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Sat | September 24, 2005
my night with movable type
I just spent three hours tweaking my movable type templates for invisible cube and asian writing club. The result-- footers at the bottom of every page, and the entry titles are links to the entry. Yeaayyyy. I don't know why it takes so long. You tell yourself you're just going to do this little thing while you eat dinner. Half hour, an hour, tops. You change the template, and then you have to change the style sheet, and then you have to change all the other templates to match, and rebuild everything, and then it doesn't work and it's all messed up and you're like noooooo why did I make all those changes at once? Then you go back and change everything again, until you get what you want. And I made a lot of other tweaks at the asian writing blog as well, though I don't even remember what they were at this point.
What's really sad is that this is the only noticeable progress I've made all day. I had SAT class in the morning and then I had to pick up some stuff for the GRE class starting tomorrow (even though I had already been there earlier in the week-- ahhh! DC was like, three new people signed up, pick up their cards) and then lunch, and then I literally sat on my bed and thought and dozed for three hours. I sat on my bed to think of what I wanted to do. No matter how many times I learn that you shouldn't sit or lie down on your bed "to think," I forget and do it again. And once you're in that state of mind you wake up intermittently but you're all drowsy so you just go back to sleep.
I had two invitations of things-to-do tonight, and didn't take either of them up. I don't think I went out last weekend either. It was Lynn's b-day. And I didn't go to her fashion show on Thurs. I don't know why. I think I get caught in a rut, of unproductivity, and have a hard time breaking out of it. I'm in it now still. But I will be out all day tomorrow.
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