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This was me at school yesterday. It was Wacky Wednesday.

Today I had a Calculus test. It seemed easy; I hope I get an A. That would be nice.

My cellphone is sort of broken. A piece of the antenna is cracked, but it doesn’t affect the phone’s usability in anyway, so that is good. Hopefully I’ll get a new one here soon. I’ve been wanting a new phone for a long time now. Even if my insurance covered it, though, I’d just get a used one back. How lame.

Tomorrow is Friday. Yessss. Then Saturday. Me DJing. I wonder how that’ll go. I hope they like the music I picked out.

EDIT: I just finished my application to the University of Illinois. I hope I am accepted as they are my top choice.

I have been christened DJ for the homecoming dance at my school. Yay for good music being played. Sort of.

I feel like I could sleep forever. I am so tired right now.

» I want to learn to play the piano
» I want to learn Korean
» I want to go to Korea
» I want to sleep
» I want to get straight A’s this year
» I want an Asian girlfriend
» I want to do a lot more things

Church was good today. I enjoyed it.

Afterwards it was raining cats and dots so I pulled the car around for my sister. After that my family went to El Torero for lunch. Their service was great, and so was the food. I’m still full from it.

This afternoon I’ve cleaned my room, watched Napoleon Dynamite, and tweaked the design here. I also got the archives working. I was stumped, but I eventually figured it out. Originally I wanted a single page with all the dates on it, but for simplicity’s sake I just put it on the right hand side with the rest of the stuff.

For the rest of the night I’ll probably be studying Korean or watching a movie. Whatever suits my fancy.

Today was an okay day I guess.

In the morning my family went to pick out the family pictures we wanted to buy. We had them taken a few weeks ago. They all turned out great, but we were able to narrow it down to a few. While we were there we picked up my senior pictures. All of them were amazing. I am so glad we picked Tureskis. Hopefully I will be able to get a job with him next summer.

After the pictures we all came home and I started the redesign you are now looking at. My sister and mom went shopping for vintage clothes for next week at school (more on that later) and my dad went to work. While they were gone I checked out various places to work. My mom really was bugging me to apply at Old Navy, but you have to be 18, so I decided to apply at Borders and Barnes and Noble. I hope I get one of the jobs.

Everyone got home and my parents told me I had to finish my essay for the UIUC college application. I did. I think it turned out pretty good. I really, really want to go there, so I really, really hope that they accept me. If not, I guess it’s Illinois State or DePaul, but only if they accept me.

After that I finished the redesign. I wasn’t really sure where I was going, so I basically just totally rewrote the old code with a few new tweaks. Since I’m not an expert on XHTML Strict yet, it was a chore getting the two columns going. Oh well, it works now.

Tomorrow is church. It should be good.

The End

For the past few days I have been addicted to flickr. The idea of the site is awesome and the implementation is amazing. If you’ve never heard of it, the best way is just to join, but here’s a quick description:

Flickr is the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. There is a huge mass of photos in the world, and Flickr provides a way to organize yours, and for you and your friends and family to tell your stories about them.

I had registered a while back, but never really go into it for whatever reason. Now I’m going full force, and once I can justify subscribing, I will be doing so. You can check out my photos here.

Web 2.0 is one of the biggest things of today. For the uninformed, web 2.0 is best described in its wikipedia entry:

Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. The proponents of this thinking expect that ultimately Web 2.0 services will replace desktop computing applications for many purposes.

There is now a podcast “all about Web 2.0 technologies, ideas, and designs”. I am listening to the first podcast now and it sounds pretty interesting. Check it out at web20show.com. The first episode has an interview with Matt Mullenweg and covers a variety of topics. Check it out!

I have never been one big on dancing, much less going to school dances like Homecoming or Prom. They just aren’t my thing. It isn’t like I haven’t tried them because I went to Homecoming my sophomore year. I have to say it was not fun at all. Last year I was voted Homecoming attendant for my class. It was a nightmare. Everyone wanted me to go to the dance, and I didn’t want to at all. In the end I won.

This year, my senior year, everyone thinks I should go, just as usual. My mom, my sister, the girls in my class: you name it, and if they are female, then they’ve probably think it. My dad has encouraged me to go, but when I said I didn’t want to he didn’t pressure me. My guy friends don’t care - they wouldn’t be going if their girlfriends weren’t making them. What I want to know is why everyone doesn’t understand that when I say I don’t want to go, it means I don’t want to go. If they just said “Oh, okay.” and stopped bugging me about it I would be fine. Obviously it is not this way, or you would not be reading this. It is guaranteed that I will be pestered at least once daily by someone who thinks that I should go to homecoming. This annoys me to the extent that I must write a blog entry about it. I am contemplating expressing my feelings in song and hiring an interpretive dancer to dance to my song.

I think that perhaps there is an underlying human tendency in this situation. Everyone thinks to themselves that I should go. They have made the choice in their mind that I have to be there. The fact that other people have told me the exact same opinion has not entered their mind at all. Only what they want and they think should happen. I have to say that everyone in the world is guilty of being selfish, but in this situation I do not think I am being selfish to the extent my opponents are. If they wanted me to go, then that would be a different story, but they think I should go. Totally different things here.

In short, everyone thinks I should go to homecoming. They won’t let up on that fact, even though I know their opinion. Multiple people have tried to argue about it with me - some even hearing a previous person’s argument. They have all failed. Nobody cares about what I think, but it does not matter because my opinion will prevail in this situation. That is, unless I get a girlfriend before the dance.