life, etc.

I'm not really sure what I want to write about in this post. So I might ramble, a lot. A preemptive apology for that.
Good news: This is a three day week for meeee!!!! woohoo!!!! On Thursday, I have a sophomore retreat and Friday we have off for Easter break. We also have Easter Monday off. I also have a horse show on Saturday. I will be running Training level for the first time in almost a year! I'm so excited--and I know that my horse will be great! Hopefully I can report with pictures next week :)

Meh news: I'm tired. No suprise there. And I'm just ready for summer. I'm ready to be tan, spend all day working at the barn, not have anything to worry about at night, relax, hang out. I don't have anything special planned. But I love the freedom of summer, and it will be even better now that I have a car. Oh, and this should probably be in the "good news" but I got a truck last week! I feel kind of rediculous driving a huge pick up truck, but I need to be able to haul a horse trailer...so I need a big truck.

I don't know what else to write about. Comment with ideas?

More Tables

My blog yesterday was cut short by the bell, so I'll finish it today. In addition to the page on how to design tables that we had to create, we also have to make a personal page that uses one big table as the format. My page is about my horses. I acutally think its my favorite page so far--I like the color scheme and because the content is so interesting to me it's been fun to write. Here is a link: Web Page

Tables

But ones on webpages...not ones you eat off of.
Wow, that was a really bad joke.

Back to the topic, creating tables on webpages is rather confusing.
There are a ton of tags just for one, small table. And they have to be in just the right order.
But I think I'm getting the hang of it--after a few failed attempts, I've used all of the tags that we need for the assignment in one table or another.
More later.

back to work...

Spring Break is over...meh.

4th quarter has started, and I know its going to be a really long strech to summer.
Not that my spring break was super great or anything--I stayed in Dallas. I did get to ride a lot, but my horse show was cancelled (beacuse of snow--in MARCH--in TEXAS!!) And I'm not saying my spring break was bad--it was just kinda boring.

But that's ok. I'm stressed out enough as it is.

Now I'm just trying to make it to Easter break--5 1/2 school days left :)

the origin of "sleepless sophomore"

I think the "sophomore" part is pretty self explanatory...I'm a sophomore.
The "sleepless" part kind of has two meanings. As any highschooler, I am overworked and have twice as many things to do as I have time for. I definitely miss the days when I didn't have to wake up at 6 while I had just fallen into bed at around 1130...or worse.

I am also an insomniac. I can't sleep. So even if I could have all to day to sleep, I couldn't. I can usually sleep for 4-5 hours, but sometimes I can't even sleep that much. It doesn't really bother me anymore, somehow I've trained myself to survive on that little sleep. And I never have to worry about missing my alarm ;)

There you go, any lingering mysteries behind "sleepless sophomore" have hopefully be explained.

html woes?

We have to write a blog entry about what has been giving us the most trouble in website design class. (knock on wood) I haven't had any big problems yet. However, my slightly OCD nature has helped me-- I really don't have a problem keeping everything organized and checking everything twice. So far, html has been about knowing the codes and making sure that everything is correctly written and in order. I kind of like that everything has to be just right to work. But, I have gotten frustrated when I can't find the little mistake that has made the entire webpage bold/underlined/with no spaces/etc.

It's also really nice that we can look at the codes on our older pages while creating new pages. I don't have to memorize every code, and I can look at what I wrote to get the right result if I'm having a problem.

The result of being able to make a web page that people all over the world can view is pretty cool, I think.

Annnnddddd...........
SPRING BREAK!!! WOOOO!!!
Can you tell I'm ready for Friday to be over already?? :)

Optical Illusions......

An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. There are three main types: literal optical illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make them, physiological ones that are the effects on the eyes and brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type (brightness, tilt, color, movement), and cognitive illusions where the eye and brain make unconscious inferences. (according to wikipedia)

I searched for optical illusions on the web and got some interesting results:

Illusions

More Illusions



The green circle doesn't exist, and if you stare at the black + all of the dots will fade away. But, really, all of the dots are pink. (click on the picture to see it work) Cool, no?


Enough of that for now...my eyes need a break!

Reasons to be happy

So...I've had a really bad week.
I'm thinging that maybe a list of things that make me smile might help (and sorry for being so cheesy!)

-oversized sweatshirts
-painted nails
-eating cereal dry
-hearing you favorite song on the radio
-and singing along
-or hearing a new song that becomes your favorite
-inside jokes
-my horses (x10000 at least :))
-walking my dog at dusk
-Calvin & Hobbes books
-sunny weather



I'll keep thinking

More Colors!

I've made a lot of progress on my web page on colors. I'm about finished. To complete this page, we had to use things that we learned from all of the other pages we've made. I used images and links, anchor links, inserted images, used horizontal rules, used more links, etc. But it's cool that what we've learned is useful and we build on what we've done, which helps me remember the older stuff.

On a similar note, navigating my/other blogs is becoming a lot easier than when I first started this class. Yay! :)

P.S. HAPPY FRIDAY!

colors in a new light...

...get the pun? Anyways, we are creating a web page all about color on the web in website design class. This is the first webpage that our teacher hasn't told us exactly what to write. So, we have to figure out what information we need on our own. It's a little overwhelming because I don't know much at all about these things, but I'm learning. I've got to get back to researching HSV color models...more later.