This place is always cold. The heating is controlled next door (since we're in an annexe) and they never have it on. We do have a gas heater but it's not making things any better. *Freezes*

I have so much work to do and it's only the second week. Stupid communication presentation to do for Thursday. Grrrrrr. I know nothing about the question I'm supposed to answer, let alone write 1000 words about it and present that. Baaah. Got to leave for lectures in 10 minutes and this place still hasn't warmed up. :(

*Grumble* Just sat down to eat (very late) lunch and dropped my fork on the floor. Gaaah.

Anyway. Thank you for your message board suggestions, it seems that SNOG! was a popular choice so I joined. Heh.

Uni started again today. It felt weird to be there again, kinda like I was expecting to redo the first year for the third time. Not on campus this year, which is a bit strange, but I think I'll get used to it. It's far more quiet and a lot more private. Plus, I don't get stupid restricted internet which filters out even words like "crap" and intrusive cleaners. I do have to pay a bit more for this place, but I have my own bathroom, lounge, and kitchen. I don't have to live in one room the whole time. Though I must admit, that was quite nice. Having everything in one place is good; here I'm always wondering where I put stuff. Meh.

So... a whole day of second year web awaits me tomorrow. I'm more excited about that than I was about today's Media Institutions and Audiences lecture (snoooore) but web is hardly ever anything practical. It normally involves 2 hours of watching a powerpoint presentation about why and how Dreamweaver is great. Blah. Looking forward to the cross-browser parts though. I've been having a nightmare convincing IE to listen to my background positioning, and I hate having to make a whole separate stylesheet for that stupid excuse for a browser. Luckily we don't have to use the worst browser ever released - IE Mac - this year. *Shudders* IE Win looks like a wonderfully stable and fully compliant browser next to that. Hopefully cross-browser classes will sort some of that out. Next time I think I'll just leave my layouts looking like crap in IE, maybe it'll convince people to switch. Why is it acceptable for people who use only IE to have layouts looking horrible in compliant browsers, but not the other way round? "0MgZzZz!!!111!1 uR sit3 t0tAllY do3sNt w3rKkKK11!!!11one" *Rolls eyes* The number of sites I've seen that don't work in anything other than IE is astonishing. I'm not just talking about personal sites here - there are corporate ones too... *Cough*Microsoft*cough*

Right, I'm done. Lunch is cold now. Stupid fork.

I need some new online haunts. Currently, I'm only a member of one forum and it's not very busy or very exciting since it's a support forum. Anyone have any recommendations? Most of the 'popular' boards I've been to all have the same kind of format; a board-related part (announcements, introductions etc.), online/offline life parts, and a couple of other random ones. This makes it kind of pointless me joining more than one board, since they're all pretty much the same... The only difference would be the people.

That's another thing about message boards... As a noob, you're instantly outcast from all the others who have like 53920539 posts. On some boards I've visited, that's a really big deal - "OMG U LYkE CAN't aCCeSS tHiS bOARd tIL U g0t LyKe 10391093013 p0Stz!1!!!!1111" - the only thing noobs can do is to post in the intro forum and similar "dead" forums. :\ Pointless, in my opinion. Another thing I really hate... "You must register before you can view these boards." How am I meant to know if I want to join if I can't get an idea of the forum? Argh. I did start my own back in 2002 but it was for my current hostees only and in the end it kinda died since there was never really anything to talk about.

This wasn't supposed to turn into a rant. Anyway, I'm open to all suggestions.