Shine On

I am a very tired bunny. I have a large dose of unshakeablecold, which I have had for about three weeks now. A couple of months ago, I was diagnosed with severe Seasonal Affective Disorder and I have to spend part of my days in front of a sun lamp. Which is what I’m doing today, along with blowing my nose a lot and organising my uni schedule for the year.

Yes, I work full time and am doing a degree AND a web certificate. I am completely insane. It helps that I have a pretty nuclear organiser app on my iPhone, and it shouts at me every so often to do things. Maybe I should get Mrs Procrastination one of these things…

I’m doing maths, computing and design this year. Which sounds like an awful lot and it is, but I do like studying (I just hate assignments) and I’m hoping it’ll all go okay. I read philosophy in my spare time (which I don’t have a lot of, admittedly) and pretend that I don’t really have to go to work and do calculations all day, or focus on my bathroom/puppy/lack of sleep problems.

Happily, my SHINee calendar arrived last week, just in time for my birthday.  It now sits on my desk, being annoyingly chirpy at me. See?

How could anyone not fail to be cheered up by that? Hating on it would be like kicking puppies – you’d have to be fully Lecter-esque to not be affected by the power of the cotton-wool fluffy cutesy goodness in this calendar.

I want five pints of whatever this lot are on, and I want it stat. And I freely admit I’m a pervert!noona.

Go Go Star Fruit Rocket

Twelve years ago, I started blogging. I had an account at Open Diary, and I’d update it from the library while I was at university. That was the first time I’d ever really been on the internet, as we didn’t have things like modems at home. (And when we did, they were the fantastically loud and crazy dial up ones, that sounded like this)

Eight years ago, I bought this domain and set up a blog on it.

It was coded entirely in html, with cutting edge tables-and-slicing technology. And really, really tiny fonts. I know this because I have Every.Single. Blog. Layout. I ever ever made sitting on my hard drive still and I can view every single one of them. I discovered two things when I did this.

1. I wasn’t kidding about those fonts
2. I was REALLY EMO.

I am not proud of either of these things.

So in an effort to make up for my heinous crimes against readable type and happy people everywhere, I decided that it was about time I did something constructive for once and try and get things going again. At some point, I may even post up those past layouts and try to find people I used to link to. (I tried that today, for the record, and ended up at a tentacle-themed naughty site, so I’m going to have to be a little bit more CAREFUL about such things…) A lot of those domains have gone now. It’s very weird.

I feel very old.