Teacup.

I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and it takes some getting used to what with the very light gray of the whole administration layout scheme in comparison to the previous darker colored scheme. I actually wish that dark-colored scheme had stayed. Or at least give me an option to choose it…

It’s been about two and half weeks since first trimester ended and I still haven’t sat my first exam. It really is a drag when ¾ of the student population have finished all their exams, and then there’s me who hasn’t even sat one yet. Well, my first one is this coming Friday. I’m going to fail that one. I know it. Fuck.

The next and last(!) exam will be Chemistry on the coming Tuesday. I’m…unsure about that one. I’ve told everyone, and myself, a million times that I intend to just pass that paper. I hate Chemistry but it’s required, so I’m just going to pass it. I’ll be glad if I actually pass it though…

The Saturday straight after my last exam, I’ll be going on a little vacation with two of my friends for four days. It’ll be interesting, me thinks. Not stating where I’m going cause I’m paranoid about my privacy but I’ve never been to this city, hell, I’ve never been to 95% of this whole country (New Zealand). I’ve told my friends that it’ll be a first for me to visit this city, so excited!

I’ve been planning a Teacup 2.0 for the past few months now but I haven’t been happy with where the design ended up. I must have thrashed at least three designs. And I don’t know if other people follow this rule (highly unlikely), any designs that I thrashed are archived. Never to be used. Ever. Again. It feels…dirty to recycle layouts.

I’ve been thinking about giving Teacup a new look. I’ve had this theme ever since I got hosted by Modi which was uhm…a few months ago. I’ve been lacking inspiration, until now. Check out Cyanide, a design site. I’m a big fan of one column designs but I’m very bad with making the navigation work with one column, as you can see with my current theme. However, Cyanide really makes the whole navigation thing look easy with one column designs. We’ll see what I come up with. Hopefully it won’t take six months.

Next, my upcoming administrative role. My first ever office job. I’m so worried I’m going to make an ass of myself. I’ve got the clothings and shoes for it. I want this job so bad, I got it, now I just got to make sure I don’t bung it up. Seriously. I’ve cut down on cursing quite a bit. I’m trying to change my attitude, slightly. I really want to make sure that they are not dissapointed for hiring me. So nervous…

I hope this image gave you a bit of a laugh as it did for me.

Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and have a happy New Year. ?

I don’t know why but those spam-bots seem to have found me again. So I started using the ol’ dandy Math Comment Spam Protection. I’m surprised I lasted this long without any spam protection to be honest. They seem to target this particular entry more than the others. I’m not too surprised really considering all the angst that went into the production of that entry.

As you know, I do enjoy playing around with new things so I wanted to use another spam protection besides MCSP and Akismet(which I have never used in my whole WordPress life, don’t ask me why). I came across this plug-in which I really really really wanted to use just because it’s fun. XD

I didn’t download it though because it’s quite frustrating if you want to post a comment quickly instead of spending an extra 30 to 60 seconds tinkering with some puzzle. But hey, who knows, maybe I’d give it a try in the near future.

So back to MCSP, you’ll now see a simple math textbox in the comment form. Enter the right answer, access granted. Enter wrong answer or no answer, access denied.

Whoa. Sure took a long time just typing up this simple template. But I’m happy. I had three different versions before and they were too…not me. Heh, if that even made sense. I was so burned out while coding the comment form. I am still burned out. So it’ll be a long time before I start coding other templates. XD

My favorite part about this layout? The sidebar and the footer quotes. The sidebar was really enjoyable. And I admit that I cheated slightly with it as I used tables. I just can’t be fucked floating my DIVs. *serious face* The footer was a last minute addition. They aren’t exactly quotes. I just took a few lines from a few songs in my playlist and stuck it in a quote-randomizer plug-in. It’s a bit like the ‘Hello Dolly’ plug-in that comes with the default WordPress installation, but it’s not. Cause I only pull out one or two lines from a single song.

I think that’s about it, ladies and gentlemen.