today at work all i’ve been doing is html, and it’s been the best day ever!!
perhaps (nerd) i should take a step back and examine (nerd) why this is so much (nerd) fun to me (nerd).
today at work all i’ve been doing is html, and it’s been the best day ever!!
perhaps (nerd) i should take a step back and examine (nerd) why this is so much (nerd) fun to me (nerd).
kate and i like to call ourselves nerds. but really, we’re not. i mean, she’s closer to real nerddom than i since she actually knows a computer language and some other mathematical stuff that i tossed down the memory hole a long time ago. mostly we’re nerdy because we like to oogle computer specs and watch a lot of star trek. eric however, is actually a true nerd and i bow down to his coding glory. he just set up movabletype for me, and truth be told i could have done it by following the instructions…really slowly…but he was all blazing away on puTTY, typing seemingly random letters that magically made other strings of random letters appear. wow. programming is so cool.
…and i’m pretty sure that that sentence just made me even nerdier.
right now it’s midnight. where am i? that’s right! WORK. i have just finished making 6 mark overlays for our promo commercials. oh boy.
further proof of my nerdity (besides making up words like ‘nerdity’): i’m tired today…er, tonight. know why? was i up with a hot date or seeing a movie or drinking or dancing? no. i was up until the wee hours last night reading my…
wait for it….
that’s right, i was reading my JavaScript book.
oh dear god.
i should go home soon i think, since i have to make some changes tomorrow – i mean, today. eric and mike, i hope you’re having a real good time. jerks. 🙂
ever want to know what happens during an autopsy? includes cute illustrations. no, really.
‘identity’ was, indeed scary, but between mike and my theories, we pretty much had the movie figured out by the halfway mark. tonight we’re going to see ‘x2’ and i am SO EXCITED!!!! everyone says how awesome it is, and i can’t wait to get my geek on. i’m heading over to the theatre at 7 to check out the line situation and maybe have a few drinks at the rhythm room.
yay! eric just showed me how to fix my html so i don’t have to save the long way. hooray!
meghan, eric, jon & i went to see ‘old school’ tonight. it was fucking amazing (just for you eric, just for you). i have never laughed so hard in my life. i was actually in pain from laughing so much. meghan was crying. SO FUNNY.
tomorrow is the free chipotle party at the office (yay ozzie!), meghan’s birthday at chili’s and drinking at our place. saturday is ozzie’s birthday at iggy’s. then sunday is writing the paper that will break me. ah, what a weekend!
kate and i are now in charge of the company’s marketing campaign or whatever. new logo ideas:
~kara
so board games at kate’s was super fun. i kicked ass at scattergories and then eric kicked ass at trivial pursuit. going home was overwhelmingly wonderful and i didn’t want to come back. for my mini-welcome home dinner my mom made barbecued ribs. then the next night was my grandma’s birthday/grandparents’ anniversary dinner. i had the best filet mignon i’ve ever tasted in my life. it was heaven. plus my parents have way better snacks than i do. that’s probably because they have a lot of…what’s that word? oh right. money. and i don’t.
i can’t help but notice that i’ve mentioned the lord of the rings at least one in my last four posts. you might ask yourself, is lord of the rings all that this kid watches? and the answer would be…yes. this movie, well either of them, are on at my apartment at least once every other day. pat has seen the end of the fellowship of the ring about 30 times, and has only seen the beginning once…when he saw it in the theatre. fran has even come up with a new idea for a commercial announcing dvd releases of the trilogy. i’ll post that when i get her to send me a copy of the script.
tomorrow i go home! yay! i’m excited. tonight we’re playing board games and watching enterprise at kate’s. life is good. plus, i got to make labels with the electronic label-maker at work today! BONUS! also, i’m completely caught up in one of my classes. sure, i’m like 400 pages behind in the other one, but come on, this is progress. as for my printmaking class…ideas for a diptych? one plate is a poem or quote, the other is a 4-color print based on a photograph that somehow goes along with the verse. ideas? anyone? anyone? i don’t know anything about literature, so this would be a good time for someone to impress me.
~kara
today is my special day! well, one of them anyway. today is the 21st anniversary of the day i came to america. i celebrated with japanese pan noodles from noodles & company and “the recruit.” mmm…colin farrell. oh yes.
the papers went ok i guess. but working on them (read: procrastinating) all weekend meant that i’m even farther behind in my reading. yikes.
happily, this weekend i go home to the quad cities for my grandparents’ wedding anniversary…but really the trip was motivated by my orthodontist who insisted i come back so he could fit my new retainer that had to be sent away for because my u.r. 12-year molar is that fucked up.
…and now we’re going to watch the lotr: the fellowship of the ring (extended edition). again. shut up.
~kara
so last night we watched lotr: the two towers at our apartment. a bootleg of course. it was pretty decent…lots of artifacting and funky sound, but still all the hotness you can handle….or can you? oh, there was also a gap in the middle where i’m guessing the dv tape ran out or the camera battery died. so basically you never see aragorn get thrown over the cliff – it cuts from the middle of the battle to the men arriving at helm’s deep. then gimli says that aragorn fell and those who haven’t seen the real movie are thinking, ‘he WHAT?!’ then later you see him floating down the river and it’s even more confusing for those poor people. oh well. guess you should have paid the $8 to see it in the theater, eh? the best part of the bootleg was that the case was all professional looking – except the top said “widscreen collection.” yeah. wid. that’s how i like it.
just finished talking to my mom…she felt icky this morning so she took a fiorinal…yeah. she’s a little loopy today. all that caffeine and butalbital. did i mention she’s a teacher’s aide for kindergarten? watch out kids!
i bought paper last night for my relief printmaking class…i think it’s too thick. i think i totally screwed myself with my linocut design. why can’t i just half-ass it and turn out substandard work?! oh right…i have like, standards and stuff. and those two papers i have write this weekend…riiiight. no idea. so if you have ideas for a comparative idealisms or comparative trinitarianisms paper (or a good spring break plan), email me!
~kara
i have once again proved my lifetime membership in the sacred order of nerdity: yesterday i identified the etymology of tengwar (elvish to you non-nerds out there…i just keep getting lamer and lamer) and today i identified a quote from “the Game” – David Fincher’s best film in my opinion.
tonight is the 3rd part of round one of american idol. yes, my roommates have gotten me hooked on american idol, whereas i’ve gotten them hooked on alias. this feels like an uneven trade. tomorrow i think meghan and i (and hopefully all of you…all one of you who probably read this) are hitting the century to see “confessions of a dangerous mind.” finally. since our first attempt on saturday failed.
still trying to figure out this whole spring break thing…thinking it’s going to be me and meghan sitting in our apartment for a week while i edit “the caseys.” ideas? that are cheap i mean? and not stupid? let me know!
thanks again to holly for lending me her pubweb space. i love that girl.
~kara