dianaschnuth

Ugh. I don’t operate well on five hours of sleep.

Donna and I got back from the Massillon drum corps show around 2am last night. I might have called in a half day this morning, had I not just used an entire unplanned personal day for Flash Workshop Day Two. As it is, I’m already taking short lunches this week so I can leave two hours early to catch the LSM carpool up to Grand Haven on Friday. Jeez-o-pete’s.

I feel a little bad for not having gotten a lot accomplished this evening, but not bad enough to force myself to stay awake and finish what I’d wanted to do. Looking up ideas for next week’s vacation (Amish Country? Cleveland?), adding features to the new LSM site, blah blah blah.

Instead, I’m going to go upstairs and read some Harry Potter (I’m re-reading the series) and go to bed early. Nothing wrong with that.

Except that it makes tomorrow’s work day come that much sooner.

I scheduled today off of work to take the Intro to Flash workshop that NISDM was offering down at BGSU. Before the class started, the director of NISDM pulled me aside and let me know that, if I was interested, I could take tomorrow’s intermediate workshop at a massively discounted price. I did some quick calculations in my head — mainly regarding my amount of personal time from work, rather than my credit card balance — and told her to go ahead and sign me up.

Good thing, too, because if I’d paid $300 for the learnin’ I got today, instead of $400 for the learnin’ over two days, I’d be kind of pissed right now. It’s not their fault, though. I guess I just knew more about Flash than I thought I did. Some workshop participants really needed the supar-slow pace.

Today, near the end of the workshop, we got into fun stuff like animation. (Of course, I’d already been putzing with moving my little home-grown Pac-Man graphic around the screen by that point.) Tomorrow, we get to learn about Action Script, which is what I’m really looking forward to. I hope tomorrow gets in-depth enough that I feel like I got my money’s worth out of it.

I haven’t decided whether I should call in to work tonight, in advance, or tomorrow morning before I leave for BG. This is going to cost me some half-days I’d been planning to take, for carpooling to drum corps events and such, but I can just take two hours off on those days and make up the time, instead. I’m just glad to have this second day of workshopping.

Like I was telling Sheryl, I’m feeling pleasantly web-geeky lately. Reading my Designing With Web Standards book, figuring out PHP and MySQL and getting a login system going on the new LSM site, taking Flash workshops… hell, you’d think I was a web designer or something. 😉

Yeah, I know. I used to post every day, and now I post about as often as I shower.

OK, OK, not really. *paranoid glance*

I have quite a bit to blog about, but I’ve been working on other things and actually having a social life. Amy came up this weekend, and she and Aaron and I went up to the Ann Arbor Art Fairs. I have some pics to post of that, and I think that will be a good excuse to try my hand at creating a database-driven photo gallery. Anyway, that was my Saturday, and hanging out with Amy in BG was my Friday evening.

My Sunday was a drum corps rehearsal up in St. Clair Shores, MI. The staff shared some new information about our trip to the DCA Championships in Scranton, PA, but some of that is still privileged info. Suffice to say, that last hour of rehearsal was one of “oh shit, we have HOW many rehearsals to get this show clean?!” For me it was, at least. I tend to be a little high-strung about rehearsals, even without the unexpected kicking-it-up-a-notch.

This evening, I planted some Lilies of the Valley that Scott from work thinned out of his garden. It’s not exactly the best time of year to plant, but maybe — just maybe — I’ll be able to keep these full-grown plants alive better than the baby ones.

I also started working on the LSM site redesign again, after a week of slackitude that I could scarcely afford. I now have a userTable and an eventTable set up in my happy content management database. My goal for tomorrow is to complete a functional calendar and event detail pages. I think it’s a reasonable goal, and one I can accomplish in an evening.

And that’s my life in a nutshell. I have lots of details I want to fill in, but goodness knows when I’ll get around to it — that is, assuming I don’t get totally derailed by some other blog topic in the meantime, and end up forgetting to post about my nifty bamboo sax or about the abortion protestor in Ann Arbor.

Man… I wish I didn’t have to sleep. Or shower.

Finished Book Six.

OMG OMG OMG.

These are *not* children’s novels. Not the kind I read as a kid, anyway.

I had the inkling the book might end something like that, but I was hoping I was wrong. Damn… OMG…

Off to read Sheryl‘s LJ posts about HP6. Then off to bed.

OMG, I can’t stop reading. I’ve been reading for over two hours now, more like three. Damn you, Jo Rowling, damn you and your addictive writing style and characters to Zarth’s lowest hell!

…And I mean that in the nicest way possible.

*dashes upstairs to keep reading*