I’m at one of those points in my life where I’m surrounded by different dilemmas. Some are major ones and some seem almost petty. (And probably are.)

I feel like I’m wasting my time right now with my degree, even though I know I’m making progress. That 2009 completion date simply seems very far away right now. Couple that with my intership search, which appears to have stalled for the moment. West Michigan just doesn’t seem to have much of a market for technology jobs. However, that could mainly be because I don’t know where to look. Since I’ve changed my major so many times, I simply don’t have the contacts.

I’m still unemployed, which is always difficult. I dislike feeling powerless, but I know with my lack of experience I’m not going to do well in competition.

I’m wondering if it’s time to pack it up and move it out. There are lots of internship opportunities as close as Chicago and New York. Using either of those cities as launching points, I could end up anywhere.

Then there’s the archive. I really need to do more work on it, but I’m stuck until I get my scripting class. There’s things I want to do

Holy crap — it’s been warm here in Michigan. I’ve been wearing shorts for the past few days. Right now it’s 70° F / 21° C outside and even warmer inside.

Normally, we don’t get this weather until maybe May or June, so this has been nice. It’s been a couple days since the furnace has run and we’ve been able to get some Spring Cleaning done. (You have no idea how badly the house stinks until you get some fresh air in!)

I’m trying to get back in the habit of blogging. I may not able able to get on IM very often anymore, but at least I can blog.

Back when the domain was down, I joined the Official Naruto Thread on Gaia Online. Now I’m officially addicted. Not the best situation when you have finals due and are known for procrastination. Now I really don’t want to get back to work.

It would be so much easier to keep my project RSS feed up-to-date if I actually updated every time I released a mod, instead of doing it 3 - 6 months later. ^^;

What’s sad, is that it seems to be getting a lot of use. Pretty funny for something I rarely think of. Anyway, still working on moving my eFiction mods here for my portfolio. I got that horribly long story disclaimer mod added this morning and

I wonder if I should include my fanlisting script? That’s entirely stand-alone, though not the prettiest in terms of code. It’s something I made just to see if I could do it, so it’s technically my first script that’s 100% mine.

Need to figure out how I’m going to hook up the screenshots in my portfolio too.

I guess this layout is as complete as it’s going to get. I need to move on to the rest of my project.

I don’t think I can take another 3am bedtime tonight, so I’m going to call it quits. There are still some things that need to be finished, like the blog comments, but I’ve been chasing CSS bugs for most of the day.

I also added screenshots of my eFiction skins and moved a few of my eFiction mods to their posts here. Next thing I have to do is figure out how I’m going to display my portfolio and other items in that section. I wonder if links to DeviantArt would be appropriate? I tried nearly every gallery plugin and they were so buggy, I didn’t want to mess with them anymore.

Next up, I need to format my resume so it will work in an online format. And finally, I think I should be done.

Yeah, I know this whole rush is partially my fault. I slacked off over at Gaia Online’s Official Naruto thread for most of this class, instead of working ahead so this wouldn’t happen to me.

Oh well, I guess. Someday, I’ll learn.

Ugh, it’s amazing how quickly a night goes when you have homework due and the deadline is ticking down. ^^;

It’s suddenly 3:00am. I swear just 20 minutes ago it was midnight.

I found the coolest plugin, so now I can host all my modifications here too. I already have Last Visit 3.0 done. So that’s going to be really cool.

Anyway, please bear with me. I have some final things to fix tomorrow and this layout should be complete.

I’m using this site for my final project for my portfolio class. Since I’m majoring in web design / development, my portfolio needs to be online or in another medium that’s easily shared. I really don’t feel like having a third site I need to keep track of, so redo this one it is.

Stuck on the design, but there isn’t too much I can do on getting a good photo right now. I need to get an ecommerce design done too much the end of next week.

Fun fun.