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[16 Jan 2012|04:41pm] |
Happy happy happy birthday ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=88.8) fieryredqueen!!! I hope you are having a great day!!!
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| Just a general note on why I no longer seem to exist anymore. |
[09 Jan 2012|12:33pm] |
August-mid December I was taking a class that literally ate up every free second of my time. I was totally losing my mind and counting down the seconds until it was over expecting to immediately be able to switch back to normal and have a life on the internet again....
about the time I finally got over that hurdle, LJ started getting really annoying. It no longer works very well on my work computer. The pages only load about half of the time, and then when they do load, it is only another half of the time that I can actually access the comment pages. It is really annoying and I originally blamed it on the DOS attacks and other shenanigans going on with LJ, but this whole time it works perfectly normal at home so I'm not sure what's up. Just that it's annoying and makes it very difficult to use at work.
Meanwhile my home computer appears to have a trojan so I haven't been using it. I finally broke down and decided I'd just suck it up and wipe the hard drive and re-upload everything so I could move on with my life. Except, now that I decided to do that I can't find my Adobe CS4 software anywhere. I'm not willing to wipe my computer out if I can't add CS4 back. I'm not sure what to do. Currently at a bit of a standstill, but needless to say my computer access is sucking a bit. I'm still around, I'm reading from GL's laptop and my work computer when I can. Just not commenting as much as I should since I'm spending far less time on the computer than I otherwise would be.
PS. Remember when I said my holiday cards would be late? Erm, make that very very very very late. I'm really sorry guys, I'm a bum. Sigh.
P.P.S. fieryredqueen, your Xmas Cthulhu card is the shiznit and has gotten lots of compliments when people come over ;-)
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| This is important! |
[08 Nov 2011|08:02pm] |
Right now the Defense of Marriage Act is one of the biggest obstacles to same-sex couples having equal rights as straight couples. The Senate is about to vote on reapealing it which will hugely improve our legal rights if it passes. Please sign this petetion through the Human Rights Campaign! It means a lot to me and genuinelie!!
Tell the Senate to Repeal DOMA
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| Advice? |
[15 Oct 2011|12:44pm] |
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Those of you who have your own website...I need recommendations for a hosting service. I'm going to be making a portfolio site for the class I'm taking and have to write a proposal for it this weekend. I know nothing about this stuff! Suggestions? (Preferably affordable ones, haha)
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| @ work |
[11 Oct 2011|04:15pm] |
So apparently if you drive repetitively up and down the street in a VW bug while flying kites out of the back, you get stared at a lot.
...And barked and whistled at.
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| Dr. Who... |
[05 Oct 2011|01:05pm] |
Dang. So apparently Lake Silencio is a completely fictitious lake (there's a lot of places with weird names out there so I'd totally found it believable it might be a real place...I mean come on....it's home to towns with names like "Mexican Hat" :D). I was so totally planning on making a geek pilgrimage there the next time I was in Utah!! Rats.
I wonder where they filmed it then, Lake Powell?? The credits probably wouldn't get more elaborate than just 'Utah' though, I didn't think to look.
Well anyway. I'm not actually going to say anything about the show itself (other than it's the only thing I've been watching with any enthusiasm lately, I'm sad I'm going to have to wait a while for new episodes.) Just that I think Matt Smith looked mighty spiffy in Craig's Stetson. Yes indeedy, Stetsons are cool.
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| SIGNAL BOOST: SAY YES TO GAY YA |
[16 Sep 2011|05:17pm] |
Originally posted by darkspirited1 at SIGNAL BOOST: SAY YES TO GAY YAThis comes from an article by rachelmanija entitled, Say Yes to Gay YA. (click the link for the full article)
Our novel Stranger has five viewpoint characters; one, Yuki Nakamura, is
gay and has a boyfriend. Yuki's romance, like the heterosexual ones in
the novel, involves nothing more explicit than kissing.
An agent from a major agency, one which represents a bestselling YA novel in the same genre as ours, called us.
The agent offered to sign us on the condition that we make the gay
character straight, or else remove his viewpoint and all references to
his sexual orientation.
This isn't about that specific agent; we'd gotten other rewrite requests before this one. Previous agents had also offered to take a second look if we did rewrites… including cutting the viewpoint of Yuki, the gay character.
It's time to stand up and demand change. Spread the word everywhere if you are just as angry and outraged by this. |
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| Blaaaarrrrgh. |
[12 Sep 2011|11:36pm] |
I'm barely existing in internetland these days. Just in case anyone is wondering why my quasi state of MIA-ness has graduated into almost complete non-existence it's because I've started taking another class at the community college again 3 weeks ago and this one has an even more daunting work load than the class I took last spring. In fact it's completely sucking out my soul and life force. I'm not so great at balancing school with full time work (and it's only a single freaking class, sheesh.) I seriously feel like I'm drowning trying to keep up with all the work!!
Secondarily, LJ never loads properly for me at work anymore. At first I thought it was the hacker thing lingering...but it's been working for me just fine at home. I don't know what the deal is but usually 80% of my time spent on LJ occurs at work, so this is quite inconvenient and making it very difficult for me to keep up with anything. I fail.
There are several people who've made posts over the past month I've meant to go back and look at and comment on...sorry you guys haven't heard from me yet.
And in real life non work stuff...we went to NYC 2 weekends ago to visit my sister... Saw Daniel Radcliff in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'. He actually did a decent job (I was prepared to be disappointed as that's always been one of my favorite musicals.) Pretty entertaining! (I had a long list of other RL things to mention but dang if I can remember any of it now.)
Anyway, miss you guys. Will probably not be around much till December ;__;. Ugh, I'm exhausted.
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| Well that was unexpected! |
[23 Aug 2011|02:49pm] |
Wow, so I was just sitting here at work and suddenly the roof started shaking. I thought that someone was walking on it because occasionally one of the warehouse guys goes up there. Then it got progressively worse and started feeling like there was a jackhammer up there! Then stuff started falling off the shelves!!! There was a 5.8 earthquake in Virginia and people felt it all the way up to New York and down to the Outer Banks! CRAZY!!!
I've been in one earthquake before, I felt a very mild one in Japan back in 2003. This was way stronger. I never thought I'd feel one in Maryland, CRAZY MAN. WTF.
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