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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 30, 2006 | Filed under: Educate Me, Online Stuff

“Screamin', "Oh!" We're never gonna quit, ain't nothing wrong with it - just acting like we're animals. No, no matter where we go, 'cause everybody knows we're just a couple animals.. Nickelback - Animals”

I’ve pretty much done the basis of the website designing/coding part, now I just need to implement the content and I’m ready to go! I’m very proud, I haven’t used any tables yet - and if I do they’ll only be for tabular data, as they’re supposed to be. It’s been somewhat challenging, but I did it; my first tableless design. Hoorah! It’s been a long time coming. It even seems to load faster than most layouts I make - except for the header, that takes a little bit of time as I saved it as a .png; .jpgs just don’t have a high enough quality for my liking, and I’m very fussy. You know the funny thing though? I spent hours trying to fix this error with the margins not working properly, and it was all because of a parsing error in the CSS. I’d written #Container 2, rather than #Container2. Silly, silly me. I’d managed to work my way around it in a clunky way, but then I went to validate the XHTML and CSS and I found the error. *slaps forehead*

I’ve been checking my inbox incessantly in the past 24 hours. I’ve just (re-)discovered SNOG!, and I filled in the form and I really can’t wait to be accepted. If I do get accepted, that is. :( I searched my email and it turns out I signed up earlier but forgot about it, which may tarnish my foruming reputation! The quandary. Yes, I really just wanted to use that word, but still. It looks fantastic, and I spent 5 hours or something going through forums and reading, and they all sound like such interesting people, and I have so many things to say in response, and I sound like an insatiable 5 year old but I don’t care, because I’m excited! Not unlike Big Kev. *bounces up and down impatiently*

I had my second Greek tutoring lesson this evening, and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. In fact, it’s going really swimmingly. I’m doing my work, I’m getting organised - I organised my Thucydides book this afternoon before the lesson, and it made me feel really good about myself - that I’m actually doing some Greek-related work. I haven’t done any proper work in well over a year, and I’ve been so full of anxiety about whether I could get back into it and do well, but Paul’s been so good about it. He doesn’t make me feel like I’m a disappointment because of all the stuff I don’t know when I should know it already, he just wants to teach it to me before it’s too late. I mean, I’d completely forgotten what the genitive absolute was. :/ I’m really glad Mum was able to get him as a tutor for me.


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