I’m still alive
I’m still around, although I spend most of my time feeling like a zombie, banging my head against keyboards, and yelling at people about how I’m too busy to talk to them.
About school…
I think the most important thing that I have discovered so far this semester is that all those years I spent ignoring regular expressions and snide references to regex were the most enjoyable and simple years of my life. And I didn’t even know it.
$patterns = array ('/([0-4][0-9])$/','/([5-9][0-9])$/');
$replace = array ('20$0','19$0',);
$date = preg_replace($patterns, $replace, $date);
$patterns = '/([0-1][0-9])\/([0-9][0-9])\/|([0-9]*4)/';
$replace = '$1-$2-$3';
print preg_replace($patterns, $replace, $date);
Do you know how long that took me to write?
Too. Long. And I still feel like my brain hasn’t entirely grasped it.
This is made even more depressing by the fact that what I just posted is so simple compared to some of the stuff I stumbled across while googling endless regex tutorials.
Also: there is a reason why my computer architecture teacher’s motto is, In assembler, no one can hear you scream.
About life…
Other than school, I haven’t been doing much of anything, since I spend most of my time either at school or at work.
A few things though:
Ben’s band had their first show, and it was a huge success. I felt like I was more famous than THEY were; everyone kept congratulating me and saying things like, “You must be so proud!” I did a lot of grinning idiotically and nodding and drinking cider until suddenly it was four in the morning and I was lying in bed with a nasty case of cotton mouth.
Arguably more exciting: My birthday is coming up pretty quick.
I know that twenty-three isn’t that big of a deal and I won’t be needing horn rimmed glasses and a pair of beige slacks any time soon, but it’s still OLD to me. My mom got pregnant with me when she was 23. Which means that if I were my mom, I’d be pregnant soon. HOW WEIRD IS THAT? Rose? Pregnant? I can’t even imagine.
About lifeasrose.ca…
So first of all, I’m kind of disappointed that a post about duck faces garnered more comments than most of my other posts.
Secondly, I have a business teacher suffering from a mild case of paranoia who tells us things like, “HR departments don’t even check references anymore. They just google you.” …And find my blog? And read about things like this? And this?
You know what this means, right?
I am never going to get a job.
Which makes me wonder if I should delete my more embarrassing online identities and become a portfolio-only kind of girl. Or if I should just keep on trucking and making fun of others for the sake of a cheap laugh and hope for the best.
THIRDLY…
I’m thinking about doing one of those “365″ projects where you take a photo every day for a year. Accompanied by a short blog entry.
I don’t want to take a photo of myself every day, though, because even though I’m in love with my face, there’s already enough of that around and I don’t want to force everyone else to look at my ugly mug just because *I* think it’s the best thing that ever happened to anyone, ever.
So I’m going to do something much less egotistical (sarcasm. hahaha.) and take photos of things related to my life, including the occasional self portrait just for reference sake (e.g. the way I look now vs the way I look a year from now.)
This might be easier than just writing blog entries because it requires less writing and more pretty pictures. What do you guys think?
Lame.
Something tells me that I will never have time to write anything ever again, since I have SIX. SIX. S-I-X classes this semester and I’m on day two and I’m already feeling overwhelmed.
But this post doesn’t take much effort because all I wanted to say was:
What is up with that weird face a lot of girls have been making for photos recently?
You know, the one where they push their lips out a bit in this weird purse/half smile thing.
Some of the most inspiring designs of 2009
For how long I’ve been making websites, my design skills are pretty dismal. I am not artistic. It’s heartbreaking and I’ve yet to come to terms with it.
SOO, I spend a lot of time browsing around and looking at other designs and trying to find some crafty way of ripping them off without being obvious about it.
So far, no luck.
But here are some of the top 2009 designs that I stumbled across. With screenshots and no description because I am WAY too lazy to think of something exciting to say about all these designs, other than: They are cool.
Enjoy!
lauraburciaga.com
owltastic.com
leihu.com
markforrester.co.za
adaptd.com
themacgirl.com
bottledsky.com
komodomedia.com
markjardine.com
billytamplin.com
Obligatory complaint post.
Something I’ve been seeing all over that’s annoying: A post on a blog titled “Obligatory Christmas Post” or “Obligatory New Year’s Post”
People are so weird part 37498
A customer approaches me with a slightly confrontational attitude…
Her: “I found this $10 in the cash machine. What do you guys do with that?”
Me: “We hang on to it with a note attached so that the customer can come back and claim it.”
Her: “What if they don’t come back?”
Me: “Nothing. We just keep hanging on to it.”
Her: “Well what’s the point in that; why don’t I just keep it?”
Me: “Well are you going to give it back if the owner comes to claim it?”
Her: “He won’t come back.”
Me: “Well… he might. People do come back.”
Her: “So you’re just going to ‘hang on to it?’ I might as well have it.”
Me: “Um… Well, uh…” (I know. I’m articulate. But geeze, what the hell, why did she even approach me if she was going to be all bitchy and try to steal money from someone?)
Her: “But there’s nothing you can do to stop me from taking it.”
Me: “Uh…”
Her: “So I think I’ll just keep it.”
She then walks off.