I’m using this site for my final project for my portfolio class. Since I’m majoring in web design / development, my portfolio needs to be online or in another medium that’s easily shared. I really don’t feel like having a third site I need to keep track of, so redo this one it is.
Stuck on the design, but there isn’t too much I can do on getting a good photo right now. I need to get an ecommerce design done too much the end of next week.
Fun fun.
Oh, good. Just a couple more days and I’m done with speech class. Thank God! With luck, I should never have to attend another one. Don’t get me wrong, the class went fine. It’s the technology, the constant assignments, and everything else.
Today, I ended up having to burn $89 I was saving on one of my insulins (Lantus). I lost my medicaid on New Years day and to be honest, until today, I really didn’t mind. Medicaid was giving me nothing but grief anyway. But holy crap -! $89 God, burning that much money on such a tiny vial of liquid.
Y’know, world, a new pair of jeans would be nice, so would a pair of shoes. Maybe a new jacket, I’m wearing the same winter coat I did back when I was 18. Hey — here’s a revolutionary idea — howzabout a suit I could interview in? POOF. Insulin.
Yeah, I know… it’s stupid to be crying over this. I need insulin to survive. I can live without clothes. In another week or so, I should be getting a student refund check in the mail. I know this is just PMS making me feel all weird over something as stupid as this.
But now I just want to cry.
Trying to get my sales speech written and I had a great idea. Unfortunately, it’s not something that’s going to be helpful in this assignment.
A speech regarding creating fanfiction archives. ^^; Probably once I have my speech written, I’ll type it out and submit it to Luna. But I had an idea complete with visual aids and stuff. It would be a great one to give at a con someday.
LOL Until then, I have to stop procrastinating and get my outlines and visual aids for my sales speech done so I can give it tomorrow.
Well, Lunaescence.com is back… and I couldn’t be more depressed. And I’m not sure why. Sure, I’ve been depressed the whole time it’s been down, but now I’m even more depressed.
It may just be the realization that the progress my site had made was brought to a crashing halt. It may also be the knowledge that now I don’t have time to do any of the things I wanted to do with my site. The final semester has started and I now have to buckle down and find that internship and finish up these last things before graduation.
I don’t know.
I’m mad because the site could have been up yesterday (Saturday), but I didn’t feel like walking down to get the mail. Heck, I didn’t even want to leave the house.
Which brings me to a rant: What is it with us and bad neighbors??
*sigh* Friday, we believe our neighbors deliberately turned both their pair of mastiffs loose. They’ve come right out and admitted that Judge, the big male, is vicious. He’s bitten someone twice now, attempted to bite our neighbor once. I spent much of Friday hiding in the house while animal control attempted to capture Judge.
That damned thing actually charged the animal control truck and wouldn’t let them officer get out. The officer eventually managed to coax the little female mastiff (which shockingly seems to be nice and even-tempered) to jump into the cab of the truck on her own, but then proceeded to sit there until backup arrived.
They finally managed to capture Judge and carted him away to the pound.
Anyway, the reason we think they did it on purpose is because the husband (or whatever he is) turned out to actually be home. The little female was loose first, but we didn’t know if she was vicious like Judge, so we stayed inside. I looked outside at one point and watched the guy walk right past the dog, get into his truck, and speed away. Less than 10 minutes later, I look back out and see Judge.
Oh. No.
I’m not scared of big dogs, but I’m scared to death of Judge. I really hate to say it because I love animals, but I hope he’s put down before he seriously hurts someone.
So anyway… Saturday morning, Jass walked down to get the mail, but none of us felt like doing anything. So when mail came that afternoon… it sat there until Mom went to give our statement to our landlords.
I have a bad case of procrastination when it comes to my final paper for WRI 115. I simply do not want to do it.
I started off in college so well, but now I’m back to my usual habits. Oh well, last minute turn-in like everything else.
I’m feeling rather proud of myself right now. I just completed a script to handle my fanlisting codes and I’m thrilled to say it’s working exactly the way I planned. ^_^
Looking at the page, you won’t see anything that truly different. My images will all appear to load normally. But if you look at the image’s URL, you’ll see it’s PHP rather than an image. *huge grins*
For those technically inclined, the script basically first checks to see whether or not the fanlisting code is being accessed from my blog. If it is, the script progresses and serves the image being called. However, if someone tries putting the image as part of their sig on say — Xanga or Gaia Online — the script will first log the attempt and then terminate.
To make it easier on myself if someone figures out how to circumvent the script, I even stored the fanlisting code directory in an array. That way if I need to move or rename the folder, I only have to edit just that particular line and every code will be changed.
I’d still like to add a few more security checks, but right now this is awesome. There are times I feel like I’ve learned nothing new in college and then I completely surprise myself by doing something like this.
I have no real problem with people using stuff, but I’m awful protective of my bandwidth. My baseline server costs are plenty without overage charges. Besides, they can download the fanlisting codes on the fanlisting sites and use photobucket. It’s just stupid.
