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sevendials) wrote2008-12-31 01:30 pm
sevendials) wrote2008-12-31 01:30 pm
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Well, that's the end of that.
Well, here I am again waiting to be picked up - this time by John - so I can move on to the next stage: going back to London and getting on with my little existance.
Probably this is no bad thing. I'm sleep-deprived and desperate for a bit of privacy in a place that doesn't constantly have people wandering in and out of on their way to the freezer or to put coats and boots away, et cetera. The plan was to stay until the 5th, but... well, the last few posts probably explain why that's a bad idea. This should at least stop me bitching so much, which is something. I really wanted to stay longer, but - no. Bad idea for so many reasons.
Also, sleep. Sleeep. I need this quite badly. I'm really looking forward to being able to sleep for as long as I damn well want without anyone accusing me of being lazy. I haven't been able to nap at all for the last few days because my mother gets annoyed with me when I do, and it's really beginning to tell. I'm teary and frustrated and overreacting to every little problem, and I reckon it's because I'm so tired all the time. Sleeping on a zed-bed and constantly being woken up by heavy footfalls and Radio motherlovin' Four doesn't exactly help.
That said, though, I'm bored. Also, I can't settle. I don't want to get too into doing anything as chances are I'll have to put it down again when John arrives. I'm just waiting, that's all, and have nothing very much to fill said wait-time with.
That means it's time for my traditional New Year meme. Well, I have to do it sometime and now, at a loose end, seems as good a time as any. I'm going to be mixing things up a little this year, though - Instead of taking only the first sentence, I think I'm going to take the first or last two or three, except where that one sentence forms one of my traditional very Short Paragraphs. I think that might make things look a little less bitty and rather more contextual, and also make it slightly more interesting to read. So, without further ado...
LiveJournal Review of the Year Meme
Go into your lj calendar. For each month, post the first sentence of the first entry for each month, and the last sentence of the last entry for each month.
This will create a summary of your lj for the year 2008. Exclude quiz sentences.
January
Everything I tried to do today took longer than it should.
Also, I did sign up for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
weissday after all. Wish me luck, I guess.
February
A revised, updated and expanded version of a comment fromwk_fic_finds.
Also because I have a cold and am currently way too sleepy to write and not have it be total crap, and it seemed like a really good idea at the time.
March
Okay, I have had a cold this past week and sundry other RL things have been happening to me to the utter detriment of my actually managing to work on myweissday prompt. This is not good as I like my weissday prompt and really want to finish it, because I feel rightly or otherwise that it's a really strong idea that I'm actually managing to do justice to.
I'm quite massively grateful that my computer decided to die after theweissday deadline...
April
First, Do No Harm Part Two: Provings. I would have had this posted days ago if it hadn't been for the undeniable (one may even say incontestable) proof that copy-editing my own fanfic weeks after the fact is far, far less fun than plotting, world-building and RPing about catboys with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pichi, who is of course made of imaginative awesome.
Which Weiss Kreuz Sue Are You meme ganked offpichi, who I am going to miss awfully over the next couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll get a new computer before then, and that will help ease the pain somewhat.
May
We recently had an election over here. Local, but still an election.
I've only posted one log so far, though, so I don't feel I have much to say about it yet other than 'I joined a group RP'. Time will tell whether this was a good idea or the worst I have ever had. No doubt there will be more on this anon, too.
June
So, there's this webcomic I read.
... yeah. I think I'll let him have the last word on this one.
July
I was going to post this to a Gaia forum, but I realized that I was putting myself at risk of cries of 'TL;DR' and 'This should be a journal post' and 'there's not enough to discuss here' and I didn't know which forum I should have posted it in anyway, so I decided not to bother with the forums at all. But, as I'd spent a little while on the post, I didn't want to delete it and move on.
I'm so sick and tired of living like this right now it's untrue.
August
Oh. Oh, dear. It appears that I, in my capacity as 'one of those mean girls from high school who made life Hell for everyone else', have once again succeeded in making a stranger hate my guts. Meet Pissed-Off Reader.
