super awesome day (for one of the first times this semester, so sorry if this post is braggy).

(1) i totally rocked my christopher columbus lesson plan presentation this morning! i was really nervous because it’s my first time writing a lesson plan, and my first time “teaching” one. but i felt pretty at ease throughout the lesson, the same sort of feeling i have when i explain gym games or craft projects at work. for my overall grade on the lesson i got an A, which is really awesome.

and to top it all off, my professor talked to me afterwards and said my lesson plan was “exceptionally well-done.” he asked me where i went last year, i said that i wasn’t a transfer, and he was surprised. apparently other schools start working on lesson plans freshman year, so when they transfer here they are ahead in that area. he actually said my lesson plan was teacher- or student teacher-level. that’s fresh.

(2) i finally figured out the calc proof i’ve been working on since last monday! a two page long proof, finished a half an hour before i had to leave for class. man, that was one glorious proof, once i figured it out.

(3) the chuck season premiere was tonight! for my and your reference, my shows for this year are as follows: the office, 30 rock, pushing daisies, house, bones, ncis, and chuck. so the only premieres i have left are pushing daisies on wednesday and 30 rock on october 30th. six hours of tv a week. phew!

(4) i think i’m going to spend tomorrow afternoon tagging my pre-wordpress and textpattern posts. but there are 781 of said posts, so it may take a few days. wish me luck!

the CAKE concert was last night! oh man, i think it was one of the best shows i’ve been to, ever. they are SO amazing live! like, maybe ever better than on their records. plus they’re in the “big five,” which is just my top five bands in no specific order (they might be giants, mc lars, atom and his package, the aquabats, and cake).

i went with liz, curls, and alexa. and guess who we saw there? torch! from pinewood! with the four of us there, it was a mini pinewood reunion : )

they played some of my favorites, and of course closed with the best of the best — short skirt / long jacket! highlights included comfort eagle (”he is calling you DUDE!”), the distance, wheels, comanche, stickshifts and safetybelts, frank sinatra, guitar, love you madly, arco arena, and never there. jeez, now that i think about it, every single song was amazing.

also, best photo ever:

and i caught “short skirt / long jacket” on camera! sounds better in real life though.

this is a clip from the next ep, and it made my day.

just one today. my dad and i tried for three, but one’s coordinates were too off to find it, and the other one was at the bottom of the quarry, which is a bit too exciting for us.

so yes, today was a good day, because i did not fall in a gorge.

although it was a very pretty gorge. some may say it was a gorgeous gorge. oh my, i am very sorry about that.

today i kicked a squirrel on my way back from calc. it was a complete accident, as i was looking through my bag for my ipod, but it was traumatizing nonetheless. worse than the time i accidentally kicked that chicken.

i wasn’t sure if i should laugh or cry, so i played it off like i didn’t notice. looking back on that, i probably should have at least looked a bit concerned, since the squirrel did grunt upon impact and all.

taking notes, as usual. sitting on the floor of the common room with my laptop on… my lap.
MAJOR SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT, YO!
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40 Multi-Fandom
7 The Office (US)
3 John Krasinski
3 MC Lars
1 Scrubs
3 The Host (Wanda)
7 Barack Obama
1 Rocky & Bullwinkle
4 Stock: Miscellaneous
2 Threadless
1 Twilight (Text-Only)
4 Internet Acronyms
3 Geek (Text-Only)

it’s been awhile, hasn’t it? this is what happens when i get bored and no one is around to play scrabble with me.

samples:

( i remember when i used to be into nostalgia. )

breaking news: i understood what was going on in my calc 3 class for the first time all semester. this is a glorious day.

in other news: i painted my watch pink today.

live from our weather radar: it was so foggy this morning that a lot of classes were canceled. not mine, of course.

and in sports today: nothing.

my dad and i found FIVE geocaches today! lots of photos and stuffz under the cut.

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basically, i want to marry lars. stabby and i went to record archive at 4:45ish and i bought five bajillion cd’s (read: eight). lars arrived around 5:00ish, and we had lots of time to chat and such. we talked about atom and his package, because lars saw the pins i have on my bag. you see, aahp is like my second favorite band ever, so lars and i were able to go on and on about how amazing atom is. and he told me that he contributed a song to an aahp tribute album that’ll be released next month! so awesome.

he also signed my ipod. he added the “j/k!” when i mentioned i don’t steal music, instead i shop at record archive. lol. oh, and he signed some monopoly money i had in my wallet. that makes like forty items i own that are now signed by lars. lolz.

and he “played” a set, too! i put that in quotes, because i’m not 100% sure that’s what it was. you see, he forgot to bring his laptop (although he did bring his band). so we were treated to an a cappella version of mc lars. definitely a new experience for everyone involved…

in other words, it was a very good time! after the show we talked again and he mentioned that he really liked the websites i’ve designed, and told me to keep being awesome. oh man, i love your mc lars.

i have completely updated my portfolio. exciting stuff.

basically, i tried to put all the posts in there that have anything to do with websites i’ve designed or logos i’ve made.

i also had to deal with the downloadable template situation. if you weren’t around here in 2004-2006, i used to design website templates available for the public to download. i used a php program called the crappymatic that would customize my templates to fit the user. i had totally forgotten about in 2007 and somehow i managed to delete a crucial php file. so for a year or so my templates have been doing nothing, sitting useless in my portfolio without even previews. that’s all fixed now. you can look at the templates—some have live previews, others have full size screen shots—but you can’t download them.

so that’s pretty much it. let me know if you see anything wonky going on.