I’m usually not one to change layouts often. I’m quite stubborn about it. I usually spend a lot of time working on a layout that it just doesn’t feel right for me to suddenly switch layouts after a few weeks. But a few weeks ago, it occurred to me that I had had the previous layout for well over a year. I did like the layout, but in all honesty, I felt it was time for a change!

Back in autumn, I remember when Alexander McQueen (RIP) released his super amazing Spring/Summer RTW 2010 collection, and I knew that I had wanted to do a layout with a similar color palette: bright aquas and yellows mixed with muted browns. It took a while to figure out the concept of the layout, but a drawing, a marble texture, and several days later, this layout was born! It’s a little different from my previous layouts, but I hope the style is still recognizable! Anyway, feel free to give me some feedback! I’d like to hear what you think, and I’ll be updating all the pages in the meantime.

Interestingly enough, this layout is water-themed. The previous layout was earth-themed. The layout before that was air-themed. Do mine eyes detect a fire-themed layout for the next redesign? Hmmm…

And now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.

• New layout: I wanted something illustrative but not so cluttered that it would detract from the photos in my blog posts, present and future.
• New location: Most people probably arrived here from the old URL blog.cindypepper.com, only to find a redirect to the actual domain! Why the change? Well, it didn’t really make sense for me to isolate the blog to a different subdomain, since it’s just as integral to my domain as all the other content. Plus, it was pretty easy to transfer everything, so why not take the inevitable move now? RIP old blog URL¹ — you were great while you lasted.
• New portfolio: I cleaned up and added new works to my portfolio, including a new webdesign section! Here’s hoping that there will be more portfolio content this year (!).
• Updated pages: I suppose that goes without saying, but I figured that with a new layout, I might as well spruce up whatever content I have. And as always, feedback is appreciated, especially since I plan on adding more.

Anyway, I am doing swimmingly myself. Busy, too. However, for the past two days, my nose has been grossly congested. (And I mean grossly.) This week was a bit light in terms of workload, but unfortunately, I can’t say the same about last and next week. I have many a paper, midterm, and problem set due next week that thinking about it puts me in a state of worry. I keep remembering that my spring break London vacation is in less than two weeks, but then reality hits me with another impending deadline.

Also, I can’t believe it is March already. Furthermore, New York got hit with heavy snowfall on the eve of March. The weather had been semi-decent for February; did the groundhog emerge from the burrow, only to see its shadow a few weeks late? The sudden cold weather is worsening my congestion, alas.

Well, seeing as my immune system isn’t so robust right now, I’m going to go to sleep and hope that I’ll be a little less congested in the morning.

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footnotes:
¹: Despite the redirect, I definitely recommend updating any blog.cindypepper.com links to this site at cindypepper.com, especially since I’m not planning to use that subdomain anytime soon.