rose: this week, i did a short freelance project in support of a group of christian leaders who are petitioning the government to repeal the corporal punishment laws. this is an action that came out of the truth and reconciliation efforts. i felt honoured to be part of such an important initiative, and i also really liked doing some design work. not surprisingly, since i loved working on hatch in september. val kindly offered to write me a reference letter. so it might be time for me to start working on a website.

thorn: in the spring, i was helping someone work on a press release. i don't know if the file was corrupt, but since then every time i try to use microsoft word, it crashes. it's difficult to know if the problem is linked to that file, but every time word launches, it opens that file, then crashes. i did a bunch of looking online, and found someone else was having this problem, and had identified that it was only on one user profile. so i checked my other one, and Word is working fine there. this is pretty aggravating. i'm confident that given enough persistence that i'll figure it out, but i was really hoping that i'd get it corrected tonight. i'm gonna need it if i get more freelance customers.