I just miss Quark when I watch Alice in Wonderland...

Jabberwocky. I remember not being aware of what that was, where the name came from, due to my awareness of Alice in Wonderland only through the Disney movie as a child. But then I got a job doing graphic design. And eventually one day I was perusing the menus...

"Jabberwocky"

It was a tool. A tool called Jabberwocky? What does it do?

The option said "Jabber." Jabber away I did.

I started becoming engrossed in the random word patterns. Jabber works thusly: it is meant as a tool to help you decide a pretty damn approximate word count on any piece of text you might happen to put into a document with Quark. Its a wonderful tool. For instance, if you know you need to fit ~500 words into a particular document, you can Jabber and put text in there... then play with fonts and typefaces until you get what you want space-wise. This is especially helpful when working on a deadline and wanting to make sure something is going to fit... but the story isn't even written yet.

There was a beauty in jabber. It was randomly generated words of varying sizes... yet sometimes it was so random it appeared non-random. It was fascinating to me.

After seeing Alice, I was sad at the loss of Quark in my life, and sad at the loss of the jabber capability. I haven't used the text fill option on Adobe InDesign yet... somehow I don't think it will be the same for me.

Oh jabber, how I miss thee.

In other news, sounds like I am getting an efficiency apartment. No frills, just a tiny kitchen, a closet and bathroom. But I think that will suffice because I cannot afford to do much else. My mom's faxing the application in the morning. Wish me luck! Its not the greatest place in the world, definitely not the nicest, but whatever, I need to live somewhere, I think this will fit the bill. Windows for Loki too. That will make him happy. I'm also going to get his favorite hangy perch for him too. I hope he's content and not overly loud... I'm pretty sure that's where we're going to move.