Anzac Day

Today is Anzac Day and we have the day off.

I'm using the free time to update the blog and catch upon emails and laundry.

School update:

School has been going well but it's a real challenge. I'm working every day before and after school, except when Blue decides to sit on my notes. I get kind of obsessed with it, which is a good sign. Today however is a day off. I'm exhausted.

We designed a 4 page website this week - it was fun but it took almost as many days to build using XHTML and CSS, and my design skills are severely lacking. It doesn't help that the teacher gives us the goofiest assignments for fictional companies. I mean, "Lavish Lawns"? I found some fancy pictures of lawns and gardens, spent an embarrassing amount of time in Illustrator "creating" a logo (read: typing the name in a cool font in pretty colors ), and then built the site in code which was the REAL challenge.

I was TERRIFIED that my site would be laughed at. I figured that all of my classmates would present gorgeous sites done in Photoshop and Illustrator (most of the kids have design backgrounds). But after seeing everyone else's, I was pretty proud of my own. That felt really good. I actually thought mine was better than some, which I did not expect. It's still dorky by professional standards, but that's okay.

The best part is that it's valid, which means all of my code is correct according the internet police, aka the World Wide Web Consortium (w3.org). I was really psyched about that. You upload your file to their site and it tells you if it's right or wrong. Okay, I'm really geeking out so I'll move on...

Here is a picture of the cemetery by my school. I eat lunch here every day -- it's pretty in a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil sorta way.