27 October 2002
I don't actually post here anymore, since I now have Onomatopoeia, but I just realized that I left Trying to Identify the Voices in My Head in a very sorry state. So I have revived version III, syllable from sound, because I adore it despite complaints about its legibility. So this blog will remain intact for nostalgic purposes, but chronicles of my daily life now exist (and have for the past few months) at the journal above.

Friday, August 09, 2002

Greymatter is very difficult to install. =P
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 3:55:00 PM [>]

Please work...
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 1:56:00 PM [>]

So Aylah and I went to see Goldmember. I haven't actually seen the first two Austin Powers movie, but that really didn't matter. Anyway Goldmember was almost pee-your-pants funny, so everyone go see it.
I'm thinking I'm going to start FTPing my blog to Fathoms of Shadow. Screw Greymatter. I'm not very good at HTML or any other web design, so I'm just going to stick with what I know. (Not to mention I don't care if people post comments. I really don't.)
All day I've felt a little dejected, seeing as none of the people I talk to online ever seem to really want to talk to me. Apparently I need to pay more attention to whether I'm being annoying or not. I don't think I'm annoying, but I guess other people do. The instances where I IM people and they never bother to send a message back are becoming more and more frequent.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 5:18:00 PM [>]

Apparently there was yet another parent brawl at a Little League game in Florida. People can't show self-control, can they? One guy got his earlobe bitten off. Caught in the middle was a woman holding a nine-month-old baby, and these morons were so busy being juvenile that they didn't apy any attention to her and knocked the baby out of her arms. Fortunately the baby is okay, but I hate people who are so dramatic, self-centered, and .... gah *growls* at sports games. The kids started it, but the parents should've been there to break it up, not to make the situation worse.
There are two new poems and an excerpt from The Complex at Fathoms of Shadow. Maybe eventually I can get excerpt sup to all of my projects.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 11:31:00 AM [>]

So I had an extremely boring 3 hours at work. I worked the cash register once, but that and someone running in asking where the hospital was were the most exciting parts of my day. (And the latter really wasn't exciting; it just freaked me out.)
I fixed a few minor things at Fathoms of Shadow, and that's pretty much it. There's no one online who seems to want to talk to me, so I guess I'm going to go read blogs or something.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 8:04:00 PM [>]

I put up an excerpt from Muggle. It is linked off the Projects page.
Earlier I found a page from Hunted Quarry and the page of it I'd been needing desperately. So now I have it, and I am happy.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 10:05:00 PM [>]

Whee! Fathoms of Shadow is now here. With help from Minuet I figured out my FTP, and with help from Aylah I figured out how bad my new color scheme was. So PHP can basically go to hell, because I moved Tender Blue over to the new URL. Knob of Gilt will not be used because, like I said, it's ugly. (Or at least Aylah thought so, and I listen to her.) A bit of advice: yellow layouts are very, very difficult to match properly.
Despite the layout being the same, you will notice a few changes at Fathoms of Shadow: first, I added six new poems to the filing cabinet. Second, the index page no longer displays when the page was last updated. Why? Because I don't want to have to re-upload the index every single time I change something. So you'll have to come here for updates.
I'm working on updating all my webrings. It is taking a very long time. Oh well.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 5:30:00 PM [>]

*bangs head against monitor*
My site looks terrible. Version IV seemed like a good idea at the time, but the more I see it the more I dislike it. =P Not to mention my PHP stuff is being weird and the site won't update automatically. It's like the "What's My Age Again?" video; it seemed like a good idea for about ten minutes. Except in this case the idea wasn't blink-182 running around naked. So anyway, don't expect the new Fathoms of Shadow to be working properly for some time. The old one is still up (and will be for awhile), so go look at that one. Worse comes to worse, I guess I'll just save all of my current files and waste more time continuing Tender Blue at my new host.


Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 2:22:00 PM [>]

Whoa.
Everyone says FTP is painfully easy, but when you're a complete moron like me who's had a very, very long day, then it is hard. Eventually I figured it out, with help from the very patient Minuet. Now I just need my images and to fix my color scheme =P
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 9:54:00 PM [>]

I'll try this again for a third time, this time offline so my words won't disappear. AOL shut off randomly when I was almost finished with my previous two entires. It's really not even worth the effort to swear at it anymore.
The more I look at this layout, the more true Luverly's words become--the image doesn't fit in with the rest of the layout. I found a really cool picture of Gwen Stefani which will be a future layout, but it'll have to wait. I don't know when I'm moving to v-aCOM, as Panuru was having some trouble with my FTP account, or if I'll switch to Greymatter. (Quite frankly, I think I'm too stupid to use Greymatter.) For now, you're stuck looking at the layout I love and everyone else hates. It is painfully simple, and I adore that. And it's my blog, so =P.
What they say is true--if you give up something you love, eventually you don't crave it anymore. The renaissance* board has been down for ages, it seems, but I no longer stare at the screen and think, Oh, I wish renaissance* was working... I post at Mocha Nova, although it has less activity, and do more constructive things online.
I downloaded FTP Explorer today, as apparently I don't have the right requirements for SmartFTP. (What's Windows Sockets, anyway?)
I will make AOL work.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 7:01:00 PM [>]

Impressively, I was up before nine this morning. AOHell kept breaking on my last night and it really makes me mad. It always seems to freeze the computer when I'm working on HTML or talking to someone.
Finished Spindle's End this morning. I liked the ending, but the middle dragged on and on and on. When you think about it, 425 pages for such a simple story is too much. The chronology was weird and there was a lot of rambling on and on about the characters' thoughts without adding to the story at all. A few sentences didn't make much sense, either. I love fantasy, but Garth Nix and Philip Pullman seem to be really the only people who write satisfying fantasy novels.
I'm fixing a few things at Fathoms of Shadow, like CSS and links and such. Tender Blue probably won't last much longer, which is a pity since I love the blue and white, but once I get hosted I'm going to switch to my PHP version of the site.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 12:38:00 PM [>]

No Doubt--"Just a Girl"

Guess who's gettin' hosted? Tavie's gettin' hosted!! Booya! Anyway, venus-atmosphereCOM is going to host me, as Panuru is also a fan of Titus Groan. So I am very happy and grateful.
I went to Aylah's today and we spent almost the entire time on the computer. I logged onto my IM, which resulted in Aylah & I having a four-hour-long conversation with Pinkerton. I feel kind of sorry for him, considering the fact he had to listen to our retarded rants and seizures for four hours.
Replying to e-mails totally bites.
Anyway, once I'm settled at my new *hosted* site (eee!) I'll be moving my blog there and changing the name to something slightly shorter: Onomatopoeia. Try saying that three times fast.
Aylah's stepdad is so weird. When he came back from work he saw my haircut and asked if I got struck by lightning. I simply said, "Yes. Twice."


Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 9:31:00 PM [>]

Sum 41 is cool. =)
So riding camp got over today. Our drill team thing, which is basically riding around to music, went okay. My brain function was a little better, so I managed to write some replies to e-mails. Probably not my best letter-writing, but at least I reply to people.
I need a topic to write about for Renaissance on Sunday. I also have to work and altar serve on Sunday. I'm going to be busy.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 6:23:00 PM [>]

Two days of riding camp will make you quite brain dead. I am completely wiped. (Mucking stalls and riding all day takes its toll). I have some e-mails to return, but I just can't think of anything to say other than the norm. I have a poem writing itself in my head and I can't word much else. So if you e-mailed me and haven't gotten a reply back yet, you'll know why.
I'm almost done with Muggle, by the way. I wrote the end while still in the beginning, so I just need to tie the end in to the rest of the manuscript. Then it must sit on my shelf until I have a half a mind to edit and type it.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 5:52:00 PM [>]

Odie and I have been talking about Slayers a lot and she did a bunch of editing late last night. We will get this story whipped into shape!
Not much else to do. I spent a good deal of morning hanging out at Virtual Hogwarts and Mocha Nova. I tried to at least upload files for Tossers Suck!, but Liquid2k seems to be broken. Speaking of the much-hiatused webring, it has a bit of a new mission statment. You've probably all heard about that little girl who was molested and murdered in California. Tossers Suck! will protest child abuse and work for harsher penalties for people who rape children.
What has this world come to?
Anyway, I have shite to do. Riding camp starts tomorrow and I need to finish all the crap I need to do today so I can get to bed at a decent time.
Does anyone other than Luverly actually read this?
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 10:50:00 AM [>]

