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is this really ironic? maybe, maybe not. regardless, it sure seems pretty fucking stupid to me.

i’m currently taking a 3 credit hour college course called ‘interpersonal communication.’ the kind of shit that freshmen take their first semester in. the kind of shit that graduating seniors take because they are short credit hours but don’t need anything else for their degree.

this course is entirely internet based. from start to finish. every assignment, correspondence, and term paper is done online and submitted via email.

the irony here? it’s an interpersonal communication course, and since it’s internet based, i haven’t had an interpersonal communication with a single fucking person the entire semester.

not that it matters, nine more days of school and i’m out of here for good.

feels good to say that. no more fafsa, no more loan applications, no more bookstore. nothing. may 16th i walk away for the last time.

speaking of which, i need to get my ass in gear. since i graduate on may 16th, my health insurance runs out june 1st, which means that i either need to pay for the health insurance on my own (running me a little over $300 a month) or i need to get a job that provides it for me.

i’ll take the later, methinks. i don’t care what it is – i’ll be a secretary, scrub toilets, or enter mindless data on a computer, so long as it covers my ass.

unrelated – i’ve been confirmed for tickets to st louis (6/17/04) and kansas city (8/16/04.) hopefully a new job won’t interfere with that. although sooner or later i really do have to join the real world. scary, eh?

ryan, what if i tour with your band, as a sound engineer or a tour manager or studio engineer or some shit? you’ll pay me for that, right?

so the new trend in spam is to post comments in blogs with weblinks to their stupid porno spam websites.

i’ve had three of them in the last few days, and i’ve deleted them as they’ve been posted.

im hijacking shep’s idea.

attention spammers:

think twice before you post spam on my comments.

you post shit in my comments, and i’m fucking hunting you down and harassing the shit out of you any way i can.

formal wording of that comes soon.

…14 days of school left after tonight. that’s monday and wednesday from now till may 3rd, not counting a week of spring break. and then i’m fucking DONE. for good. no more registrar’s office, no more loan paperwork, no more stupid bullshit bookstore purchases or parking permits. DONE.

i. cant. wait. albeit, that means i have to become a productive member of society, but that’s a chance i’m willing to take. it’s time to move on with life.

speaking of school. i think it should be a requirement that anyone in a business administration program should be required to take some kind of class on communicating. how to make decent looking presentations, how to give a good presentation, how to speak in front of a room full of people without reading off of notecards… as common and important as this kind of thing is, it just blows my mind that there’s college seniors about to graduate that can’t give a speech/presentation/talk to save their lives. reading notecards verbatim and not making any kind of contact with your audience won’t just cause people to ignore what you’re saying, it will get you laughed at behind your back, and maybe even fired.

random tangent – is anyone REALLY still interested in any of this princess di shit? the secret audio tapes and secret video tapes that nbc has been showing off like a fucking war medal?

who cares? really? jesus christ, people, she’s dead – can’t we just let her rest without trying to create some controversy where there is none? can’t we just leave it alone already? talk about martha stewart or something already.

finally, before i go, this is something i just have to get off my chest. sorry, but i’m going to get a little political on y’all again.

all these people who ‘vote pro life’ and vote for an official (like dubya) solely based on whether or not they are pro-life? IDIOTS.

newsflash: george bush? he’s not pro-life. he’s anti abortion. same thing, right? wrong.

pro-life and pro-choice are not opposites. just like life and death, they are related, but not opposites. pro-choice is a position that supports a woman’s right to have an abortion. pro-life, however, is not a position against abortion – it is a position against the taking of ANY life.

language experts will argue that pro-life no longer means that – popular usage has changed it’s meaning, and now it IS a position against abortion. well, popular usage is fucking wrong.

so george bush? NOT pro-life. you CANNOT be pro-life AND pro capital punishment. you CANNOT be pro-life AND pro-capital punishment.

so, people – if you’re going to be pro-life, that’s great. it’s a good position to have. but MEAN it. there’s no grey area here – it’s black and white. either you’re against the taking of any life – or you’re not. there’s no room for wishy-washy on the fence shit here.

claiming to be pro-life and supporting the death penalty doesn’t make any sense. it’s a logical fallacy. and it reeks of hypocracy.

well, as you may or may not have noticed, i’ve been out of commission the last few days. here’s the scoop.

the entire blog portion of my website was controlled by greymatter for a long time. as long as i can remember.

anyhow, i get this email from the manager of my web host saying that greymatter is now banned off of their servers because, apparently, greymatter opens up some massive security hole that was being exploited left and right, and entire servers were being wiped out.

so i had to shut down all the scripts and everything that basically ran the site. so i’ve been spending the last few days scrambling to find a similar program to greymatter that i could use to keep things in line.

moveable type it is. not your typical moveable type, though, as i threw out essentially everything that came with it and moved my gotjenkins 4.0 layout into it. users of moveable type probably can’t even tell that it is moveable type at all.

needless to say, this is the fastest design/coding/implementation overhaul of this website EVER. hopefully everything works okay, i haven’t had a chance to test everything out – but it should be fine.

fyi – everything BEFORE this post was imported from greymatter. so any comments from those posts are located in the ‘extended entry’ section of the posts, and new comments are disabled on everything before 2004.

i think this is probably the best layout i’ve done for this site yet. i like the way it looks a lot, and there’s a few ‘hidden’ things that i’ll bring out when i have a reason to.

a word about the color scheme – i have about 7 color schemes that i can change at will for the entire site. the purple one that is currently up is modeled of the colors of my leopard geckos. i like it, but i have a lot of other colors i like too, so i don’t how when i’ll change it yet.

anyhow, that’s all from me for now. i’ll post some non-computer related real life stuff soon.