Ayla Hoffman's Senior Project

 For the 2nd week of senior projects, there were many happy, challenging, and funny moments. For my work with Glimmer, I designed a phone case that will (hopefully) be put on the websites shop which is super exciting. While I was making designs for the cases, I found myself constantly feeling challenged and unhappy with the work I was creating, but when I finally landed on a piece that looked good, I was so incredibly happy and satisfied. Grace, my boss, bought two of the phone cases I made and we will get to see how good the quality and resolution is before we decide to fully sell them.  As for my walking, the weather this week was pretty awful and wet. This definitely had me feeling much less motivated to put in the time and effort of walking everyday since it was not very enjoyable. I did not quit though! I took my dogs on two of the lengthy neighborhood walks, and did the other 3 solo. Doing my solo walks absolutely goes by faster since I just listen to music and am able t...

My initial pitch for my senior project was to spend 4 weeks walking 4 quadrants of Portland (NW, SW, SE, etc). For this first week of projects, I hiked and took neighborhood walks and incorporated mindfulness practices towards the end of my walks. I have really enjoyed these strolls and hikes through the NW and SW neighborhoods, but I have realized how I've overbooked myself a bit since I am also currently an intern at a start up called Glimmer. Glimmer helps queer people find queer affirming mental health professionals. At this internship, I work on finding queer based news, music, etc as well as I am working on designing merchandise. I go in once a week for a 2 hour meeting/work session and then I work remotely the rest of the days. Its a super great opportunity and now I look forward to splitting my time this month between walking and working with Glimmer.