Ok so half an hour later I have ordered:
Layout Essentials
A Lifetime Of Secrets: A Postsecret Book
I had wanted the Postsecret book but couldn’t decide on the second one. Others I was deciding between:
Hand Job: A Catalog of Type
1000 Fonts
Book Design
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Wan To Be
Those will remain on my wish list for the time being.
My BIGGEST apologizes for not writing until now…I feel very guilty! What can I say, I have had no more dilemmas deciding!…..NOT! Well I did write another time, but it got lost/deleted…anyways no excuses.
So I was at the Chapters looking through all their books for inspiration; and as Casey recommended, looking at books with similar tones to what I envision for my project. I spent hours going through all the books in the self-help, lifestyle, art sections. I felt like they had some undercover in-store security who was keeping an eye on my suspicious behaviour as I was pulling out every single book, flipping through them, and writing notes down in my sketchbook. But I’m probably just paranoid. What I came to conclude of self-help books were either they are:
1. lengthy text-filled or
2. adorned with frilly/chessey photographs and drawings
Nothing in the 1′s captured me to read them and I couldn’t take the 2′s seriously.
I came across the PostSecret books by Frank Warren. Feel in love and now I’m going to buy one, but online since it’s cheaper. I need to buy another book to get free shipping…no biggie since I wanted a design book to add to my collection anyways. But now I am spending all my time deciding which second book to buy!
What can I say, I’m looking for the best design book! Well one that’s visually nice, give some inspiration, and an useful design resource. I had already scoped out some of the books when I was at Chapters. Then I went online and searched “top design books” (I often do “top____” searches.) Looked on Amazon to see if I could get any “inside looks.” What a waste of my time. Well maybe my problem isn’t that I’m indecisive, maybe I’m just cheap.
That being said, I’m going to just pick a book and buy them right now!
I suppose I should attempt to keep track of all the times I am indecisive (which is pretty much all the time!) But I will share my troubles on decision making, ones I spend hours, weeks, months contemplating over.
Oh and any advice is much appreciated 
My decision issue today, or for the past week, has been about my courses. So a bit of background info, last week I dropped Professional Practice because I didn’t want to take 15 credits. Then the next day I voluntarily dropped Type since people needed the credit and I didn’t. So I ended up with 9 credits (although I was really doing 12 credits since I was going to audit Type).
Over the weekend my mom kept nagging me to make sure that I was still a full-time student (I needed to be a full-time student for this Canadian Scholarship Trust Plan thing). I swear full-time was 9 credit until I searched on ECU’s website and it said full-time was actually 12 credit with at least 3 credits being a critical study. SHIT!
After checking with the school, Lawrence said I would be fine with my 9 credits. His definition of “full-time” is completing all the courses you need to graduate on time…which I would be.
But all this got me seconding guessing if I should take Professional Practice.
Take the damn class
- Taking 2 critical study course in the Spring is going to be boring (maybe hard)
- Other people are taking 15 credits-so suck it up and just do it, I’ve done it before
- Better to have a harder Fall semester and easy Spring semester
- I could take another elective in the Spring if I wanted to
- There is never enough time, I will still slack
Just take it next semester
- Each semester will be more balanced
So I ended up going to Professional Practice.
But now I wonder if I should not bother auditing Type.
Yes! Audit!
- Peter is awesome and I will learn lots
- It’s the last possible time to have him as a teacher
- Who doesn’t want a free class?
No
- I didn’t want a 15 credit course load in the first place
- I can always just take another elective next semester
I’m going to class tomorrow and see.
I know this is wasting mind space but I just can’t decide. I’m bascially waiting the last minute so I’m forced to make a decisions meanwhile keeping all option at the same time. My readings have told me there is never a right or wrong decision but I just can’t help but want to make the better decision…
So here’s my first go at a blog. The idea of writing my thoughts out on the world wide web is rather intimidating…well hopefully this will force me to learn web things and understand CSS…so how do I customize this thing?!
