Category: General

so Saturday Kat came down & we went to see Moulin Rouge. I’d love to write an actual review, but I’m not sure I can quite wrap my brain all the way around it yet. the short version: it’s a big crazy mess. a loopy melodramatic love story, completely surrounded in visual and audial madness. I loved it. any musical that can somehow combine “vous le vous quche avec moi” (sp?!) with “smells like teen spirit” is suffused with mad genius. of course nicole kidman is lovely – I think this might be a perfect role for her: the victorian-era consumptive beauty, all that creamy ice-white skin. and who knew ewan mcgregor had a natural twinkle in his eye?

slowly waking, working on some small things. Brit is not here today – in CA for his girlfriend’s daughter’s high school graduation – it’s kind of nice to have the office to myself today.

there’s this point that I hit in the middle of the afternoon, esp. after answering a whole huge lump of email, when my brain just doesn’t function the way I’d like it to. (nor do my fingers, for that matter.)

but hey, I’m having a good morning, so it’s all okay, right? 🙂

I’m an idiot. (hit blogger button instead of post & publish – those thoughts are lost to the ages.)

which is to say, I got 11+ hours of sleep last night, and that was just lovely.

I really wanted to do one more submission to the template contest, but it was not to be. I do still have this great idea, which maybe I’ll use for something else someday. who knows! but I did manage to submit 2 solid, passable templates, both of which work in the browsers I have to test with and validate as html 4.01. and it was good for me to work on something like that – a design with incredibly strict parameters (including my own rule that they validate) and a very short timeline.

and today was a solid productive day, too. I’m working on my personal development plan. god that makes me feel like a grownup. 🙂

1. supervisory skills (because I have no idea what the hell I’m doing with an assistant)
2. conflict management (because conflict is scary – see yesterday’s entry)
3. project management (because there’s waaaaay too much to do – which is why I’m writing in my blog, right?)
4. technical skills: PHP, database concepts, and XML (because I’m tired of being behind on the new stuff)

ah, lofty goals. tho I do hope I can get some of them done. wouldn’t that be something?

sleep is a really good thing.

okay, I finished another blog template entry. that does make me feel better.

just finished an entry to the blogger template contest. it’s not super-duper, but I like it. nice & simple – clean, even.

I was about to say that I’m really getting to be a fan of Opera…except for what it does to this editing screen. I really ought to take a screen shot, because it’s quite hysterical – I have this tiny text box up in the corner, with a vast dark blueness all around it. or at least, it would be hysterical, except for the fact that it’s really annoying. 🙁