This morning my mind was blown.  I read a chapter about J Query and understood it!  I also understood how to combine “unobtrusive” with “J Query” and so one of my big goals now is to eradicate regular JavaScript from my own page (not from my portfolio pieces) while maintaining separate JavaScript, HTML, and CSS files.  I realized I am beginning a love affair with J Query because while I was brushing my teeth because I kept fantasizing about all the wonderful things J Query and I will do together this summer.  Me and J Query getting Ajax.  Me and J Query listening for events.  Me and J Query creating children (and appending them!).  Gee, I hope J Query likes the way I fixed my hair today…

One day, my dream is to use PHP to do cool stuff, which will probably start with making user names and passwords.  The great thing (warning: sarcasm ahead) about this is that I can also use REGULAR EXPRESSIONS.  I don’t know why they called them that, but the abbreviated Regex (read: Rejects) is much more apt.  It’s not that I don’t love REGULAR EXPRESSIONS (who continue to insist that I write them all in CAPS in addition to personifying them), it’s just that they make me so depressed I actually want to tear the pink keyboard cover from my computer.  And that is saying something.

Another challenge I actually am excited about is the magic wand of HTTP Special Chars.  If you’re not sure what that means, I will tell you.  Generation Y people think they’re really special because their guilt-ridden divorced parents continually told them so.  HTTP Chars actually are Special because they will encrypt your s**t.  While I may not be the Marines of web security, I think I could at least pass for a mall cop because in addition to those Chars that are Special, I have some other tricks up my sleeve.  And those tricks involve many acronyms that I can’t remember right now.

Well, I’m off to go spend the afternoon on the couch (and the dining room table, and the kitchen, and my desk) with J Query.  Please hold my calls.