More mindless ranting...

This time about webdesign I just don't like.

1. Moving text. This is okay if the "text" is an image, or if it's a slow moving news banner, but not if it's a link. Nobody really wants to play tag on your site.

2. Those things where it fades from one page to another. When I click a link, I want to just go to the new site, I don't want to sit and wait while a circle appears or it all pixelates into the new site.

3. Text that's constantly changing fonts, sizes, or from bold to italic to underlined to all three. If you want to emphasize something, good, pick ONE thing for emphasis and stick with it. Pick ONE font, too, it really causes eyestrain to have to keep switching.

4. Splash screens. Is that what they're called? The front page of a site where it plays a stupid animation with loud and/or obnoxious music and there's NO WAY TO AVOID IT, you just have to sit through it before you get to the information. Anything that you can skip past is okay, but if you can't, I don't want to see it.

5. White text on black background. That always gives me a headache.

That's about it. Thanks for reading. I'm tired.

I... did well.

I actually did well on my Latin final. As in, I not just had the passages memorized, but I was able to translate the ones I didn't (I think he snuck some in from the first half of the book, because I know I didn't read some of them recently).

Of course, I couldn't scan the damn things, but apparently neither could anyone else, and they couldn't on the midterm either, and, come to think of it, nobody ever got the scansion right in class either, so that's okay.

And, due to some good natured cheating, I now know that those words I didn't know are the same ones Michael and Tina didn't know, so that really IS good, because he can't possibly hold that against me when I didn't do worse than the rest of the class.

But mostly, I did well. I'm happy. I really am. I'm going to sit in awe.

Um, okay...

I know my life isn't as interesting as the news, but, really, NOBODY could congratulate me? I was honestly worried! And nobody actually cheated, we just shoved the dictionary back and forth saying "you check!" and "no, I'm not looking in the book, YOU look it up!" and periodically "what's this word?" "I don't know".