Before I get any further, congratulations to my brilliant brother Ajay for finally becoming the doctor my family had created him to be. Ideally, he will cure all of the great plagues of the worlds up to and including locusts. Because I hate locusts so much that I’ve decided that, unless I equip our mini-van (MINI NO LONGER) with a three-thousand-foot-long windshield, I will have to wake up Elvis from his cryogenic state, and have his pompadour encapsulate every last one of them.
Those suckers are going to pay. But on with the tale…
The graduation ceremony involved a long trip into Dallas and a long trip out of it. The weather was perfect, but the ceremony, unfortunately, was not. There was extremely limited seating in the atrium where the ceremony was held. My entire family was forced to relocate to different perches well out of range of the stage — several of us sat on planters on the far edge of the atrium itself. It was remarkable that not even all of the parents of these graduates, let alone the family members, were able to sit anywhere near the area. Some people reserved whole rows for their extended families/farmyard animals, and when my mom and her friend (regrettably) moved some of the “RESERVED” signs, this overwhelming crowd of people forced them out of their seats. While I don’t agree with my mom’s antics, it was a heart-wrenching sight, and I was more than prepared to punch the little kid who said, with such evident disdain, “The signs were right there on the seat.” I think the only way to teach him respect would be brass knuckles, but I’m not in possession of a pair. I think my laser eyes would have had to suffice, had Great Yellowface been shining upon me that day.
My account of the past week and its many trials is likely to be heavily biased, favoring shoes to sandals, Kermit the Frog to Alf but not ever Wordpress to Movable Type. Some random server glitch forbade me from accessing any of my CGI files (403: Forbidden), and within five days of opening a ticket and pestering my admins (not an ideal length of time or course of action), the error turned into a 500: Internal Server Error. I hesitated for a day before repairing this, but I have done the impossible! I have made Movable Type work! I should probably reward myself with some jellybeans, but I don’t think that my exasperated brain is quite ready for such a panacea. Sometime soon, brain, sometime soon.
I started summer school today, a trend that will continue for the next eleven days, and then four days later, for another twelve. It seems as though I was not dealt such a terrible hand, but six hours a day in a freezing class room covering the definition of government and reciting the preamble from memory doesn’t seem like an enjoyable adventure. That, and, when I inform people that my sleep has been cut in half by this monstrosity, they instantly assume that I have failed some course and I’m so stupid, and my god, your brain must be fighting your skull for dominance BUT IT IS BEING REPRESSED.
Let me put aside those rumors now. I’m taking Government and Economics, both half-credit courses, during the summer because I don’t have any room in my senior schedule. In fact, I’ve so utterly bloated my schedule that my brain will very soon be fighting for precedence. And jellybeans. But that poor creature must endure for another six weeks. It is all in Xenu’s great plan.
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Matt said:
you might want to look into textpattern, I bypassed wordpress and switched from MT to txp fairly easily and it gives you a lot more flexibility and control. Just a thought.
If MT even lets me post this comment I’ll be happy, it has eaten more than a few of my comments on this site, I think.
Posted on June 5, 2007 11:57 AM; Permalink
Matt Marshall said:
Ah, ‘summer school’ - how American! By the look of it you picked two good topics to study, so I hope you enjoy them.
I had a play around with Moveable Type once, but I really did not see what all the fuss was about.. therefore back to WordPress I went! There’s a good market for an actual good blogging program, who knows what might emerge.
Posted on June 6, 2007 4:16 AM; Permalink
Ranjani said:
Matt: I like TextPattern a lot, but I also really like Movable Type. It’s not that it ate your comments, but rather that my hosting server’s CGI wasn’t working as planned.
Matt Marshall: I actually have to take Government (just finished it) and Economics to graduate. Not that I mind; I just don’t have room in my normal schedule.
Movable Type has a very easy to use templating system. I’m still figuring out the bit about modules and the like, but assuming my server doesn’t block it again, I should be able to test it out in the next few weeks!
Posted on June 22, 2007 11:12 AM; Permalink