We moved the fish tank yesterday. It looks pretty beat up. The plants have been moved around and a little beat up and there’s “dust” making the water all murky. The fish seem to have come through it all right. Now I’ll be able to take care of it properly, instead of it being neglected at Rob’s. I had thought it would be about 2 hours, but it was more like 4 hours. 2 for break down, 2 for set up.
Rob’s getting the last stuff out of his apartment today! He’ll be turning in his keys too. Then we’ll be out of Pegasus Landing for good. We pretty much have to go through the fridge, pack up the car and peel out of there, throwing rotten eggs behind us, laughing and screaming obscenities. Or rather, that is what we’d like to do. There are other things I’d like to do, but since I have to be the better person, I can’t. And by better person, I mean that Rob and my parents are telling me not to do what I want. In doing so, I am the better person. What bullshit. I’d rather be a petty evil bitch and do whatever cruel things I want. Anyway, yay! New house and away from that idiocy.
I’m working on my dad’s website. It’s pretty much done, just have to clean it up a bit. Also put notes in there so he can use the template to make new pages if he needs to. Waiting on Rob’s dad to get back to me with what sort of design he wants. I really want to make a “professional” looking website to put on my portfolio. Speaking of my portfolio, go check it out. I’ve added a new feature that does a fancy pop-up. Still have to add captions to some of the images, but it should be functional.
I filed my intent to graduate forms!!! I went to see Matt, and we got all the substitutions situated and he said I just have to pass one class to graduate. So, the troll was wrong and totally made me stay here a semester longer than I should have. I’m so glad to be getting the fuck out of Digital Media. I guess I just had higher standards for my college education than the department. I will be taking at least 6 credits so that I can get my Bright Futures, but that’s all I need to take. 
I am signed up for French 2 (which I need to pass), Women in Film, Computer as Medium, and Design Aesthetics something or other. I’m going to see how the Design Aesthetics class looks and see if I want to drop it. It’s RTV, so it’s not Digital Media and I have a feeling it’ll be dumbed down for those communications majors. I mean the last RTV class I had said that there were no standards for websites. Uhh… W3C anyone? Anyway, I’m soooo fucking happy that I’m going to graduate!
I’ve been tweaking for the past few days about this. Tweaking is my new word for when I get super nervous and start twitching and freaking out. The deadline to file the intent to grad forms is next Friday, and of course I was worried that I would go there and have to wait in line for hours, since everyone else waits till the last moment. But I went there this morning at 8 am when the office opened and I was the only one there. I’m so happy I’m a morning person. Now I’m just worried about Rob getting moved out in time. He wants to go away on Sat for a party. That leaves him today, Sun and Mon to finish moving. He has to be out by noon on Tues. I’ve offered my help but he wants to do it himself. I still need to move the fishtank and that’s going to be a few hours and two person job. So, I’m worried about that.
Rob says I should relax. I reply “I DON’T RELAX!” and we laugh and shake our heads sadly. I mean really, it’s graduation paperwork, then Rob moving out, then Kelse visiting, then school starting, then FRENCH CLASS and maybe work, then graduation, then finding a job after graduation, then figuring out what and where and how and everything about my future that freaks me out. 
But after Rob gets moved out it should be better. Then I just have to clean for Kelse’s visit and have fun with Kelse when she’s here. Then there’s two weeks before school starts. Maybe I’ll get to relax in that time. 
Oh and we saw the Harry Potter movie yesterday. It was pretty good. I love Ralph Fiennes and Gary Oldman.
I’ve never had any of that. I mean sure, I want to pass a class/test/whatever. As for the long term, I don’t really have any goals other than to have a job that I don’t hate and some good money for when I retire. I don’t have a desire to work for a fancy web design firm, get my Masters, have kids, get a minivan have a 9-5 job, etc and so on. I get all shaky and panicky when I think of my future. It’s just this black hole of disappointment and uncertainty. I don’t know where I’ll be in 5 years, what I’ll be doing or anything. Whenever Rob brings up graduation or my parents bring up life after college I pretty much go into meltdown. I don’t want to think of those things. They’ll come and go and I’ll just putter along.
Stages of life: 
Anyway, I’m working on a website for my dad. It’s pretty simple and I threw it together rather quickly. The hard part is going to be transferring all the old pages to the new design. And by hard I mean tedious. I’ve already tested the design for usability, and it should be good for his students. The only snag in the design is a RSS feed that’s in an iframe. Can I just put a RSS feed directly into the site? I really don’t know that much about RSS.
