Ashes Fall

It’s finally happened, I think. Johnnie is totally overwhelmed. To see where her time went, she kept track for a week…

I haven’t hardly done my project for Flash Fundamentals because Becks was finally online for a day to do MCRime. I could be charging $30/hr for this stuff but I’m not. I do this stuff because I like to do it, not because I want to fail a class. I have a quiz today and a practical tonight that I probably won’t do very well on, and my project is due at 7pm. I spent about 20-30 hours on MCRime last week alone. The effing layout looks fine in FireFox and Safari, but crappy in I.E. so I need to make some modifications. However, the site can’t launch until I have a few days with the domain name anyways.

Mikey Way and related projects have become a full-time job. Mikey Way alone I spent about 40 hours last week into Monday. It may be just a fansite or whatever, but that thing has become my life and I love it. I really love it, and I love to watch good things happen to it (which, if things are going to go in my favor, I’ll start making some money soon). Mikey Way includes the main WordPress site, gallery, and forum. 8 hours was spent on the Media site (which will be a separate site from Mikey Way and is a partnership with Brandi), and 30 minutes (if that) on Brandi’s banner.

I’m also an avid reader of LiveJournal, Guitar Angel, Jemjabella, and Green Day Authority. I can be caught trolling Buzznet, YouTube, the WordPress Codex (yeah, I’m a nerd), and Absolute Punk.

And how much time have I spent in school? On campus, last week, 40 hours. Maybe 4 hours outside of class. And it doesn’t totally count because I’ve been known to work on the above things while in lecture and lab, as well as obsessively checking email.

I haven’t been to bed before 6am all week. I haven’t had a full meal in awhile. I’m about to clean off my couch and do sporatic naps.

I need to get my stuff in line.

Oh, but at least Michael Curry realizes he doesn’t take responsibility for himself or the stuff he does. In fact, he was quite vocal about it. I give him props for that, dude. Not a lot of people can admit something like that in themselves.

On the bright side, I get to see Kathleen on sunday!

Tags: Buzznet, Internet, Kathleen, Mikey Way Online, Online Life, Real Life, School, Websites

Subject credit to the song “Die for Love” by Johnny Hollow.

Dyed my hair last night. Originally, I’m a little blonde-ish (light brown), but now it’s a dark brown with a wee bit of a purple tint. It’s so pretty. I freaking love it. Luke was the first person to notice by himself lol.

Speaking of Luke, he introduced me to what could possibly be my new favorite Geek Toy: MacRabbit’s CSSEdit. Take a website. Any website. Load it in the preview browser. Muck up the CSS. Think I’m kidding? Nope! It’s so funny. You can take, say, Microsoft’s website and turn it pink if you wanted. It doesn’t affect the site; just the preview browser. Other than that, it’s actually really useful, making the changes live as soon as you make them in the coding. And it’s fun to muck up people’s sites. Ha!

Speaking of dying my hair, while I was waiting on it, I started in on In Search of Eden by Linda Sparks. I’m hardly through the first chapter, but I can already tell this is going to be good.

Oh, man, I’m gonna be upset. I have to completely redo Mikey Way Online. I’m trying to make it standards compliant but, in addition to that, I’m getting errors in WordPress basically because I coded the theme wrong and now it’s not displaying comments (the whole thing) or entry authors.

Onto my new music discoveries: Johnny Hollow, The Audition, Mayday Parade, All Time Low, The Maine, Anberlin. They’re fantastic and I’ve been listening to them on repeat.

Music rediscoveries: Three Doors Down, Reggie And The Full Effect.

By the way, Reggie and the Full Effect’s new CD, Last Stop: Crappy Town, is totally rockin’ my socks. End of story. I just got it in the mail today (via UPS) with the limited edition tee (came with the preorder) and my 6 magazines that I need to scan and put up on Mikey Way Online.

Tags: All Time Low, Anberlin, Books, CSSEdit, Johnny Hollow, Mayday Parade, Mikey Way Online, Music, Programs, Real Life, Reggie and the Full Effect, The Audition, The Maine, Three Doors Down

Wee! I’m actually blogging! Cool stuff’s been happenin’. Like what, you ask?

First off, I helped a nice lady over at Buzznet with some ‘little known MCR facts’ and so now I’m part of the Buzzmob and I get some freebies in the mail. Whoot! And Mikey Way Online is now linked at ‘Mikey Way on Buzznet‘. Whoot for me!

Secondly, the concerts rocked beyond belief, and I got to meet Frank. Excuse my while I fangirl even though this was a couple weeks ago. (asdfw3r3400 I MET FRANK! *SQUEE*) Anyhow.

My next motion graphics project is going to be on Skeleton Crew record label. Let’s see if I can actually get this done. It needs to be 60 seconds long, and then I need to take that and make it 30, and then take that and make it 15. Right. And I have a week to do this. Like, whatever. It won’t be finished when it gets turned into class, but we’ll see. I’ll finish it and it will be sent to Skeleton Crew.

I’m finally trying to get my portfolio/collective/journal up and running with a decent layout. This layout is staying for a bit longer, however, I need some navigation. Expect changes. Not that I think anybody reads this, but I can hope, yeah?

Tags: Buzznet, Concerts, Frank Iero, Mikey Way Online, School, Skeleton Crew