Here’s a quick post to prove I’m not dead. Here’s the lowdown on what’s been going on in my pretty un-exciting life:

1. Amazingly enough, even with all of the stressful things that occurred last semester, I made it out with the best grades I have ever received while in college. I received four As and two Bs.
2. I went on a trip with my boyfriend, David, to Las Vegas for some relaxation before classes started again. Someday, I’ll have to get around to posting photos.
3. Completely unrelated to the above, I received an offer for a paid internship in Las Vegas, Nevada. I probably shouldn’t disclose more than that here, but I will say that I’m really excited about it.
4. I completely forgot to post a “year in review” post for 2009. Someone remind me, will you?

I’m in another full load of classes this semester so I’ll be as busy as always. I’m way behind on a lot of things, including Q*bee trades, so my apologies to my bee friends… it’s been far too long.

I’ll have to update this later with photos because I’m too tired to crop and resize my photos at the moment. So someone remind me, okay?

We arrived on Monday and things have been pretty good. We’ve been to see Fisherman’s Wharf, rode the trolleys and shopped at various places around the city like Chinatown and Union Square. We got to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe which is something I always love to do when I get the chance. I was trying to gear up to write a lengthy post about what’s been going on since then but I find that I don’t really have a lot to say. Read the rest of this entry »

One more week until spring break in San Francisco, California… hooray!

The good thing is, unlike in previous semesters, all of my exams fell 2 weeks away from spring break so that I’m not scrambling to study before break. My next clump of exams aren’t until March 26/April 1/April 3 so that’s pretty sweet.

I’ve recently discovered that I have an interview with a company for an internship on Tuesday. I’m hoping it works out, but if it doesn’t, then I already have another job lined up doing web development. It’s pretty much a no-downside situation which is a first, haha.

Anyway, it’s rather late and I’ve got a 7:30 a.m. class tomorrow so I’ll make some sort of effort to update more frequently. I’ll be sure to update this blog with pictures from my trip.

Thanks to Kimm for donating money towards cancer research in Relay for Life!

This site is pretty much suffering from a whole lot of neglect. I guess that’s an unfortunate side-effect of being an overworked college student but there you are. Tomorrow (er, today) is March 1 and I can’t hardly believe it. Spring break is March 16-20 and I’m completely excited because I’m going to San Francisco, California to see my sister Candace. It’s going to be pretty much amazing. I just have to last through two more weeks of classes and such and then I can take an ever-so-short break. Hoorah.

On a sidenote, I’ve begun tentatively looking for another camera. Not that there’s anything wrong with mine, I’d just like a point-and-shoot with some manual capabilities, with the obvious good quality pictures. I would really like to play with manual settings but my current camera is lacking. Any suggestions?

PS: I’m still trying to garner some donations for cancer research for Relay for life if you feel so inclined.

Well, I got back from Chicago on July 2nd. It was a blast. I ended up getting in the top 15 in the nation in web site development. I was disappointed that I didn’t make it in the top 10, but top 15 is great, too. (The kids that made it in the top 15 used fancy Flash and crap of that nature, even though Flash isn’t nearly as accessible as my all XHTML+CSS layout… but I’ll save that rant for another day.) I can still brag about being in the top 15.

So Happy 4th of July to everyone. I hope you’re having (or had) a good one. Mine’s been okay. I got to set off nearly all my family’s fireworks, as usual. Everyone else is either a) too scared, b) too lazy, c) too lazy and scared to set them off so I sort of get stuck doing it. I’m always afraid one of these times I’ll get my hand blown off, but oh well – such is the thrill, I guess.

After a very long time, I’ve finally got a new brush set in the works. As well as a new layout for At0mica.net. I haven’t updated the layout there since… well since I went to Washington D.C. for History Day in June of 2006. Wow. Anyways, I’m only using my own photography in this layout. I’ve got some lovely photos from my trip to Chicago as well as some other ones I’ve been dying to use and I believe it’s pretty good. I’ve got it all done up in Photoshop, and I’m going to sleep on it and if I still like it when I get up tomorrow I’ll code it. I’m also going to move the brushes back to At0mica.net – I’m tired of dealing with it. Despite writing a very detailed tutorial on how to use my brushes in PhotoFiltre, people are still griping and complaining, “Heather I can’t figure it out!!!1!!1!” and “Heather WTF I can’t figure out how to download the brushes!!!1!!!!3142123!” So, fine. I’ll put them up, they’ll get stolen, I’ll have to spend days tracking down the initial culprit, but at least that saves me from having to answer all these extremely stupid emails. I also apologize but I’m also not going to put forth the effort about asking for translations/coding up translations/ect. for the terms/conditions because I’m even getting complaints about the one translation I have – “Heather that’s the WRONG translation, that’s not right, you should really fix that!!” I figure if it’s not there at all, I won’t have to deal with those emails, either. I mean… I appreciate feedback… but it’s all a lot of work that I just don’t have time for. Especially when I can’t even figure out of the translation is “right” or not because I don’t even speak the languages that they’re being translated to. I’ll do away with the silly password business. I’ll do away with the having to “agree” first. Whatever, I’m tired of dealing with it. I’ll also be ‘tossing’ any sets that I originally used stock photography/other stuff to make brushes from. Just my own stuff. All mine. All original.

Jeminy, it’s late. I’m tired. Time to get back on this horse that is At0mica.net – it’s been too long. I’ll save that for tomorrow.