Yesterday, I deleted everything in my spam folder on my gmail account. There were 700+ messages in it. Today, I deleted everything again. There were 100+. Over 100 spam emails in the course of a single day.

Do people really have nothing better to do with their time? Honestly.

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Also: have an interview tomorrow, up at the library where I volunteer. Same branch, different department, though I've been going up to this department and helping them for a few hours once a week while I'm in the building for the past few months. Which is probably why they picked me for an interview, but jeez, this job would be awesome. It pays a ( Read more... )

Mother came home this evening, bearing a new laptop! A Samsung, 17-inch laptop that is light as a feather and quite pretty ( Read more... )

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Wow. The one-hundred-year anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, one of the worst maritime disasters to occur in peace time in history. The stories of the crew, the passengers, are embedded in our psyches. Stories of bravery, of courage. Stories of incompetence, of cowardice. We've heard it all ( Read more... )

Originally posted by marguerite_26 at All U.S. Internet Providers will be policing downloads by July 12, 2012
I'm seeing variations of this all over my flist and damn, it does not look good. I'm not sure what will be happening in Canada, but I wouldn't be surprised if we soon follow the US lead.

(this is an edited version of lk737's post hereAccording to this ( Read more... )

Spent a good chunk of the day reorganizing my bookshelves on Goodreads. I am so freaking anal about these things. *headdesk*

GOODBYE 2011!!

HELLO, 2012!!

(Please to be not blowing the world up this year kthnxbye.)

Explain the origin of your user name/pen name/etc.

Mine goes back to Star Wars, which was the first fandom I really got involved with online. This was in the days after Episode I aired, and thus I was on a huge Padmé craze. Since Anakin was referring to her as an angel (something fic writers have exploited to the point where it's become a cliché ( Read more... )