Living on a line...

OK. So here's the deal. I decided that it would be a cool idea to have a website contest for Youth Quake, seeing as I'm looking for a re-design of the website anywayz. Sooo, my first contestant submits his entry and I send him an e-mail back critiquing it. I really didn't like the website and it looked like he just took a ready made template and shoved Youth Quake's content into it. Anyhow, in what I thought were polite terms, I told him that perhaps the website was too "guyish" and that it was nothing personal, but I prefered lighter colored backgrounds (his was totally black). I then proceded to feed him a variant of the "we'll call you" line. All well and good, right? Well, I find out later that HE'S POSTING THESE EMAILS ON HIS XANGA. no big deal. Except that I feel the need to write him another e-mail, making clear to him something that I should have made clear earlier, that Youth Quake is in no wise obligated to choose a winner of the contest if we don't want to use any of the entries for our website (because if all of the entries stink, we don't want to have to fork out $100 dollars in prizes for something that we don't even want to use, right? right).

Anyhow, the knowledge that it is more than likely that he will post this on his website and also knowing that if presented wrongly, things could get touchy in a hurry, made we very careful in my wording of this e-mail. Add to that the fact that I was writing this @ 1:00 in the morning and... yeah, not cool. So, anywayz, my e-mail will more than likely go live in the next 24 hours. I just hope that I don't get any flack back :-(.

Oh, did I tell you that I bought my self a long sleeve shirt. Yeah, I know it's too hot for long sleeves, but the best deals are the season end deals. Banana Republic shirt for $7 - now beat that!