Domestic Geek

Current mood: studious
Man, there is so much CSS stuff to learn. I think my brain is going to explode. The newest CSS Zen Garden design is a collaboration between David Shea and Eric Meyer. Turns out that the project is part of Eric's new book, "More Eric Meyer on CSS." While reading Eric's site, I read a post about how he believes that Frazz author Jef Mallett is actually reclusive Calvin and Hobbs creator Bill Watterson. Hmmm, it could be.

Had steak tonight at Chili's with Marcus, Mike & Nina. Yummay!

My portfolio case is almost ready to be painted! Yay!!! I'll get cracking on that first thing after work tomorrow. I'm just waiting for some wood filler to dry so I can sand it.

Per Laura's suggestion, I think I'm going to install MT Blacklist tomorrow. I had way too much spam in my comments this morning. That stuff so totally sucks.

Current mood: overwhelmed
I've got so much to do and so little time to do it all!!! I've got a little over two weeks to finish my darned portfolio. The presentations are on April 27th. We're also learning CSS in my web class and there is so much to learn that I can't keep it all in my head. Our teacher wants us to design and submit something to the CSS Zen Garden site. Wow, That's quite the challenge.

I guess the Pepsi iTunes giveaway is almost done. It's getting harder and harder to find bottles with winning caps. Of course, they have to be redeemed by the end of April, anyway. I think I've gotten about 55 songs so far from free caps now. Whoo hoo! I much prefer Coke, but if I'm going to spend the money on soda anwyay, I might as well get a free song out of it, right? I think after there are no more caps to be found, I need to get up soda drinking anyway.

I'm watching "The Pianist" right now. It's hard for me to imagine how any of the Jews survived Hitler. I can't even begin to understand how anybody would've seen such attrocities and still had a will to survive. I also can't understand how the Nazi soldiers could commit the acts that they did and live with themselves.

Does anybody know what happened to iMood?

Well, I guess I better get to bed so that I can get work done early tomorrow and spend the day working on portfolio stuff. G'night.

Current mood: accomplished
I love learning how to do stuff with CSS. I finally found the code I needed to make my calendar act like I want. It still needs a little tweaking, but I'll work on that later when I get a free moment (ha/ha). I need to do a redesign of this darned thing anyway. I wish I was an expert. If only every browser would support all the attributes. It sucks how you can make a sight look perfect in IE only to have it be totally broken in Safari or Netscape. I really hate that you can't color scrollbars in all browsers. That feature is so darned cool. *sigh* Does anybody know a difinitive guide for css stuff? The w3 site is a little confusing sometimes.

Oh, and I decided not to quit school or change my focus to multimedia. I can't with only six months left. Designing for the web is what I really want to do. Learning Maya and stuff would be cool and everything, but I can always learn it later.

Well, off to work.

Current mood: exhausted
Even though I'm totally sleepy, I can't sleep. I've got too much on my mind.

I'm wondering if I should drop school for now and focus on some other things. I've let so many things go lately: me, my house, my friendships, my job. Now my schoolwork is slipping. I was so looking forward to the web classes and I've already skipped twice. I have had too much on my plate for so long that everything is giving way at once. I'm not healthy, my relationships are not healthy. Anyone who visits here can tell that I'm not happy. I used to be. I used to have fun and took care of myself and enjoy my life. I don't know when I lost that. All I know is, I can't keep doing this.

It really sucks that they don't offer the web classes more often. I've been waiting forever to take these and now I don't want to be there. It's really stupid to keep racking up debt when you're not going to give it your all. I'm wondering if I should change my focus to multimedia and learn the web stuff on my own. Hmmm.

I guess I'll find out when I talk to the registrar chick tomorrow.

Current mood: motivated
There's been a big shake-up in my life recently. All I'm going to say about it here is that my negative attitude and disregard for my personal well-being brought me very close to losing Marcus. I've had a major attitude adjustment.