Hey Flist,

Just so we're clear and all, I'm on hiatus and have been. On this journal. Nothing's changed from recent, just making it official. Um, since I'm still online but not really about, just email me if you want to reach me? Unless you usually do something else in which case... do that. Or keep doing that. Or whatever you like.

Seriously, nothing's changed; I just feel like declaring would be less rude. Also, nothing is wrong, so don't worry.

Oh wow, and happy birthday, Lina! ♥

... Well, that's just about all I can brain at the moment. See y'all later~

So Flist,

I'm looking for an example to use on my paper about anon memes (kind of. ish. It's also about morality again, woo-hoo.) It needs to have the positive elements of honest con-crit, and also the negative elements of, you know, wankery (or the potential for it?). It's the latter I'm focusing on but elements of the former are what I'm missing. Something anon-ish specifically because it would allow for wider range of honest crit.

My current problem is the only ones that come to mind all seem to be RP-related. Attempting to explain RP would be an unnecessary extra complication, so I was hoping one of you might know of somewhere else online where stuff is offered to anons for crit just in general. I might resort to something like fictionpress (because explaining fandom is another thing that could get sticky quickly), but maybe there is something better?

I'm aware that just by being of the internet, anonymous is kind of meshed into the equation already, but if its more explicitly stated, so much the better.

Er. I think that's it. I have an actual life update thing for whenever I. actually. get this done.

I don't remember memes taking my Flist by storm like this in a very long time. I mean, they go around, but I don't remember seeing them crop up all at once like this.

Tagged by boojums_snark for Lobsang:

( Wow, okay so that was longer than-- )


Tagged by funeral_song for Kara:

( --I expected. Here, have cuts. )

Internet completely down for the first time ever. Seems to be a building-wide thing, except for in the computer lab. I could stay and use this terminal and its lack of AIM and lack of being anywhere near my bed, but I think I'm going to take this all as a sign that the universe wants me to sleep (really) early. This and also the whole room wobbling around thing. Hopefully whenever I get up, the problem will be fixed? Because I have life events to regale something something.

Anyway, I would just crazytalk at y'all in this state, much as I. Yeah, can't be helped. I expect to be updated on the night's shenanigans whenever this is resolved, so be doing fun and wacky things, y'all! <3

Meme from Sai and Dre and... I think Sophie? And.... I am not keeping track, hey? Some of these apply to more than one person. Hopefully I'm pretty predictable in regards to things I would want to inform others of, or I haven't been doing my duty.

... Also, I can't shut up.

Things I Wish I Could Say to Different People Right Now:

1. You're still the person I trust the most in the world, and our friendship is still something I consider ideal. Perfect acceptance. One day we'll be in the same fandoms again, and we'll pick everything right up again. In the meantime, our occasional random throwing of hearts at each other is all I need.

2. I want to know you better, but I know you enough now to make a judgment. I have a right to make that judgment and you have earned it, honest. You're sweet and interesting. I like you. You should just accept that I like you for now instead of worrying about our degree of association. I can just change my mind later, if you disappoint me, okay? But I don't think you will.

3. Please, I do mean what I say when I fangirl all over you. The cognitive dissonance when I lie about stuff like that is usually too much trouble to bother with. It probably all sounds ridiculous by now. I bet it's repetitive. But I want to say it every time I think it; I want to let you know while I can, because I can.

4. You give great advice and lots of insights to things I would otherwise miss. You put up with me so graciously, it's like you're made of patience except you have to also be made of crack. I'm always a little surprised to remember that there exist people as supportive as you. You inspire me to be better for other people.

5. I've owed you candy for nearly two years now. I haven't forgotten, even if we haven't spoken for a while. I remember you every time I see that kind, and feel a little guilty inside.

6. Our friendship ended with such dignity. Or maybe I mean "paused". One can just as easily be the other, and maybe that's what I'm talking about. I still read your entries sometimes, and it makes me happy to see you doing well.

