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9/27/2001 Heh. I'm doing my research paper for rhetoric on the misrepresentation of witchcraft in America. I'm gonna have fun with this. ^_^posted 1:36 PM / post 9/26/2001 I found 13 files on my hard drive infected with Nimda this morning. 13. I hate that. Damn Nimda.posted 1:48 PM / post 9/25/2001 I slept way too much today. I think it's because I'm bored. I almost never have homework, and at most just two classes a day. So then I have at least six hours of nothing before dinner, and it gets kinda old. So I took a nap.I finally rescheduled my appointment with my therapist. I had to cancel over a month ago, maybe longer, and then I didn't have time to call her back about it. So I'm set for October 4 at 2:00. I have to keep telling myself that or I'll forget. You'd think it would be easier to write it down, wouldn't you? But I'm not. I'm gonna remember. Really. I just found a really big problem with my proposed new layout for starlet. The image I'm using looks like crap when converted to a .gif, so I thought, okay, I'll just use a .jpg. Only I haven't been able to save it that way yet, because the only graphics program working right now is PSP, and for some reason it saves .jpegs really crappily. And that's not a word, but I don't care. That sounds impossible, but really. Whenever I use another program to save an uncompressed .jpg, it turns out perfect. But 0 compression in PSP still alters colors. Damn them. Maybe I should upgrade to version six... Anyway, so I finally realized today that it has to be a .gif anyway, because it needs to be transparent. So great. I gotta find a way to make it not look crappy as a .gif. I'm so happy. I can finally get a daily fix of Buffy. I wasn't sure if I'd seen the pilot, but it seems I have... But that's okay, 'cause it's still fun to watch them when they looked so young and different. And, wow... I've just gotta say, Angel's made a real big leap in character development since that first episode... Whoo. He just sucked. No pun intended, really. But he's always fun to look at, so, what do I care. The new episode of Angel was really good, too. I'm glad they decided to keep Fred on, at least for a while. She's funny. ^_^ So. Anyway. Just for something to do, I think I'll start adding in one of my quotes from my new quote notebook every time I blog, or once I catch up, every time I add a new entry. So. Here's entry number one (if you know me or have visited starlet or audrey, this will be no surprise): The most important thing is to enjoy life - to be happy - it's all that matters (Audrey Hepburn). Listening to: My roommate's music. I don't know what it is. posted 10:26 PM / post 9/23/2001 I watched a whole lot of movies over the weekend. Head Over Heels, The Mexican, and The Family Man I rented and watched within 24 hours. I think I was really bored. And then I watched The Ghosts of Mississippi on tv last night. All four were really good, but of course, some were sadder than others.I've been watching The Practice for almost two hours. I've recently become addicted to it and ER. I swear, with all the tv watching I'm going to be doing in the next few months, I'm never gonna have time for homework. ^_^ There's Buffy reruns on FX and the new episodes, there's Angel and Gilmore Girls and Charmed and Friends and Felicity. And I think I'll be watching Enterprise when it starts (I'm a big Scott Bakula fan ^_^). Between all those, I'm not sure all my work is gonna get done... ^_^ There's not much else to say... I'm thinking of adding a new section to my site that holds all the papers I've written for school. They're mostly opinions anyway. Something for me to ponder... Listening to: The Practice posted 11:04 PM / post 9/18/2001 I have a hard time grasping things without being able to see them. That's almost been a Godsend in the last week. I haven't felt very much through this whole thing, unless I happen to see or hear something particularly sad on the news or read something about it in my email. I don't watch the news very much; I didn't before, and I certainly won't now... It's much too depressing. And I figure anything really important will eventually get to me, one way or another. Besides which, the media was really irritating to me during those first few days, the way they kept downplaying the numbers. There were up to 10,000 people working in each tower every day, and on the second or third day after the attack, the media was saying "from 100 to 800" people dead. Does that seem like a very realistic number to you? 