Just too boring

I got turned down for another project today. No surprise, coming out of the interview I expected that I hadn't made such a great impression. The thing that bugged me, though, was that I went in thinking they wanted someone with more technical skills, and I came out feeling that what they really wanted was a graphical person. Graphics is what I want to be doing, but the simple fact is, I have little skill/experience in it. Right now, anyway.

I keep telling myself to just take the plunge and try anything. It's going to take time and practice for me to get good at it. I should hurry up and start now or it's just going to take longer to get to where I want to be. And of course I'm going to suck at it at first. That's only natural, right? And I have enough friends who will encourage and support me, even though I have unbelievably thin skin and I'm incredibly hard on myself.

But the reason I was told I didn't get the job (to get back to the title of this little piece) ... The interviewer said that I was more interesting on paper than I was in person. Am I boring? I hadn't realized it. Shy, introverted, I don't puff myself up in interviews the way some people do, sure. But boring? I don't think so...

I know it's probably going to come close to killing me, but I AM going to design a new site in the 2 weeks I have off from work. I AM going to make images of it on Photoshop, and then I'll be asking all of the 3 glorious people who actually read this thing to take a look and tell me what they think. I know my graphics work has a LONG way to go. I have halo's around some things, and some things just don't come out the way I want. But I'm going to get there, so help me!