7. You are off-limits for a lot of things. This is a shame, because you are one of maybe two people I could see myself able to stand living with for any significant length of time and vice versa. After all, we've done it before. (And yeah, tried to kill each other daily, but we could be so good now.) At least our love for each other has got to be something like compulsory, by now. .... Actually, that's probably not good either.

8. I'm so sorry. You deserve so much more of me than I've been able to give, or maybe you deserve someone else who can actually give you those things. I will try to make more of an effort. I don't know why it is such an effort, besides the overhanging guilt (which is majorly counterproductive), but I can find out and deal with it. You're such a good person. Too good a person.

9. Every time you reassure me, I feel that much more comfortable. Every time we just talk probably helps too. The intimidated feeling is almost unavoidable since I've got this particular breed of awe for you. Um, so just be patient with me. I'll get over it.

10. You're the most natural teacher I know. It is really impressive. I love hearing you explaining things, no matter what they are, because you can make them so interesting and easy to grasp. All subjects of all complexities. You've patience and thoughtfulness and insane amounts of clarity of thought and expression. I wish I had some of that understanding, so that maybe I could be of more use to you. I wish I could give you the contentment you deserve.

1) Housing. I. Probably will have it?

2) Dreamed about befriending a sociopathic dude who was magicked into being this zombie-thing, and we climbed a bookloft and he tried to eat my arm or something so. So clearly I had enough sleep. ...Woke up brainless.

3) Stretched too thin. This is ridiculous. I like it.

4) I have cake. I had social interaction in RL. I have to learn how to be in three places at once so that I can live with everybody next year. Charges on mass murder, what.

5) Homework. I . maybe I should. go do that.

6) VISIBLE POST

I'm going to bed.

NOW.

I feel so accomplished.

(This doesn't actually mean I've accomplished anything. But it's the thought that counts.)

This entry is mostly pointless.

GOODNIGHT INTERNET!

Homework assignment.

I am writing about trying to make Bruce and Barbara reach an understanding and I can't do it because I don't understand Robbins. All I know is that I'm with Barbara on this one, Bruce. No maid. (It sounds less hilarious if you know that it's Bruce Robbins and Barbara Ehrenreich, but only a little bit.) These names.

...I wonder how badly Mr. Gordon will take it if I just turn in fanfiction tomorrow instead? It hardly matters; I can't write dialogue for peanuts.

No one in my class got the hilarity of one of the characters in our reading being named Terri and married to a Dr. Mel McGinnis. Dre is right; there is a conspiracy.

I love this class.




EDIT: I cheated and wrote lots and lots of introspection instead of really going at that first person. I always do this. This is why I can't quicklog. There was some "unreliable narrator" thrown in there for flavor. Yeah, academic papers need flavor. The sort of flavor where the writer is clearly a shallow and dense person, but at least now my professor knows who he's working with here.

Meme from dreadable and funeral_song and possible others but that's too far back for me to check. /:

When you see this, post your favorite poem in your journal.

( ''The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel'' )

I have no clue what you're doing, LJ, but I admit I am intrigued. Please, continue.

(Dear Flist, if I've been ignoring you for the past... I don't even know. Well. That's just because I suck. A lot. No end in sight, people, so please, no attempts at suffocation on my account.)

In most cases, it will be silly to say, “You will see less of me than you have”. Maybe in every case. Instead, I will say, “I will see less of you than I have.”

I will be seeing less of y'all than I have. Much difference it makes to you.

Computer troubles. For all my paranoia, Pewter is legitimately crazy (and seemingly irreparably dead). I'm just that good, you know? Half a year, this run.

And ye gods, it's the fifteenth.

LHC+ rap (thanks to cor who linked me) There are other links from here relating to more recent events.

