Super Sophomore Ignores the World

Firstly, I finished my first freelancing client today! Woohoo! Lastly, some guy owes me $10 for a template. Now I’m irritated. Today was alright, except for the demon flying ant. There was a flying ant (yes, some fly!) in my room, just coming after me. Flying bugs of any kind freak me the shi* out, but after stunning this one and throwing a book at it (there was bug residue on my window!) it still came back. Finally, Dad was able to fry the thing and drop it in the garbage can…hurray for kitchen stores and their bug zapper thingys!

Some good did come out of the war. I was chased out of my room and forced to work on the PC for long amounts of time, so I finished up my project and will hopefully get paid soon. I also beat Guitar Hero II for my brother’s girlfriend. (on medium mode. my left hand won’t contort to reach the orange button) and then nearly have “Killer Queen” memorized.

Now I can focus on more important things, like my blog series, this blog’s design, and maybe even cleaning my room. I doubt it, though. I really want my $10 now…

My name is Corey Freeman, and I’m a female freelance website designer and copywriter. I’ve traveled quite a bit around the USA and I’ve been to England. I’m a fairly advanced writer and I’ve been published in a few local literary magazines and one teacher’s journal. I can speak near-perfect grammatical English and I’m reasonably good with Spanish and German. After searching frantically for a summer job, I decided to try my hand at freelancing.

I’ve been a webmaster for three years now, and my main areas of expertise are CSS, HTML, and forum administration. I’m the administrator of the new Ripped Edge Media Network and I also run a personal blog called “Super Sophomore Ignores the World.” I started blogging two years ago and Diligent Design is my first professional blog.

When I’m not working, I enjoy reading classic novels (currently reading The Jungle), seeing movies, playing role-playing video games, and being active in band and the school music programs. I occasionally tutor 6th grade musicians at a local middle school in playing the trumpet.

My dad MADE my first computer (mostly from old parts) and I had ZERO internet access. When we moved, I was introduced to the internet (which I mostly used for AIM and Google) and I played around with it. My best friend was using geocities, and was like, “it’s fun, you should try.” So I got into that. As I slowly fooled around with the internet, I joined my first forum (a forum with my best friends group from Colorado) and of course started a lot of my own, jumping from free server to free server. Then I was introduced to scary internet wars (hockeyzombie and their rule-less forums, they attacked my forum with well organized internet vikings and forced me to put it in maintenance mode) and to people who would be mean to you for being new.

I started making a pretty popular web-comic in MS Paint called heathens, then got a website, Ninjapirates-online.com, which went nowhere. Then I got Deadly Clever (which was originally going to be Deadly Clover - long story) and fooled around with various content systems, before deciding to code my own (the nexis CMS) with a fellow moderator from a forum that’s no longer up. I learned more, blogged a little here and there, and surfed 100s of free template websites and a PHP tutorial or two.

So here I am, with a “wealth” of knowledge. I’m just now learning about SEO and creative commons licensing and advertising and freelancing. I picked up a few tips along the way, like how you should act/post in the same manner on every forum, and use a consistent username, and do your best to be helpful while still being honest.

That’s me.