Apple makes expensive products far outside of my budget,  and my mind clicks better with the Windows OS (can it be helped having grown up using it since it’s birth, and a father who betatested and used its predecessor, (and the guys Microsoft ripped their visual style from), OS/2?), but Apple makes solid products (let’s not talk about the Macbook Air, please.), and a tablet? Well, it just seems like something they’d do right.

And for comics? Well, the iphone isn’t enough. It’s too small. I like to see my pages at 5.5×7 and larger. The business-card size screen of any oversized phone isn’t enough.

I’m looking forward to this. You can bet I’ll be releasing versions of my future comics in digital format now. I’m working in color now, and it makes it that much less expensive. And some day I’d like to buy one, but like with all Apple products, wait a few years and the price will go down and the functionality up.

Of course, I will still always prefer paper. Paper takes reading books beyond the mental experience and into the tactile. I’ve thought a lot about how I plan on printing “Jeannie Carnini” because the touch and feel and smell and look and opening and closing of the book are as important to me as the pictures. Now that I have a job lined up (YEAY!), I’m going to save so I can take a few classes at SVA (School of Visual Arts here in NYC, btw), mainly: lithography and bookmaking.

Since moving here, I feel like I’ve been bursting with energy and ideas and motivation. It’s amazing how much of a change something as little as moving into the right city for me has made. I click with the people here. The way everything functions makes sense. And I don’t roll my eyes at all the idiots I perceive on the streets anymore. Austin’s a fun city. A great city really. There are so many things that I miss (other than my family, of course). Central Market is first. Good coffee and cafe’s that stay open 24 hrs is another (oh my gosh, NYC has such cr*p coffee!!!!! Which is why my mother has mailed me my favorite blend of Lola Savannah coffee from Austin). I also miss the green. Austin is a lush city, especially for being in Texas. And people put a LOT of pride into their gardens.

But those are all small trades to be made to feel like I’m back on track again. I’ve felt so lost the last three years. Pursuing thread after thread after thread that leads nowhere but back to where I started. I really, truly, love New York. I love the people here. And I love the kind of person I’ve become here.

I’m looking forward to the next few years! Because who knows what will happen or I’ll become? I expect to change, to grow, and hopefully become a better person in the process.

What a harrowing journey this last month was. And yet, what a blessed one. Never have I felt more the breath of G*d lingering over my shoulder. Yes, it was a lot of work getting here. Yes, is there still work yet to be done. But every bend and corner, every hill and valley, no matter how steep, has never been too sharp or too steep to get around again.

I’m in Windsor Terrace right now. A little cafe called The Oak and the Iris. Coffee is a dollar thirty-five, sixty cents cheaper than anywhere in Austin. The barista speaks broken English, and half the conversations around me I’d need a translator to interpret.  It’s a brisk, sunny 65 F out, and the coffee is delicious.

Six months ago, I made a decision that I would move to New York. I needed comics and I needed friends. This move from the college town I grew up in to one of the most populous, diverse cities on earth has helped me to realize that I need never be truly stuck. If I find myself in the mire, I can swim free again. I needn’t fear stagnation or despair.

So how appropriate to have my first set of keys in my pocket with the key chain given to me that says simply:  New York.

Welcome to the next stage. Welcome to the place I can never say I didn’t have the opportunities. Welcome to my new home.

This is going to be a fascinating journey, and I hope a few of you who’ve seen my posts wane over the course of the last few years will stick around to watch, be it on livejournal, twitter, facebook, flickr, or the face of my new site and blog (mucho tweaking to follow). But no matter what happens, this chica is going to finish another book and get published again. I hope you’ll enjoy it.

Love and Kisses,
Rivkah.

So yeah, putting the finishing touches on my new site, and EEK does it look pretty! XD And HOLY F*CK has it take forever! ;_; I've been teaching myself PHP and a better understanding of the CSS language (which is actually ridiculously easy once you understand what you can and CAN'T do with it) and everything for the site is finally starting to come together.

HOLY COW I'M SO EXCITED. I feel like I'm getting a new lease on my career and on life. All this energy comes rushing in from nowhere and I want to jump to the sky and shout with joy. The last time I moved, it was a bad, horrible, terrible decision, and in my gut, I knew so. But this time around, I know it's the RIGHT decision, that good things are going to happen, and that I just need to GO. Only ten more days until I move--

HOLYBANANAS!YES!

--and I'll be living in THE most multi-cultural city in the US. Maybe on our planet. I can say "sayonara" to Austin for the time being (though I'll be back to visit!) and "howdy" to my new city.

(hugs New York City)

SO EXCITING. O_O

Back to my website now! Hopefully, next time I update, it'll be from my pretty, brand sparkling new layout.

Eek!

SO EXCITED! \>o

Woo font embedding!