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Yeah, I screwed up uploading my entry yesterday. And I didn't have time to fix it until about 6 hours later. So my apologies to those of you who came here yesterday looking for my entry and couldn't find it. Depending on how you got here, you might have seen it anyway. If you came in through my front page, you got a 404 error. If you came in through a bookmark, you just saw an old entry, and probably thought I hadn't updated yet. If you subscribe to my notify list, I think you got to the right place, since I include a direct link to the new entry in each e-mail. Lesson learned? Subscribe to my notify list! Of course, my own boyfriend won't subscribe. Not that I'm bitter or anything!

I thought up a couple of new projects for this site. One will be a wrap up of this season's Real World. So if you miss an episode, you can go to my Real World page and get an update on what happened, and witness me, trying to be witty. I thought about writing a wrap of the casting special, but what is there to say really? I didn't think I had enough for a whole entry. I'll just say this: How mean was it to fly some of the rejects out and make them participate in the process? It's basically saying, "We found you interesting enough that we wanted you to star in our casting special, but not interesting enough to actually cast you on the show." And then they surprised one of the rejects by casting him anyway. Now how do the other rejects feel? This is why Bunim-Murray Productions is pure evil.

Well, that and I took a devilish delight in watching the little clips of rejected audition tapes. I particularly enjoyed the girl who did cheers about how MTV rocks the house, and the one where the girl says her room contains everything important to her "Like this here...I love unicorns." Mean, yes. Funny, hell yes.

Another thing I've been meaning to do for a while is review some of the books I'm reading. I just haven't gotten around to doing it. But by saying I will here in these pages, maybe I will feel some sense of obligation to finally do it. When I do, I will link to it from that day's entry so you can all check it out.

Last night in class, we learned how to make forms and then how to customize a simple Perl script. I already knew how to make forms but the whole .cgi/Perl part mystified me, so I was glad to learn that. It's not as scary as I thought. It seems like every time I decide to learn one more thing about web developing, it involves learning something else first. I bought a book on Active Server Pages, but to do that, I need to learn a scripting language (like Javascript or VBscript) first. I wish I was good enough at design to just say "I'm a web design expert - I leave the programming to other people". Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.

It hasn't been quite as hot lately, but it's still plenty hot. I spend my entire day looking forward to that time of day when it's cooler outside than inside, and I can open up my windows and turn on the window fan full blast. Starting at sunset, I keep asking Jim, "Do you think it's time yet?" and running to the door to see if it's cool outside. If you think I'm bad, you should see my mom. She keeps all the blinds and windows closed all day, and runs the air conditioner in her bedroom. Then she has fans strategically placed throughout the house to blow the cool air into the living room. Then at night, all operations cease, and we open the windows and shift the fans around. It's quite a production. Yes, it would probably be easier for her to just get central air. But that costs a lot of money (I guess). I think she kind of enjoys the challenge - Mom vs. nature. Can she keep her house cool for an entire day, regardless of outside temperature? Taken in that context, central air kind of seems like cheating.

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