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sevendials) wrote2009-12-31 03:49 pm
sevendials) wrote2009-12-31 03:49 pm
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So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
... yeah, still locked out of my house. Can't get online at all at Richard's, because while they do have a net connection, they don't have anything like a net-capable computer that I can actually use. Richard's mother needs her laptop for work, a state which for her appears to be endless and unceasing, and Richard himself worships at the altar of the Mighty Apple, so none of my documents or programs would actually work on his machine.
I'm currently bumming a net connection - and computer, for that matter - off the endlessly patient![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rokesmith. For obvious reasons I can't stick around for hours (and I dearly wish I could) but I can at least update my LJ.
At this time of the year, of course, that means only one thing - my traditional yearly meme-style roundup of everything that's been going on, at least as far as it pertains to the first and last entries I made in every month so far - not including this one where December is counted, of course, because I haven't written it yet and it wouldn't be a true reflection of the randomness that this meme should consist of. I guess four years makes it a tradition and, for lack of any better ideas what I should do (in an LJ sense of the word) to usher in the new year, this seems as good as any. Here's hoping at least some of what I uncover is at last vaguely amusing.
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
2009 is off to an absolutely fucking abysmal start.
Cross-posted (eventually) to That Other Top-Sekrit Spork Journal of mine.
February
My website, for the three of you who like to visit it in all its pointlessness, is likely to be offline for a while.
Sadly, there's nowhere near as many of them about, so it's going to take a little time... You could watch this space, but I won't blame you if you decide not to.
March
According to Photobucket - or at least its annoying adolescent userbase - the way to prove you're a true friend is to act like a total, raving bitch to anyone who displeases your 'BFF', out of whose back passage the sun, of course, shines brighter than day because they're like your friend and you're both way more special and awesome than anyone else, like, ever and they all like totally deserve it.
All I'm asking for is a little proportion.
April
Okay, so this post and the entirely pointless graphics that can be found therein took a lot of time and effort I could have spent more productively on writing or icon-making or... well, practically anything else, but I've felt so tired and iffy the last few days it's probably better for all concerned that I just go with the (deeply stupid) flow.
Call me old-fashioned, but I can't help thinking some things are best done by actual detectives.
May
... I'm going to try and write a novel.
Shouldn't I be more mature than this?
June
It often seems to me that the truly worrying thing about Mary Sues isn't character rape or bad prose or even wish-fulfilment.
Hopefully of course it won't come to that, but better safe than sorry.
July
So, there was this girl who started a thread in Gaia Online's Picture Post forum, showing off a really, dramatically not very good doodle she had done 'in like three minuets' while she was at work.
Needless to say the Suethor deleted my review utterly unacknowledged within about a day of receiving it. Sigh.
August
In the wake of finally finishing Through a Glass Darkly I have decided to try, in the vernacular, to push my luck a little bit... at least as far as fanfiction goes.
Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
September
... but I just changed my LJ layout for the first time in over a year.
Bonus gems: comparison of the whole situation to faculty committees, a flouncing kitten icon and, just when you think it can't possibly get any wankier, furbashing.
October:
So, now to backdate some shit to make it look as if I actually use this thing from time to time.
AT LEAST I'M HONEST ABOUT MY FAILINGS and let it be hoped that I am a better author than HTML... webpage... coder thing, otherwise I am in serious trouble.
November:
Warning: There are TV Tropes links in this post.
I'm just dispirited enough by rampant fangirl misogyny that I'm not sure I want to subject myself to any more of it, no matter what the author's rationale behind it may be.
December:
... to borrow a title from Private Eye.
I plan to get online at least a couple of times in the interim, but don't expect to see that much of me until this shit sorts itself out.
So, the year starts with me wrestling with the benefits agency and ends with me locked out of my house. To say this year wasn't exactly the improvment on 2008 I hoped it would be would be... well, entirely accurate. It was, in fact, more of the same, just with me looking another year older. Good Christ. Something's got to give lest I end up giving up totally and going and becoming some kind of weird agnostic version of a nun. Are there such things as agnostic nuns? I feel like there should be, if only to get some of us religiously confused yet deeply charitable ladies off the streets, and I can be charitable if I actually have any damn money to do it with, CHRIST. Gah. Okay, next year will be better.
