For some reason, I’m sort of exhausted. Maybe because I played Smash Brothers most of yesterday and maybe because I spent like 9 hours this weekend finishing up my thesis, not bad for the last push on my thesis but still sort of exhausting. And right now I’m at that place with a paper where I can’t look at what I did. I just know I feel sorta like I wrecked my car. I’m sure I’ll re-read it and it won’t be as bad as I think… and I’m sure I’ll get it mostly cleared up in the parts where it is bad, but still. I’ve vowed not to think about it for the next day or so.
WordPress changed the layout of the internal part of the site. Here is a message to the people responsible for this change: I don’t like it. It is silly. And the first thing I am going to do is change it back if that’s possible and it probably is.
Kyle and I did our engagement photos. Pictures are up in an album on Cari’s account and I’m probabaly gonna snipe them for flickr in a bit too. i’m trying to hold off until they’ve been editted but at this point, meh, whatever, i’m just taking them. i’ll edit them on photoshop express or something. speaking of, i’ve been experimenting with seashore which is the gimp build for mac because it’s free and i like free things. so far, i’m only fussy about how it does brushes (this is a big deal if you know anything about my design habits) but otherwise it’s good little software. i also assume this is just part of the learning curve. I also have been using Scribus which is an opensource desktop publisher. it has a huge learning curve but now that i’m figuring out I probably like it about as much as InDesign. Certainly when you consider the difference in price tag its way better… also because I don’t typeset. I could see it maybe being a pain in the ass if you were working with lots and lots of content, but then, I think InDesign is that way on my laptop as it is…
It’s so like me to try to update the world on wedding prep and instead get distracted with a conversation about opensource design software. ack. I mean, I guess it all relates cos we’re doing our own programs, invites, blah blah blah all of that. so i sort of need the software for something semi-practical for once in my life.
I also bought us a copy of “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work” by John M. Gottman, Ph. D. I’m only a chapter+ in right now so I don’t feel like I can make a royally long critique of the book but so far I like it. I like it cos I don’t like Active Listening even though I’ve been trained in it (I call it passive aggressive listening… ahem). So Gottman criticizes it because he says that it’s really meant to be an individual therapist-to-patient method of listening and not really that applicable when all the “I statements” are criticizing the listener. A good point. And he mostly talks about how good he is at his job which is sorta sweet. And he comes really highly recommended.
Sorry I don’t have long treacherous reports about the ins and outs of my life these days. I guess things are really good, or just kind of unknown. I’m hoping to have some blanks filled in by the end of the month but there is no sense rushing a lack of information. On the right side, I have been updating you with far more poetry which is good for us both. Another one is hopefully on the way soon.
