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Nov. 26th, 2008 08:41 am- Livejournal.com has been really iffy with me in the last few days. I know some of you guys have talked about backing your LJs up-- what programs do you use and how do I go about doing that?
- Speaking of LJ, my paid account expires soon, like December 1 soon. I want to change my layout into something like, black, white, red and floral (like my room), before the account changes back into more limited settings, but I am out of ideas. Grr. Help?
- Want to know a bit of awesome? You can bake peanut butter cookies with only 3 ingredients. That's right: 1 egg, 1c sugar, and 1c peanut butter is all a girl needs to be happy in this world. (Just mix them all together, put dollops on a cookie sheet, bake on 350-375F for ~10min, and voila!)
- Live near Chicago/somewhere in the Midwest? Have no plans for the second weekend of December? Come watch Were the World Mine with fellow slashers! Sign up post and details are over here.
- Thanksgiving dragging you students down? Here's a fairly helpful article on The College Students' Guide to a Happy Thanksgiving. Am going to see if it works. :|
valentine's is temporarily postponed
Feb. 14th, 2008 06:45 amconsidering I've got an appointment with health services to take my stitches out 
and I'm having a cup of coffee with a couple 
(I third-wheel even here! I should write a book. 
Titles can be Third-Wheeling is an Art Form, Tales of the Third Wheel, Three's an Awkward Crowd, etc etc. ) AND a presentation to stress over tonight, as well 
. AND the professor is taking the class out to the nearest bar and paying, something I am keen to do with a vengeance 
as this class was all kinds of suck and stupid.
So yeah, not today. Screw the world, I'm following my own schedule.
For the rest of you, though, do enjoy today's warm fuzzies.
and I'm having a cup of coffee with a couple (I third-wheel even here! I should write a book. Titles can be Third-Wheeling is an Art Form, Tales of the Third Wheel, Three's an Awkward Crowd, etc etc. ) AND a presentation to stress over tonight, as well . AND the professor is taking the class out to the nearest bar and paying, something I am keen to do with a vengeance as this class was all kinds of suck and stupid. So yeah, not today. Screw the world, I'm following my own schedule.
For the rest of you, though, do enjoy today's warm fuzzies.
while it's still valid for most timezones
Dec. 25th, 2007 09:06 amMerry Christmas, flist! I hope it's happy for y'all. :) ♥
get in line, jo
Dec. 21st, 2007 07:41 amI've decided.
I know JKR has spun out this amazing universe and we are all in awe of it and we love it so much, but.
Plz to be stepping out of fandom territory, Jo, and let us keep our delusions. Alternatively, should you choose to do so, write your own goddamn fanfiction and keep this shit out of canon.
*cries* Astoria. Seriously. WTF.
In other news, I will be gone for most of the holidays, from tonight until mayhaps the eve of January 7 (I'll be at Line's from the 3rd to the 6th, but we'll be getting back laaaaate and we're not really gonna be around on the 5th or 6th). I wish I could say it would be because of something grand, like a first year retreat for McKinsey Business Analysts in Puerto Rico (oh, I wish), but the truth is, I will be at my cousin's, where there is no need to have broadband internet in a household of two grandparents, two early Gen-Xers, and three kids ages 6, 4, and 2.
That said: Happy Holidays, chicas! ♥
I know JKR has spun out this amazing universe and we are all in awe of it and we love it so much, but.
Plz to be stepping out of fandom territory, Jo, and let us keep our delusions. Alternatively, should you choose to do so, write your own goddamn fanfiction and keep this shit out of canon.
*cries* Astoria. Seriously. WTF.
In other news, I will be gone for most of the holidays, from tonight until mayhaps the eve of January 7 (I'll be at Line's from the 3rd to the 6th, but we'll be getting back laaaaate and we're not really gonna be around on the 5th or 6th). I wish I could say it would be because of something grand, like a first year retreat for McKinsey Business Analysts in Puerto Rico (oh, I wish), but the truth is, I will be at my cousin's, where there is no need to have broadband internet in a household of two grandparents, two early Gen-Xers, and three kids ages 6, 4, and 2.