Whoo.
Took the dog for a run this morning, then this other dog kept following us, so I went home. Mom & I also went out to lunch with my Nana and went to all these garden places.
Odie finally came home from her dad's and I talked to her for awhile, but then her stepdad felt the need to use the phone. Gah.
I'm trying to figure out what to do with myself. I probably should be reading, cleaning the cat box or in the very least redesigning Etcetera, Etc., but I just don't want to. Yes, I am a whiner.
After looking at all the new hostees at the place I applied for hosting, I decided Etcetera, Etc. needs a major redesign. I haven't even gotten it up yet and it needs improving. No one ever looks at content anymore, it's all about having the best layout. Yes, a good layout is a great asset to a site, but good content is Job 1.
PNG files are so annoying. They take the better part of five minutes to load. Gah squared. If your layout won't load and your content sucks, what's the point of having a website?
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 3:57:00 PM [>]

Ho hum.
I'm a tad bored, but I don't want to go to bed.
I'm having a very girly and refreshing conversation with Luverly.
Dammit. I haven't written in my journal yet today.
What now?
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 10:15:00 PM [>]

Sleeping in my own bed again is great. I didn't get up until 10:10.
I kind of cheated and threw in redundant CSS elements and such, but I finally got my CSS to work and Fathoms of Shadow v.III is DONE!!! Whee!!! No more black and gray!
Apparently Luverly is making me a blog layout. Score.
Last night I got really sick of web design. Now, looking at all the sites hosted at desonika.net, I was like, Dammit! I should learn how to do that! Sometimes I just wonder if it's worth all the stress--it's not like I have a whole lot of faithful viewers or anything. And there's so much crap on the Internet anyway. Is it worth it? To be honest, for the time being I'm content with just having this blog, Fathoms of Shadow, and Tame This Mind (and then my projects with Odie). Someday I'd like a domain, but I don't plan on expanding my webspace much. I just really want to host people, especially people who aren't that elite. (P.S. I decided on a domain name: saraneth.net--it's from Sabriel. If it's gone when I go to register it, I will be irate. Don't touch the necromancer's bell.)
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 1:35:00 PM [>]

I go away to Canada and everything goes to hell: a) the cat box was hideous and b) mNET got hacked. Which also means that renaissance* is down. Crap.
Anyway, my vacation was pretty good, except for the asthma attack, but we won't get into that. St. Andrews is beautiful and there's tons of good shopping =) If any of you go there, visit Kingsbrae Gardens. They are gorgeous.
I really don't have much to say. I have to work tomorrow. I wrote my article for the Renaissance e-zine and would probably have finished Muggle if I hadn't sort of run out of looseleaf paper. (I remembered everything but extra binder paper. Oy.) I read Sabriel again--I'd forgotten how much that book rocks. If you haven't read it, go read it (it's by Garth Nix if you didn't know that.)
My Yahoo inboxes had 16 messages total, and I haven't dared to open the pornfest that is my AOL inbox yet. I guess I should go sort (read: delete) all my messages.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 7:53:00 PM [>]

Welcome to Canada, it's the Maple Leaf State
Canada, oh Canada it's great
The people are nice and they speak French too
If you don't like it, man, you sniff glue
The Great White North, their kilts are plaid
Hosers take off, it's not half bad
I want to be where yaks can run free
Where Royal Mounties can arrest me
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today
Canada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait
They've got trees, and mooses, and sled dogs
Lots of lumber, and lumberjacks, and logs
We all think it's kind of a drag
That you have to go there to get milk in a bag
They say "eh?" instead of "what?" or "duh?"
That's the mighty power of Canada
I want to be where lemmings run into the sea
Where the marmosets can attack me
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today
Canada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait
Let's go to Canada, lets leave today
Canada, oh Canada, I Sil Vous Plait
Please, please, explain to me
How this all has come to be
We forgot to mention something here
Did we say that William Shatner is a native citizen?
And Slurpees made from venison, That's deer
Let's go to Canada, let's leave today
Canada, oh, Canada, I Sil Vous Plait
~ Five Iron Frenzy, "Oh Canada"
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 9:12:00 PM [>]

I didn't get up until ten this morning. I am so lazy. *shrugs* Oh well. I'll be quite a busybody while on vacation, so I can lounge around and do nothing now. After all, I won't have the Internet, so I won't be up until eleven trying to HTML crap...speaking of which, I love this new version. It's so beautifully simple.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 1:16:00 PM [>]

Wow. It took a really long time to link up enough crap over there <-- to make that section long enough to fit this section. I don't care if that section is longer than this one, as long as it's not shorter. Maybe I should shut up now.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 10:54:00 PM [>]

