I’ve been running the Opera widget SimAquarium and it is the most fantastic time filler in the world. Since i’ve started I have birthed 456 fish (and killed 20) . I have obtained all of the backgrounds available, purchased the best filter and light option. I have four dolphins, and a giant sea turtle, and two angel fish now. Anyone interested should definitely check out their site.

The new layout is well on it’s way to completion, just gotta fix up the archive pages and add some nice “fishing touches” to complete the effect. Once I’m finished with that I’ll get started on the wedding site.

I start the swing shift tommorow, which goes from 1:30 to 10:00pm mon – fri. It’ll be more of the kind of work I prefer, I get a pay raise, and I’ll be able to focus more on school. If the shift really works out I may be able to do more credits next term, and during terms I can’t get into the classes I need, I can probably find a part time morning job to help save money for when I go into full school mode.

Many of you are aware of my involvement with Big Brothers, Big Sisters. I’m starting to have considerable doubts in my ability to provide what I can only call, to properly accentuate my point, “human interface.” In a recent conversation with my mother, she told me how baffled she was when I was younger. I was impossible to motivate and any attempt to punish me seemed ineffective. I was distant and unresponsive through the majority of my childhood and preferred solitude over friendship, even that of my siblings. Greatly preferring the company of my lego armadas to the confusing social situations that plague young life. Honestly, beneath any bravado and pomposity, I still don’t get how to behave in most situations. I can’t remember being excited as a child but now I’m faced with the task of creating this scenario. I don’t remember feeling needed or loved but now I’m charged with imbuing a boy with a sense of belonging, despite the majority of his life that would convince him otherwise.

Fuck. I’m not a real insomniac. I always get tired an hour before I would need to get up for work. Had today been Sunday, I would have slept like a baby.