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I cleaned house a bit yesterday, if for no other reason than to prove to Megan that I was still capable of such things. *g* She’s been taking care of the housework (and me in general, really) for a while now, so yesterday I mustered up some initiative and did the dishes, ‘cuumed, cleaned up the living room, took out all the trashes (from the various rooms), and cleaned the bathroom. It made me feel as though I’d earned my keep for the day. She even noticed when she got home. :)

I also cleaned up the website a bit. I finally got around to fixing the monthly archives so they render right (I’d never re-coded them after switching to the new table-less design, and the new skins weren’t working right on the old, tabled design). Normally, I wouldn’t worry about the monthly archives all that much, but they seem to be what Google links to with the greatest frequency. So I thought it might be a good idea.

I’ve also made a few changes to each of the skins over the last week or so, though hopefully, no one really noticed. All I did was tweak the images a bit so the page would load a touch faster as a whole. I made the “Old School” skin 6KB smaller (that’s a couple of seconds download time on a 28.8, negligible download time for the rest of us. *g*), the “ArcanaBot” skin 7KB smaller, and the “True Blue” skin a full 20KB smaller, which may even be noticeable on a broadband connection. Of course, the only people who will likely notice are new visitors who don’t already have the images cached. And they wouldn’t know the page loaded slower initially. Hrm. :)

Missed the bus again this morning, so I missed my first class. I’m starting to worry that I’ll have to retake Grammar class my last semester as an Undergrad to get an acceptable grade. My tests and so on are all decent (with the last quiz a notable exception), but my attendance has left something to be desired. My clock and the bus driver’s watch have disagreed with each other too often.

I’m going to be intensely stressing over my final French project these next couple of days. We finally got a couple of scenes filmed last night, but one of our group members (Troy, our star, the guy with 40% or so of the lines in the movie) couldn’t make it. So I guess we’re filming more tonight. You know, since the finished move is due Wednesday. And I’m the one who has to piece the whole thing together in Adobe Premiere. To make matters worse, the stuff I imported from the camera last night has an audio-sync problem (the video started to lag behind the audio at some point in time during the capture), so now I have to re-sync the audio and video for each and every scene I use. If I cry, you’ll understand, right?

I think this is Dead Week. Hopefully, more of my teachers will honor Dead Week this year than in years past, and give us a chance to study for finals. Of course, seeing as how three of my four classes have assigned major projects due within the next week… I guess not. Hosers. I’ve always disliked how, come Dead Week, each of my professors assumes the same thing. They all think to themselves, “It’s Dead Week, so the students aren’t going to have anything to do in any of their classes. That would be the perfect time to assign that major project!” Of course, when ALL professors assume this, it doesn’t bode well for students. No one I’ve talked to thus far is going to have time to study this week.

Cool Link Found: the World as a Blog (found via Metamorphosism) uses GeoURL, weblogs.com, and some fancy-schmancy scripting to compile real(ish)-time geographical locations of blogs as they’re updated. And I’m pretty sure my blog will show up, so I’m happy. :)

Okies, time to get ready to leave for my French class.