strawberry oeufs

When I walk, I often walk very quietly. It's not fully on purpose - likely the result of my slim stature, proper foot placements before taking the next step, and quiet clothing. However at times I find this can create potentially uncomfortable situations for people. For example, I have found that quite regularly, when walking in public, I'll intentionally drag a few steps when I'm getting close to overtaking someone on the sidewalk. I also walk very fast. If they attempt to walk faster to escape the odd shadow behind them (ie. me) that just doesn't work cause I'll simply increase the stride... and add a few more foot slurs until they hear me and move to the side. Is this odd? Mom says I need a bell (ie. a cat, or i suppose cow) so I don't startle her at home. Am I the only one who thinks this much about the sounds of walking?

In other news, I'm having a very difficult time concentrating on the studio project for tomorrow. At least I'm not the only one - my team and most members in the other two teams are having the same difficulties. It's some combination of still being worn out from all the work in the spring semester, and a sort of mental confusion in attempting to put oneself back into the 'at school get to work' mindset. Most are planning on an all-nighter, and likely thursday night as well, before the friday presentation class. I'll be going home thanks.. though looking at the productivity of the past 5 hours... being quite insignificant.... it's unlikely we'll be finished anywhere near my midnight deadline.

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On top of that, I've been enjoying a bit of a web-interest revival over the past week, prompted by uploading some hawaii photos from last autumn to my flickr account. From there, I suddenly found myself interested in the flickr API and other options, taking me to updates on mybloglog, playing with new javascript/css features on a site for the pop, and today fully delving into twitter, pownce, and a few other fancy dancy web2.0 services. It all has me excited to start a new blog in preparation for the summer, but unfortunately right now is when I do not have the time to do that.

So keep in touch. Hopefully next week will give me a bit of time to make something supacool.