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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means by Upstart-crow@livejournal.
My thoughts:
You know the other thing that's been pissing me off in particular? The obviousness that the only oppressive regime these people appear to know a damn thing about, is the Third Reich.
They don't know about Chile. They don't know about Ecuador. They've apparently forgotten all about Iran since Michael Jackson died.
But Nazis. They know about Nazis, hell yeah. And not one of the simpletons takes the time to consider just why it is they have that analogy come to mind so freely. That it was so bad, and did so much damage that it's being inscribed in popular consciousness in the hope that it is never, ever, repeated because it can and should never be forgotten.
Privileged, sheltered, too special for reality - wankers!
Also? Calling a black identified biracial man, the same as fricking HITLER takes a special kind of stupid and shows their true purpose and irrational fear.
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2009. The Racethulu of White American fears makes itself known.
And a point I just realized I didn't make too clearly. They know about Nazism, they 'claim' and yet they dilute the term and disrespect the dead like this without a blinking fricking pause.
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Let me tell you all about the deep sleep I did not get. Why? Because someone's car alarm went off and wouldn't shut up. Loud, constant beeping, over and over again. My bedroom? One small garden away from the road and street parking.
I don't know how long it went on, really, but this was no mere beep beep, chirp chirp and then someone came and turned it off. This was me, trying to go back to sleep and put a pillow over my head, only to wake up a bit later and the beep was STILL going on. This was me trying to continue to sleep because I could hear the rain outside and knew there wasn't much point in me hobbling in the rain to find the car, cause it's not like a swift kick, even if I could manage a swift kick at 2 tons of steel, would stop the damn thing.
Wake up, turn over, pull pillow tighter - repeat.
Woke up just now because some ass was playing -music- loud. After the car alarm that got me pissed enough to get up, pull on a jumper and hobble my ass outside to see wtf was going on. At least this time I knew someone would be at the vehicle in question. But just as I started up the outdoor stairs to the garden (3 steps - I love my place but it is neither cane or wheelchair friendly), the music cut off. I didn't see the car, but I saw the man responsible for the music-noise, going up stairs to his place of abode. I think I might recognize him. I hope I do, cause the next time I'm out and about, should I see him going to or from his car - I really want to go "Excuse me, but wtf is up with your noise pollution?"
Seriously, why is there a generation absolutely determined to go deaf before they hit forty? I'm gonna take a wild guess and say I'm pretty sure the Deaf Community does not want stupid people seeking entrance.
Anyway, there went restful sleep. Goodbye REM. And after only getting five hours previously. 8 hours where only a few of them where me hitting REM, is less good, I think, than five hours with REM (or it's possible equal depending on how long that car alarm was going off).
Well crap to my health.
And yeah, possibly someone's car was broken into - but since they weren't around to realize this fact AND TURN OFF THE DAMN ALARM, my sympathy is limited.
Re: Title - If I had a shotgun the world really wouldn't be safe, but could I wield it liberally (and legally) in people's faces, the world sure as HELL would be quiet.
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I've just spent an hour (2 hrs ago) trying to reconfigure my DSL. First there was all sorts of 'activate cookies for IE' and nothing I did worked. SO I restarted and eventually even turned off my firewall. And then I finally got 'Cookies? Yes?'To come up on screen. But even after clicking yes - DIPSHITNADA.
So I restart again and suddenly my password and username don't FRIGGING MATCH
This happens three times.
Finally it accepts it and I realize I no longer give a shit about the free Popmail access to Yahoo!Mail this would allow me. I'd rather go through the last remaining emails I get sent to me and change email addies by hand (what I've been doing since 10:45pm EST).
As I try to find my way out of the system, I realize that this would also want to connect my current yahoo username to my Verizon Account.
THE STREAMS WOULD CROSS.
Double trouble for no effing good reason - Why did I ever think this was a solution to dealing with the last few entanglements/disentanglements of my yahoo addy?
