Virtual Magpie (the equivocal adventures of Megan M.)

For those of you who don’t already know, the Usual Error Project is about communication. Communicating with your boyfriend, your boss, your best bud, or your dog. It’s a great resource for anyone who finds themselves in hairy personal situations or unclear, people-oriented professional situations, and it has a slew of great solutions for the everyday communication confusions that many people try to shrug off and ignore. I have been a huge fan of it since Marty and I moved to Austin, and I’m not ashamed to say that I pimp it to my friends. It’s great stuff.

I used to write about the Usual Error Project constantly at my personal blog. I was liveblogging workshops and intensives, transposing scribbled notes, speculating, taking note of situational humor and inside jokes and related ideas. Well, after awhile I stopped doing that. I, er, started helping out instead. :P

There has been a lot of discussion and planning surrounding the Usual Error (and its new incarnation). We worked up a logo (my design, Marty’s brilliant Illustrator post-processing), and then a business card. We threw up a subscribable holding page at the Usual Error Project site, so that people could request to be notified when everything goes live. Since working together on this and other projects, Kyeli and Pace and I have spent a lot of time motivating ourselves to think outside the box, and I think it’s starting to become evident already — even though the site launch is at least a month away.

In the future I will most likely blog again the way I used to, but in the meantime I’m having a blast. These folks are really driven by a passionate force. I’m definitely feeling it. Please give their site a look and keep an eye out for new developments. Exciting things are afoot, y’all.