Design flaw

This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands: you either do something silly with the border image on your website (see above) or you have time to post about it. The former was a bout of idleness a few weeks ago, the latter is as per the delay between our class this morning (see next to last post) and the flight I have yet to get on in about an hour and a half. Anyhow, what I'm talking about is how the image banner across the top of this page looks like I let Photoshop vomit all over my website. This "vomit" joke is sort of in reference to a joke I had with Laura some 5 years ago when she would emerge from our dorm room clad in a Virginia t-shirt and Virginia shorts, finished off with a Virginia baseball cap. I would quip that UVa's bookstore had vomited all over her. Sorry, bad joke, but it still gets a chuckle. Though I kind of like the image, I've received negative feedback about it. I sort of threw it together just to have something else up there besides what came with the template. I don't have a digital camera, so it was out of the question to take some quick, artsy closeup of my keyboard or the woodgrain in my bookshelf. The other problem is I'm not really all that good at making images if it's outside of something very modern and geometric. That, and I'm not so great with Photoshop. All that lead to the smattering you see across the top. But like I said, I kinda like it. This is a request for suggestions or submissions if you think the image is hideous. But I will say this in my defense: the image completely rocks in that it gave me a great template for link and header colors.