Fun fact of the day: scorpions glow blue under a black light.

I found out today during my zoology lab.

In other news, my apartment’s maintenance staff came into my room today to attach a cover on my air conditioner. The air conditioner I have is one that is stuck in the wall and is directly connected to the outside. Because it has a vent, cold air comes through during the winter, so the cover is supposed to stop the breeze from entering my room.

Attaching a cover seems like an extremely easy task, and it is. All you have to do is stick the cover over the air conditioner and rotate some screws on the edge until the cover is in place.

Apparently the maintenance staff is unable to do that and had a bit of difficulty.

It seems like they had difficulty walking in my room in a civilized manner in the first place, as there was a trail of clumps of dust leading from the door to below the air conditioner. Below the air conditioner, there were more clumps of dust and foam all over the floor. The cover they gave me was cracked along the edge and the en­tire left side of the cover wasn’t installed properly so all the air that would have came out directly was just being redirected into the opening on the left of the cover.

It took me less than half a minute to fix it myself.

I don’t understand how such lazy people even get hired in the first place.

My brain feels like it is going to implode.

I just spent a few hours today attempting to implement a Most Commented feature into the Badger Herald website (for my new readers who don’t know already, I work there as the web director).

And I failed.

When the former web director designed the website, he made the CSS so complicated and so unnecessarily complex that plain code being inserted into the website becomes so extravagantly formatted that it would drive anyone crazy and stop all levels of productivity.

If you are unable to see for yourself, the Badger Herald uses Disqus for commenting, and Disqus comes with widgets where I can stick in the provided code into our website and it’ll automatically fetch all the most commented articles from our website and put them in a list. The list contains the headline of the article in medium-sized text, and contains meta data with the number of comments and the date of publication in small-sized text.

When I put this on a random page on my website to test it out, it worked perfectly fine and the meta text was about 70% of the size of of the headline text.

When I transferred the exact same code onto the Badger Herald’s website, the size of the meta text became about 250% of the size of the headline text.

I opened up our .css file so I could figure out what was causing this to happen, and realized that the .css file is 34 kilobytes. I copied and pasted the content into a word processor and it ended up being 14 pages.

I gave up on it because I felt as if it would be a waste of my life reading through 14 pages of ridiculous code.

So if you ever end up working for me and have to program something under my management, and your project involves either me helping you or me programming in collaboration with you, don’t write stupid code like that.

If you read my blog post from yesterday, you know that my parents came to visit me for the first time since I left for university this academic year (which was a few months ago). In addition to bringing me food, they also brought me two pots for me to use with my range. I didn’t originally have one because I didn’t know I was going to have a range in my studio, as I didn’t have one last year.

So I tried using the range for the first time today using one of the pots that my parents brought me, and noticed that my range is one of those spiral heating pads that glows red when it’s hot.

In other news, I have to get a book called Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim for my classical sociological theory course. I usually don’t like buying books because we usually end up not reading the whole thing, and instead read tiny excerpts from all over the book. For me, it’s especially a waste of money because I get free printing (or, if I print excessively, then it’s not free but still cheap) so I can get an electronic version and print it myself, and print only the pages that I need for the class.

Unfortunately, for Elementary Forms of Religious Life, I haven’t been able to find a free version online. I’m not sure if it’s past its copyright period yet, and it’s possible that it might not be, which is why I’m not able to find it online, but if any of you are able to find it online and would like to email it to me (or send me a link to it), it would be greatly appreciated. If you do, I’ll give you a shout-out in a future blog post.

I took my quiz in sociological theory this morning, and my tough week is officially over.

Unfortunately, that still doesn’t mean I’ll be pumping out good content yet; my parents visited me for the first time today since I left for university this academic year, so I’ve been with them since my last class today.

However, this does mean that I won’t go hungry anymore because my mom brought me tons of food.

Then again, I didn’t ever go hungry in the first place because there’s a Jimmy John’s right across the street from my apartment, and whenever I’m hungry, I can go there and get myself a sandwich.

… I’m not sure where I’m trying to go with this. I’m going to go to sleep now.

I just got back from taking my zoology exam, and I’m proud to say that I believe it was a great success.

So far this week, I’ve finished writing a paper and taking two exams. Now all I have left to do is take a small five-question quiz tomorrow morning, and one of the most torturous weeks of the semester is over.

I’m still a bit too tired to write a good blog post, and I’m a little bit dazed.

So dazed that in the past hour, I’ve accidentally opened Microsoft Word 2010 eight times because I am unable to click properly.

I can’t go to sleep yet because I still have to do some last-minute reading for tomorrow’s quiz, but after that, I’m going to take a long nap.

…

Actually, I’m going to take a long sleep.