{"id":1811,"date":"2004-01-15T09:29:37","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T09:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2004-01-15T09:29:37","modified_gmt":"2004-01-15T09:29:37","slug":"something_to_sm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/something_to_sm\/","title":{"rendered":"something to smile about"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"bus<\/div>\n

there’s something wrong with my left breast. it feels like my nipple is about to pop off and the creature from alien<\/i> is going to burst forth into the world. yes, boys and girls, hormones are more fun than a sackful of angry weasels!
\nmy prediction: this semester is going to kick my ass. the instructor and teaching assistant both seem very knowledgable, personable and helpful, which is good. the amount of work there is to be done is overwhelming. again, 65% of the final grade is based on exams. we even had a pre-test for the instructor to get a “feeling” for each student’s knowledge\/understanding. i think i did okay. considering i haven’t even thought about C in seven weeks, i don’t believe i broke my algorithm too badly.
\nthe best part, and the bit which just might save my sanity this term, is that shane (not cute guy from class shane who came over and i kissed & stuff with — shane from php & xml who is really good at logical problem solving) is in this class with me! i was sitting there, looking at all the people i recognized from last term, futzing about on the computer and i heard this soft “hi heather” from my left. i looked up, saw shane and i just beamed.
\nthat was one of the worst things about last term, not having anyone to talk to. shane made a point about the instructor (who he’d had last year) overwhelming the class with his big voice and lively manner. it made a lot of sense. already, i’ve talked to more people in this class than i did in last semester’s entirety. things are looking up! now if we could only do something about those exams.
\nby the way, in case you’re new to the program or haven’t quite gotten around to it, i’ll remind you all that my site (and pretty much everything else) looks so<\/i> much better if you have your fonts set to cleartype. of course, this only applies if you’re using windows xp. if you’re on a mac, things already look great and if you’re using *nix, well, you’ll have to ask jeremy how to make that shit pretty.
\nbecause i’m such a helpful soul, i’ll even give you the directions again:<\/p>\n

right click on the desktop
\nclick “Properties”
\nselect the “Appearance” tab
\nclick “Effects…”
\nclick the checkbox beside “Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts”
\nthen select “ClearType” from the drop-down box<\/div>\n

things might look a little fuzzy for the first couple of hours, but once you get used to it, you’ll wonder why you didn’t switch sooner! trust me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

there’s something wrong with my left breast. it feels like my nipple is about to pop off and the creature from alien is going to burst forth into the world. yes, boys and girls, hormones are more fun than a sackful of angry weasels! my prediction: this semester is going to kick my ass. the …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}