{"id":1076,"date":"2005-08-13T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T06:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2009-07-26T11:47:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T06:47:32","slug":"one-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/one-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight marks the one year anniversary of moving here to SF<\/a> and finding ourselves right where we want to be – in the heart of the web world with our own selected clients and projects.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been enjoying a quintessential \u201cnight off\u201d for some other web fun (making video snippets, redesigning blog pages, entering and updating posts, searching through my digital photos).\u00a0 Tomorrow, we\u2019re building out a client\u2019s beta-site and work on structural wireframes for an ecommerce site.\u00a0 On Monday, I\u2019m back designing for the next generation of blogging web applications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m struck by how much has happened this year, and how I feel like I\u2019ve both returned to being the \u201creal me\u201d and also evolved into a completely new person.\u00a0 Owning your own company can be stressful at times and is certainly obsessively time-consuming, but it\u2019s also more rewarding than anything I\u2019ve ever experienced.\u00a0 From the initial contact or proposal, through to launch or the next phase with a client, each decision is ours to make.\u00a0 This level of personal contact bears a high level of responsibility but with it comes as deep a level of satisfaction, calm and awareness.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve often found that at my most busy and multitasking moments, certain synchronicities start to pop up: I might read about someone on a blog, then I happen to come across their site on a random surf, or I see a design or graphic in passing, and then walk right into a store and pick up a t-shirt made by the same designer without knowing it.\u00a0 I think the more you get into a zen-like balance, the more you\u2019re rewarded by those little karmic moments.\u00a0 Or, maybe it\u2019s just that when you\u2019re happy, your synapses are firing connections more rapidly.\u00a0 Either way, I\u2019m enjoying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight marks the one year anniversary of moving here to SF and finding ourselves right where we want to be – in the heart of the web world with our own selected clients and projects.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been enjoying a quintessential \u201cnight off\u201d for some other web fun (making video snippets, redesigning blog pages, entering and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-writing","tag-sf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}