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May Design Horiscopes

Taurus

You might need an inspirational boost this month. Concepts are becoming a struggle and your creative block has the hardness of Greek calculus. Abandon your daily routines at work and do something different to shake your brain out of its thick fog. Perhaps shave your head, or sit in the Yoga lotus position, or jump rope every hour. Don't worry about frightened co-workers running away from you in horror.

Gemini

Geminis are adaptable and versatile, but even they can only take so much. You might want to literally change the tune of a co-worker this month. A new designer has the tortuous habit of constantly whistling while creating. For your own sanity, you could take the direct approach by asking him to stop it or be more subtle and put Gorilla glue on the rim of his coffee cup.

Cancer

Look for your company's Activity Committee to enter you and your fellow designers in a bowling league this month to encourage co-workers' bonding through non-business events. That's the good news. The bad news is the imaginative team name on your T-shirts. Surely, other league bowlers will overanxiously await their chance to play a team called the "Graphic Splits."

Leo

Lately Leo, your lion's roar sounds more like a mouse's squeak. Your usual 'take charge' personality needs to be recharged. From procrastinating on projects to blaming others for missed deadlines to being indecisive on strategy to shirking responsibility and accountability with multiple excuses, one might easily arrive at the obvious conclusion that you're giving up your design job for a career in politics.

Virgo

Your design concepts are extraneous, your personal planets are in retrograde, your orb has lost its influence, your natal chart is grossly damaged, your synastry is devoid of relationships, and the cusp of your sign is lost in vagueness. C'mon Virgo, you're intelligent and analytical. You'll be able to figure out what all of this means. Virgo? Hello?

Libra

May is a fabulous month for you. Your designs garner hefty praise and you gain respect among your peers. Clients are openly requesting you for their projects. Co-workers are seeking your opinions and asking for your advice. There's even talk about you becoming 'Employee of the Month.' And if all that isn't enough, you also correctly pick the winner of American Idol.

Scorpio

With your projects at an all-time low, you'll have some excess free time on your hands this month. As a determined and forceful Scorpio, you could offer to help others complete their work or perhaps organize your desk space, or maybe even go through three years of old e-mails. Then again, with summer approaching, there are some hot items begging for bids on the auction site, eBay.

Sagittarius

For some odd reason, you think the more snack food you eat, the more creative you become. With some big projects on the schedule this month, your desk will be strewn with pretzels, peanuts, beef jerky, pork rinds, tortilla chips, popcorn, jelly beans, gumdrops, trail mix, chocolate, cookies and doughnuts. Look for your workstation to be in its new location around the 28th—next to the vending machine.

Capricorn

Lately you feel that other designers are not pulling their weight and you are doing the brunt of the workload. As a Capricorn, you are patient and careful to a point. The next time they're laughing and goofing around while you're stressing over deadlines, sneak up behind them and use your video camera cell phone. Threaten them with an upload of the clip to your company's intranet. Enjoy the sudden burst of help.

Aquarius

You like dreaming and planning for the future, Aquarius. It's your true belief that global warming is not only sending our planet to an early demise but, more importantly, it's also affecting your ability to design creatively. You also believe that space aliens are intercepting many of your design concepts and telepathically sending them to competitors. By the way, your supermarket tabloid subscription will expire on the 31st.

Pisces

Someone in your creative department has started a little name game in the office where they openly refer to co-workers by the first three letters of their Zodiac sign. For example, an Aries' nickname is 'Ari'; Capricorn is 'Cap'; Sagittarius is 'Sag'; Leo is, well, Leo; Libra is 'Lib', etc. A word to the wise—do NOT let anyone know your sign. Avoid this game, Pisces!

Aries

Your energy is running low this month. Just getting out of your chair to walk from your computer to the coffee machine or bathroom, leaves you with shortness of breath and extreme fatigue. You have pale skin, anxiety and a lack of appetite. Either these are symptoms of iron deficiency or that dreaded condition designers know all too well: 'deadlineous loomis.' If ignored, it can lead to something worse: 'employous terminis.'

 

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