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☁ Has anyone else been having issues with Google? I can't search, I can't watch Youtube videos, Gmail won't load, none of it. But the rest of the internet seems to be fine, and I can't find anything about it being down? ARGH. This has been going on for a few days now and I'm getting really frustrated with it. I even tried switching browsers and it was still a no-go- FF had been timing out, but IE flat out told me that Google didn't exist. O_o. So: I'm generally really bad at checking my gmail, but I do know that I have at least one conversation there that I need to deal with, but I can't get into it at all to make a response. I'm really sorry. XD My hotmail username is the same as my gmail? ^_^;;;
☁ FAFSA- done. I was going to do it last week, but procrastinated Tuesday and felt too crappy Wednesday to deal with it. Whoops. Was not as bad as I had been imagining- I could even import my tax returns right into it, which was a neat little trick. The two school applications are also submitted. Am currently trying to figure out if I can get my high school to send my transcript without having to call them. XD Edit: Sweet, I can zip them an e-mail. They ask for a name and address of the person they're sending them to, though, so does that mean I should have them send the transcripts to me and then mail them back out? That seems stupid. I'm confused.
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Just sayin'. We have been flirting with Death Note since last night for the number 11 animanga spot on AO3, and next is YiGiOh. Weee~ (Though I think DN might've cottoned on to what we're doing, looks like they're fighting us a little. GO GO HIKAGO!) Qem asked me to make a banner and very helpfully proved the YuGiOh pic. Didn't turn out half bad. Lish asked me to make an icon for her the other day, too. She does that on occasion and the request this time was super simple, just a crop and cleanup, but it's just kind of weird to get graphics requests all of a sudden. XD
☁ It's supposed to be GORGEOUS tomorrow- 55 and mostly sunny! Perfect day to walk to the library. :D I've been feeling kind of shut-in, so that will probably be helpful. Maybe I can even get through the rest of the first season of Doctor Who finally, since I seem to have a block about watching it at home for some reason. XD
☁ I am now about an episode and a half through Sherlock. It's an interesting take- Sherlock actually admits to being a sociopath (in the most condescending way possible, which is pretty damn amusing), so that's definitely a different spin on the character than I've seen previously. I'm still not understanding how everyone thinks that Benedict Cumberbatch is so hot- he's rather unfortunate looking, to put it nicely. I really don't get it. I can't even blame it on the lesbian thing, really- I can recognize and appreciate when a man is good looking. It doesn't make me want to have sex with him, but I see it. This guy? Nope. Not seeing it. Fandom baffles me sometimes.
☁ After talking with Ai, I finally decided I need to get my butt back in gear and at the very least keeping track of my food intake again. I've been maintaining (within a few pound range, of course) for long enough. On the upside- apparently I've been averaging around 1700 calories a day without even TRYING- that's maintenance for where I was when I checked. So not NEARLY as bad as the 2500-3000 I was imagining, eh? :D Sooooooo I've been working on food again and am really happy with the results. 5.4 pounds since the 20th, and 2.8 pounds just in the last week. I'm not trying to brag or anything, just... happy to get the ball rolling again. ^_^;;;
☁ I feel like I should say something about the new Rush Limbaugh idiocy (in case anyone in the world could've possibly not heard by now, he is an uber conservative radio personality, and he recently called women who use birth control "sluts" and "prostitutes". Yeah. He's a vile, pathetic excuse for a human being.)..... but the thing is, the only real response I have is just gutteral rage, which looks something like "ASKDJLAJSLKAJDLSAA FUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOU". XDDD The thing that REALLY disturbs me? Mitt Romney's response was basically that "it wasn't the language I would've used." Er.... what? So the message was okay, you just wouldn't have said "slut" specifically? Not that it really surprises me, this is the general direction the Republicans have been going in for some time now, but it's just... really and truly frightening. They are so adamantly anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-poor, and so on... it terrifies me what will happen if these guys get a hold of the reigns again. Okay, Obama's not all sunshine and roses either- this new thing where the military can detain you indefinitely without any reason is just. *shudder* WAY overstepping the line, and will unfortunately have to go to the Supreme Court like everything else- but we're overall heading into at least an improved direction here. It's 2012, and the Republicans are trying to fight about birth control. REALLY? Did I step into a time machine back into the 60's and not notice? Birth control is vital to women's health in general and not just for prevention of pregnancy, but is a treatment for several medical conditions. Being on the pill doesn't mean you're having a lot of sex. It doesn't even mean you're having sex AT ALL. I was on birth control for a little while in high school in an attempt to regulate my erratic periods, though I stopped taking it because it gave me really intense nausea. I could hardly stand to be around food, much less eat anything while I was taking it. I wasn't having sex, but even if I had been... I'm gay. I kinda can't get pregnant unless I do it on purpose, so it's not like I need birth control to prevent pregnancy. And yet taking it for a perfectly legitimate medical reason makes me a slut? Like... REALLY??? That's what I keep coming back to on this, just this complete sense of utter bafflement. I'm really hoping that this is the end of the Republicans in this election. They are so clearly out of touch with the majority of Americans on so many issues it's almost laughable. It's almost as if they've forgotten that women are allowed to VOTE. And really, anybody under probably around 40 because they have pretty much always known a US with the benefits of birth control, and it's not just women who benefit. DUH. Really, if any sort of common sense prevails, these two groups ALONE will tell the Republicans to GTFO. Not even counting everyone else. What scares me is how uncommon common sense actually is in this country. I've heard it joked that the Republicans are trying really really hard to get Obama re-elected... we'll see. :/
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This has been crossposted to my DW account. You are free to comment either here or there, if you'd like to comment. Preferably here, but it doesn't really matter. Whichever one works for you. :D
☁ FAFSA- done. I was going to do it last week, but procrastinated Tuesday and felt too crappy Wednesday to deal with it. Whoops. Was not as bad as I had been imagining- I could even import my tax returns right into it, which was a neat little trick. The two school applications are also submitted. Am currently trying to figure out if I can get my high school to send my transcript without having to call them. XD Edit: Sweet, I can zip them an e-mail. They ask for a name and address of the person they're sending them to, though, so does that mean I should have them send the transcripts to me and then mail them back out? That seems stupid. I'm confused.
