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Hypnagogic blues
Feb. 11th, 2005 02:32 amI haven't gotten a good night's sleep since Sunday. Either the cat bites my fingers and jumps on my head at 7AM, or the handywoman rings the doorbell to change the furnace filter I changed two weeks ago, or I have one of my hypnagogic panic-dreams that has me jumping around my bedroom in the dark, convinced (this time) that I need to pack all my belongings and leave the house before Someone arrives.
It's possible that I've been working too soon before bed, as I've spent the last couple of nights working on Keynote presentations for K.'s Skidmore trip. (She arrived safely a few hours ago, nor'easter be damned, and will be teaching and speaking there on Friday.) Keynote is a spiffy little program, much easier to use than PowerPoint, and intuitive enough that I was able to put together some rather pretty presentations the very day we bought it—a map of the Mediterranean, for instance, on which each click makes a new label fade in and the previous label fade to transparency. Let us hope they wow the Skidmore faculty into stupefaction.
Keynote comes with Pages, Apple's new desktop publishing software, and I spent more time than I should've today setting up a template for SWAPA (instead of, say, writing SWAPA). The template-making procedure is not intuitive, or at least it's not when I'm sleepy, but the rest is easy to use and pretty potent. It's not as powerful as PageMaker, but I think it should replace the Classic-only PageMaker for my purposes. It's sweet to be able to drag and drop images from the desktop into a document, or import one directly from iPhoto, then watch the text autoflow around it in real-time as I move and rotate it. I should be able to do some pretty fancy layout things trivially and/or automatically now.
Sadly, my sleepy state makes SWAPA-writing unlikely tonight. I'll need to buckle down tomorrow. Buckle, buckle, toil and truckle.
It's possible that I've been working too soon before bed, as I've spent the last couple of nights working on Keynote presentations for K.'s Skidmore trip. (She arrived safely a few hours ago, nor'easter be damned, and will be teaching and speaking there on Friday.) Keynote is a spiffy little program, much easier to use than PowerPoint, and intuitive enough that I was able to put together some rather pretty presentations the very day we bought it—a map of the Mediterranean, for instance, on which each click makes a new label fade in and the previous label fade to transparency. Let us hope they wow the Skidmore faculty into stupefaction.
Keynote comes with Pages, Apple's new desktop publishing software, and I spent more time than I should've today setting up a template for SWAPA (instead of, say, writing SWAPA). The template-making procedure is not intuitive, or at least it's not when I'm sleepy, but the rest is easy to use and pretty potent. It's not as powerful as PageMaker, but I think it should replace the Classic-only PageMaker for my purposes. It's sweet to be able to drag and drop images from the desktop into a document, or import one directly from iPhoto, then watch the text autoflow around it in real-time as I move and rotate it. I should be able to do some pretty fancy layout things trivially and/or automatically now.
Sadly, my sleepy state makes SWAPA-writing unlikely tonight. I'll need to buckle down tomorrow. Buckle, buckle, toil and truckle.
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