I’ve developed some interesting talents in the past few months.  Tarot cards, deliverable projecting, palm readings, horoscopes, traffic management, mind reading.  You know, the usual.

Surprisingly enough, though I can manage the flow of work through the agency, check on deliverables and remember countless dates and status reports, I cannot, in fact, climb into your head and replay the conversation you just had with your client pushing the project schedule back three weeks.

Please excuse me while I go reassemble the carefully monitored schedule that’s totally shot to shit.

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… but then a really really great one comes along.

We do pro bono projects because we believe in them.  Plain and Simple.  Well, at least it starts that way – a simple, understated design, but a definite step up from our non-profit-of-the-moment’s original site. Months later, hours of design and dev time later, paying-clients-schedules-pushed-back-to-accommodate-our-passion later, we come out with a beautiful project and a terrible story.  But surely I jest.

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