you’re the spotlight, girl

Monday, 14 May, 2007 at 10:32 pm

Yay! I’m so happy! I got Linotype’s FontExplorer! XD A student in class said it’s like iTunes for fonts, ’cause there’s a store in the program. Cooliz. :D But I got a font management program! Wooooo!

I haven’t installed it yet. >.> Still set in my ways. Turn on fonts to use them? But that’s an extra step … and on this laptop, I’m not sure if I want an extra program opening on startup … but I should definitely install it on my desktop. Getting closer and closer to a Mac … :b

This blog needs a new layout. The tiny text area is bugging me now. I’ve got an idea in mind, but first I have to make a new layout for my Cardigans fanlisting. It’s been wanting one for a while now…. Over the weekend I made a new Mochi fanlisting layout, and validated coding for most of the other fanlistings, still got a few left to go through. Opened the Kouda Mikako fanlisting. :D Yaaay, I’m so happy, I gots the Cardigans fanlisting and the Miwako and Mikako fanlistings. Maybe I’ll open a Miwako & Mikako relationship fanlisting. *laugh* Yeah. Right.

Hm, I should also get around to making that layout for my journal. I had the idea in mind since probably around the time I put this eyemelon layout up. Just never got around to it. :o

ideal religion again

Thursday, 3 May, 2007 at 5:33 pm

Normally I don’t post quiz results on my blog, but since I have past results recorded here (first quiz results, second quiz results, third quiz results), I’ve gotta keep up the continuity.

  1. Reform Judaism (100%)
  2. Liberal Quakers (97%)
  3. Unitarian Universalism (96%)
  4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (87%)
  5. Neo-Pagan (87%)
  6. Sikhism (86%)
  7. New Age (84%)
  8. Mahayana Buddhism (82%)
  9. Jainism (78%)
  10. New Thought (77%)
  11. Bahá’í­ Faith (72%)
  12. Theravada Buddhism (69%)
  13. Hinduism (66%)
  14. Scientology (62%)
  15. Orthodox Judaism (60%)
  16. Taoism (58%)
  17. Secular Humanism (53%)
  18. Islam (51%)
  19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (47%)
  20. Orthodox Quaker (41%)
  21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (35%)
  22. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (33%)
  23. Nontheist (27%)
  24. Jehovah’s Witness (24%)
  25. Eastern Orthodox (22%)
  26. Roman Catholic (22%)
  27. Seventh Day Adventist (19%)

Grain of salt: I didn’t do the “priority” part of the quiz, and not all aspects of my beliefs were covered, or worded in a way that I completely agree with, so the percentages can be off (compared to previous results).

’til we find our place

Wednesday, 4 April, 2007 at 10:36 pm

Bah, I’m tired of spring quarter already. Bring on summer vacation!

And I still get no enjoyment out of writing here. Funny.

Um. I got a full schedule. It’s actually 14 units. Woo. Haven’t done that since I had chem and pre-calc, but that was a semester system…

So far I have one art project although I haven’t had lab yet so technically I don’t have to work on it! >b Also a project for 218. Then I have to switch from one lab to another in 203. Fun stuff. But maybe I’ll get my computer way in the back this time. XD;

Uh. I went to bed at 9 last night. Woke up around 12ish, again around 1 or so, again around 4, and again a little while after that, then woke up at 6:30 because my radio volume was too low. Well at least it actually went off this time. Monday I forgot to turn it on. I forget what happened Tuesday. Maybe I still didn’t have it turned on.

Now I’m tired, and my side/back hurts because I guess I slept funny, but I can’t sleep because my mind won’t slow down, even though I didn’t have any caffeine this morning. !! I thought, hey I could stay up for a couple hours, then come back and nap for a little, and I didn’t want caffeine to ruin that, but I can’t sleep. o_o

I’m gettin’ into my groove here!

Monday and Tuesday I read Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher, and I thought it was funny how the parts where the two characters were talking to their therapists (whatever) sounded similar to what I write in here. XP Or more similar to what I wrote in my Diaryland account.

Anyway. Um. Spent $85 on books. Might end up buying The Non-Designer’s Guide to Design by Robin Williams, but it’s not required so I don’t know. I’ll have to look at it. I got $5 last year for my marketing book. Er. Relationship selling book. If I don’t need my color theory book I’ll sell that back. Luckily I didn’t sell back the Printer’s Publishing Guide (?) from 202 ’cause it’s the required text in 203.

I have something like $3 in my Campus Express account. I have charged on my card so far: gas $26 (but I think Mum paid me for that, so meh), books $85, and I’ll need to charge $50 for Campus Express so I can eat. Um. But I’m trying to bring sandwiches from home. The problem with that is they don’t fill me up, I’m hungry half an hour or an hour later. I should bring something else to eat. But all I’ve got is junk food, like chips. I could bring fruit, but I hate warm fruit (left in the car), or squished fruit (left in my bag), same for veggies, and I especially hate eating apples in public, I don’t know why. Oh well.

I meant to rewrite notes from 202 but first I wanted to set up my speakers for music and realized I left the power supply at home (same with the battery-backup power strip for the desktop x.x) so after that I went meh and got sidetracked. But I should get back to that.

(…I wrote this in my journal originally, so excuse the ramblyness.)

a thought

Monday, 26 March, 2007 at 12:25 am

(I’m writing down notes from 202 at the moment.)

I just had a thought. Back when they first came out with cameras, even back when they had only pinhole cameras, did anyone ever think that there would be something that could take the picture for you? i.e. point-and-shoot cameras. No need to understand aperture and shutter speed (thank the good Lord :b), just hit a button and you’ve got a fairly nice image. Much better than pinhole camera results, at least, and in much less time.

But then, I suppose it’s like me thinking of cars driving us around in the future. I can’t imagine it. I just don’t know how it would work. Computers, yes, but … someone else’ll have to figure it out. I don’t see it happening, really.

antsy today

Friday, 23 March, 2007 at 12:48 pm

I feel so antsy. o_o

Woke up at 9 this morning; ate breakfast (mochi with little fishies); washed dishes; took out the trash; vacuumed the living room, my room, the bathroom, and what Hidek swept up from the kitchen; packed up most of my stuff (computer still being used); scanned random stuff I thought would make nice Photoshop brushes; and paid cable/internet bill. o.o Busy!

Now I don’t know what to do. I’ve got three hours left til I leave for my last final. I looked over the study guide last night, feel I know the stuff well enough to answer the questions. Just need to study the equations (ppi/dpi/lpi stuff).

And theeeen … I drive for three hours back to L.A.! Yay! I think I appreciate the drive more if I don’t have to drive back in less than 48 hours. And I’ve got good music to listen to. I think Hidek is tired of it though, I keep listening to it in the car. XD Maria Mena (two latest albums), the Submarines, Evanescence (The Open Door), Muse (Absolution), Mirrormask soundtrack.

I think I should eat lunch. That would be a good idea. Then maybe I’ll watch a movie. Maybe.