HFCS: effika’s blog

I don’t feel well so this won’t be a very good entry. If you want happy coherent thoughts read elsewhere. :-P
Had an alright time yesterday; I talked to that guy in chemistry for a while after class. His name is Sean. He seems pretty cool.
Spent the evening with Ryan… ended up feeling [...]

This weekend actually wasn’t so bad.
I got Sean’s screennames for aim and Y!, and so I talked to him a lot Saturday. I also talked to Garret and Zach and Kurt– people I haven’t talked to in a long time since I’m never on aim anymore. My y! name is effika if you want [...]

I talked to Thai tonight! I haven’t talked to him directly since summer! I feel a lot better even though my body says I should be dragging myself around. I called him to let him have my win98 cd key, and then we started talking for a long time.
I skipped chem [...]

I think this sums up my entire day. Feeling better coldwise, too!
Ra Ra Rasputin by Boney M
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could [...]

I think I like this design too much! I was trying to find ways to change it entirely, but all the stuff I did just didn’t look right. I consider this one of my best designs ever, so maybe that’s why it’s so hard to part with it.
The high was ~65*F [...]

All right, all you css gurus, I got a question for ya. :-)
I’m having lots of trouble getting the “next 5″ and “previous 5″ links to show up. When I can get them to show up, I only see part of the link– the browser won’t scroll down far enough for it. I [...]

Things are fixed now! Thanks very very very much to Scott for pointing out what was likely the problem. I had to get rid of my psuedo-frame at the top (people with Opera and Mozilla know what I’m talking about), but that’s ok. It was a bit distracting anyway. I’ve still [...]

I have spent the weekend being annoyed at the OU IT people. They didn’t set up their server properly, and it’s sending out the CSS mime-type as something that it’s not. I e-mailed them, but: I e-mailed the OUHSC IT people mistakenly, then I e-mailed the correct campus’s IT people, and they [...]

I’m feeling wintery. So sue me. :-P
OU’s server allows off-site linking! Yay!
Best Of is up. OU still hasn’t fixed the server so it looks crappy in Mozilla (and I imagine Opera too). So simple to change the mime-type, but I bet it won’t happen soon. I’m calling them on [...]

Special post! College Advice!
1. Go put your FAFSA stuff in now. Who knows, you may get some grants. At least the loans they offer you you don’t have to pay back until you’re out of school.
2. Go tour the schools if you can, or try to get an alumni to talk to [...]

I must have been really really tired last night. Usually when I get out of the shower I wait a few songs until I turn Kea’s radio off (she’s usually asleep by the time I get out of the shower). Last night I didn’t turn it off. The last thing I remember [...]

The chemistry exam sucked. And I found out I have a 78 in the class. If I do really well on these exams I’ll have an 80. The TA’s haven’t gotten their stuff together and posted the exam keys yet.
Ryan remarked tonight that the night feels absolutely gone after chem exams. [...]

Looks like I’ll be retaking the chem tests. I did well on unit 3 at least. I’ll have to really try to memorize shit for the final. I’ll have to take four tests then instead of two, and I won’t have a chance to retake the last two units. I don’t [...]

I’m back in the dorms! I’ve let the floor get a little dirty here, so I think I’m going to try to get some cleaning done this week.
I’ve taken up knitting again. I’m going to knit on a bright green skein of yarn I’ve got to get my fingers back in shape again [...]

I have spent today knitting, reading, cursing the atmospheric pressure, going to class, and actively not studying for Sociology. Not a bad day. :-)
I’ve had a bit of mild carpal tunnel for a few years. I think all the knitting has angered it again. I’m hoping it will just go away after [...]

I don’t know why I’m up this late. I got up early for sociology. Usually on days like this I’m ready to crawl into bed by 11pm. Maybe it has to do with my napping from 9.30am to 12noon. I even called up Ryan to tell him I couldn’t go to [...]

/Stranger in a Strange Land/ picked itself up after about 50 pages today. Maybe it’s the middle section that’s not so great about it… hmm, I’ll see for myself in a few days I suppose.
To Pat: I’ve read /Starship Troopers/. It was pretty good. I haven’t read /The Moon is a [...]

I used the anti-telemarketing EGBG Counterscript with much sucess today on some idiot from Visa. Fun fun fun!
I tried some turkey today on my sandwich for dinner. It’s making my digestive system feel a little odd. Not bad, just odd. Which I suppose is a good outcome.
Ryan’s experiencing for the first time [...]

to Pat (and anyone else who’d like to know): Actually for the most part my sites are boring little things. Standard 2-column, menu-on-the-lefts mostly. v.2 of my site had a menu on the right, which I thought was quite nifty. v.3b (or something) is all text, no graphics. I play around [...]

Today was a hodge-podge of stuff.
I went to Wendy’s with Ryan for lunch, and the person taking my order actually got it right when I said I wanted a grilled chicken filet vs. chicken breast filet. It was nice not having to take it back and wait while they made another sandwhich [...]

Some stupid RA on rounds tried to give Ryan and me shit tonight. Ryan usually walks me home and then we hang out in the lounge at the end of my hall for a while before he goes back. We were walking down the hall and the RA (new one, they must have [...]

I’m tired… wrote my paper (which sucks, it’s hard to write an essay when you don’t have anything to say on the subject); sent it off to Ryan to proofread. He’s home now. I asked him to get on AIM, but he doesn’t think he will. It would be a lot easier [...]

Got my paper in about 2.30am last night. Ryan signed on, making it super-easy to get the changes done.
I’m at home now… I don’t know what to do really, as nobody’s on any sort of IM… I need to clean my room from all the mess people made in it, and I want [...]

Last night was interesting– I went out to Denny’s with David and Charles, then we walked around Wal-Mart for a while to make it an official Boring Late-Night. We had fun, though, so it’s cool.
David’s got another gf! I’m so happy for him. Courtney was emotionally unstable and obsessive [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who’s celebrating it today!

Tonight was the most fun I’ve had in a long time.
Ian (a sort-of friend that I don’t really like too much, but since he’s moved away he’s been getting less annoying) called me up and said I just /had/ to go to Denny’s with him, Anthony (very good friend/little brother-type guy), and this guy Douglas [...]