Apparently when the semester ended, so did my ability to write a coherent post about something other than how I can’t write anything. I sat around for half an hour before I could come up with something, and even this something isn’t really something.
I’ve been planning a new site (not a blog) for about a year now. I know it’s been that long because the domain is about to expire next month, and that makes me sad. I know I’m a procrastinator, but still, it’s awful.
The main problem I have is that I’m not a designer/programmer. I have this great idea, one that everyone tells me is awesome, but I can’t implement it because I don’t have the skills, and don’t have the money to hire anyone to do the work.
So, I’m looking for a programmer who is willing to work with me either pro-bono, or for ad revenue. I really have no hopes for pro-bono work. I get that everyone wants to get paid. Hell, a programmer deserves to get paid for their work. I know how hard it is, spending massive amounts of time on something that looks simple but isn’t. For ad revenue, I mean that the programmer would get all ad revenue from the site up to a prespecified dollar amount.
I would love to pay people up front. No, seriously, I would. But with only student loans supporting me through the next two years, I can’t afford it. Web work is expensive. I know that.
The site is a writer’s workshop site. At the moment, I need to integrate a blog, a forum, and a fiction archive such as efiction. I’ve already got a design, Bryan Culver kindly giving me one that he did last year that I fell in love with but he didn’t. In addition to integrating the three different sections of the site, they need to be skinned similarly to as look like they all belong. (If you haven’t seen Veloso’s Nyxsis-Ro site, it’s a very good example of cohesion.)
I suppose if I can’t convince someone to work with me (I’m really nice! and really laid back! and really desperate!), I’ll launch this fall with everything looking… not brilliant.
And it really is a brilliant idea.
If anyone is interested in more info, contact me? I’d be happy to spell it all out.
Apparently when the semester ended, so did my ability to write a coherent post about something other than how I can’t write anything. I sat around for half an hour before I could come up with something, and even this something isn’t really something.
I’ve been planning a new site (not a blog) for about a year now. I know it’s been that long because the domain is about to expire next month, and that makes me sad. I know I’m a procrastinator, but still, it’s awful.
The main problem I have is that I’m not a designer/programmer. I have this great idea, one that everyone tells me is awesome, but I can’t implement it because I don’t have the skills, and don’t have the money to hire anyone to do the work.
So, I’m looking for a programmer who is willing to work with me either pro-bono, or for ad revenue. I really have no hopes for pro-bono work. I get that everyone wants to get paid. Hell, a programmer deserves to get paid for their work. I know how hard it is, spending massive amounts of time on something that looks simple but isn’t. For ad revenue, I mean that the programmer would get all ad revenue from the site up to a prespecified dollar amount.
I would love to pay people up front. No, seriously, I would. But with only student loans supporting me through the next two years, I can’t afford it. Web work is expensive. I know that.
The site is a writer’s workshop site. At the moment, I need to integrate a blog, a forum, and a fiction archive such as efiction. I’ve already got a design, Bryan Culver kindly giving me one that he did last year that I fell in love with but he didn’t. In addition to integrating the three different sections of the site, they need to be skinned similarly to as look like they all belong. (If you haven’t seen Veloso’s Nyxsis-Ro site, it’s a very good example of cohesion.)
I suppose if I can’t convince someone to work with me (I’m really nice! and really laid back! and really desperate!), I’ll launch this fall with everything looking… not brilliant.
And it really is a brilliant idea.
If anyone is interested in more info, contact me? I’d be happy to spell it all out.
Apparently there was some question as to whether or not I really graduated. From a recent conversation with Shep, after I told him to go look at my recently uploaded Flickr photos:
shep: omg, graduation!
lisa: omg yea
shep: you weren’t telling lies
lisa: lol
lisa: no, i wasn’t making it up
shep: lol
I figured if he was questioning it (and I don’t blame him… I’d question my graduation too if I hadn’t been there), than other people would to. It took me seven years from my high school graduation to get this next diploma under my belt.
So, yes I graduated. Yay! go me. I now have an Associates in Arts in English. Now onward to Chico State to get some random BA degree. I hope this one doesn’t take another seven years.
Apparently there was some question as to whether or not I really graduated. From a recent conversation with Shep, after I told him to go look at my recently uploaded Flickr photos:
shep: omg, graduation!
lisa: omg yea
shep: you weren’t telling lies
lisa: lol
lisa: no, i wasn’t making it up
shep: lol
I figured if he was questioning it (and I don’t blame him… I’d question my graduation too if I hadn’t been there), than other people would to. It took me seven years from my high school graduation to get this next diploma under my belt.
