Of all the things to waste your time on…

Alot of ambivalence about fonts. Serif or sans? I tried Times for a few days…it didn’t quite work. So I’m back to all sans—Verdana for the menu up top, for the small text, and for the date headings; Arial/Helvetica (depending on your system) for the article text. Text is the most annoying part of web design.

The semester is basically over. I mean, I have another day of class and all, but as far as work goes, I’m done. Then it’s exams, and after that, two weeks of total slacking. Score.

This is me trying not to be a total jerk. I need to lighten up. Ever since I came to college, it became my goal to sound smarter than everyone else. I guess I’m going through one of those “Who am I” phases again.

Normal situation. Someone I know greets me. I answer with the wrong type of greeting. Life goes on. I can’t look you in the eye. I think I may have back problems because my mattress sucks. For entertainment I read a book that’s too boring to read but too interesting to put away forever. In it, a character speaks uninterrupted for twenty-three large paragraphs in response to the allegation that money is the root of evil. I didn’t have enough money to do laundry so I went to K-Mart and bought some boxers, socks, and undershirts. That cost me about fifty bucks. Tokelau is an island nation of ten square kilometers and has the lowest gross domestic product in the world at $1.5 million. Then again, they only have 1,400 people living there, so the country with the lowest per-capita GDP is East Timor. Then again, in Liberia 80% of the people are below the poverty line and 85% are unemployed. They only have one TV station and seven AM radio stations. C-ville has a dozen FM stations, but only a couple of them are any good. I’m waging a war with my wallet. There are a ton of CDs and books that I want, but I’m forcing myself to not buy them. Some people buy things cuz they need them, but I buy things cuz I can. Not that I should, I should be saving or something, so they say. I figure if I saved up all that cash I spent on useless trash I could probably buy a car or a house or something. Well, maybe not. I could at least get a Mac.

Actually, I am going to get an iBook. All my friends of the Computer Science persuasion think I am nuts, and accuse me of choosing a computer based on appearance. Damn straight, I’m picking my next computer based on appearance. Windows is ugly. I used OS X in the media labs last year, and it’s awesome. Someone actually thought through the ergonomics of it.

Ok so that ends today’s experiment in free association. Time to get ready for exams.