It’s pretty, but now what?

I’ve finally succeeded in making my Wordpress look virtually indistinguishable from a LJ. Go me.

I start training for my new job tomorrow; this makes me happy. It also makes me worried because it’s an evening shift 40 hour a week job and not the much-hoped for grad assistantship. I am apparently an alternate for a tuition scholarship, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed. Given the pay drop at my new job (it’s about $4 or so less than the one I left) I’ll need something to help pay the rent. Especially if 40 hours a week + 12 hours of graduate classes = dropping grades. Especially since it’s a 15 mile drive from school to work and I live smack dab in the middle of the two. Yay for loads of gas!

Next project: fixing up one of my mostly defunct domains, as soon as I figure out what the hell to do with it. Or successfully manage to pawn the space off on someone else. Either way works. And then finally doing a needed reorganization of my del.icio.us. I’m anal like that. I get in these “MUST CLEAN AND ORGANIZE NOW” mood and… I clean and organize like crazy. I got up this morning and switched out the litter and swept the floors and double checked my book and movies databases. I need to edit the forms a bit, I think, since there’s a lot of extraneous information I built into the databases to input (like publish year or lead actors) that I haven’t bothered to use. And I need to update my games database. Oh, and make a burned stuff database. I haven’t bothered with a music one because I’ve moved to a totally digital collection. So now that my house is clean and organized (I did laundry on Friday and even moved furniture around in my bedroom today). I’ve got photos from moving in up on my flickr, though my personal favorite is probably this one because I absolutely adore my corner shelves.

The place needs more pictures on the walls, though. I really wish my cat hadn’t eaten Africa ages ago because I love maps and and starcharts and Africa was a particular nice one. (Ha, now you all know what to get me for Christmas. Hangable detailed maps!)

Though every time I talk about maps, I always think of that West Wing episode, Someone’s Going to Emergency, Someone’s Going To Jail (S2), in which C.J. discovers that maps are wrong. (For the record, the one you can see hanging in my living room in those pictures is a Winkel Tripel projection. circa 2005.) I suppose, if I wanted to do another post for about real cultural imperialism, I could talk about teaching to the Mercator projection and bring up all the points that Aaron Sorkin made for me in that episode. But I’m lazy and hot and hungry and Youtube serves up the point precisely in about 2 minutes.