I opened Photoshop “just for five minutes.”

Six hours later:

27 layers

30 Brushes and 2 full Brush sets

7 New Font Styles

Two awesome banner designs

A magical glowy-text signature

One half-finished website homepage

Three forgotten chores

A now cold cup of Dood Patti (that’s chai sans the agua for you destitute souls)

My mother yelling

And absolutely no regret

My brain LOVES making things.

Too bad this 2007 society doesn’t think “Home-based Photoshop Wizard” is a valid career path. Oh the hypocrisy!

I taught myself HTML today.

Actual full pages.

Clickable menus.

Scrolling text (don’t judge, it was cool).

Frames.

Tables.

Guestbook scripts.

A fake “About Me” section that looked like it belonged on a Spice Girls fan site.

Math?

I barely scraped that A- after like a thousand pages of extra credit and missing literally every single school day last semester.

Computers?

My brain turned into a firework. Haven’t slept in two days.

GRAPHIC DESIGN COMPANIES here I come!

Maybe you don’t need school to be brilliant.

Maybe you just need curiosity and a really good dial-up connection.