"What is O-Week," the people cry, "and why does it keep Aliotsy from maintaining his site?"
Good question. O-Week actually hasn't been the only thing keeping me busy (as you'll see later in this entry), but it certainly has kept me busy...it's the military-esque (ah, butcher the English language, shall we?) sounding name that Grace Alive! gives Orientation Week, when hordes of freshmen (6000 at last count) descend on Davis. It's easily the busiest time of the year for Grace Alive!, as we try to get freshmen interested in a real relationship with God plugged into our group. To this end, we treat it very much like a military operation...assignments are delegated, talent within the group is recruited, and everyone pitches in to reach out to as many people as possible. We've been preparing for weeks now, and the madness started for me at 3:30am Monday—that's when I got up to go to school and wait in line (for 3.5 hours) in order to reserve a room for Grace Alive! for Fall Quarter. I actually didn't need to go—there were four of us when only one was really needed—but it certainly was a good time. The rest of the day was spent handing out fliers, and we visited interested people in their dorms Monday night...I didn't get to bed till 11pm or so. Today has been pretty much the same so far—minus the 3:30am wake-up time, fortunately.
I've also been working, on top of all of this, so I often choose sleep over updating the site. Apologies.
So why else have I been busy? I have a slew of sites I'm working on at the moment. I designed a new Grace Alive! website, as well as an alternate Flash version. I really like how it turned out. I also made a quick site for a project I will henceforth refer to as Exile—clearly, I've been getting a lot better with Blender.
Finally, I've been working on a new version of TheThousand.net. Honest. I don't anticipate it going up any time soon, but if anyone is interested in checking it out as a work in progress, you can see version 2. Not too impressive, and the diagonal background wallpaper is probably gonna go...my lame attempt at being somewhat trendy. Doesn't really look like much, does it? Still, it fixes a lot of things that have been nagging me with the current version. My current favorite feature: the color. I'm using mostly neutrals, with one highlight color. The funky thing is this: the highlight color gradually changes, depending on the time of year...so right now it's orange, since it's fall, and it will gradually migrate to blue for the winter. The page does it all by itself, using a simple algorithm to generate a color depending on what day of the year it is. Am I proud of my little DOM-utilizing baby? You bet. Am I geek? Definitely.
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