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No IE. Do I care? Not really.

I just looked at my site in Internet Explorer for the first time in several weeks (I’m on a library kiosk and have no other choice.)

It doesn’t display the entire sidebar and some entire posts in IE.

I don’t care, either. IE isn’t functional, and my site displays fine in Firefox and Opera, which are much more standards-compliant.

For the 32.7% of you still viewing this site in the most unsecure browser ever, get something else. You’ll do yourself a favor, and you’ll be able to view my blog.

(I’ll fix it for IE eventually. But only when I feel like it.)

AlcoholEdu….must….stop…

I’m taking a required alcohol education online course for CSU. It’s freaking torture. THERE’S NO FAST-FORWARD BUTTON!!!

And I think maybe a maximum of 10% of what I’m listening to is new information. Soooo annoying. But it’s kinda funny, still.

I’m going on some kind of a “mission” tomorrow night with the senior guys from AG. I have no idea what it entails- Derek is being really secretive about it. I’m guessing that it has something to do with Mexico or clubbing- though I already know I’m wrong. We’ll see.

I did like…. 6 loads of laundry today. And I’m not done. It’s step one in packing.

I found the COOLEST parody of the Mac/PC tv ads. Freaking hilarious, but probably not safe for work.

On saying goodbye…

Today was full of a bunch of “lasts”. It was my last day at work. I also ran into TONS of people for what’s probably the last time I’ll see them in a while (or, realistically, some of them I’ll probably never see again).

Ran into Isaiah right when I took my lunch break. We had lunch together- such a great, balanced guy… (I know that our friendship is not ending, but rather only beginning. You rock, dude.)

A few other people came through at work that I didn’t have time to get to know better…. Mita, Erin Obr, and others.

I went to Gold Bar after work to hang out with Lizzy. Before she came, I ran into David Stoll, Vicki, and Margaret. Then Nate, my old drumline instructor came in. Jen, also from drumline, was working.

Lizzy and I talked for a little while… All of us PPA kids going out of state are sharing in the moving-away jitters. I have a cool idea in the works for coordinating an “out-of-state PPA kids’ care package ring” so that we can make each other feel more at home.

Leaving is getting really weird. I hate saying goodbye- for a long time, or even permanently. It’s really weird. I much prefer how it happens in “The Sixth Sense”:

Cole: "I'm not going to see you anymore, am I?"

Malcolm doesn't respond for a while.  He shakes his head, "No."
Cole: "...Maybe we can pretend we're going to see each other tomorrow? Just for pretend."
Malcolm: "Okay, Cole, I'm going to go now...
I'll see you tomorrow."
Cole (softly): "...See you tomorrow."

Another kind of hot

So usually Arizona’s summer is very similar to what most people might percieve as “hell.” It’s not the worst idea- it’s gotten up to 118 degrees this year. Blar. And everyone says, “….but it’s a dry heat!”

And it’s true. For me, I bike to work, and I go, “Wow, it’s HOT!”
And I  get over it,  and forget about it since I maximize my time indoors.  Everyone in Arizona has air conditioning.

Ours broke in a huge monsoon a few nights ago. Ever since, the whole house has been horrible. The temperature everywhere else has dropped about 20 degrees… The high today was 94, and at 11:35 PM as I write this, it’s a cool 90 degrees right now. But it’s gotten humid everywhere. Humidity is soooo much worse than the high, dry heats here.

Add to that the fact that my house has no aire acondicionado, and you get a very unhappy Zeke. I’m tired of constantly sweating. I’m sitting in someone else’s house right now, with AC running, and I’m still sweating. A lot of it owes to my hair, which basically functions like a mop attached to my sweaty head.

So I’m actually considering cutting my hair again. Not just because of the heat, but I am yet again doing the “My-hair-is-having-an-identity-crisis-but-I-won’t-do-anything-about-it” thing.

So I’m looking for a hairstyle that will fit my personality. Which is why I hate hair- I don’t know what my hair’s personality looks like. I know that it doesn’t bother me when it’s really, really long, and it also doesn’t bother me when it’s bald.

Which reminds me. I was looking at my site statistics, and this year, 69.4% of search engine references to my site are from terms having to do with “emo hairstyles.” The word “emo” alone is responsible for 729 references this year.

And now I’m screwed for mentioning it, because there’s another reference to it on my blog, which will only give me more relevance on Emo PageRank.

Holy crap. I leave in 8 days. I don’t wanna leave…….. 🙁