About this Blog

I am a costume designer, and I also temp in between gigs to supplement the fortune that I make designing. Temping is a strange thing: people expect you to be able to walk into an office, use some arcane equipment that should probably be in the Smithsonian instead of on someone's desk (especially in a Fortune500 company)without dropping a single call or sending any blank faxes; file their extremely important papers in a system obviously developed by an out-of-work CIA coding specialist who really wanted to specialize in torture; and otherwise run their life for them, while the person who has had 15 years to learn exactly how to do that is out of the office. Fortunately, I can do that.
When it is not absolutely crazy, hectic, frantic and humiliating, a temp job can be a quiet, peaceful opportunity to reflect on future plans and aspirations, design ideas, professional advancement strategies, internet bargains, weird news stories, LOL kittens, etc. I am hoping that a blog will provide a creative outlet for some of the thoughts that pop into my head in these situations, and also allow me to share some of what I do when I do not have temp work at all. Enjoy!
Viviane Galloway