Category: General

woohoo! I passed my driving test, and I now have a driver’s license!!!!!! (yes, I think that calls for a couple extra exclamation points.)

I was nervous, but not unduly so. the examiner was surprisingly cute – I think I was expecting some middle-aged guy like the one I took driving lessons from a couple of years ago. I got an 84 – 4 points above passing – got knocked down for

• not signaling when I parallel parked (I actually did it – on the second try!)
• poor backing around the corner
• turning my wheels the wrong direction when parking on a hill (damn, I knew I’d get that wrong!)
• briefly going thru a bike lane while making a right-hand turn

Nothing fatal, and all stuff I can improve on my own. Now I just need to figure out freeway driving!

I think I’m done.

what’s left?

1. poetry page
2. photo album
3. standards & accessibility testing
4. reindex search (add meta tags?)
5. reattach archives

of course, I also need to work on my remaining side projects: New DAY, Diversity Hair, and Zografis.

<sigh> a web designer’s work is never done!

well, my update is almost done…I think I’m getting better and better at this thing….

okay, it’s back now.

ummm…my home page seems to have vanished….

okay, I officially kick ass. use my template – love it, make it your own. or try out my non-winning design, if you dare. yeah, that one’s pretty gnarly.

hey, Ev – what the hell is up with “Bracket Town”? hmmm…maybe I actually like the name….

not that anyone will care, but i do like overhauling my site.

the new design is beginning to take shape in my mind – probably not too different from the current site, but a nice little sprucing up. now I can’t make up my mind whether to go with a strong color…something like this…or a background image. goodness. i haven’t done a background image in ages & ages.

i know that this is a bad state for me, and i am going to go exercise to try & fight thru it. and clean the house, and pay the bills, and make dinner, and then maybe try to write. i’ve got a couple of page of aila waiting in my journal – maybe a good dive into that world will drag me out of this one.

oy. how very.

the ever modish angst-y depression. when does the real experience of emotion get transmuted into the artistic moment, and when does that artistic moment become blase & cliche?

i’m getting antsy to redesign my site, only i don’t know where i want to go. i need a design concept.

i guess i’m looking for some big fun project to pull myself out of this funk. i feel low & cranky…the sad darkness hovers over my shoulder, waiting for the right moment to strike.