Those who actually read my blog faithfully (yoohoo!  Anybody out thereeeee?) may have noticed that I made some changes to the site.  For one, there's a new home page.  For two, there's a tiny change to the header text.  What used to say "The true confessions of your not so average gamer girls" has been changed to "A day in the life of your not so average gamer girl".  Subtle, but different.  There's a reason for this change, and I would like to share it.

I have guest writers, and I write, and I write about gaming since it is one of my passions.  I love gaming, as you may have found out.  I'm horribly distracted from writing in my blog by gaming.  But I love other things, too.  And although girls who game are a nitch item right now, girls who game don't need to just talk about the games.  Despite my many faces, whether it be my Friday night grumpy ogress, Freija, my fiesty yet casual dwarf, Malaika, or perhaps my stoic and frosty Death Knight, Joelle. . . I am still Janae Wiedmaier, or perhaps Nae or Nene to those who consider themselves close to me.

And so, here I sit on Monday morning. . . and I'm not presenting myself in a game, at least not how you may think about it. . . but rather as me, as a player and a character, in a game of life, where I sit in Web Directions North 09 trying to suffer through my cold and glean as much wisdom from it as I can.

And for a moment, I'm going to talk about another one of my passions: And that's not my cats.  Or my ferret. Or my husband.  Although I adore them all, of course, and could talk about them for long periods of time (I'm sure some of you have definitely heard me go on and on about those darned cats).

I guess this begs the question: Can I get more geeky?  Besides dressing up like a loon and pretending I'm something else, I am crazy, crazy CRAZY! passionate about my work.  I love design, I love CSS, I love color and (to quote this morning's speaker at Web Directions North, Elliot Jay Stocks), I love "making things pretty"!  I'm manically taking notes, realizing my design skills are probably far sub par (it's always hard to admit that to yourself, you know?) and praying to god that I will get more chances to improve my skills as the months go by at Mindfly.  Perhaps I can join the sales team for a short time and beg "try me try me try me!"

After redesigning my site, do I want to redesign it again?  Yes.  Am I going to?  No.  But I am going to take as much as I can out of this experience, grow, learn, and continue to be CRAZY excited about my job.  And I'm probably going to talk about it more.  Because I love it.  And I want to share more about the player than the character.  To quote Whimsy's blog, and of course one of the most famous playwrites in history... All the world is a stage.

And I'm determined to make mine pretty.