Evilsciencechick’s

So against all better judgement, I submitted my site for review at I Talk 2 Much. I don’t need validation that my blog is super awesome (because is SO IS!!! ummm…right?), I just was curious what they’d say, really. You don’t submit your site for review there because you want an honest and unbiased opinion. You submit your site there because it’s funny, they will most likely trash you, but WILL probably have some good points about your template, and…it’s FUNNY!

It figures that my site would finally get reviewed right after a poop post. Swell! Welcome to my blog! I post about poop, yet I am not a mommy! Also, they all threw a major snit fest over there because some of the people who’s blogs they reviewed got all bitchy and whiny about how their blogs got trashed, and OH IT ISN’T FAIR! There was a “strike” and it got all kinds of “this really counts in the real world DAMMIT!” silliness. So, I’m guessing the reviewers aren’t in the best of moods ANYWAY.

All in all, I didn’t come off TOO badly. Two smacks, which is MUCH better than the steaming pile of shit that the next blog reviewed got.

You can see it here, but I’ll post what they said:

I’m really beginning to hate the wordpress template on this one. Everyone and their brother, sister, mother, cat and husband has taken that template and modififed it. I assume it’s a pre-loaded one because everyone has it. The header doesn’t kill me, but the background makes me want to kick somebody’s teeth out. It’s like nails on a chalkboard amplified.

First post I see has pooping and boogar talk in it. Nice introduction, thanks for that. There are some more appealing posts in there, but the archives are sort of hard to navigate. They don’t let you see the entire post without clicking on the title. I fucking hate that, especially when you only put 3 posts on the front page. The sidebar on this blog is nice and neat because of the tabs in the header. I like those except the stupid favicon blogroll. Quit that shit, it’s dorky.

There is a “side blog” in the sidebar that is thankfully short and sweet, and some of those look more exciting than the posts on the front page. It isn’t a bad blog, but it isn’t anything that I would read on a daily basis. Hopefully something can be done to that background.

Ok, I fixed the archive problem. I noticed it a while back, and resorted to posting it on the K2 forum. Seems to work.

One of the reasons I switched to wordpress is because I preferred the much cleaner looking templates, and I was able to better organize things (separate page for links, archives, etc). I know my background is a little eye buggifying right now. I’ll probably change it…eventually. But I like my clean design and simple, easy to change header (explanation for headless babies here). I did NOT want to resort to the cutesy girl blogs, with the header cartoon anime-esque skinny chick sitting in a bubble bath talking on the phone, or whatever*. WAY too girly for me. And SO MANY blogs have that now. So while my K2 template may be everywhere, if I see one more girl blog with the cartoony design, I may scream. But hey, if that’s your thing, fine. I like my basic template. It’s K2, it’s NOT the pre-loaded template, it’s a fancied up version of one of the many basic wordpress templates available. It came with some bells and whistles, and lots of people have it, so lots of people have done their own customizations…that I can steal and use myself. That is the reason I chose it.

*edited to add: that’s not to say I don’t enjoy a blog that happens to have a cartoon-like template. It’s not my intent to go around smack-talking cartoon blogs. If you have one that I read, just know what I will cringe just a little when the page loads. If you care, change it! (HA!) If you don’t care, write “ESC SMELLS!” all over your blog and I will be properly chastised. Seriously, I don’t want to start an “OH NO YOU DI’INT” war here with the skinny cartoon chicks. They may stab me with their pointy brightly colored hair. BwaHA!

And dammit, I like my favicon** blogroll. So much less boring than just a list. And DOUBLE dammit, it took WAY TOO LONG to set up for me to get rid of it now. So I’m not. So THERE! Uhh..nanner nanner boo boo!

**Some of them are actual favicons. The rest I had to make myself because SOME people haven’t figured out how to get rid of their awful blogger/wordpress default yet.

Right. I think I addressed everything there. If you want a fun laugh, submit your blog. It will take a few months, but they’ll get to it. Just know that 9 times out of 10, it won’t be a good review. Learn to laugh at yourself. Then read all the other blogs they ripped apart, and laugh at them, too.

