First of all, please excuse the constant changing of the layout. Wordpress lets me completely change the theme with the click of a button, which makes it easy to get a little (N)ADD about it. It will probably change again soon. Eventually I’d like to build my own theme from scratch, but that would require a certain amount of dedication that I’m lacking at this point.

Speaking of dedication, I find myself with a big tech project looming.  Non-geeks can probably safely skip the next paragraph or so.  It’s going to be interesting, but it’s going to be difficult. I’m working with Pat on a project he’s doing for his Manresa work called “Guiding our children, learning how to pray,” which as you may have guessed is about youth and prayer.  It is a web project focusing on the teen demographic to be used by a local parish’s youth ministry program.  Now I will find out whether or not I can pull off a web design/development job from start to finish.  I’m frantically trying to learn the Django Framework (”the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines” — it’s my latest crush) for the project, which is everything I could ever want in terms of a tool for web development, but I’m just having trouble mastering the dang thing.  The learning curve is steep.

A note about my photos.  I never really liked the way I had them all dumped online as if into a bucket (a photo bucket, perhaps?), so I have decided to take them down while I decide what to do with them.  I’d prefer a little better presentation, swapping quantity for quality.  We’ll see what I think up.

Classes continue.  Nothing new or exciting there.  I am beginning to notice the difference between the group of Marquetters who have classes only Monday-Tuesday (the majority) and people like me who have classes 5 days a week.  For us in the second group, weekends and especially breaks become much more precious, in a way that those in the 5-day-weekend crowd don’t exactly understand.  They can pretty much travel whenever they want, while we’ve had to do things like make lists of all the days we have off and budget which days we are going to have to skip class in order to get in a trip of decent length.  I am pretty sure I’m happy with my decision to have class all five days, but sometimes I am jealous.

When I came out of school today the sun was just setting and it was really beautiful outside.  The temperature was just about perfect, so I decided to take the 10-15 minute walk to the metro stop instead of waiting for the bus to take me there.  It was worth it.