'Cause it sure as hell doesn't to me.Anyway... Classes have resumed, and life is slowly moving back towards normalcy. The first assigned speech for my rhetoric class has been cancelled. Considering that we were supposed to start giving them today, and we hadn't even worked on choosing topics, I'd say that's a good thing. Now, we'll just have the other two speeches to do, plus an essay on the subject of our choice, a research paper, and the final. There's very little actual work in that class, and a lot of discussion. I've started keeping a quote notebook. Anytime I hear or read something I particularly like, I'm going to write it down. Something to occupy my time... When I'm feeling a little more.. energetic, I'll type up the events of the weekend. It was rather funny at points. ^_^ Listening to: How Soon is Now? by Love Spit Love posted 5:08 PM / post 9/11/2001 I got up this morning and went to my 8:00 digital art class. We had a lecture on file types among other boring things. We got out early, around 9:00, and I came back to my dorm. A few minutes later Rebecca got a call from her mom, and that's when we heard what happened. Our classes were cancelled for the day, and this afternoon, tomorrow's classes were cancelled too. The faculty set up the projector in the Chapel and has been showing CNN all day. We had a routine blood drive yesterday on campus, and now all my roommates are giving again.I can't say I'm particularly unhappy about the attacks in Kabul. I've been disgusted with the Taliban for years, and even if they had nothing to do with this, they've had that attack coming. My roommate Melanie went home this morning as planned, and she called about an hour ago to tell us to go fill up on gas... Our local BP station's computers are down, and they couldn't take credit cards. So I had to pay with cash, not surprisingly. But our prices were still at $1.39 like they have been. The cashier told another customer that they would be going up tomorrow, but she doesn't know how much. And wouldn't you know that just yesterday, I bought my plane ticket to Boston for Thanksgiving. Great timing, don't you think? Listening to: CNN, like everyone else in the country. posted 8:02 PM / post 9/6/2001 Newness. I like.Listening to: Moon River by Audrey Hepburn posted 11:37 PM / post I felt a little out of sorts yesterday, so I went home for a couple of hours. My mom and I went and got fast food, brought it back to the house, and ate dinner while we watched TV. Just like old times. ^_^ Anyway, I feel much better now. I missed my first class yesterday, though. At 10 AM, I have Liberal Arts Symposium; it's sort of a discussion type class. Like this week we've been talking about the pros and cons of a liberal arts education, and different kinds of creation myths. Anyway, the teacher was really nice about it, but I still felt bad. ^_^I love my digital art class. It's a prerequisite for my major, of course, but it's just the "principles" of digital imaging. So basically, we're just learning how to use tools. I mean, most of what we do we could do in MS paint; we just use a couple filters with it. ^_^ It's ridiculously easy, and the teacher's a goofball, so what's not to love? ^_^ I have a new layout I'm really happy with, so whenever I can make myself code it, I'll put it up here. Actually, I have about 6 or 7 layout ideas that I've made, and I just don't feel like coding them. I have one for starlet, too. Bah. There have been some security problems around campus lately. At 8:30 in the morning, on Tuesday I think, a girl and her mom were moving her stuff back in after the long weekend, and some guy drove up and took the girl's purse. They tried to grab it back and ran over their feet, or something. They're fine, but you know... Bad thing to happen. And people saw the same guy later that night in the other dorm's parking lot. And sometime yesterday 11 cars were broken into. Luckily, not mine. Urg. They've hired a policeman to patrol the campus along with our security guards, and we're supposed to call if we see anything suspicious. Still, it's kind of creepy. The weird thing about this campus is if you go five minutes in one direction, you're in a nice residential section, and five minutes in the other and you're practically in the ghetto. And five minutes after that is the downtown area. It's strange. My 2-D design class is going okay, but I never really liked (or was good at) this hands-on kind of art. I mean, I don't draw well. I used to paint some, but that was like, 5 years ago. I'm much better with digital... Anyway, I've done one little project for it, and we're working on another now. The ones that turn out okay, I'll post. ^_^ Well, I think I'll go. I don't have another class till 11, but I'm sure there's something I should be doing. ^_^ Listening to: Sparkling Diamonds by Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge) posted 10:31 AM / post |