The Margin Notes

June 2025 Edition

It is unreal how 2025 is halfway over already—January 1^st feels like it was yesterday. June was exciting yet mundane. I survived the many changes in my work schedule. I attended 19 Hours Conference, The Community Wide Juneteenth Celebration, and POPS in the Park. And I got to experience something that I thought would never happen again… the original Broadway cast of Hamilton performing together once again for Hamilten during the 78^th Tony Awards.

If you read the previous edition of The Margin Notes, then you know all the changes that happened to my summer work schedule for June. But in short, within three days, my work schedule for June underwent at least twelve changes—honestly, there were so many changes that I lost count. But the good news is that one of my bosses with SPARC was able to get me some working hours throughout the month.

19 HOURS DESIGN CONFERENCE

19 Hours is hosted by Mydoma Studio, and it is a conference that I look foward to every year—I always try to make sure that I don’t schedule anything over it, so I can watch the sessions live. I have attended this conference ever since the second year it was held, in 2021. The biggest reason that I love attending this conference is because it is completely virtual. Since I’m not able to make a trip to things like High Point Market and KBIS, through 19 Hours, I’m able to be a part of the world-wide design community from my home!

HAMILTEN

I have been a fan of the Broadway show Hamilton since the beginning. I think that when I discovered Hamilton, it had only been on Broadway for a few months, and the original cast recording had only been on YouTube for two weeks—that was the time it seemed financially plausible to go to New York and see the original cast perform live. But I knew before the show won any awards during the 70^th Annual Tony Awards that their performance alone during the award show that night would make the ticket prices skyrocket and my chance of ever seeing the original cast perform would be thrown out the window.