Today's X-Files Marathon

I've been pretty successful in my X-Files marathon today.

3.21 "Avatar"
3.22 "Quagmire" - Poor dog.
3.23 "Wetwired"
3.24 "Talitha Cumi"
4.01 "Herrenvolk" - I haven't finished this episode, because it's not playing right.
4.02 "Home" - This episode was gross.
4.03 "Teliko"
4.04 "Unruhe"
4.05 "The Field Where I Died" - I'm watching this episode right now, and Mulder is very pretty and full of angst.

Wow, nine episodes. I need a life. After this episode I'm going to do some design stuff and not watch many more episodes.

My Portfolio and Flock

I'm gonna be all backwards and blog about Flock first. Flock is a web browser. The Flock browser focuses on people connecting with others over the internet. Here is the link to the Flock web page: http://flock.com. It's pretty cool, and brings the number of browsers I have on Leviathan to five: Opera (my default browser), Firefox, Safari, Flock and Internet Explorer (yes, I put IE last on purpose).

My portfolio. I have FINALLY redesigned my portfolio website: http://excited-geek.com. The redesign isn't complete yet, but I have a home page and a WordPress blog. And I made the theme for my blog all by myself. The theme is made for the specific purpose of looking exactly like the main website. I'm going to get trucking on the portfolio page tonight at work. I work for four hours, so I should be able to get that page done. I'm hesitant about dong my about page, because I don't know what to write about myself. At least not enough to take up space on a whole page and normal enough to make it seem like I'm not just a dork, but also really good at what I do (web design, and I am really good.

Blog Neglect

I'm so glad that nobody ever gets in trouble for blog neglect, otherwise I would have serious legal problems. I can't believe I haven't updated since April 9. It doesn't feel like it's been that long.

First off, Script Frenzy. I have 19 pages, and I'm shooting for 50 by the end of the month. As much as I'd love to make 100 pages, my plot really isn't inspiring me to write and I've got exams and projects that I'm finishing up this week and next, and after that I'll be moving out of my dorm room and back into my home in Topsham.

I've just finished my Web Dev and Database finals and I think I did really well. yay me!

Flash, I have it. I'm playing around in Flash, and I've beeing playing around in Photoshop for a while. I'm taking a Flash class next semester and I want to get some practice in before hand. Because I really like being awesome.

Divs: A Letter to Myself

Dear Self,
You know that Web Dev class you're in right now? The one where you spend you Thursday mornings? You probably should have paid more attention to divs. I know that they annoy you with their unreliability. Like when they work in IE, but not in any other browser, which is a total turn around. Hey! I have an idea. How 'bout this summer you read up on divs and make like a million sites using divs so that by next semester in September you'll be a DIV MASTER?
Love,
Yourself

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.

Well, Sometimes I Actually Get Things Done

I feel very accomplished right now. Tonight I have gotten so many things done. Here's a list of things I've done in the past 2 hours:
Edited and Submitted a Paper
Washed My Dishes
Cleaned Out the Inbox of My School E-mail (it really needed it)
Put Away All My Clothing
Changed the Sheets on My Bed
Made My Bed
Scrubbed the Shower Curtain (it was getting icky)
Switched the Floormat in the Bathroom
Cleaned Up The Floor of my Room
Recycled A Bunch of Stuff That Was Hiding Under My Bed and On The Floor

As I type now I'm trimming my nails, and I'm going to paint them. Then I'm going to make a web site. I want a site that I can use to apply all the things I'm learning in Web Dev 2, and possibly Relational Database and Web Applications too.

So yeah, I'm doing pretty great right now. A couple of nights ago (or maybe last night) the guys on the second floor were having shove fights (friendly). There were trying to shove each other to the other end of the hallway. Corey filmed some of them, and was planning to put them on YouTube in an East House user account that he'll create. Once I know where they are I'll link to them. Carissa participated and I joined at the very end.

Oh yeah! I want to do Script Frenzy this year. I've never written a script before, but I've wanted to. So I think Script Frenzy will be the perfect time to give it a shot. It's like NaNoWriMo. The goal is 100 pages (or more) of a Script in one month (April). I think it'll be a lot of fun.

I Miss WebTeam

I miss the freeformed learning of WebTeam. I never thought I'd be opposed to structured learning, but I am. I absolutely hate the following phrase: "And your going to learn about that in a later course." Grrr...NO! Why can't we learn the things we want to and be taught things in a logical order that doesn't require the teacher to say dumb shit like that. I'm taking a database class where we have done the theory behind databases and designing them and now we're starting our work in MySQL, but we're not going to get any teaching on how to make atabases work WITH a website. Like how to call information from a database with a website or for a website. To me it juyst makes sense to have that included in the course, but whatever. Also, if we don't take some design classes VERY, VERY soon, the internet is going to be populated with even more hideous, ugly websites. And they're going to be made by Web majors that are like "here's my website. It's standards complient, works on all web browsers and the code is gorgeous." And I'm going to be looking at these sites with my "WTF" face going "but it's ugly!!"

I think that's all I had to say. Night everyone.

Treadmill Journal: Number Three

March 7, 2008
No Specific Project
Throwing out ideas.
11:00pm.
12:00am.
Eh. I only got two ideas. The plot bunnies have all abandoned me.
Work on a website. The plot bunnies have abandonned me, but I'd be totally into making website, or starting some kind of web project that would keep me busy.
Now-whenever I get bored.