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I'll be putzing with the site for the next couple of days. I'm trying to convert to using php so this thing isn't such a bear to update. You may experience technical difficulties 
you can still vote for me in the diamond web awards, though (hint hint) hopefully you'll like the new layout.
For my VE friends: I'm on LOA this week as well.
The title's just to remind myself of something. Ignore it.
You probably realized by now that I don't agree with what Bush decided to get us into. But since we've got fighting guys and girls over there (anywhere, really) and I think they should be respected, send a thank you to a service-man or -woman.
I'm working on a new layout for the site, really. I don't know if it will be up in time for next week or not. I had this idea which should have been cool but ended up not being something I liked. So.
The Etoiline.com network has a new member! Please welcome Daph and her site, Enabled Element. Hope you enjoy it! And don't forget to visit my first hostee, Nessa, at Orlicandie.
I need to be more responsible around the house. Mental note.
I don't know if any of you noticed it at all, but there's a little button off there on the sidebar that says no war. I don't want to be at war. And now that we are, I still don't want to be there. Since our president failed at diplomacy, we have to go to war, I think was what Dashle said...boy am I glad I didn't join the military. Not that I have nothing but respect for our troops. I just don't think I'd be able to stomach going over there on orders from a president I don't support. And this is going to sound really petty, but I'm already sick of the television news breaks and continuous coverage of the non-existent "shock-and-awe" campaign. Just let me watch my shows in peace, thank you very much. As my mom said, if you cry wolf, no one's going to notice when they really do start to do something.
For the record: I think Saddam is evil and the world would be better off without him. But what about Osama bin Laden? Kim Jong Il? I just think it would be better to get the former who actually did attack us, and the latter who is mentally unstable. I think they're the bigger threat. Now, maybe I don't have all the information, which is easily true, but from what I've heard, those are the conclusions I've come to. Perhaps it's from being a Democrat, perhaps from the liberalness of those around me. Maybe I just plain don't like Dubya. I don't know. And now that I've made my political statement for the year, I can just say, good luck to you troops out there. I'm sorry you have to go through this, I appreciate what you're doing to keep the country free. I hope you get out alive, and soon.
on a highly happy and total non sequiteur note, the TTT theatrical release has been mentioned for August 26th...a day before my 23rd birthday. I know what I'm getting, eh?
Remember to wear your green. or you'll get a virtual pinch! If I wasn't so lazy I'd make a graphic for you, but alas, I am. I'd hoped to get a new layout up for this lovely holiday, but again, alas. Foiled. I'm attempting to make a portfolio site using php. Don't know if it works as cannot upload it yet...egad but I miss ethernet. How do you do rollovers in php if you're supposed to use absolute positioning? If you know, tell me. otherwise, smile and nod.
Hot Lips the Fish....yes, this past weekend for the St Patricks Day Parade, I had the honor of being a handler for the Hot Lips the Fish balloon with the track team from Wash U. It was odd being among old teammates and odder still to do it while holding onto ropes attached to a giant yellow fish. We even had mini workouts as the crowd shouted for us to "SPIN IT! SPIN IT!" apparently it's great fun to see these large balloons spinning about. I just worried about losing my hat. And what was funny was the people who asked the loudest happened to be the adults. Not so funny when you consider the fact that they're the ones who were drinking...
I have to say, in theory, this is one of my favorite holidays, just because you're supposed to wear green, and as you all know, that is my favorite color. Perhaps I should have been born Irish as now have a strong urge to learn Irish dance...Graham Academy of Irish Dance is somewhere in St Louis, so maybe I'll check that out. lol. That or get back into tap dance. I miss activity in my life so much.
I finally did it. I went rock climbing yesterday with my cousin Justin and my Aunt JoAnn. Whoohoo! I loved it, although I am nicely sore today. We did a couple of pretty easy routes, which Justin made look easy and both of us girls gamely attempted. I made it up all four of them, Aunt JoAnn only did three cause there was a run-in with Thor (their miniature poodle) and a large black dog. Don't know what happened cause I was up on the side of a cliff at the time, but suddenly there was this barking and whining and Aunt JoAnn was rolling around on the ground trying to protect Thor from this huge dog. Weird. But all was well eventually, just Thor was all dusty 
It was great weather for it, 77 deg F in the first week of March. Can you believe it? Then it got down to 37 later in the evening. Really windy though. Kite enthusiasts were having a ball, I'm sure.
Broke out my running tights and wore my shirt from indoor conference last year, in honor of the Wash U track team being at indoor conference this year. They weren't doing so well on friday night when my dad and I checked the scores, so I thought I might as well cheer them on ironically they're competing in the same place (Brandeis U) that conf was at last year, due to the shortage of indoor tracks. But hoorah, the girls won (again that's five conferences in a row. Hopefully outdoor will show up a sixth, and a sixth year of winning outdoor confs. The guys got third, so congrats to them. Better luck outdoors!
I miss track. I really do. And I know it's terrible, but I felt sort of good when I found out that the girls didn't win by as large a margin as we did last year. You know, me and my two golds and placing in two other events which garnered me a MOP (most outstanding player) for the indoor conf. I mean, I'm glad they won. And indeed, all the things I won were won by Wash U gals...just not the same one. ah well. I know it's gonna bug me for the rest of my life to have that one semester of eligibility left. I wonder what it would have been like if I could have run sophomore year, how much better I would have been when Coach Rubin joined us. But maybe it would have been worse. I don't know. I shouldn't worry about it. There's not too much more I could have done to be happier with myself, aside from making it to Nationals. Which I dearly wanted to do. Alas, it was not to be.
I think it's time for lunch
Random, I know. I was actually thinking of how my interviews seem to come in clusters. Didn't get anything for two months, and here I have four in two weeks. Two last week on the same day, one today, one tomorrow. Please dear Lord someone like me. Remember how I'm walking around with no insurance? Well. sort of. And I need a car/apartment/new iBook/loan repayment/direct deposit, so it's to everyone's good that I get a job, right? sigh. So, wish me luck again. or pray. yeah, praying is good.
Jars of Clay is cool. What the heck is pre-press? I am so caught in the classic catch-22 of need a job but need experience to get a job but need a job to get experience...
why doesn't anyone want a fantasy writer who can make her own website? lol. ah well. I was hoping to get a new layout up in time for St Patricks day but given the fact that my laptop's power cord is now in the electronic heaven has prevented that. Don't think I'll be able to get a new one before then. meh.
wish me luck. pray.
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So I'm trying to be a better daughter and do more about the house and be more sociable with my family. Which is seriously cutting into my internet time. I really need a job and an apartment and a car so I can just have a messy room without bothering anyone. That's not the real reason, I know. I should just be better about helping. Or we should get cable or dsl so the phone line stays open. Whatever.
Point being I won't be on that often. I'd love to get a new layout up for this site, start working on changing it to php, but the comp that has Dreamweaver (and more importantly, Photoshop with web-optimization) is the laptop which no longer has a working AC adapter. Ergo I can't use it for very much longer (it's got about an hour or so of time left in the battery) and hence can't make up a new layout. Also can't use it to write which sucks cause I've got some very good ideas that need to get written. So no moonstone until I can get a new cord. Also sucks cause I was working on a new portfolio site which I really need to get published if I'm serious about a web design job. Sigh. *crosses fingers* please someone like me enough to give me a job.
btw, happy 03-03-03
