I found myself.

Complication of marathoning two canons at the same time #235:

When you get the idea to cross them over even if it makes no sense whatsoever.

...okay, a Psych/Sarah Jane Adventures crossover wouldn't be impossible, but I haven't seen enough of either one yet.

Still.

Dear Memorex,

You suck.

No love,
Me

So I got into work today to discover that they'd blocked LiveJournal.

Yeah.

I'd like a contact link to get an explanation for why they block certain sites but allow others. Because how the hell is eBay still an acceptable site to visit during work hours?

Grrr.

In short, I'll be even more scarce than usual.

Seriously, when your job requires you to look at a computer screen, sinusitis is extremely annoying.

Translation: Guess where I've been. Feeling slightly better now. Will reply to all e-mails tomorrow.

After four years, ladies and gentlemen, I have a working dishwasher.

Man, it's nice to be able to see my counter after I cook something more complicated than a microwave meal.

This riveting post brought to you in part by my Mom, who is awesome and came down to plumber-sit so I could go to work on Friday. Love you, Mom.

Note to self: Throwing a party four days before you pack up and leave town doesn't seem like a bad idea until you get home from vacation and go "Oh, yeah, I still have to clean this place up." :)

Yeah, I got home fine on Friday night. Sorry for the radio silence but between clean-up and the CFUD meetup last night I've been fairly AFK.

Why?

Here's the view from our hotel room.

:)

So I just confirmed that posting my final paper to my blog was an adequate submission for the semester.

What does this mean?

Well, after almost 5 years and 36 credits:

I'm finally done with grad school!

Kick-ass. :)

heh, but now I've got to go clean this house.

Happy birthday, violetbloom! ♥

Call me, I owe you a birthday adventure, seriously.

Some people who read this blog know that I have a website. A website that I don't link off this blog. A site that hasn't been properly updated since 2006, and hasn't been properly redesigned since 2001.

I almost let my domain name ownership lapse, but got a couple more years at the last possible second. I realized recently that's because I just can't stand to look at it anymore.

After 8 years of Java/JSP/HTML development geared towards W3C standards and accessibility, and 5 years of grad school, I have been itching to tear everything down and start over from scratch. It's really a better solution than trying to upgrade what's already there.

It's not just the code, though. It's the content. A lot of my old fic... ugh. Well, let's face it, a lot of the stuff up there was written when I was in high school and I twitch re-reading some of it. And some portions of the site just... I don't know, I don't want it up there anymore.

This isn't going to happen until after the semester's over and I've recovered from the last semester being over oh god May 18th but - it's definitely going to happen. I'm going to be pulling huge sections of the site down and starting over again. I don't know how long it will take, so if anyone asks when [insert whatever here] will be back, I won't be able to give them an answer. I just know I can't leave the page as it is. It's not me anymore. It's not necessarily that I've matured (I'm still as crazy as ever), but... I shouldn't look at my website and go "meh."

So. Yeah. Consider this a heads-up.