Webcomics on the subject (please link me if there are more):
http://www.bunny-comic.com/index.php?id=1230
http://xkcd.com/474/

This sort of thing:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

Just jumping in on the general excitement? And there seems to be a LOT of excitement. And yet no one here (in the RL) has mentioned anything. Is there /dearthage/ of geekness? :<

EDIT: Reading The Time Traveler's Wife. Sometimes when I should be reading other things. Is meeting expectations thus far (and were high expectations).

My movieverse!Thundercracker is much harder to manipulate (transform) than I expected. And the box reads Ages 6+? It took me over ten minutes just to maneuver him out of the packaging with all of its weird twisty wire bits and tape and so on. Plus one of his knees won’t bend – I will probably need to find a screwdriver and accidentally make it pop off or something. And I keep snapping off ball-n-socket parts. Nonetheless... I’ve had a permagrin since I started playing. I am so far gone. (In jet-mode, his robot-mode head pokes out of his jet-butt. X3)

.-. Uh, this isn’t what I wanted to post about. I guess I’ll get to that later.

Hi guys, I’m going to be on vacation from June 25^th to July 21^st. To Taiwan (again!), so it will be a complete timezone flip-flop~. Online anything will be tentative since my grandparents have the kind of internet you have to disconnect your phone to use. Ahah, rats. Should've bought a laptop. Anyway, hope to still catch you guys some time!

'Least I can work on my numerous (...) RP things while on the 20 hour flight?

shyue? I am coming. To hunt you down. And chew your limbs. <3

EDIT 6/26/08 12:59am :O I LIED! Or, well, not intentionally, but my flight happened to be overbooked so I'm actually sticking around until Saturday. As I am on vacation either way, this is not a terrible thing. At least I have internet! (My priorities might be ... dreadfully skewed. :X ) So here I am, back at home. I fully intend to enjoy this time, although I imagine mother will be after me for something or other. It's awful that my internal clock is already pretty well adjusted for the other side of the planet. Ah well.

There's no way I could acquire a laptop by Saturday, is there? If I'm ordering over the internet? No, probably not, not that I've decided on any particular one yet anyway. At the very least, I can acquire a The Hush Sound CD by then. I hope.

EDIT 6/28/08 10:20pm: Typing this from an airport computer. Due to a not terribly fascinating series of events, I am in a lounge that happens to have free computers and internet. This is me taking advantage of that to do... nothing useful at all. Instead, I update my LJ.

I /ought/ to be copypasting all my Word doc.s into Notepad as my grandparents may not have word processors, but I can't find the tower for this thing so that's a no go. (My language has... deteriorated? Or was it always very suck to begin with?) Flight was delayed. Hum.

EDIT 2008/7/1 9:24am (for ME): Arrived yesterday morning, have eaten... a lot. Met a classmate at the airport and ended upactually sitting next to her, which was enormous fun, or at least funny in terms of coincidence. She's here for the Love Boat thing. Don't have anyone's contact info yet as although I haven't checked everywhere yet.

Ate some Durian. Wax apples are out of season again. (Like last year! Same time last year, in fact. No way, right? Also, I am kidding. Hur hur.) The AC is a marvelous invention. This whole family has been up and about since 5:00 am because my grandparents are nuts~!

As am getting UNNECESSARY cosmetic surgury tomorrow which entails my EYELIDS getting SEWED(still preferable to the SLICING option), will be out of commission for two days and iffy for a week. This apartment thing is not very zombie proof. ... okay, I think I'm done now.

You know the drill. No icon shuffling this year, and I'm not listing everything out again.

The Night Watch wiki page has been moved, the Universal Day of the Jedi page has been deleted, and Tolkien Reading Day has been moved to March 25th. And there has been only one other Disc acknowledgment on my Flist this year. (You all remember tmoh what drawed the Teatimes?) All is quiet - how odd. Wonder what this means. Likely nothing. For yet another change of tune, this year, A is dead! Woe, etc.

Have a safe trip, Lily-my-love. Happy anniversary-like thing.