The layout I mentioned earlier isn’t coming along as well as I had hoped. It still looks pretty good to me, but I felt the sidebar wouldn’t would’ve (proofreading is a good thing >:O) been too small, and I wouldn’t be able to fit a whole lot of text in it. And some other issues. So instead, I decided to make another one, with a completely different look. The first one was paper-like (the entire container/wrapper was like one big piece of lined notebook paper, the sidebar module were little post-it notes in the margins of the paper, etc). This new one is shiny—really shiny. Shiny graphics seem to be in these days, but I wanted to make a shiny layout, since I just figured out how to make graphics look…shiny! :3 And it’s also kind of inspired by Slashdot in terms of look and how they have icons on what the article is referring to.

Uhh…so earlier, I mentioned some amusing incidents in Spanish Fall ’07, and I just remembered something equally amusing that happened when I was taking Japanese in high school.

My mom and I (I was homeschooled in high school) were going through the list of vocabulary words from the book, when she asked me what kurashikku meant and said it was a type of music. I thought hard about it, and knew it had to be from the English language by the sound.

me: “Crash?”
Mom: “…No, there’s no such thing as crash music.”

When I couldn’t figure it out, she said it was classical. (I was thinking of only the first three syllables.)

[Edit: June 30, 4:58 PST] Actually, now that I think of it, “crash music” makes me think of song composed of different car crashes. ._.;