Jordan Riane

Since my Fall semester ended last week, I’ve been able to put some extra time into creating a new layout for atourworst.org. It’s about time too because I was becoming really sick of the previous design I had created (which also broke in IE6, and unfortunately I was too lazy to fix it up.) It’s still a work in progress, but for the most part it’s done. As far as I know most of the coding validates (namely XHTML portion) but I still have to run through the CSS that’s being used for other plugins here.

Speaking of school, I’m making the decision to change my major. I just can’t deal with the webdesign portion of it anymore. I’m not challenged, and I’m not learning anything I don’t already know. So I’m going to change it to computer programming. I’m sure I’ll end up bouncing back and forth between the two but the plus side of it is that most of the classes necessary are for either of the degrees–so it’s not like I’ll have random classes that won’t work for the other.

Other then that I haven’t been up to much lately! Just trying to keep myself busy with little projects here and there. Of course video games take up a decent portion of my “I’m bored” time too 😉

For the past five and a half months I’ve been single and honestly it’s hard to believe that it’s already been that long. It doesn’t feel that long to be honest–it still feels like it happened just yesterday. But for the past two months I haven’t seen Mark at all, and for almost a month (or more) I haven’t talked to him. Albeit in the beginning it absolutely annoyed me until no end that he wasn’t speaking with me, but right now, I don’t even care.

The past two months I haven’t even cared much that I’ve been single. I haven’t put effort into meeting anyone, or even really sat and thought about the fact that I was single. However, I ended up meeting someone when I least expected it. We’re not dating yet, but it’s just been an amazing time thus far. I’ve been able to talk to this person for hours about everything, and we never had a single dull moment. Our last relationships were nearly the same–they were one-sided with each of us being on that “one side.” We listen to the same music, love the same movies, are obsessed with Halo 3, and so much more.

I think what I found the weirdest, yet pleasingly comfortable was that we sort of share the same kind of connection with someone when we first meet them. I admit that I usually tend to fall hard and fast in the beginning of the relationship, although I never make this aware to the person of my affection. With him, he said that he’s the same. I’ve never met a man that’s really ever talked so much about what he wants in his future, and whether or not he could see me in it.

There’s a lot more I want to say about it, but I think that’s really what I wanted to get off my chest right now. Needless to say I go to bed smiling, wake up smiling, and continue smiling throughout the day. It’s been awhile since I’ve had someone that appreciates every single aspect of me, flaws and all.

I’ve made a resume once in my life, but never used it when looking around for jobs. This was because most of the jobs had their own applications which essentially served as a resume. But for the past week or so, I’ve been looking around for a new webdesign position to get more experience with other places, and to get my foot in the door with a larger corporation as opposed to a couple of guys running a small consulting firm.

All of these jobs require a resume to be sent in via email and/or fax. However, because my field is webdesign, the best way to approach this is by designing a resume template for my private website. Not only does it state my objective, experience, skill, and education but it also shows them right off the bat what kind of design skills I’m capable of. However, while designing it, I figured that although it showcases my skill, other people might benefit from the resume template.

The template was designed with smaller resolutions in mind. Therefore the width is static, and is set for 700px. Anything in this template can be changed in regards to font family, font size, colors, you name it. I don’t require that you give me credit for it, however it is welcomed and appreciated. I just ask that you do not take credit for this in your resume or portfolio. I’m sure you can figure out on your own why you wouldn’t want to do that.

If you want to see a working preview of it, you can visit atourworst.org/resume. If you want to go ahead and grab the template files, visit atourworst.org/resume/source.php. There are other files involved that you will have to download if you want to use the same format from the resume. I’ve listed them all in the source, so you’ll be able to download them from their original websites.

If you see a need for improvement or have any critiques, feel free to share them. I’m all ears.. err, eyes?

It’s been awhile since I’ve actually put any effort into maintaining this website. Essentially I’ve abandoned it, but as of late I’ve been trying to spark my interest into wanting to have it active and full of life. I’ve been working on a new design on and off again for the past few days, so hopefully I can muster up the will to get it finished.

I’ve also finally decided to bid adieu to countless WordPress plugins that I don’t use at all. I also really need to update the content here. There are some pages that are just useless and don’t need to be available, and some just need to be cleaned up because they featured broken content/links.

I should get paid for having a personal site.

I’m sure you were thinking that this would be some fantastic entry about a pet hermit crab. Unfortunately, the hermit crab in this case is me. I’ve made the decision to spend most of my time at home then go out and deal with the world. The past month and a half haven’t been all that pleasant for me. I don’t blog too much about my personal life because I like to keep it more closed circuit so I’m finding it hard to really blog about the intricate details. I just don’t want the entire world to judge me for it. Yeah, I’m a fragile. Whatever.

Despite the fact that I do enjoy being somewhat of a social butterfly, I honestly prefer to stay home and enjoy myself here. I’ve had the chance to play too many hours of Halo 3, read up on some new Dean Koontz books, and work on three different designs for my website all of which I ended up deleting shortly after.

I suppose it’s easy for me to be such a hermit because right now my car is in the shop again ($450 worth of repairs), and well, I’ve just had a few personal issues on my end that resulted in me not talking to any friends and just wanting to “find myself.” I’m not so sure that I’ve found myself, but in the process I tried to get the courage to stop talking to Mark, planned out a move back to Louisville in late March and/or April, and became more intimate with my money habits and sent myself a decent budget.

On a more uprising note: my butt hurts.