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Just sayin'. We have been flirting with Death Note since last night for the number 11 animanga spot on AO3, and next is YiGiOh. Weee~ (Though I think DN might've cottoned on to what we're doing, looks like they're fighting us a little. GO GO HIKAGO!) Qem asked me to make a banner and very helpfully proved the YuGiOh pic. Didn't turn out half bad. Lish asked me to make an icon for her the other day, too. She does that on occasion and the request this time was super simple, just a crop and cleanup, but it's just kind of weird to get graphics requests all of a sudden. XD
☁ It's supposed to be GORGEOUS tomorrow- 55 and mostly sunny! Perfect day to walk to the library. :D I've been feeling kind of shut-in, so that will probably be helpful. Maybe I can even get through the rest of the first season of Doctor Who finally, since I seem to have a block about watching it at home for some reason. XD
☁ I am now about an episode and a half through Sherlock. It's an interesting take- Sherlock actually admits to being a sociopath (in the most condescending way possible, which is pretty damn amusing), so that's definitely a different spin on the character than I've seen previously. I'm still not understanding how everyone thinks that Benedict Cumberbatch is so hot- he's rather unfortunate looking, to put it nicely. I really don't get it. I can't even blame it on the lesbian thing, really- I can recognize and appreciate when a man is good looking. It doesn't make me want to have sex with him, but I see it. This guy? Nope. Not seeing it. Fandom baffles me sometimes.
☁ After talking with Ai, I finally decided I need to get my butt back in gear and at the very least keeping track of my food intake again. I've been maintaining (within a few pound range, of course) for long enough. On the upside- apparently I've been averaging around 1700 calories a day without even TRYING- that's maintenance for where I was when I checked. So not NEARLY as bad as the 2500-3000 I was imagining, eh? :D Sooooooo I've been working on food again and am really happy with the results. 5.4 pounds since the 20th, and 2.8 pounds just in the last week. I'm not trying to brag or anything, just... happy to get the ball rolling again. ^_^;;;
☁ I feel like I should say something about the new Rush Limbaugh idiocy (in case anyone in the world could've possibly not heard by now, he is an uber conservative radio personality, and he recently called women who use birth control "sluts" and "prostitutes". Yeah. He's a vile, pathetic excuse for a human being.)..... but the thing is, the only real response I have is just gutteral rage, which looks something like "ASKDJLAJSLKAJDLSAA FUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOU". XDDD The thing that REALLY disturbs me? Mitt Romney's response was basically that "it wasn't the language I would've used." Er.... what? So the message was okay, you just wouldn't have said "slut" specifically? Not that it really surprises me, this is the general direction the Republicans have been going in for some time now, but it's just... really and truly frightening. They are so adamantly anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-poor, and so on... it terrifies me what will happen if these guys get a hold of the reigns again. Okay, Obama's not all sunshine and roses either- this new thing where the military can detain you indefinitely without any reason is just. *shudder* WAY overstepping the line, and will unfortunately have to go to the Supreme Court like everything else- but we're overall heading into at least an improved direction here. It's 2012, and the Republicans are trying to fight about birth control. REALLY? Did I step into a time machine back into the 60's and not notice? Birth control is vital to women's health in general and not just for prevention of pregnancy, but is a treatment for several medical conditions. Being on the pill doesn't mean you're having a lot of sex. It doesn't even mean you're having sex AT ALL. I was on birth control for a little while in high school in an attempt to regulate my erratic periods, though I stopped taking it because it gave me really intense nausea. I could hardly stand to be around food, much less eat anything while I was taking it. I wasn't having sex, but even if I had been... I'm gay. I kinda can't get pregnant unless I do it on purpose, so it's not like I need birth control to prevent pregnancy. And yet taking it for a perfectly legitimate medical reason makes me a slut? Like... REALLY??? That's what I keep coming back to on this, just this complete sense of utter bafflement. I'm really hoping that this is the end of the Republicans in this election. They are so clearly out of touch with the majority of Americans on so many issues it's almost laughable. It's almost as if they've forgotten that women are allowed to VOTE. And really, anybody under probably around 40 because they have pretty much always known a US with the benefits of birth control, and it's not just women who benefit. DUH. Really, if any sort of common sense prevails, these two groups ALONE will tell the Republicans to GTFO. Not even counting everyone else. What scares me is how uncommon common sense actually is in this country. I've heard it joked that the Republicans are trying really really hard to get Obama re-elected... we'll see. :/
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This has been crossposted to my DW account. You are free to comment either here or there, if you'd like to comment. Preferably here, but it doesn't really matter. Whichever one works for you. :D