So, yes I graduated. Yay! go me. I now have an Associates in Arts in English. Now onward to Chico State to get some random BA degree. I hope this one doesn’t take another seven years.
Who doesn’t love a bunch of romance to start off the school break. Bit unfortunate for the uplifting spiritual to have snuck its way in. I had no idea what it was until I started it.
- Elegant Barbarian – Catherine Spencer (Out of Print)
- These High, Green Hills – Jan Karon
- Lara – Bertrice Small
- The Trophy Wife – Ginna Gray
And Lara wasn’t much of a romance. And a bit squicky, as the “heroine” is only 14 when she’s sold into slavery to work as a “Pleasure Mistress,” and it goes downhill from there. It’s the first in a series, and I definitely do not have a hankering to read the rest of the series.
Who doesn’t love a bunch of romance to start off the school break. Bit unfortunate for the uplifting spiritual to have snuck its way in. I had no idea what it was until I started it.
- Elegant Barbarian – Catherine Spencer (Out of Print)
- These High, Green Hills – Jan Karon
- Lara – Bertrice Small
- The Trophy Wife – Ginna Gray
And Lara wasn’t much of a romance. And a bit squicky, as the “heroine” is only 14 when she’s sold into slavery to work as a “Pleasure Mistress,” and it goes downhill from there. It’s the first in a series, and I definitely do not have a hankering to read the rest of the series.
Did you thing I would be capable of a real post? Really? Sorry to dissapoint.
I did do a video for ya’ll, though. It was a toss up between writing a real post and doing a vidcast, and since my hair looked good, vidcast it was.
Of course, it took me four tries to get the sucker done, and in the end I had to resort to the handheld camera–that doesn’t connect to the computer. So the ten minutes you’re about to witness in reality took me about two and a half hours to produce. Which pissed me off.
Just so you know, I do curse in the first 30 seconds of the video. No cursing for the rest of it, but I was so pissed it came out (seriously, that’s how you tell how mad I am–if I’m cursing, it’s not good). So if I offend someone with my use of a word I’ve typed out a fair few times in past posts, oh well.
Anyway. I limited myself to three topics:
- How Awesome Josh having a girlfriend is bad for me.
- How I’m finally a (community) college graduate.
- WordCamp. I’m looking at you Matt.
That’s about it. I’m reading a book that I don’t enjoy, so I’m sure I’ll write about it next week. Have a great weekend, everyone.
I love me some random books. Romance, poetry, memoirs, reference, and mystery, all in one week. That’s what happens when I have to clear out the book pile in preparation to move. Good think ME handed over a rather large stack of romance, to balance out all the writers reference I’ve got coming my way in the next weeks.
- Dark Lover – J.R. Ward
- The Best American Poetry, 2006 – Billy Collins and David Lehman, eds.
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books – Azar Nafisi
- Out of the Blue – Mons Daveson (Out of Print)
- The Elements of Style – Strunk & White
- The Christmas Crimes at Puzzle Manor – Simon Brett (Out of Print)
Oh, and The Christmas Crimes at Puzzle Manor? Deliciously British, especially in how the author expects you to know things to solve the puzzle that the average reader most likely wouldn’t. Much as I love it, though, it’s leaving home. First person to say they want it and why will get the book and a small surprise from me. Have at it. 
I was going to write another memory today, but I just couldn’t get started.
Instead, I wrote a short story in 9rules irc because it was quiet in there, and I was bored. And so I posted it to my livejournal, since that’s where that sort of drivel is supposed to go.
I also posted yesterday’s irc story there too: Piece of Shep. Good thing Shep found his chat logs for yesterday, because my work computer doesn’t keep them like my home computer does.
I don’t know what’s wrong with me lately, but I seem to not be able to write anything of substance. I need to shake off this funk. At least I’m writing somewhere, but I’m not thrilled that it isn’t me.
Work, damn it. Work! (/me smacks her head to knock around the loose brain cells)
–”Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am?” Infinity on High: Fall Out Boy
I did read a bit more this week than last. I finished at least two books that I can think of, but I’m pretty sure I read three. I’m doing the list from memory this morning–I was dead tired, and didn’t even open up my laptop last night–so I’ll have to update it when I finally get home.
- Twilight – Stephanie Meyer
- The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms – Mark Strand & Eavan Boland, Eds.
I adored Twilight, and am terribly sad that the second book in the series is still in hardback, or I’d have boughten it already. And the third book is coming out in August. Perhaps I’ll have to buy hardcover after all. It’d be worth it.