One thing I am grateful for, though, is that the festive season is drawing to a close. Nothing against the festive season, mind, but it does get to the point where it starts to feel like Sunday every day for about a week, if not slightly longer. Some kind of awareness of what day it actually was would be nice, and for that reason alone I'm eagerly awaiting the return of normal service.
So: anyone got a job they can give me? Go on, gissa job.
I'm currently bumming a net connection - and computer, for that matter - off the endlessly patient
rokesmith. For obvious reasons I can't stick around for hours (and I dearly wish I could) but I can at least update my LJ.At this time of the year, of course, that means only one thing - my traditional yearly meme-style roundup of everything that's been going on, at least as far as it pertains to the first and last entries I made in every month so far - not including this one where December is counted, of course, because I haven't written it yet and it wouldn't be a true reflection of the randomness that this meme should consist of. I guess four years makes it a tradition and, for lack of any better ideas what I should do (in an LJ sense of the word) to usher in the new year, this seems as good as any. Here's hoping at least some of what I uncover is at last vaguely amusing.
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
2009 is off to an absolutely fucking abysmal start.
Cross-posted (eventually) to That Other Top-Sekrit Spork Journal of mine.
February
My website, for the three of you who like to visit it in all its pointlessness, is likely to be offline for a while.
Sadly, there's nowhere near as many of them about, so it's going to take a little time... You could watch this space, but I won't blame you if you decide not to.
March
According to Photobucket - or at least its annoying adolescent userbase - the way to prove you're a true friend is to act like a total, raving bitch to anyone who displeases your 'BFF', out of whose back passage the sun, of course, shines brighter than day because they're like your friend and you're both way more special and awesome than anyone else, like, ever and they all like totally deserve it.
All I'm asking for is a little proportion.
April
Okay, so this post and the entirely pointless graphics that can be found therein took a lot of time and effort I could have spent more productively on writing or icon-making or... well, practically anything else, but I've felt so tired and iffy the last few days it's probably better for all concerned that I just go with the (deeply stupid) flow.
Call me old-fashioned, but I can't help thinking some things are best done by actual detectives.
May
... I'm going to try and write a novel.
Shouldn't I be more mature than this?
June
It often seems to me that the truly worrying thing about Mary Sues isn't character rape or bad prose or even wish-fulfilment.
Hopefully of course it won't come to that, but better safe than sorry.
July
So, there was this girl who started a thread in Gaia Online's Picture Post forum, showing off a really, dramatically not very good doodle she had done 'in like three minuets' while she was at work.
Needless to say the Suethor deleted my review utterly unacknowledged within about a day of receiving it. Sigh.
August
In the wake of finally finishing Through a Glass Darkly I have decided to try, in the vernacular, to push my luck a little bit... at least as far as fanfiction goes.
Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
September
... but I just changed my LJ layout for the first time in over a year.
Bonus gems: comparison of the whole situation to faculty committees, a flouncing kitten icon and, just when you think it can't possibly get any wankier, furbashing.
October:
So, now to backdate some shit to make it look as if I actually use this thing from time to time.
AT LEAST I'M HONEST ABOUT MY FAILINGS and let it be hoped that I am a better author than HTML... webpage... coder thing, otherwise I am in serious trouble.
November:
Warning: There are TV Tropes links in this post.
I'm just dispirited enough by rampant fangirl misogyny that I'm not sure I want to subject myself to any more of it, no matter what the author's rationale behind it may be.
December:
... to borrow a title from Private Eye.
I plan to get online at least a couple of times in the interim, but don't expect to see that much of me until this shit sorts itself out.
So, the year starts with me wrestling with the benefits agency and ends with me locked out of my house. To say this year wasn't exactly the improvment on 2008 I hoped it would be would be... well, entirely accurate. It was, in fact, more of the same, just with me looking another year older. Good Christ. Something's got to give lest I end up giving up totally and going and becoming some kind of weird agnostic version of a nun. Are there such things as agnostic nuns? I feel like there should be, if only to get some of us religiously confused yet deeply charitable ladies off the streets, and I can be charitable if I actually have any damn money to do it with, CHRIST. Gah. Okay, next year will be better.
One thing I am grateful for, though, is that the festive season is drawing to a close. Nothing against the festive season, mind, but it does get to the point where it starts to feel like Sunday every day for about a week, if not slightly longer. Some kind of awareness of what day it actually was would be nice, and for that reason alone I'm eagerly awaiting the return of normal service.
So: anyone got a job they can give me? Go on, gissa job.