I spent much of this morning in the bathroom, wondering what the hell I ate this weekend that is so torturing my lower innards.

I got to the library on campus. I noticed 3 things:

1. it was colder than ann coulter’s snatch

2. some bitch had taken my usual spot

3. the wireless internet wasn’t working

I set up my laptop at another desk…uhhh…close to the ladies room, just in case, and tried to work. I got two sentences typed before my brain just gave out. My stomach hurt, I couldn’t access my folder on the server or pubmed, and I was freezing my ass off.

I know it’s hot as fuck out, people, but many of us dress appropriately for the weather, we don’t need the AC set at “sub-arctic.” Later, it occurred to me that this happens alot in the south, and this is why I see many natives, especially college girls, wearing their expensive “I don’t care and still look fabulous” velouresque workout (HA!) pants all summer. And sweatshirts. When it’s 95 degrees out. It all makes sense to me now.
I left the library and headed the lab, to do the minimal of lab work that needed to be done. Then left. Before noon. Ugh. Playing hooky, but feeling too ill to enjoy any of it. I passed out on the couch for most of the afternoon, and managed a can of chicken soup without feeling the urge to sprint to the bathroom.
This must be my punishment for the skipping of church and pre-marital sex, huh Vince?

What else can I bitch about? Oh…my boogers are still white with the dust from sanding the joint compound in the entranceway yesterday. Aren’t you glad you know that?
Anyway, the GOOD news is that Kev played hooky from work this morning to take two of his computer-type something or other network certification tests. He aced BOTH of them. Yay Kev!

MOSTLY ups.
In order to increase the chances of my going to hell, I decided to play hooky from church and the choir* this morning so I could sleep in and have lazy weekend morning sex with Kev.

*shit like this always backfires on me. later I will find out that there were NO altos there, so the choir really struggled, but then somehow the sermon was totally awesome, best ever given, half the congregation in tears, and then afterwards there were cookies.

Just as we were about to enjoy an appropriate post-lazy weekend morning sex breakfast of fried eggs, toast and bacon, I heard “OH SHIT!” and saw Kev sprint to the laundry room faster than I have EVER seen that boy move before. The load of laundry he had started only minutes before had somehow OVERFLOWED the washer, and water was pouring out everywhere…beginning to flood our laundry room, and coming DANGEROUSLY close to soaking our NEW FUCKING FLOOR in the hallway.

crap.

we got it cleaned up, but we are now out of clean towels. Oh, and no washing machine.

It’s probably OK, just a freak accident, but we are mistrustful. Fortunately, we do have a washer/dryer set of Kev’s in storage, that we were planning on keeping with us after the move…BUT…

It’s a nice set, but cheap. We can move them in here, sell them with the condo, and then buy a NEW set when we move. With wedding money. That I wanted to use to buy a new couch.

Oh well.

Oh, did I mention Sadie tried to eat Kev’s abandoned eggs? Because for her, food left on plate and on the floor, is fair game. I managed to snatch it away before she fully dug in…and it is a testament to how far Kev has come that he decided to eat them anyway. there are worse things.

And we’ve been on boil water restrictions all weekend because of a water line break north of here. THE FUN NEVER ENDS!!!!

ANWAY…with that wonderful start to the day…I decided to make some good things happen.

WE HAVE A HONEYMOON!!!!

A week after the wedding (just worked out better for us timing wise, though I will probably regret not sprinting out of the reception straight to the beach), we will be laying on a white sandy beach riiiight…here.

We rented a house just 100 steps away from the beach. (Those right ON the beach were a little out of our price range, unless anyone out there has a few thousand dollars they’d like to lend us. No? Ok then).

We can do our own thing: swim, fish, rent a boat, rent bikes, grill, and fuck each others brains out without worry that someone on the other side of the wall will get all bitchy about it.

It’s going to be WONDERFUL!!! Ahhhh…I can’t FUCKING WAIT!!!!

OK. back to scrape drywall. Don’t ask.