College is going well. I got 100% on my first speech — talk about awkward, though. I’m not used to web cameras, so I stared at my monitor the whole time. XD I was so wooden too!
I really need to get around to calling my academic advisor, but I keep procrastinating. I need to get details about what I need to be doing to get an internship somewhere, but I’m feeling rather “meh” about the whole thing.
Well, time to get on my English homework. Yes, another level of English. -_-; Wish I could test out, but it’s business writing so I suppose I should pay attention.
Much ♥ — talk to everyone soon.
I would kill to know what happened to my beading supplies.
I have a huge ball of hemp, a large container of wooden beads, and a bunch of other little things missing right now. I can see losing or leaving the small stuff behind somewhere, since some of it was in small envelopes… but the hemp and wood beads would be hard to miss. Knowing me, I probably threw them into some random box the night before the movers arrived.
Now that I have a web cam, I can (maybe) take a few pictures of my jewelry to put up on my DA account before I sell them for Christmas money.
I really hope I didn’t loose them, I don’t want to replace everything.
I finally learned why I had to have my own camera for that speech class. It’s going to be held online apparently, so I won’t be able to share the school’s camera. Kind of curious to see how that’s going to work.
So far, I’m passing my classes, though I’m routinely staying up until 4am trying to get everything done or waiting for things to upload to the school server. (Which gives a totally new definition to the word “slow” — I’d hate to see what would happen if I wasn’t on cable.) I think I’ve discovered the fate of Computer Science majors: Sleep is for weaklings; caffiene is king.
What have I gotten myself into??
My books for college just officially annihilated me. Forget for a moment my tuition, lab fees, and other expenses for a moment.
English 301
Book: $132
Public Speaking
Book: $81
Video Camera: $88
Intro to Perl/CGI
Book: $65
Advanced HTML
XML Book: $14
DHTML & CSS Book: $18
Total: $428.88
Please…. just kill me now. X_x
Seriously, the most reasonable book prices are for the classes I actually want to take. The rest are kind “meh” classes for me, but I need to pass them for my degree. Thankfully I have a hard time failing English and public speaking has never bothered me. (I’m not even sure why I need a video camera, but – oh well.)
Going to try to finish up one last eFiction modification before my classes resume tomorrow morning and then I’m poofing for a while.
If you can’t be bothered to actually read, don’t comment on my posts!
*sigh* Okay, now that I have that out of my system. On my class message board, I replied to a comment where a guy had used a rather vulgar, unprofessional “programming” website to back up his statement that programming standards are “stupid”, “limit creativity”, “stifle new programmers who have to then learn a different way of doing things”, yadda yadda yadda.
I said that I wanted to call the validity of the site into question, based on the person’s overuse of obscene language and statements where he said “The standard is usually stupid because it’s not what I do.”
Okay, that sounds like an angst-ridden teenager right there. I don’t care what his resume looks like, but if I was an employer looking through that site I certainly wouldn’t hire him.
I asked for clarification on how the standards limit creativity. Maybe I’m just a stupid little noob, but I really fail to see doing your best to make sure other people coming onto a project can read your code does anything to limit creativity. The code’s the same no matter how you lay it out.
Nope, his response looks like he read only the first line or two of my post and immediately called me a flamer.
*sigh*
I love my major, but I’m really getting tired of dealing with this every other class. Oh well, another person to avoid. To bad I can’t do the same thing with that girl from my other class.
Heh, yay for alliteration.
Owwie, I really don’t think I’ve done good on my finals. I really don’t. These classes have no been anyway in the same zipcode as fun.
One teacher really never gave me much in the way of feedback, so I never knew what I was doing right or wrong. I’m not even sure if she actually even looked at my homework. I turned in incomplete assignments and still got 100% on them.
Then, for my other class, I had to write a paper on a fictional business and create a whole model for improving it over the next 12 to 24 months. I may be a lot of things, but I’m not business minded. ^^;;
At any rate, this semester may be my off one. So long as I do good in my Spring classes, I think I’ll be okay.
The site is back up and everythings transferred over. I canceled my account with the other webhost and still haven’t gotten back to them about why. (Not all that interested, to tell you the truth.)
The forums… wow. What to say? It took Jasson and I two days to install the subcategories modification; it was that involved. Several thousand lines of code that had to be added to that damned script. I think that’s the hardest thing we’ve ever attempted, I really do. But it was sooo worth it. ^__^ It definately looks better than the default stuff phpBB comes with. I think I’m actually starting to get excited about forums again!
But…. after Arise/RL, I’m not all that interested in leaving things to the rules. I don’t want to scream at people all the time. I just want them to act like civilized human beings and not a gaggle of preschoolers I have to watch every second. In lieu of this, I’m to put security measures into the actual script so they can’t pull some of the bull-plucky they did there. (more…)