That said: Happy Holidays, chicas! ♥
three orders of business
Nov. 26th, 2007 06:36 am- A Public Service Announcement:
Mac Users: You may want to be warned about a sort of trojan spreading around designed particularly for Quicktime users. (Though it isn't really the point of the article to which I just linked you, really. :|) - A Question
I joined a holiday card exchange community and one of the occasions we're asked to write cards about is the Winter Solstice, or Yule.
And I have no idea what sort of greetings are used for it. :| (On that note, coming from a country with primarily one religion in one area and a different one in another, I don't actually know much about Jews either.) The rest (like dates and stuff) I'm sure I can google, but if any of you do know more about this please to be telling me any special rituals or events regarding Winter Solstice? - The Christmas Card Thingy
Guys, I've already bought the cards, but I realised it would be SO much cooler if I did it another way, as inspired by the comm I previously mentioned.
If you trust me not to stalk you, please do leave me your address in a comment (I'm screening them, don't worry), along with characters you'd want to receive christmas card/greetings from, and I shall attempt to be in character for you. :| or something. maybe i'll just send you regular christmas cards. :| but you know. in case this is a good idea. :D (I DO have a seal that I've been dying to use since I bought it in Denmark, if I can only find it now. :|)
Also, my address can be found here. I think it's been arbitrarily filtered so if you can't see it but want to send me a card as well then comment and I'll add you to the filter. (S'the problem with those things--you set them up once and then forget to add people to them. :|)
ETA: If I have your address, and I may or may not have lost it, depending, I'll likely send you something still. :|
god i love western culture
Oct. 31st, 2007 03:36 pmI am loving Halloween so far. Today on the way home from the supermarket after buying candies (SWEET ones, none of this sour candy nonsense Line seems to think is NORMAL, yeesh) for little children I walked past a guy dressed up as the Nightcrawler, complete with the blue skin. At work earlier, just before my shift ended, a group of four college students dressed in costume reverse trick-or-treated and gave us candy. There has been a candy basket in the office too, for the past two days.
Back home, around this time people don't give out candy randomly to strangers, and neither do they dress up in costume. Instead they light candles and go to cemeteries to visit dead relatives while they drink and gamble and use the crypts for tables. :|
Needless to say, I prefer what happens over here.
This be my first pumpkin! Ever! Yesterday my groupmates and I were planning on practicing for our presentation that evening but one of them wanted to check out the pumpkin carving, which we did, and you know. Four foreign kids experiencing Halloween for the first time and you know what happened. :|
Pumpkin carving til 3:30, god what were we thinking?
But anyway. That was my pumpkin. :| It's meant to be Harry Potter except I didn't have time to carve his lightning bolt and his mouth because NO MORE TIME PRESENTATION IN TWO HOURS OHMYGOD.
Next year I shall finish Harry, though. Yes.
Happy Halloween Everyone!
Back home, around this time people don't give out candy randomly to strangers, and neither do they dress up in costume. Instead they light candles and go to cemeteries to visit dead relatives while they drink and gamble and use the crypts for tables. :|
Needless to say, I prefer what happens over here.
This be my first pumpkin! Ever! Yesterday my groupmates and I were planning on practicing for our presentation that evening but one of them wanted to check out the pumpkin carving, which we did, and you know. Four foreign kids experiencing Halloween for the first time and you know what happened. :|
Pumpkin carving til 3:30, god what were we thinking?
But anyway. That was my pumpkin. :| It's meant to be Harry Potter except I didn't have time to carve his lightning bolt and his mouth because NO MORE TIME PRESENTATION IN TWO HOURS OHMYGOD.
Next year I shall finish Harry, though. Yes.
Happy Halloween Everyone!
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