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Mon | August 15, 2005
a new sense of urgency
I applied to a job last night and it makes me appreciate all the things I have now: I determine my own schedule; I stay up late if I wish because I don't have to get up tomorrow; I live in the quiet suburbs, where it's not polluted and grimy; I am relaxed and not perpetually stressed; I report to no one. I have time to think.
I installed MT at awc just now. I think I'm taking a break from it now; that's enough for today. Voila-- http://www.asianwriting.org. Hopefully that will stick also.
It helped, actually, that I applied to that job, because it made me think I should do this stuff now in case I get busier later. It's like if you think you might die you stop wasting time.
If I do by some bizarre twist in the universe take on that full-time job (history has shown that I won't, but you never know), I would want to retain as many of the good things in my little list of pros at the top of this post as possible. The staying up late bit I will have to give up, which is actually an enormous concession on my part because I am sort of a natural insomniac and I feel like I sort out a lot of my thoughts late at night. Actually looking at that list I suppose the only thing I could try to maintain is the level of stress. And I would try to give myself time to think during the day because that is important to me.
notes to self-- things I did for asianwriting.org
--installed mt, even though I wasn't absolutely convinced it was necessary.
--made graphic for banner-- a transparent gif
--customized/ adjusted style sheet-- some of these ideas were already thought through in my head, and in my previous experiments with mt, but there was still the actual execution of it and further tweaking
--chose colors for backgrounds
--border of these tables is 1 px grey instead of white
--added the copyright footer and created the footer style, footer image (another transparent gif)
--was unable to find the font that had the book image, ended up using the keyboard. which is fine, I guess.
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