sigh

why blogger, why ??

Blogger's being a bitch. Just had a whole journ. entry and it freaked out on me. My Compose and edit HTML's not there, and I guess that's what I get for going for a free blogger service, eh.
Anyway.
$%@*!? webbernet's a drug. Found littleplanet that seems to have alot of killer music, an international listenership (egad what's wrong with me) and is the best replacement for good ol' DopeDesign since it's vanished. Dammit Kieran.
And I don't know what to do with the "playmix.php" that downloads when I want to listen in on a stream. Wtf.
Head hurts.
Argh.

el camino

So now I'm giving Camino a try. It doesn't have RSS syndication and the location bar is lame when you want text only in the toolbars, but it's so much faster than firefox or safari or any of the others fighting that silly battle with each other. Found this, kinda out of date but seemed to break it all down for me... So much webbernet surfing lately, maybe I should consider a major in geekology. Anyway.
Finished that draft for the article. w00t.

(h d y d i) & (#!&*?! m s)

Yip - that's a tiny butt up in the air.
Rgh it's so time for a new chair. I've been writing here at this computer for hours now and it's really become crystal clear that this $3 flea market p.o.s. is destined for the abysmal depths of the recycling plant.
Besides that - draft for the article minus the major interview is finally done. 437 words, just enough, not too much. I don't even want to add to it otherwise I'll end up ranting forever and make the paper even worse than it is. That's not too tough!
Can't remember if it's supposed to go on the Front page or the Campus page. That's going to bite figuring that out tomorrow. Guess it's the editors' problem.
Sweet. Night, done.
Altoids: ah, lights turned off I dream sleepily...

2.28 pm

I just gave my political science teacher a pretty fair evaluation, detailed comments on how I think she should be more animated and incorporate a more varied media approach to teaching US gov't to to a bunch of native American college kids when she's from Kyrgystan and hasn't lived with it for her entire life as most of her students have. I certainly admire her for doing what she is, it's hard, especially as a part-timer.
Sometimes Cabrillo is so infantile, but it does a really good time trying to be up there in the higher education. It is rated one of the best community colleges in the nation but is really just a stepping stone between high *(Woo hoo - fire alarm ... now where was I...) Right. Stepping stone between high school and university. Yeah no duh. Pure genius, La, where'd you come up with that one.
OK seriously.
GET TO WORK

Assessment, check.

Phew. Glad that's over. I got 18 right, placing into Math 152, just what I was hoping for. Pat on back...
So I got there at a quarter till 1, when I thought I'd be ok to get in, turns out there were almost 60 people waiting in line, and I knew while I was on the phone setting up a photo shoot with the Porter Gulch people that I should be heading over to the ass center... so I didn't make it in with the first 30 people. Why does there always have to be drama? People think that their lives are first and foremost, and poor lady was doing her best trying to accomodate for all the people that were there. She said she'd been up since 4 and all these lame moms are bitching when there's nothing she could do about it. So they were awesome for setting up a second session, which was awesome, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to register for this summer, and things would have been majorly smacked out of whack. It reminded me of being in high school and if my mom had taken me there, how she might have jumped down the lady's throat just like the other people did. It's not her fault so many people showed up, but nowadays my mom would never do anything like that, she's gotten better at realizing that life happens, shrug and take it. Everyone's their own separate world, but the betterment of society and peace is more imporant than the advancement of the individual and the achievement of personal goals are not more important than respecting others. Hazzaa.
I ought to be able to register within 24 hours, and looks like there are 10 spots in the section I want to take! wOOt.

IE is so LAME

WOW. This page looks like horse poo with IE on Windows. Why does the text continuously get smaller moving down the page? Why are only every other date showing on the posts? Why is the sidebar all the way at the bottom instead of at the top? Why are the links smushed together? This is so lame. So incredibly lame. I don't want to start all over. I don't want to care either. Windows and IE should be banished.

o' bejeezuz

Good golly, the Voice wants to start selling merchandise. Man, we barely even have readership, why woud people want to spend 15 bucks on a tee shirt when we can't even get all 3,000 copies of the paper picked up. It's a cute idea - the staff, family and maybe some faculty members would buy mugs, caps. Marketing scheme. I think we should focus more on getting the paper read a bit more. Eh, maybe I'm skeptical. It could help attract readership.
Anyhow. Math assesment test today! Mozart, an eraser, some mate and I'll do fine. (crossing fingers and toes)

And the conformity continues...

Okey doke, I think I may be getting the hang of it... blogging. So many people do it. It's a techno-craze I resisted, but the lack of journaling and the ability to type a helluva lot faster than I can write makes it easier to conform and adhere to the ever growing popularity of the blog. Journalists do it, teenagers do it, politicians do it, celebrities do it, web designers do it, average Joe's do it... and now, La does it.
Welcome back to the freehand thought dump! And I'm teaching myself CSS and HTML because I've been forced to learn how to adjust to customizing the template to match my simplistic idealistic rediculistic freakistic viewpoint and how I want to see things on my lil' ol' silly blog...
What better way to spend a Tuesday evening? Who seriously wants to do homework, read about government, read about communications or media law. Why not exercise your fingertips and be entirely mal-productive. But it is much more fun than writing in a book, the way things used to be. I used to write pages and pages daily. In class, at the kitchen table, in the library, in the park, in bed, in the car. I used to be a writing addict. And now, I'm a lazy addict. And I don't even have any legitimate excuse as to why I am so compelled to procrastinate on anything deemed responsible. No, that's not true, tonight wasn't all worthless or just like any other night... I responded to my emails about work and the article for the Voice, followed up on interviews and made some notes, did some minimal research on prospective plans to attend NYU, got some work dates with IATSE, I chatted with Amber from past life in NM who's going through a major life change right now also, some techno-cyber-company with my NY man... I also organized some thoughts on the upcoming days...
Tomorrow, musn't forget to bring my old Olympus camera for that girl to borrow for her shooting art and dance around Cabrillo... Actually I really don't know why I volunteered myself to lend my camera to her, when I could just continue shooting around campus like I already have been. I just don't want to take photos during Oedipus Rex on Sunday, I'd rather enjoy the play and not have to worry about asking Maria Crush and the director for permission to go up into the follow spot booth and point my giant loud lens in the actors' faces. I'd rather lend my Olypus to Michelle and let her have the ultimate photojournalist-in-training experience and let me to my leisure enjoying the production with Mary and Steven. Much better that way. So there, just talked my self out of regretting lending off my precious camera, and I don't mind taking a few minutes to show her how to use it anyhow, it'll be worth it in the long run.

Alright, I can see this is going to be addictive.

Ah, the conformity...

Hi. I'm La.
I'm new at this.
Let's see how it all works out.