Identity in progress

At the time, I did a variety of self-portraits. My hair may have been this color but I don't really remember.

So I started answering a prompt that was like, what are 10 words to describe you. I had gotten to about 6 words and I’m killing myself trying to remember the word capricious. This is when a thesaurus is suddenly the greatest invention ever. The other part of the question was, would your friends use the same 10 words to describe you—like that’s a normal topic of conversation among friends.

But I remembered when I was working on my identity, a friend summed up my personality as “British.” I mean—when I was designing my site and business cards and stuff. I know “working on my identity” sounds like some deep psycho-therapeutic process. Though in a weird way, it almost is—another one of my friends emailed like 30 people, asking them, “What do you think of me?” I think she only got one response—it was ‘bubbles.’ I said, yeah maybe if the bubbles have knives inside of them. She was more offended by the ‘bubbles’ suggestion than by my comment—which I guess shows that I knew her better than that guy.

At this point, I’ve deleted the list of words and I’m thinking about my identity design and how I met this top designer from Google. He seemed very impressed by my logo (the illustration in the masthead—hard to explain but makes sense when you see it).

It was the most bizarre conversation. He asked me what I’d do if I had a billion dollars. All I could think was, nothing! Nothing at all! I think I said I’d write a tv show. I had this conversation with a guy at a bar once, about how I’d write a tv show and he was like, “Bullshit. If you had all the money in the world, you’d go write Two and a Half Men?” (And I’m not just pulling that out of my ass because of a certain Twitter that abounds with hatred and veiled death threats for the show and its cast members—he actually did say Two and a Half Men). Well I told him no no no, if I were writing a tv show, it’d be more like The West Wing. The funny thing is, despite what my gold-leaf NBC store mug would suggest, I’m actually quite indifferent about that show … but I think it’s the best example of the kind of drama with a sense of humor that I’d want to write.