Phew. I have been reading and reading after the giant freakout the Valleywag post created! (I suppose technically the layoffs are the source of the reason to freak out, but the sensational tone of the post did not help.) I can't see LJ at work any more, as you know, so I had to wait until now.

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Snidegrrl was something that jwiv came up with when I was signing up along with him and CC for some online flight sim whose name is escaping me. the logic at the time was that I wanted to let other people know I was female (to up the visibility of women in gaming) but discourage flirting. I just kept it. ( Read more... )

It was on this day 7 years ago that I made my very first Livejournal post*. Wow. I can't even recall what my original icon was, but here's an amusing retrospective of icons of me over the past few years, from slightly before I started diaryland to, well, see icon for this post. Last June. :)


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Once again, I have thought, "Gee, maybe I should just try this S2 style thing" and once again, I have come away angry and mean like a cobra.

I was looking at oontzgrrl's awesome layout, which she told me she found from a kind (unemployed/teenaged I assume) soul in freelayouts. After spending about 15 minutes there going "WTF" I thought maybe this was time to again ( Read more... )

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Notes from before the lake:( one )

okay, so first off: i haven't been reading that much livejournal. i sneak in a comment here and there but there's so much, it's so overwhelming. many of my friends are going through tough times and some i probably don't even know about. i hesitate to think this way, but before livejournal, i wouldn't even have known about three quarters of these ( Read more... )

Let me boil down the interests meme for you: my rare interests are 32 hour work week, a.r.luria, crappy beer, diverticulitis, dramtreeo, fighting subtle evil subtly, flannel-lined jeans, ford aspire, handling sin, mmpi, norfolk academy, richard jury, seventies decor, teeko and muffin, and wide nib pens. Runners up: atari 800, port salut, whquestion ( Read more... )

i am sending this message out from the void. no internet at home and no time at new job! still vaguely intimidated by uberboss français. moved into house. still a number of things at old apartment. sigh... i wish i had boughta truck, kind of. cat settling in but possibly lonely all day without other cats around. several invaluable folks helped us ( Read more... )