All things considered, it could be a lot worse, but I still rather wish that I didn't have to sit up all night as a result of having no bedsheets and no quilt, either. Still, I guess you live and learn. At least I don't have anything on tomorrow or Tuesday and can sleep all I want afterwards.
September
People on Gaia Online are not only stupid, bad RPers and prone to oversharing about the most ridiculous personal crises ever, they also have no taste.
So, that's largely why I'm going to take an early night and won't actually be around for conversation. Sorry, but I am exhausted.
October:
You know (wow, one word into this LJ post and I have typoed, what does OyU mean?), being generically sick with the old nausea and vomiting and coming down with something involving a fever, dizziness, exhaustion (more of it?) and aches which I hope is a cold and not a winterish version of what I already got? It sucks. A lot. Don't do it.
Anyway, must now go kill more cute things because they're there and annoy me with their cuteness, and hope not to get mauled again. I'll be back sometime soon, no doubt covered in virtual fluff.
November:
... yes, I stayed up for this. Also to talk tokay_cricketed, but I know damn well I would have been up to watch the results come in even if I hadn't had anyone online to talk to.
Instant feedback is potent stuff, and praise for your creative endeavors is wonderful, but it shouldn't stop a writer or an artist from maintaining a reasonable sense of their own limitations. Slipping into complacency at an early age instead of striving to become better is going to do untold harm to young, creative people who could have been genuinely good, if only they hadn't stopped trying.
December:
Good Christ it's December already, where has this year gone and how can it be possible that I'm finishing it in exactly the same place I was last year - no job, no money, and not much hope of getting either any time soon? Am I really totally surplus to requirements?
... but first, I suppose, I need to get Ken out of his hole. Come on, Ken, there's Youji with a shovel!
If you're curious about what 'it' seemed like a good idea at the time in that post back in February: please enjoy this painstakingly edited and lovingly, if inexpertly, computer-colored picture of Ken in his pajamas. Yes, that really is what I was referring to back then, because it's pretty and I like it and, considering he wore them in canon for a scant two seconds which is clerarly nowhere near long enough, the world can never have too many pictures of Ken in his pajamas now, can it?
A Happy New Year to all our readers, and let's hope 2009 is considerably better than 2008 was.
Probably this is no bad thing. I'm sleep-deprived and desperate for a bit of privacy in a place that doesn't constantly have people wandering in and out of on their way to the freezer or to put coats and boots away, et cetera. The plan was to stay until the 5th, but... well, the last few posts probably explain why that's a bad idea. This should at least stop me bitching so much, which is something. I really wanted to stay longer, but - no. Bad idea for so many reasons.
Also, sleep. Sleeep. I need this quite badly. I'm really looking forward to being able to sleep for as long as I damn well want without anyone accusing me of being lazy. I haven't been able to nap at all for the last few days because my mother gets annoyed with me when I do, and it's really beginning to tell. I'm teary and frustrated and overreacting to every little problem, and I reckon it's because I'm so tired all the time. Sleeping on a zed-bed and constantly being woken up by heavy footfalls and Radio motherlovin' Four doesn't exactly help.
That said, though, I'm bored. Also, I can't settle. I don't want to get too into doing anything as chances are I'll have to put it down again when John arrives. I'm just waiting, that's all, and have nothing very much to fill said wait-time with.
That means it's time for my traditional New Year meme. Well, I have to do it sometime and now, at a loose end, seems as good a time as any. I'm going to be mixing things up a little this year, though - Instead of taking only the first sentence, I think I'm going to take the first or last two or three, except where that one sentence forms one of my traditional very Short Paragraphs. I think that might make things look a little less bitty and rather more contextual, and also make it slightly more interesting to read. So, without further ado...
LiveJournal Review of the Year Meme
Instructions:
Go into your lj calendar. For each month, post the first sentence of the first entry for each month, and the last sentence of the last entry for each month.
This will create a summary of your lj for the year 2008. Exclude quiz sentences.
January
Everything I tried to do today took longer than it should.
Also, I did sign up for
weissday after all. Wish me luck, I guess.February
A revised, updated and expanded version of a comment from
wk_fic_finds.Also because I have a cold and am currently way too sleepy to write and not have it be total crap, and it seemed like a really good idea at the time.
