a nice, lazy day
underscorebleach: this has been a good weekend
underscorebleach: i wish more NU weekends were like this
underscorebleach: i feel like a real college student
MrsParker6767: eh, i was kind of annoyed actually
underscorebleach: well, that’s part of the fun!
i convinced Margaret, Mary’s adorable sister, to get a weblog. tell her to change the font to verdana.
i did some neato nerdy things with Apache URL Rewriting today. basically, even though the file doesn’t exist, if you attempt to access http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet, it will automatically toss ya over to http://underscorebleach.net/content/jotsheet/. the same goes for all of the subdirectories of /content/. i like to keep all of my HTML in one directory, CSS in another, and SSIs in a third. most people don’t do it this way, though, but if someone thinks i use top-level directories to organize my content (i.e. /jotsheet/ for this page), then they’ll still get to the right place. in actuality, though, i only did this because i like cutesy tricks like this. if you’re a geek, you could take a look at the Apache URL Rewriting Guide.
this weekend has done for my mind what taking a bath does for my body.
stretched across the sky
it felt good, i mean good today, just relaxed, easy, heart warm, oxygen high. i got sick of reading archaeology at the Library, so i walked over to the source of the bass rumbling throughout campus. it was this party at the Lakefill put on by CaribNation, and i was just about the only white guy around. no big deal, though. i’m black on the inside. anyway, it was a festival of Caribbean culture. i got there toward the end, in the middle of the karaoke (Beenie Man, anyone?), and they had a dance contest too (i heard the word “rudeboy” in actual usage). it was a trip, gotta tell ya. and the accents — it’s like English with a swirl, or something. but it was good.
i walked back to the Library and looked over the Lakefill toward the big lake. a huge rainbow stretched across the sky, visible on both sides, clear enough that i could almost pick out the violet. i knew things were good. the last time i saw a rainbow like that, i was 9 years old and running around in Disneyworld’s Magic Kingdom. (when we were in Epcot, i got separated from my family for four hours, but that’s another story.)
i think i have some reserves in the tank now. by that, i guess i mean that bad things could happen, and i’d still be ok. yeah, it’s good.