Behold, I give you Version IV of Trying to Identify the Voices in My Head: stoic.
If this isn't easy to read and painfully comprehensible, then you are a Grade A dumbass and I don't want you here anyway.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 10:09:00 PM [>]

If this actually works, I'm leaving it up. It will be so much easier than putting version III back up until tomorrow. This is a blog, for God's sake, and an obscure blog at that, not an overhyped film waiting to be released.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 9:56:00 PM [>]

So I worked today. That's about it.
I'm getting really frustrated with renaissance* for some reason.
Currently I'm testing my new layout.
I have to pee.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 9:51:00 PM [>]

Yay! Blogger is back! Apparently their "server went boom" (their term, not mine) and publishing was unavailable.
The folks at mocha nova are so helpful. One actually replied to my CSS plea for help. (Unlike at *coughcoughrencough*.)
So, ah, anyway...my medication made me throw up this morning, so I didn't go to work. They didn't seem too pleased, but I mean, it's like, "Dude, I'm sick and my jaw is so swollen that I look like Richard Nixon!"
I'm trying to come up with the ultimate domain name. Most of the ones I want are already taken, which totally sucks. I've thought of a few new ones, so...yeah. Of course, I'd like to get hosted first so I can learn FTP & crap, but I don't seem to be getting much help in that area, either.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 7:21:00 PM [>]

I've written a lot of Muggle in the past two days and am quite proud of myself. I read it to Odie and I think she enjoyed it.
My CSS still isn't working on Fathoms of Shadow...ho hum. I'd post at renaissance* except that it would be a total waste of time. I mean, look at how helpful they were in my host search. *rolls eyes* Oy...I think I'll make a new blog layout this afternoon and put it up before we go on vacation.
My mouth isn't bleeding anymore, which is nice. My jaw is all swollen and looks really stupid, though. I have to work tomorrow, which totally blows. I'll just show up and be swollen and not eat solid foods at them. So there.

Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 2:17:00 PM [>]

I was so pissed off yesterday I completely forgot that it was version 3's one-month aniversary. And I'll probably be changing it soon. *shrugs* To be totally honest, web design doesn't have the same appeal to me anymore (suddenly), unless it involves my writing. If the new version of Fathoms of Shadow ever actually comes up, I'll be keeping it for a long time--partially because it's simple, partially because it doesn't require PHP, and partially because it's just pretty.
So anyway, I survived my major surgery. The worst parts were when I woke up and I was all confused since the anesthesia hadn't worn off yet and when my jaw really started to hurt. There was a lot of crying involved. So I've got all this gauze in my mouth and I haven't done a whole lot today besides nap and lounge in the recliner in front of the TV with a magazine. I wasn't even planning on getting online today, but I wrote four pages of Muggle and thought I could use a little Internet.
Most of my opinions from yesterday still stand, but I feel a lot less malevolent today. I feel a gracious indifference toward web design in general. I still love the art, but I'm not so obsessed with it.
Anesthesia and post-op nap can do wonders, eh?
Oh yeah, I finished The Golden Compass last night. I was amazing. I have to read the next two books sometime soon.
Off to make some lousy attempts at CSS. I will not let this stupid code keep me from putting up my fricking website, dammit.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 6:55:00 PM [>]

Well, kids, I'm getting my wisdom teeth pulled tomorrow. Oh goody.
I attempted putting up the new Fathoms of Shadow layout today and it went all right at first; then my CSS and background decided not to work. Luverly's online but "away," so I currently have no HTML help. Crap. Everything will have to wait until tomorrow or the next day. Ack.
Why do I worry so much? It's not like anyone cares anyway. The only people who look at at the site are me and people I force to look at it. Whenever I post at Ren* about a new layout I get one reply if I'm lucky. No one cares. I don't even know why I bother...probably because I have no other life. Therefore, I HTML to pass the time.
Expect serious downsizing of sites/site content. (No image gallery for Tame This Mind. No more Etcetera backgrounds--not that Etcetera, Etc. is up, but whatever. All crap to be erased from Fathoms of Shadow.)
I miss Victoriakitty. She's grounded from the computer, so I haven't talked to her in ages. I wish I could meet more people like her online, people who I can talk to almost every day about silly things that entertain us both, someone who actually cares what I have to say. I've just had the sudden realization that at all these places, these forums, where I think I have friends, I don't. These people don't care about me; they barely know I exist. It mirrors my life in the real world. There's no point in posting comments at people's blogs because I think they care or I think they'll visit my site. They don't. There is never any reciprocation, probably because I don't have my own domain and am not hosted (I tried to get hosted, dammit, but again no one cares), so therefore I am not good enough for them.
Ugh. I am so pissed. I'm going to go write. Writing was my first great joy, and I should stick to that. Forget web design for now. I'm closing Fathoms of Shadow for the time being until I can get some real HTML help (which is highly unlikely) or find a tutorial that actually makes sense (also highly unlikely).
Have a nice day.

Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 5:44:00 PM [>]

Sweet new layouts here and here. Yay for Bish!!!
So I went to work. That's about it.
Does anyone actually read this??? Probably not. *shrugs* Oh well.
Off to get images for the new Fathoms of Shadow layout. (Yes, my children, it is coming). It's all in here *points to head*
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 8:24:00 PM [>]

I'm off to work soon for and 8-hour shift, 10-6. Crap. This is gonna suck. I worked four hours yesterday, too. Possibly what sucks the most is the fact that I can't sit down unless there's no one in the store, but there's this big sale thing going on. So I'm prepared for eight hours on my feet, except maybe lunch.
I can't wait until we go to Canada.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 9:15:00 AM [>]

Grr.
I post at ren* for a host, and no one replies. (I was in a particularly bitchy mood, but whatever.) Someone else who's been there longer and is nicer asks for weblog hosting and she gets two offers the same day. I'm not going to hold it against her, because she's a sweetheart, but it just makes me mad that I can't seem to get Fathoms of Shadow hosted.
I did, however, get an e-mail from someone who saw my cry for help for Etcetera, Etc. at Pick Me!. I checked out her website and I'm not sure if Etcetera, Etc. qualifies, but I HTMLed a few more pages for the site today and I'll try to work something out. I can't seem to find a page I typed ages ago, though. This concerns me.
I have my new layout for Fathoms of Shadow designed and dammit, if I don't get a host offer by tomorrow then a new layout is going up. This is really starting to piss me off.
I am now a member of Virtual Hogwarts! It is uber-cool. (I'm a Hufflepuff, by the way.)
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 1:59:00 PM [>]

*sits back and waits*
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 12:20:00 PM [>]

It. Is. Hot.
I'm really kind of sick of all this website stuff. I have a new idea for Fathoms of Shadow that (I hope) won't require me to use PHP, so if I don't get any host offers by Sunday, I'm going to start a new layout. Since the current one has been up for nearly two months, I feel like a lazy webmaster.
Also, I'm sick of Trying to Identify the Voices in My Head being at Blog*Spot. It seems unattached to the rest of my website. So if I ever get hosted or get my own domain (I actually think the latter is more likely,) I'm FTP-ing it to whatever server I'm using. Dammit.
I'm going to work on my own laptop today to see if I can get it running and looking a little better.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 12:09:00 PM [>]

Apparently it's an Afghan tradition to shoot off weapons during a wedding. That happened and the U.S. bombed a village where a wedding was taking place, killing 40 people and injuring about 70. There's a whole bunch of orphaned little kids in this village now. So, in conclusion, the American military is in a state of mass hysteria and apparently doesn't even bother checking on anything before they bomb it, or learning the traditions of the country they're in. The Afghans should probably compromise their tradition while there's another country attacking theirs, yes, I'll give the military that--but Afghan lives are just as valuable as American lives, and they should know what they're bombing before they do it.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 3:37:00 PM [>]

Archives back up.
Got a rose bush. (Mom got one, too).
Posted my article at Renaissance successfully.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 8:18:00 PM [>]

So I tried to post my article at Renaissance, but whenever I log in it says "no such user exists." I am totally screwed if I can't get this to work, because the zine only publishes on Sunday. Aww, crap.
Still looking for a host...
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 10:38:00 AM [>]

So I cut all my hair off. It's chin-length now and I really like it. My head feels so much lighter--in fact, I felt a little off-balance when I got up to leave the hairdresser's.
I think some random surfing is in order.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 4:33:00 PM [>]

