.

that could be another one, when you constantly google everything people say - if someone has told you the house outside is burning down rather than look out the window - you’ll bash it in google!

Anyone else share a similar symptom or am i just weird?

I did try a tablet once, but took it back to the shop because I just didn’t like it compared to using the mouse because that’s what I’ve become used to using.

Best Wishes

Amanda

apart from the coffee thing, don’t do caffeine in drinks. But I can’t drive past a Costa without getting a decaf mocha (unless I already have one *grin*)

(and surely all decent designers use trackballs and tablets??)

At the moment I switch throughout the day between a flask of herbal tea and a flask of coffee! I’m drinking Lemon and Ginger tea right now as I type!