Posted On: November 30, 2008

The Grinch I can't escape...

I swear I was meant to be a cloistered nun...sans the nun part.

I love the holidays, but i hate the noise factor. In general, I love love love quiet, peaceful, and calm. It's why i'll never live in a city and don't go to a lot of parties...it drives me nuts! The more people talking at once, and the more background noise (like TV's and radios and whatever) the more wound up I get. Even something as mundane as talking on a phone drives me nuts...

My husband is the opposite, he loves noise and excitement and parties and all that stuff...I guess we balance out that way. For Christmas, he's getting me a set of really good headphones to wear at work...i'm such a dork that I listen to ambient sounds, you know, so I can feel like i'm coding and/or designing in a rainforest. Because, yeah...that's where computer stuff gets done. The rainforest.

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Posted On: November 28, 2008

Stuffed to the gills!

I hope Thanksgiving was amazing for everyone...we had a Turduchen, and truth be told, I was a bit disappointed. It's okay, because there were two turkeys in addition, and lots of pies!

I'm trying to catch up on homework i've not done, reading i've not done, and everything else I can think of that i've simply put aside out of laziness...right now i'm working on a Flash banner, and it's four days late. I have a brain fart with flash, it's not as fun as doing layout, and it's a little bit frustrating - so i've been ignoring it. I have a HUGE book on Flash, and i've read three pages of it. In actuality, Flash is NOT difficult, it just takes time, and i'm used to getting stuff done quickly. Even when I was painting, it would piss me off if it took more than a week to finish a painting. I was waffling between taking a Flash class or a JavaScript class next quarter, and i'm going with JavaScript. That will be frustrating too because there's a math element to it - but I think it will be more satisfying to conquer. We'll see.

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ALSO, I buckled down and ordered high-speed internet. I'm such a miser that i've been depending on GoogleWiFi, which is another reason my homework is late all the time - shit only works late at night (like, 11 pm onwards) and really early in the morning (like 5 am to 7 am) all the hours which I am sleeping. I've had to rethink some of the things of which I had previously taken a hard stance with - for example, credit cards. For years, i've been proclaiming that credit cards are 'ze deevil' but then my debit card number got stolen, and fighting to get the cash back into my checking account was HELLACIOUS! Credit cards, no hassle. So now i'm a convert. Hooray for the credit cards!

Well, it's Friday, black Friday they say, so i'm going to try to get some of this work DONE!

Posted On: November 20, 2008

Mehhhhhhhh...

The past couple of weeks have been a series of firsts - my first run-in with credit card theft, my first time really turning in homework late, and the first time I admit I can't control the world!

What a bummer.

My cure for these let downs...just put on my headphones, pretend it doesn't exist, and just rock out!

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Posted On: November 4, 2008

Hooray!!!

Excellent!!!

Thank you, all who voted, thank you for proving that there is, indeed, hope for America!!!!!


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I'm sure i'm not the only one, but I had to watch the elections with a crazy Republican in the room who did not stop with the snarky, sarcastic, crappy comments...sore loser!

This is an amazing thing for our country, and i'm looking forward to the changes to come!

Posted On: November 4, 2008

If you do nothing else important today...

Please, please , please vote today, if you haven't already. Unless you're voting Republican. You have a free pass to stay home and do stuff. I'm just sayin'. I'd like our economy back and no more war, that's all.

Snark aside, GO VOTE!!!

please.

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