So where to begin? I’ve started school, though it’s only frosh week so that doesn’t count. I’m liking Mohawk Col­lege more than Con­estoga in terms of the fac­ulty. Not that Con­estoga’s was bad, but the staff at Mohawk really seem to give a damn. These teach­ers actu­ally seem to want to help me out, espe­cially since I’ve been work­ing on switch­ing from one stream to another. The campus (Brant­ford - Elgin) feels like a high school for grown ups - I said the same about Con­estoga - and I’ve come to the deci­sion that col­leges must look like bigger high schools. Only Uni­ver­si­ties can have shiny arty archi­tec­ture, and nice stuff.

All that aside, I think I’m going to enjoy my two years at Mohawk. They’ve already done a far better job making me like them than Con­estoga ever did. We’ll see how I feel y the end of the two years, but if they keep this up I’ll be a happy camper.

To segue into some­thing totally unre­lated I’m rock­ing the Avenue Q sound­track pretty hard right now. If people have a chance to see this in the­aters, please for the love of all that is sacred and pure, do so. It’s so god-​damned fan­tas­tic that words fail to artic­u­late how amaz­ing the show is. Full of rough humor, pup­pets, and topics that land impres­sively close to home, it’s worth every penny. Listen to it.

SUB­JECT CHANGE.

I’ve been doing some small changes around the web­site, if anyone has noticed. One change I’ve made is that my sug­gested read­ing is now being pow­ered by Goodreads. I’ve made a shelf for my favorites on Goodreads and by pars­ing the RSS feed (thank you Word­press) I’ve got my newest 10 con­stantly updat­ing from the list. Saves me repeat­ing effort, and ups my 2.0 web ePenis a notch.

I’ve also made the colour switcher a bit more obvi­ous. The for squares in the top left corner of the layout actu­ally do more than just look damned pretty. They actu­ally change the colour scheme of the web­site. Appar­ently I’m the only person that actu­ally knew this. I was sort of happy to have it be an easter egg for the site, but after some con­sid­er­a­tion I’ve opted to make it more obvi­ous so some­one other than me can enjoy it as well.

Feel free to click them at random. They are cookie-​enabled so if you’re rock­ing cook­ies in your browser(s) my site will remem­ber the pref­er­ence and keep your color pref­er­ence. It’s some­what point­less, but there it is.

I’ve also got my resumé page up and run­ning if anyone wants to take a look at that. Much like my cur­rent layout, it is a com­pletely grid-​designed, and I went for max­i­mum con­trast so there’s very little in terms of colours.

To end off this utterly random post, I’ll men­tion that today I bought a Wacom Bamboo. It’s pretty and black and I’m a fan of having a mouse and a pen to choose from. Having said that, I feel like such a stereo­type by buying it and being in a Graphic Design pro­gram. It’s just so typ­i­cal; all i need now is some black-​rimmed glasses and a wicked designer beard.

It took me way too long to write this. I’m get­ting rather dis­tracted tonight. Hon­estly, this took me hours. There’s no excuse for that. Well not a valid one.

Corey sign­ing out.

“Take her home!
She’s wasted!
YAY!”

The Bad Idea Bears - Avenue Q