I spent my last week of vacation mainly indoors. I sure love stale oxygen! Mm mm. I guess my time would've only been more ill-spent had I watched TV the whole time. For whatever reason I can't bring myself to watch TV (DVDs of tv shows are okay; as far as broadcast TV goes I hate commercials and annoying shows) so I spent ages reading blogs and discovering the fun-ness that is del.icio.us.
Today I decided I had to get out of the room (after waking up at that bright and early time of...3PM). Yesterday was supposed to be a "going out" day but it rained and you know rain. It makes you wet when you walk in it. Yes, I know umbrellas exist but the whole environment of walking in rain/puddles/people with umbrellas and untintentionally hitting other people with umbrellas didn't appeal to me. Since I had enough food for the day (for a few days) I stayed inside while working on my redesign of little girl online. I'm pretty happy with what I came up with, even if it's not super spifftastic. It's not too minimal but is still...minimal. Er. YEAH. Something like that.
Another site I made: the oh so quiet show. Now I can babble about music if I care to. I'm fairly happy with the design considering I didn't plan it out at all. No one has asked me how I design sites but I'm going to talk about it anyway. Steps to designing a website (99% of the time):
- Open photoshop
- Make new 800x600 file
- Stare at it blankly for a while
- Make a type layer with the title of my page
- Fiddle with fonts
- Make a type layers with dummy text
- Somehow make the rest of the page
That's probably the least helpful steps to designing a website you'll ever read.
Today I walked up to Union Square from my dorm (about 50 minutes) and it was nice, although the cold air restricted my lungs. I considered subwaying it back down due to asthmatic symtoms but no. I wasn't dying (not yet at least), walking's no biggie. I strolled up along Elizabeth Street since I had never walked on it above Chinatown and lemme say..that is one bizarre street. Okay, not really but it's full of stores that make me feel like a homeless kid from a third world country. ...okay, that's a huge exaggeration. But you know what I mean. A shoe store called Hollywould was packed with people spilling out onto the street and there were lots of clothing stores in general. One was called Trust Fun Baby, an approrpiate name for nice baby clothes I guess? People know how quickly babies grow out of clothing, right? Sure, if you have the money than give your kids nice clothes but it's not like they can even pick it out. There was another store that just sold huge pillowy things. I'd go in there just to hug everything.
At Union Square I bought some Fuji apples and a bag of sugarless banana and oatmeal cookies (mm!). On the way back to my dorm I did that horrible thing of walking into a bakery. But at least it was one I had never been to before, eh? EH? Yes, I know very well that bakeries in Chinatown do not vary greatly but new is new. I went to one on Bowery, maybe Golden Dragon Boat something or other and got a "Micky Mouse cake". The design on the cake looked nothing like Mickey Mouse but it was a mouse, so I'll give them that much credit. If it were a squirrel then that would've been weird (for reasons more than one). They put it in a nice little box, the first time I've been to a bakery in Chinatown where they didn't put my cake in a bag, but the box did a 360 in my bag and Mickey Mouse became Roadkill Mickey Mouse. Oops. It was delicious though, like everything from Chinatown bakeries. That cake costed a dollar and it had a few layers of chocolate cake with deliciously light cream on the top, somewhat mocha flavored. How do they do it for a dollar?!