March
Okay, I have had a cold this past week and sundry other RL things have been happening to me to the utter detriment of my actually managing to work on my
weissday prompt. This is not good as I like my weissday prompt and really want to finish it, because I feel rightly or otherwise that it's a really strong idea that I'm actually managing to do justice to.I'm quite massively grateful that my computer decided to die after the
weissday deadline...April
First, Do No Harm Part Two: Provings. I would have had this posted days ago if it hadn't been for the undeniable (one may even say incontestable) proof that copy-editing my own fanfic weeks after the fact is far, far less fun than plotting, world-building and RPing about catboys with
pichi, who is of course made of imaginative awesome.Which Weiss Kreuz Sue Are You meme ganked off
pichi, who I am going to miss awfully over the next couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll get a new computer before then, and that will help ease the pain somewhat.May
We recently had an election over here. Local, but still an election.
I've only posted one log so far, though, so I don't feel I have much to say about it yet other than 'I joined a group RP'. Time will tell whether this was a good idea or the worst I have ever had. No doubt there will be more on this anon, too.
June
So, there's this webcomic I read.
... yeah. I think I'll let him have the last word on this one.
July
I was going to post this to a Gaia forum, but I realized that I was putting myself at risk of cries of 'TL;DR' and 'This should be a journal post' and 'there's not enough to discuss here' and I didn't know which forum I should have posted it in anyway, so I decided not to bother with the forums at all. But, as I'd spent a little while on the post, I didn't want to delete it and move on.
I'm so sick and tired of living like this right now it's untrue.
August
Oh. Oh, dear. It appears that I, in my capacity as 'one of those mean girls from high school who made life Hell for everyone else', have once again succeeded in making a stranger hate my guts. Meet Pissed-Off Reader.
All things considered, it could be a lot worse, but I still rather wish that I didn't have to sit up all night as a result of having no bedsheets and no quilt, either. Still, I guess you live and learn. At least I don't have anything on tomorrow or Tuesday and can sleep all I want afterwards.
September
People on Gaia Online are not only stupid, bad RPers and prone to oversharing about the most ridiculous personal crises ever, they also have no taste.
So, that's largely why I'm going to take an early night and won't actually be around for conversation. Sorry, but I am exhausted.
October:
You know (wow, one word into this LJ post and I have typoed, what does OyU mean?), being generically sick with the old nausea and vomiting and coming down with something involving a fever, dizziness, exhaustion (more of it?) and aches which I hope is a cold and not a winterish version of what I already got? It sucks. A lot. Don't do it.
Anyway, must now go kill more cute things because they're there and annoy me with their cuteness, and hope not to get mauled again. I'll be back sometime soon, no doubt covered in virtual fluff.
November:
... yes, I stayed up for this. Also to talk to
kay_cricketed, but I know damn well I would have been up to watch the results come in even if I hadn't had anyone online to talk to.Instant feedback is potent stuff, and praise for your creative endeavors is wonderful, but it shouldn't stop a writer or an artist from maintaining a reasonable sense of their own limitations. Slipping into complacency at an early age instead of striving to become better is going to do untold harm to young, creative people who could have been genuinely good, if only they hadn't stopped trying.
December:
Good Christ it's December already, where has this year gone and how can it be possible that I'm finishing it in exactly the same place I was last year - no job, no money, and not much hope of getting either any time soon? Am I really totally surplus to requirements?
... but first, I suppose, I need to get Ken out of his hole. Come on, Ken, there's Youji with a shovel!
If you're curious about what 'it' seemed like a good idea at the time in that post back in February: please enjoy this painstakingly edited and lovingly, if inexpertly, computer-colored picture of Ken in his pajamas. Yes, that really is what I was referring to back then, because it's pretty and I like it and, considering he wore them in canon for a scant two seconds which is clerarly nowhere near long enough, the world can never have too many pictures of Ken in his pajamas now, can it?
A Happy New Year to all our readers, and let's hope 2009 is considerably better than 2008 was.