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-new layout almost done. give me another weekend. 
then, entries like this will go away and i’ll make this blog more ‘legit’… with semi-academic rantings.
-classes going well. w00t.
-water polo’s started. tournament soon. cool. yea.
-asshat homophobe prof that i am quite in lust with for his amazing teaching skilllzzzz sued the dean of my school for ‘age discrimination’… everyone giggled. (are you shitting me?) also happens to be my absolute favorite professor of all time… EVER. i’m a finer musician because of him, and i never even touched the piano! (you’re not supposed to do that while playing that piece of furniture, right?)
-girlyman + two religion classes = brain!kaboom.
-went for lunch in exton a few days ago. the hostess, addressing us as ‘two fine gentlemen’, asks my 21 year old girlfriend ‘do you need a kids’ menu, young man?’ and most likely thought that i was either her daddie, mommie, babysitter or a pedophile (probably the last). our server ended up being a quite-out-of-the-closet one-time classmate of mine who seemed to be amused. gf goes for a piss, hostess tells her that she’s in the ‘wrong’ bathroom and tries to show her where ‘big boys pee’. hostess’ head goes kaboom when gf momentarily unbinds chest, revealing lack of boy!parts… spends rest of our lunch apologizing and going all ‘ma’am… how may i help you ma’am‘ on us… then, asks if we’re sisters because we look alike. upon me saying ‘my beautiful girlfriend’… insists even more to secure gender binary. we giggle.
ok, i get it that your concept of gender is now totally fucked up and you need to reassure yourself as being ‘normal’ and us as whatever, but still very “female” (despite the quite intentional chest binders and attempts to remove physical trace of said-femaleness)… but… is it really all that necessary to make me feel uncomfortable because you are not so secure in your side of the gender binary? please, don’t EVER call me ‘ma’am’. ugh! i am no one’s ‘ma’am’, although my gf is my ‘man-master’. hah. and this is why i generally do not like people. i know she was meaning well and all that happy stuff… but yea. insisting is only going to make me more queer to you while totally making me not queer at the same time, at least in your mind. ohhh humanity, i love you! you amuse me much!
on the bright side, passing did not take much effort. and if our server was not a familiar face, she would’ve totally played the ‘i’m a little boy’ thing and asked for alcohol.
-the week got even better when i took my gf to the ER at asscrack o’clock a few nights ago. again, another familiar face was her technician. yea. it’s like there’s a rainbow over her head or something. at least it was an amusing moment because said technician happens to be a total smartass. (but the good kind that’s awesome.)
despite that she was twitching and curled up in a ball of pain, it’s ‘probably really bad heartburn’… that lasted almost a week and with a few nervous breakdowns in the middle. and i’m supposed to love people… why? at least my pretty is OK and moving around again. caffeine is a miracle drug, just sayin’.
ok, off to learn about cults/new religious movements. cool. perhaps a preview of my new layout later when i have to actually test it live instead of with xampp. schweet. i hope i get del the proudly homicidal bus driver again. not kidding, my face was about two inches from a tree this morning on my failed venture to class… ohh wets chester! you’re kyoote!
i’m dabbling in the creation of a new wordpress theme for use on my domain (and this blog).
so far, i have an idea and a sketch of a layout done.
i also have a decent working knowledge of (x)html/css (i’ve been using/keeping up-to-date with the latter pretty much since i was a kid), PHP (ughhhh), mySQL (which, despite not really needing it much if at all, i am learning for fun) and also a bit of jQuery and javascript (again, learning for my own fun) at my disposal… and i’m pretty decent with graphics as well.
i was (ashamedly) a script kiddie for a bit growing up… but i think i’ve grown into a webdesign hobbyist/enthusiast over the years… i’ve enjoyed working with code for as long as i could remember… and with a new year, i’m using my free time to work with wordpress… it’s going to (obviously) take me a while for this new layout, but my hopes are to have fun and actually design something more difficult/complex than a simple html/css website. i’ve been doing those seemingly forever and can pull out a box with a couple of other boxes inside of it out of my ass with little effort.
my only ‘real’ goal is to create a layout using elements that i personally want to use.
i’m also going to take the time to rethink some things for my domain and clean up this blog — especially that damn tags list! maybe i’ll turn this blog into something more academic… go back to displaying poetry? writing? who knows?
it just won’t be a space for ‘personal’ rambling nonsense. maybe a sporadic concert ‘review’ once in a while, sure… but it will NOT be a ‘look at how bad i screwed everything up now!!’ blog. i’d love to have a dynamic resume/portfolio up some time before march, for instance. the original intent of purchasing this domain was for me to have a space on the web to pursue and work out other interests besides my life’s dream of creating actual, live music. i’ve had a strong passion for other media, especially web media, since i first got introduced to HTML when i was about 12. i also almost ended up being an english major at some point. digital media is art and i enjoy creating art. and that is what 2010 will bring me.
happy new year!
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i’m just super-excited for folk fest on saturday.
enter the haggis and the decemberists at the same festival on the same day… the world might just explode the moment brian buchanan meets colin meloy! (omg… the thought of that is nearly as epic, if not more epic!, as the recent 2/5ths of eth + STEVEN PAGE!! photo..)
today was really chill. i made music all day… my fiddling’s really gotten better the past few months… funny how having the time to play and have fun has made me a more comfy player… i’ve been playing violin for over ten years now… about time my bowing stopped sucking and i had fun with it again.
i saw a stork. no lie. by burnside plantation at ink pond. that place they keep the new police horses. i didn’t know we even had storks (or some giant-necked birds) in bethlehem.
then i played a concert at the rose garden while thouroughly drunk and phelpsed out. it was my best playing of the summer. i had fun!
oh! and new layout!! still working out the kinks on it… but yea! shiny!!
also… i hate drama. keep me out of it for my sanity, please?
i’ve not caused any for a while, so don’t drag me in by association… please? pretty please??
good night… (maybe)
Tags: folk fest, music, rambling
new layout is LIVE!
still needs to be tweeked drastically… the header image is going to be the first to be edited. i love how the logo turned out…. i wanted a trinity knot in it because those who know me know that there is always a triquetra on my person at all times… but the rest of it is kind of gross and not indicative of what i can do in photoshop.
i also hate empty space in graphics. but, i just wanted *something* up tonight and the enter the haggis concert stream didn’t help… so pile of crap it is!
the rest of the design is how i want it, for the most part. i want it simple and clean. (ya like the eth link? *phail*)
the blog is also a simple and clean wordpress layout.
other pages are also ready for upload… i’m just too tired to care.
so… FORWARD IS CALLING!
it’s kind of where i am in life. i don’t know where i’m heading, but i do know that it’s coming fast.
forward is calling… and the trinity knot is very fitting for the title.
until i’m outta work and back to work on this… stalk me on twitter! my username is its_only_me.
but, i must go to sleep or i will not wake up for work tomorrow and that would not be a good thing.
GOOD NIGHT!
Tags: 'business' stuff, forward is calling, site-related