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| i haven't been here in a while. maybe i'll make a new layout. (i say that every time.) but the only person who would actually read this entry is alison, right? so i dedicate all my rambling to you. and the new home page on xanga... what? i'm confused. anyway. this is probably a once in a blue moon type of thing, me avoiding doing more crap in maya. i don't like maya. i should have been an illustration major. then i could develop my skills as an artist, or something. here i just stare at the computer angrily as maya freezes up again. for the record, after i leave here i'm going to california the day after i get back. that's next sunday. then i'm not coming back until the saturday after that, and the next day we're driving up to maine to my aunt's summer house for nobody knows how long. then i'll really disappear off the face of the planet. i don't know if i'll have internet access. probably not. maybe i'll get some summer reading done. maybe i'll jump off of a cliff doing projects for AP studio art. yesterday i stayed up until 4:30 in the morning collaging my facebook profile picture. a boring, tedious, and soulless project. it did however come out pretty nicely, and it's going to be in the student show next week. for now, it's back to maya (for real this time, i think...) and i have to work out an infinite number of glitches. i'm excited. maybe i'll get to take a nap or go to bed early. or maybe i'll stay out late shopping and then watch anime afterwards because i'm that awful at managing my time.
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| all right, i've got most of the kinks worked out. i still haven't figured out the fonts thing with firefox. for some reason the dates insist on not recognizing the fonts. i discovered that the comments page is a mess. i managed to make it at least decent on firefox, although it's still a bit off, but on internet explorer the entire blog post goes off the page and i can't get it to come back. it's got to do with the margins, but for some reason internet explorer is determined not to read the code i put in to fix it. only firefox will accept it, but even then i still can't fix it all the way. i put in a weird font for the titles too. i don't know if it's going to stick around or not. i think i put an alternative font for if your computer doesn't have the first one. i'm putting way too much time into this. i need to get a new permit. we have to go to the registrar or whatever it's called soon, but the website gave us absolutely no information about what we need to bring or anything like that. anyway, i've got to leave now. | | |
| okay, sorry guys. no nav bar. i'll do it later... for
now, just go back to the home page or your own xanga or
something. i'm still fiddling around with the colors... i'm not
sure how much i like this navy text. idk. i'll keep
changing it until i'm satisfied. OMG. can i just say that i
hate xanga's guts right now? aaauuuggh so much difficulty.
and all i had to do was type "position:static" and fiddle with the
margins a bit. but it only took me like 3 hours to figure that
out. i was about to give up. just thinking about it makes
me want to rip my hair out. why am i so stupid? well,
people who will read this probably don't really know what i'm talking
about. i'm still kind of amateur ish with CSS and HTML,
especially since i haven't designed a layout in so long, so it takes me
a while to figure everything out. but the hard part is done now,
so rejoice! and after i finish this, i can make a winnie the pooh
layout for kathee. now that my skills are back up to speed it
will probably take half as long. *edit... this layout is coming
out a lot darker than i thought it would... weird. maybe i'll
make a new one or something if this one is too emo because emo margo is
scary, right alison? *edit again... firefox hates this
layout. don't ask me why. firefox is just special that
way. i'll try to make it so it looks just as pretty on firefox as
it does on ie at some point, but for now it's functional so that's good
enough for me.
*edit again again... okay, i have to stop doing this. turns
out the thing with firefox was actually a really simple problem that
took like 2 seconds to fix. on the other hand, firefox doesn't
recognize the font i used for the date and your computer might not
either, depending on whether or not you have the font. i'll try
to put in a second choice that firefox and other computers can see.
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| and i hate xanga back. i'm trying to make this new layout, right? but xanga has to decide to put all these random tables on the page that i don't want. and these random tables screw everything up and throw all the positioning off so i can't get anything to line up at all. i hate xanga. the new layout is never going to work. ever. and i can't figure out why it hates me so much. i think i might be able to fix it but i'm sick of it now so i'll do it later. | | |
| my summer so far has been icky. maybe if i clean my room tomorrow to my mom's satisfaction i can finally have contact with people outside of my family. well, i'm actually still allowed to use the phone, but for some reason i haven't called anyone. part of that was because i was kidnapped and brought to rhode island today so i could celebrate my step grandpa's birthday. and now that i actually am home and bored and want to call someone it's one in the morning and i can't sleep. i should have gone out that day i was not grounded. blah. i should just clean my room instead of writing stupid blog posts. i feel so disgusting today. my self esteem is down, i guess. no motivation. we ate this gigantic fried onion at dinner today. we went to the outback grill (to celebrate the birthday) and they called it a bloomin onion because they cut it open and all the little fried stringy onion bits opened out into a circle like a flower. then i ate a big bowl of pasta after that. and i ate too much. then i went home and read this weird book called "the time traveller's wife." actually, it's really good, but really strange all the while. when we got home i watched the end of finding nemo and some other movie about these strange girls who competed internationally in gymnastics, and there was this preview for the new pixar movie called ratatouille or something that i can't spell. pixar movies are so cute. the animation is really cool. afterwards i played ddr so i could work off the fried onion but i swear i'm ridiculously out of shape or something because my heart kept pounding really really fast and it made all the blood rush to my head. then i ran on the treadmill because i still had too much energy but i got bored and tired after literally 3 minutes. i read a lot more of that book and now it's one am and i'm tired and maybe hungry too, although it may just be some kind of extreme chocolate craving. i'm just going to pretend it is so i can ignore it and make up for eating so much crap today. then tomorrow i'll go eat cookie dough again. my mom is amazed at how much of the stuff i scarf down every day. watch me get salmonella. i need to stop being down and get out of the house. although, i was out of the house all day today. i think it was a nicer day in rhode island than it was here. it got up to like 80 and we went swimming in the pool at the beach club. i feel like i'm craving something or i need something, but i don't know what. it's really annoying because i'm just going to procrastinate until i figure out what it is. i really don't think i'm hungry. or maybe i've just done a really good job of convincing myself that i'm not. i'm so confused. i'm going to get a drink of water. | | |
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