*smacks forehead*
I am so retarded. I should never leave comments in people's blogs ever again. For my homepage I typed in my e-mail address. And posted it. *is a dumbass* I really should pay more attention to these sorts of things. So if I've left something totally stupid in your blog, I apologize. It's not quite noon, and therefore I haven't woken up. *shakes head* I feel so stupid.
Cleaning dog snot off a window is much harder than it looks. It took me at least fifteen minutes--and I cleaned it just a month ago.
<--If you have a domain, read the "Host Shopping" heading at left. Thank you.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 11:36:00 AM [>]

Woot! I got accepted as an editor to Renaissance! My article is supposed to be published Sunday, so go take a look then.
Other than that, I'm host shopping.
Riding went pretty well. It poured several times during the lesson, but fortunately neither of the horses freaked out. Starting next week I'm riding in the morning, so with any luck it won't be quite so hot.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 9:10:00 PM [>]

I'm currently joining the seanbiggerstaff.com message board. This makes me feel unusually creepy and stalker-like, but I need something to amuse myself with in Renaissance*'s absence. I just pray it's better than the SB Yahoo club. It was like a teenybopper war zone over there. Eee.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 10:24:00 AM [>]

I worked yesterday. Five hours of nothingness. Woot. I'll spare you the details. Yesterday I was too worn out by my boredom and too depressed by the inanity of my job to actually blog.
Scratch everything I've previously said about moving to Luverly's domain, as she can't host any more people. So I tried putting up a listing at Find Me, but you have to have a link button up first and I couldn't do that because Liquid2k decided to randomly stop working. And Pick Me! is down.
So basically, I'm screwed.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 10:05:00 AM [>]

*passes out*
Liquid2k doesn't allow PHP. What a bitch-slap.
What to do now?? It seems like I'll be moving everything to Luverly's server.
Could the world be any more of a pain in the arse?
Anyway, in national news, apparently people are flipping out about how the Pledge of Allegiance says "under God." Oy. If people have a problem with it, then God doesn't have to be the Christian God in the minds when they say the words--it can mean Allah or Buddha or whoever. The Pledge of Allegiance was written in a time when there were no religions in America that didn't worship God. Respect the fact.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 5:42:00 PM [>]

Things that are currently medically wrong with me:

• asthma
  
• allergies (animals, leaves, pollen, dust, and just about everything else)
  
• lactose intolerancy
  
• does being reallyreally short count?
  
• bad eyesight (glasses)
  
• crooked bite (braces)
  
• this might not count, but for the record I have virtually no feeling in the skin over my left ankle bone
  
• and now, the big one: I have high cholesterol. How is this possible? I'm 5'1" and weight 115 lbs. My mom has high cholesterol too because her liver makes too much, but for me to have to go to nutrition counseling at age 15 is ridiculous. So now I guess I have to stop eating junk food, which is totally going to suck once school starts because whenever I come home from school I'm exhausted and need quick energy.

Oh, I just thought of another impending medical problem: I have a cold just about every other week. And, according to my blood work, I don't have mono or anemia.
I am a walking disease farm.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 3:07:00 PM [>]

Still sick. This irks me.
I've saved all the Fathoms of Shadow files I need on my hard drive and am now going to make some PHP. If I'm not back in a week, send a web designer.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 10:53:00 AM [>]

Luverly said the contrast between the background color and the text color made my blog different to read and suggested adding a dropshadow last night. Well, I did. It took me 678 tries, but eventually it worked. And then guess what happened? The stupid dropshadow made it harder to read. So you kids are stuck with hard-to-read bloggage until I figure out what to do. Sometime in July, probably while I'm home and in pain due to my lack of wisdom teeth, I think I'll put up a new layout--a very, very simple layout. I love this current one, but I'm not feeling very nostalgic right now. Besides, I can always reuse this one if need be. So take that, my loyal readers, take that.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 5:16:00 PM [>]

The Gainfully Employed Octavia will be making more than minimum wage. Can we say, "Score!"?
I went shopping today. We won't get into the details.
I love ice cream.
Believe it or not, I actually was going to start converting Fathoms of Shadow to PHP today. Unfortunately, Liquid2k picked this as a great opportunity to break. So, alas, I am PHP-less still.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 8:36:00 PM [>]

The Gainfully Employed Octavia will be making more than minimum wage. Can we say, "Score!"?
I went shopping today. We won't get into the details.
I love ice cream.
Believe it or not, I actually was going to start converting Fathoms of Shadow to PHP today. Unfortunately, Liquid2k picked this as a great opportunity to break. So, alas, I am PHP-less still.
Anj the Poet kept one heart from breaking at 8:36:00 PM [>]