So many Colors. So many Numbers.

When I first started my web design class, I was a little nervous about the color system. Colors, as some of you may know, are represented as hexadecimal numbers and oh my goodness there are a lot of them (16,777,216 according to my text book, and only SIXTEEN OF THEM are allowed to be called their own names). And of course, I want nothing to do with the named sixteen, because frankly they are all garish and horrible. Which means as I'm sitting here writing this post, I am also deliberating over the best shades of the colors I want to use for my first web project, due on Tuesday.

But despite my freakout over the colors, I must say that I am deeply in love with this class. If I ever doubted myself when I chose to be a Writing and Publishing major instead of just a lit major, this class is more than enough to convince me that I made a good decision. The combined degree lets me write and study lit theory as I would as a lit major (minus the need to take standard lit classes, like American Lit, Brit Lit, etc, though I am taking the former for fun this semester) and also lets me study media law, editing, layout design, and coding for web design. That's a win-win right there, especially since the world seems a bit eager to get ahold of young ladies and gents who know the languages needed for coding.

I'm also going to look into going beyond what my current class can teach me (we're learning XHTML at the moment, and we'll cover CSS and I want to say some Java), but I also want to learn HTML5 and Ajax. Learning how to write things like apps for the mobile technologies would be nice, too :D

Hopefully, if everything works out, I can make money doing web design things in order to support my career as a fledgling author. And if the author thing doesn't work out, I'll still have a good job regardless.

As it is, I need to start taking a closer look at grad schools, too. I mentioned to my mother that I wanted to take a year off to dedicate to working to put a dent in my student loans before I pile on more money I owe the banks, and she about had a heart attack. So the year off thing seems unlikely, or I'll never hear the end of it. I'm hoping to find a program that will allow me to take a certain number of credit hours for a set price per semester that will allow me to work practically full time as well without me wanting to shoot myself in the foot. One school in Maryland seems to fit the bill in this respect, but I want to do more research before I decide to go for it. The program in question is dedicated solely to creative writing, which isn't an issue, but I'm hoping to find something similar to what I have now that also allows me to branch out into web design more.

I am a little bummed out that I can't travel abroad like all you other lucky folks. Changing my major halfway through sophomore year like I did means I can't take a semester off to do it, and my school's fees shoot up pretty insanely in the summer, so that's out. Blargh. That's alright. Once I get settled in Maryland and pay off a good chunk of my other debts, I can start saving to go to Ireland or England or something. In the meantime, the rest of you must take ALL THE PICTURES EVER.

That reminds me--I've only got my senior year left and then I'm heading to the East Coast. That's one more year with all of you--let's make it count, eh?

Music:

I've known this song for a while now, but I ran into it the other day and remembered that while sometimes I don't like it, other times I do. Just gotta be in the mood for it, I guess:

I've also been on a bit of a Borderlands kick, and to appreciate the next song I feel the first game's trailer should be watched:

Here's the song in full (I just really like the beat, haha):