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I posted some pictures a few days ago under the miscellaneous section of my gallery. There are some sculptures, photographs, paintings and an origami dragon. I’ll probably end up spliting that into photographs, paintings, and sculptures. So far I don’t have enough of these categories images to split them under their own categories.

Now for updates on my life…school started today. I know it seems somewhat late, but I have a friend attending UIC who doesn’t start till late September. So far I haven’t made any friends besides my roommate. Hopefully that will change by the end of the week. I already know a few people who went to the same high school as me. I’m still feeling naustalgic towards UIUC though. I feel out of place at Bradley for being one of very few Asian people on campus.

I’m hoping to join the Asians Increasing Your Awareness (AIYA). So far the clubs I signed up for are Women in Business, Habitat for Humanity, and the Anime Club. I also signed up for some other random organizations but I can’t remember them so they aren’t as important to me.

So far the events I went to are Taste of Bradley which is where restaraunts from around campus set up tents on the quad for students to sample the food. It’s not free but $5 gets you a lot of food. I also went to the Transfer Student Orientation. That wasn’t as fun, but I got lots of free stuff including a calendar which I’m using now.

Classes I’m taking include the following: Contemporary Business, Accounting, Microeconomics, Art Appreciation, and Intro to Programming and Computer Science. Today I went to Art Appreciation, Microeconomics, and Intro to Programming and Computer Science. So far I think I’ll enjoy Intro to Comp Sci most because I think programming is fun. The program we’re using is more user friendly than SSH (what I used last year for intro to comp sci, a class I dropped among others).

I found some interpretations of what rain symbolizes at experiencefestival.com. Here is the list:

1. To be out in a clear shower of rain, denotes that pleasure will be enjoyed with the zest of youth, and prosperity will come to you.
2. If the rain descends from murky clouds, you will feel alarmed over the graveness of your undertakings.
3. To see and hear rain approaching, and you escape being wet, you will succeed in your plans, and your designs will mature rapidly.
4. To be sitting in the house and see through the window a downpour of rain, denotes that you will possess fortune, and passionate love will be requited.
5. To hear the patter of rain on the roof, denotes a realization of domestic bliss and joy. Fortune will come in a small way.
6. To dream that your house is leaking during a rain, if the water is clear, foretells that illicit pleasure will come to you rather unexpectedly; but if filthy or muddy, you may expect the reverse, and also exposure.
7. To find yourself regretting some duty unperformed while listening to the rain, denotes that you will seek pleasure at the expense of another’s sense of propriety and justice.
8. To see it rain on others, foretells that you will exclude friends from your confidence.
9. For a young woman to dream of getting her clothes wet and soiled while out in a rain, denotes that she will entertain some person indiscreetly, and will suffer the suspicions of friends for the unwise yielding to foolish enjoyments.
10. To see it raining on farm stock, foretells disappointment in business, and unpleasantness in social circles.
11. Stormy rains are always unfortunate.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create extra menus or pages that show up with the click of a hyperlink. There are four parts to this script.

Part I
You want to create a function that enables a set of hidden layers to function.

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function showLayer(layerid) {
layer = document.getElementById(layerid);
layer.style.display="inline";
}
function hideLayer(layerid) {
layer=document.getElementById(layerid);
layer.style.display="none";
}
//-->
</script>

Part II
Create the layers using divs or tables. Assign IDs to the layers.
For instance:

<div id="about">
<h4>About Me</h4>
Here's a bit of info about myself that you might find interesting.</code>
<code></div><div id=contents>

*Note: I created an extra div section at the end so the blog body can disappear when I click on the link to the hidden layer page.

Part III
In the CSS, set the ID properties like this:

<style type="text/css">
#about {
display:none;
width:400px;
/*you can put whatever other
properties here*/
}
#contents{
/*insert style info here*/
}
</style>

Part IV

Create links to the hidden layers like this:

<a href="#about" onClick="showLayer('about')"
onClick="hideLayer('contents');">About Me</a>
</code><code></code>

This ends the quick tutorial. You can be creative and mess around with it. The downside to using this code is, you can’t bookmark the hidden layers.

To see this code at work, view my xanga at http://www.xanga.com/midori_hitomi or here. If you’re having trouble using this tutorial, or if you have any questions or comments, feel free to ask me for help.