In other news, Photobucket is apparently fine with no personal info from me - until I want to change my email then it's all Last Name! Birthdate! Gimme gimme! So that's not getting changed.
PS: Y'know what would be cool on Dwee? Scroll down tags. This type and have things show up really doesn't work for me. I don't need prompts. I need this thing to remember what I've previously labeled things so I don't end up with tags like: wtf?, wtf!, wtf
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The more I see people ask questions about OpenID. The more I realize how many people didn't pay attention to the many explanations and diagrams and all sorts of bullet point entries I and many others put up two years ago.
The more I seriously want to give up on my reading list on LJ because I feel more and more like I went through the trouble of being able to communicate and read and keep up with them, but many of them never bothered with me. I'm recognizing who I haven't seen post to me in 2 years and realizing it's not that they were busy.
I happen to hve one friendship that dropped completely - the person then said they wanted to make things right again, and yet... I never hear from them.
I think when DW goes OpenBeta, I might just stop interacting at ALL on Livejournal except for one community. And I need to log into my old lj account for that.
Yeah, this is how DW will be changing my life. If you're not an orc, and you're not on DW, I just won't go through all this fuss anymore trying to stay current. Heck, I'm probably talking to the effing choir that does take the time to stay in contact with me through feeds and the people I'll be dropping probably can't even see this.
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Actually I don't think. I've been told by good friends that I am antisocial. But I haven't realized how much until getting a DW account. All of a sudden people I don't know are subscribing to me. And I can't block them the way I would on Twitter. And I'm wondering when the hell did I get so insular and twitching about unknowns reading.
I think 2 years on iJay with a very small readership has me in 'Small Town Mode'. And DW, at least for the moment is a 'Big City'.
*hugs flist here*
So not giving you guys up.
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Does anyone else who uses Thunderbird have any idea why my IMAP folders disapepared? I need some help. First Outlook Express was eating mail, then I thought to give Thunderbird a try and it does come with good add-ons, but now I have Outlook Express open again so I can be sure I'm getting my mail (Currently I'm not)
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Y'know, I had my beef with livejournal. I was angry and bitter and needed time to step back and heal. And I had arguments with ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/openid-profile.gif) zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com because she was tired of hearing my anger about LJ and ended up saying something about it and we had it out.
But today I found myself with a whole lot to read about DW and how much people are afraid of it, don't like it because of who created it (and I have to admit to having a personal bias there cause Denise kicked on iJay and will forever have me giving her cut eye over that) and people also don't believe there will be 'The Great Fannish Migration' - so they're not even going to bother... blah blah blah.
Today was apparently 'Air Your Cynicism Day'.
Truthfully I do not believe in a Great Fannish Migration. Y'all are lazy asses. Those who aren't lazy asses moved back in 2007. That's my belief and you're not going to shake it from me. However, I do believe in good code and usability and I do believe in community.
( Cause this got a little extended. *adds cut tag* )
Yeah this got a little tl:dr. Some of you may not read it. It's not actually a great big 'Hurrah For DreamWidth'. But it is 'WTF people, you're not even giving them a CHANCE!'. I like to think the people reading this are intelligent enough to take the reminders contained therein that point out the differences between DreamWidth and Danga Interactive Clone Sites. I'd also like to think they're not spoiling from two years of bitterness over their social circles (fans or not fans) not moving when they moved and are upset that it takes something shinier than iJay to get people to lift their metaphorical lard asses.
DeeWee is shiny. Yes. But it's shiny in the way that LJ hasn't been in a couple of years. It's shiny on the back end.
Try it or don't try it. But really, you've got no ground to open your mouth if you haven't tried it / if you haven't read the updates / if you only have word of mouth.
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* If, and so far the things that DeeWee has promised, it has delivered on, there ends up being a way to read flocked posts via rss feeds on one's DeeWee reading list, it will make DeeWee accounts less likely to go inactive.
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PS: All y'all snarky ass bitches talking about the drama of fannish life and what will happen due to access or not access? You'd be finding something else to bitch about re: 'Teh Dramaz' and we all know it. People bring the drama, not just fans.
