humor

Diana is…

I couldn’t help it. I’d never done this particular meme before. So, despite the fact that I often *do* memes out of curiosity, but rarely *post* them, I’m actually posting the “[my name] is” meme.

HOWEVER. I did mine a little differently, due to the celebrity that once shared my name. I searched Google for “Diana is” -princess. And here we go…

The Diana is an all-plastic camera that was made in Kowloon, Hong Kong…
Believe it or not, I did know that.

Diana is running for office
And running, and running…

Diana is now working on her next recording, which is a Christmas album!
Um… Io Saturnalia, everybody?

Diana is currently in London, England
Or would rather be.

Diana is a town located in Lewis County, New York.
I know the kids in my grade told me I was as big (read: fat) as the whole world, but I didn’t realize I was really as big as a town.

Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results
Oh, shit. No one told me I was in Anne of the Green Gables…!

The Goddess Diana, is the Huntress and Goddess or fertility
Again, not news to me. The typo’s nice, though. Thanks.

Diana is a beautifully marked shorthair “dilute” tortoise-shell female cat
Maybe in my last life. That would explain some things.

Diana is an executive coach, lecturer, trainer and facilitator
Then why am I working at the damn bank? Can’t my agent get me a better gig?!

Diana is, was and always has been the best singer on IDOL
You better believe it, sistah.

randomness

Early To Bed…

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.

potpourri

A Note To The Neighborhood Cats:

When killing your prey in front of my home, please do me the courtesy of either finishing your meal or removing it to a more appropriate disposal site. It is impolite to leave the homeowner to remove two bird wings and a bird skull from in front of the bushes.

That is all.

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Playing Hookey

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. 😉