Design Therapy

It happened to me again! I'm looking forward to a night of deep relaxing sleep, and boom, I'm trying to make an over-sized piano with gold leafing into a dining room table! This happens to me all the time, which is part of the reason I chose to spend my days being an interior designer. Whenever I go to sleep with unresolved issues, which is more often than not, I end up trying to design them out in my dreams.

Last night I dreamed that I just moved into a loft space, similar to the size and condition of an artists loft. The door frame was in, but there was a 3 inch gab, so I could see all of my neighbors' stuff. He had huge shoes, that looks to be about 3 feet long! They were like the ones you see in cartoon sketches, that look like torpedoes. Outside of these racks and racks of shoes, he had a lot of industrial equipment and machinery.

My loft space had an interesting layout. It was a long rectangle on one end and then opened up into a large triangle. I decided I would put my sleeping area at the end of the rectangle and then put the dining and living room in the triangle portion. I thoughts I would make a very cool layout. The only problem was that there were rows upon rows of crap! Then I turned around and saw a check out counter. There was a CVS in the middle of my loft! How am I going to design around this? I was flabbergasted.

After I woke up, I thought more about what my dream meant. Hmmm...I am trying to design and there is a business trying to sell a bunch of crap right in the middle of my creativity. I don't think it is hard to figure out that my job is this huge waste of time in the middle of me trying to do something that I love and feel inspired by.....

Resolution: Find someone to pay my mortage for the next 2 years, so that I can completely focus on school...

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