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

Took my Digital Audio Design final today. It was really easy. Almost too easy, in fact. I’m almost certain I have a 100%, but at the very least, an A Yay for me! Very exciting. Now I just have to get through my Physics final tomorrow. I’m hoping to pull off a really strong B in that class. I’ve gotten really high B’s on all my tests so far and A’s on my quizzes. Hopefully I can pull off a B. Maybe that’ll counteract my Advanced Computer Graphics class where my instructor gave me 50% on the practicums where I know for a fact I didn’t do that badly. He won’t respond to my emails so note to self: email Eric again.

I think I’m ready to post my Frerard fiction. Here, anyhow. Don’t know about LiveJournal. Think they’d be mad if I directed them here for the fic? I don’t know. I’d really like to keep it all in one place but oh well. I might just have to post it on my LiveJournal account that I’ve used maybe three times. Then again, if I keep all my fiction there, then I can link it from here, right? Right. Of course.

Schedule for next month got posted. Both of my classes for next month are at night: 5pm-9pm. The labs are yet to be determined. I’m going to have to pull some strings for the My Chemical Romance concerts. While I’m not terribly happy about that, I mean, I’ve had these tickets and the plane tickets for a couple of months now. Jenny and I have decided that we’re going to just pretend our friend in St. Louis is getting married and we are supposed to be there. We won’t pull that out until we know we have to. I mean, if the last days are project turn-ins and we don’t have to do anything else, then that would be absolutely perfect and no harm done. What’s really going to suck is getting to the Alabama concert. Lab is until, probably 1am, and then we gotta head out right then. We’ll get into Birmingham around 9 or 10 that morning so we’ll have some time to crap around and whatever. It’ll be kind of like Camden where we have to skip on the showering but who cares? It’s My Chemical Romance!!

Speaking of trips, my friend Octavia is getting married (in Kansas City! LOL) and she wants me to be there. I’m not totally sure if I can make it, though, because I don’t even have a date yet. Supposedly it’s September 29th but my best friend Tara told me not to hold her to that because she didn’t really remember. So I’m waiting on an official date for that.

And, as for the chickens: I started reading a fiction where Frank has become very attached to chicks (as in baby chickens). It’s rather cute except for all of the disgusting stereotypes of hillbillies. While that annoys me, I know people like that exist, so I’m hoping this is from the author’s personal experience. I don’t know, but the stereotypes are annoying. Unfortunately it’s going in a really good direction so I can’t really complain a whole lot. Besides, Frank Iero and baby chickens? Awwwww…….

Tags: Fan Fiction, My Chemical Romance, Real Life, School