I swear, yesterday the sidebars were in the right place. But now they’re not. silly css. one of these days I’m going to get them to work. Probably not before I make a new layout though 😉 I’m sure there’s something in the old default css that’s screwing it up but I just…can’t…find it. eh. I promise, when the Troy website goes up it’ll be fixed. meh. then I’ll figure out how to use the Amazon plugin and the rest of the lovely php things that happen when your page extension is php.
[end rant for the day]
Author: etoiline
website stuff
StandardI’m not a very good coder. I’m a terrible programmer, since I never really learned how. But I can have fun with html and php and such, and hopefully make the site look better. You may have noticed how the sidebars finally sit where they’re supposed to and some misc links have been fixed. Some of them, anyway. Does it look better? Bet you can’t really tell. But I know.
Do you need hosting? Now that I have this new hosting provider I have lots of space. Yay! Oh. need to remember to change my mailing list. And re-add the ask me anything feature.
Here is my Geek Code, for those of you curious…
—–BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK—–
Version: 3.1
GE/FA/MU/S/TW d- s: a– C++(+)>$ U@ P+@>+ L@ E–@ W(++)$@>+++$ !N !o K–? w–(+)@> !O M+>++$ V? PS+() PE Y PGP-@ !t !5 X()@ R>+$* tv+>+$ b++++>++++$ DI– !D G e++>+++$ h r>++ x-
——END GEEK CODE BLOCK——
Get your own here. Decode it here.
And the whole reason I started this entry… Visit Blog-Fu and read the funny coding silliness. Of course the actual articles this particular entry are taken from are pretty much over my head anyway, but at least the ones highlighted are funny…yeah.
Two truths and a lie
StandardYou guys have heard of the icebreaker game Two Truths and a Lie, right? It’s pretty simple. I tell you three statements and you have to figure out which one isn’t true. Find more at DNW 2Truth1Lie!
Before you read this entry, check out this picture of me so you know what I look like. For those of you who know me pretty well (or can read this website), this won’t be hard to figure out.
I actually did this icebreaker when I was a junior in college living in the new (at the time) Nemerov dorm. All the students living there got together in the huge lounge and we did a couple of these things…of course, we all forgot the people on other floors’ names as soon as we went back to our own, but it was a good idea at the time… and I have to say, no one figured it out.
So here you go, my three statements:
1. Both my parents are artists and work in the art field.
2. I majored in Biomedical Engineering.
3. I am half Cherokee Indian, half Caucasian.
(See why I had you look at the picture?)
Backporch
StandardTHought I’d try something new today, give this blog a little more to work with 😉
::Insomnia, the Cure for Sleep::
Onesome: Insomnia— Ever have it? Some do and some don’t, but have you ever been hounded awake for that endless hour after hour with no hope of sleep? …or does the very act of touching head to pillow put you out for the count?
Thankfully I rarely ever ‘just can’t sleep.’ Most of the time, especially recently (geez I’m getting old), I’ll just read for a while before bed and that puts me to sleep pretty quickly. Used to be that I could stay up as late as I needed to to finish the paragraph, the chapter, the book…but now it’s like, no, gotta sleep right n–
Twosome: the cure— Hey, if you do have the occasional bout or chronic insomnia, what do you do about it? Work? Read? Try cures? Hmmm… Did you ever find one that worked? Er. See above? If I really need to I’ll get up and walk around a bit, but thankfully that need doesn’t show up very often. Reading is the best. It’s almost like I need to read something before bed.
Threesome: for sleep— Female/male, young/not so young, we all need varying amounts of sleep. What’s your personal sleep cycle? Five hours? Ten hours? …and if you had a choice, what would be your personal sleep cycle? …and yes, ‘All day long’ is a valid answer I *get* about seven hours of sleep a night. I can survive on four (or less, even none) but not for very long. I can even run very well on five-ish hours a night (as long as I can get a few winks on the bus to the track meet 😉 ) but if I get just six I’m cranky all day. My sleep dream is to sleep until I wake up naturally. This happens rarely, as you might guess. Even on weekends I don’t get to do this often. But when I can, it’s usually 2 or 3 in the morning for bedtime and then sleeping until noon. Ah well. Guess I should get up earlier so there’s more time in the day, but what can I say? Eat, sleep, read (maybe write occasionally) and I’m a happy girl.
11 months and a paper
StandardHeh. So it only took most of a year, but I’ll finally have my name on a scientific paper. Kitt, you still want an autographed copy? Or do you want to wait until I’m first author, lol. Yes, second author for Jennifer L Shew, BS. lol. Seems so silly to stick that title after my name. Ah well. Makes me want to go to grad school.
So yeah, been here at the Holloszy lab for 11 months today. Seems strange that I’ve been here almost a year…of course, it still seems strange that I haven’t run track for WU in two years.
(until I get a permanent place for this banner, it’ll have to go here…keep looking for that new layout, right? lol)
The friday five again, finally
Standard1. What do you do for a living? I’m a research technician in an Applied Physiology lab on the Washington University School of Medicine campus.
2. What do you like most about your job? There’s a potential to help people with the work we do; and I’m learning, gaining experience for whatever it is I’ll end up doing for the rest of my life.
3. What do you like least about your job? Sometimes it’s boring, and sometimes it’s truly very stressful and busy.
4. When you have a bad day at work it’s usually because _____… there were lots of things going on (like last week when I didn’t get to eat lunch until 3:30 pm because I was so busy), or I made a mistake.
5. What other career(s) are you interested in? Something in the arts, camp counselor, writer, singer. Actor or dancer if you’re really going into the dream segment.
Don’t forget
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Click once every day. Make sure there’s still some left whenever I get a chance to visit. Be sure to click for funding for mammograms too…
OMB what a day.
StandardWell, I just got done with the salad part of my lunch…sheesh. A busy day. I love it when random things just come up…I did almost everything I do normally all this morning. Whee. *sarcasm*
And now the internet is being selective and not always working. Weird.
And another project got sprung on me today for tomorrow…maybe the subjects will cancel. Er. Is that bad that I’m hoping for less work? well, not really, see…I had something I was going to do, but now I can’t because of this other thing…blah.
Good thing: I’ll admit it though it makes me sound like a dork…I get to see Riverdance with my aunt next week. Cool! I don’t care what people say, Irish dancing is pretty neat.
Don’t you hate it when…
Standard…you come to work all prepared to work your butt off on something boring yet important *just keep thinking, you’ll get a paper out of this* but then something comes up so you have to switch gears and do something else equally important AND equally boring? Yeah.
John Mayer presale tix on sale tomorrow….finally a fan club that actually makes sense to join. Yes, I am now a card-carrying member of the JM club…or will be whenever they send my membership kit.
BUT! Argh. Apparently I owe upwards of a thousand bucks in taxes from 2002 (!) because the job I had out of college didn’t report my income as part of the rest of the income that I made from WU. Bleagh. Lovely. A year of interest on top of what I owe. Stupid IRS, silly payroll. And I was all ready to buy a new laptop. Hah. And I love the ‘you can pay on an installment plan….but we’re gonna charge you interest while you do it.’ Sigh.
One of these days I’m gonna get this blog a new layout and switch it to php. I’ve also got to get my Roswell site back up.
Cross your fingers that we might go to Orlando next month 🙂 That’s my happy thought for the day.
Please comment. It makes me feel lonely when no one’s out there…
I love james horner
Standard“Gabriel Yared’s score for the upcoming Troy, recently recorded in London, has been rejected. According to Music from the Movies sources, the film will now be scored by James Horner.”
Whee! another one for my man james 😉