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I'm Melissa; pretend journalist and currently real-life accountant wannabe. I used to be a kid in highschool, but I've since kicked the habit. At 18 years of age I'm just moving through life, enjoying my free-time and earning lots of money whilst still living with my parents. Continued on page 2...
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March 26, 2006 | Filed under: Daily Grind, Educate Me, Online Stuff

“Can you feel it crush you, does it seem to bring the worst in you out? There's no running away from these things that hold you down - do they complicate you because they make you feel like this? Crossfade - Colors”

Well, I’ve improved since yesterday at least. I have a nice design I want to put up, now it’s just the trouble of coding it. Sure, coding may be easy for you people who bothered learning tableless coding when it first became trendy, but I got wrapped up in my tables and clung to them - so now I’ve finally decided to teach myself how to use divs, and it’s such a hassle! Nothing looks the same in IE as it does in firefox/opera, and it’s just not working for me yet. :P Tables flow for me, I look at the design I want and I just write it out and it works - except with this era of XHTML validation, I had to stop using the center attribute for tables, so how was I to make my layout centered? I tried just adding a div around it to make a centered container, but that then screwed up how the tables worked for some reason - an example of which is this layout *shrug*. Nastiness. I’ll get there, but it’ll take a while and a few hours of frustration.

Yesterday I started a new job! It’s very exciting, because it’s a step up from Target; and though I still have my job at Target, and probably will for a while yet to come, it’s nice to have this extra job on top because it’s giving me good experience and extra moohlah (read: money). :P Now, what is it, you ask? I’m a data entry type person working for a pathology company in Rhodes (Sydney). Some of my duties include: Unpacking deliveries from specimen collecting centres (eg: Lady Davidson Hospital, Strathfield Private Hospital), identifying patient episode numbers, entering their initial patient information into the system, adding the specimen to their patient history, delivering specimens to whichever part of the laboratory they’re needed for testing, balancing a centrifuge and separating blood specimens before delivering them, etc. It’s really interesting, and pays well - which is a bonus. I’ve finally decided roughly what I want to do with my life after school, but I’ll save that for another post…

The other major thing (as of today) was that I started going to a Greek tutor again. There was a rough patch for a while there when I was determined that I was going to drop Greek and try to make my HSC cope without it, but I really do need it seeing as I decided not to do history extension. Due to this I haven’t actually properly worked on Greek for almost a year - and I have 650 - 700 lines of verse (Sophocles) and 20 pages of prose (Thucidydes) to have memorised within the next 5 months or so. Sounds like a long time, but it’s really not seeing as I have to be able to recite them in my sleep almost. But I digress from the original story… Yeah, I have a new tutor - his name is Paul Reisner, and he was the one who really got me interested in Greek back in the days of Greek Summer School ‘03. Unfortunately I can’t see Greg in relation to my texts because he sets the Ancient Greek HSC papers, so it’d be a conflict of interest according to the BOS, nasty as they are, which means I get to visit Paul in Glebe (40 minutes drive) twice a week for the rest of the school year. Mmmm, $60/per hour lessons. :/ But it’s all okay, because he’s almost revived my confidence in myself that I can make it through this year and do well in the subject. What’s comforting, though, is that even if I come last in the state - I’ll still be 16th. :)

Bedtime, however. I think my sentences are getting long and rambling because it’s almost midnight and I’ve been “speaking” in poorly formed XHTML for the past two hours. Farewell, gentle readers.


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