PPS: Having now had some confirmation that some folk haven't bothered following or reading me on iJay and it wasn't just they had nothing to say - thus lack of comments. I am cleaning house, both for my iJay and in who I'll grant access to on DW.
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This is a link to Karnythia's journal on LJ, with an embedded clip of a pretty but stupid man talking about how it's ok for sex to hurt the vagina. This man must not be allowed to breed.
And yes, I fully think making sure women can recognize him on sitesight and go 'Oh hellz no - nuh uh. Goodbye' is a PSA.
Just look at his face even. I couldn't make it past his 'Sex isn't supposed to be enjoyable for women the female'
Seriously, people like him make me glad I'm both a lesbian and currently celibate. Cause who wants to discover that when clothes start coming off. There are women currently in jail cause they found that in bed with them.
*shudders*
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| 2009-03-30 12:39 |
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One can no longer pay for grocery orders by check (if purchasing online) from the grocery store I use. I called and they said to stick in a note of 'special instructions - paying by check' and they'll look up my order history in their system, cause only long time customers can use check now. Of course they also said there would be a section CALLED 'special instructions'.
There wasn't.
I stuck the note in under Delivery Instructions.
Perhaps I should have stuck the note in under 'Substitutions etc...'
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It is so very easy to believe this is real and not some sort of misguided, ill times, not quite April Fool's joke.
SCI FI Channel to rebrand to....SYFY.
I guess this will make it easier for her to stick wrestling on or something?
Goodbye SciFi channel, goodbye ringed planet logo, goodbye channel who gave me Nightmare Cafe and more.
I'm seriously beginning to understand 'adults' and stuff better. I mean I could not have imagined not turning on my tv for days at a time in the past. These days? Weeks can fly by.
And of course all this is just making me hold on, all the tighter, to my DVD collection.
PS: Tagline = Imagine Greater. Imagine Greater - Executives? Imagine Greater What?
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I can't sleep and this is not at all helped by getting email from my mother, that I start reading before I realize what it is.
What it is is a breakdown of exactly what transpired, according to the court report, or whatever, to Rhianna. ( One sentence desc here. Possibly disturbing )
Now I really can't sleep!
I've lived this shit! With my Mom! Seriously Mom, WTF?!!
ETA: Yeah, there's a reason I've been avoiding hearing about it and have instead stuck to hoping Rhianna let charges go through.
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| 2009-02-14 02:48 |
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I must be WAY out of fandom to have not heard the news until now that the talks to have Jessica Biel play Chun Lie ended and the role went to KK. Possibly SV fans have been discussing this, but I avoid SV discussions like a vampire avoids sunlight. I want to live.
I went to the website and watched the trailer and well, the trailer seems dark, or maybe that's my monitor. Though the whole thing looks dark; dark lighting, dark sets.... I can at least tell that she managed to hold a pose and she's used to working with special effects they put in after.
On the other hand - it's a bad sign for me to recognize all the bad guy actors. So maybe I'll catch this somewhere other than a movie theater. But!
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bridgetmkennitt, though I'm sure you've known already - KK, martial arts movie. Her character stays Asian! And you could watch her kick buttocks.
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Judges Sentence Teenagers To Detention Centers For Kickbacks. While this makes a good movie of the week, or even a possible plotline in some future novel (or an episode of Batman Beyond) - WHAT THE FUCK???
I don't care about the races of the teenagers sent for extended time to these centers. I care about the injustice of such an occurrence and the corruption of the city. WTF? Is the whole damn country of America simply nothing but GOTHAM BEFORE BATMAN???!!!!
ETA: Apparently this has been in the news for days. I've apparently missed it because I've been dealing with exhaustion issues. I'm still filled with WTF though. Serious, WTF??!!!
Was it Pennsylvania or Massachusetts that did something similar with private agencies for those with certain mental disabilities or behavioral disabilities. I can't remember now. But I know it involved backpacks that gave 'mild electrocution' to the varied inmates.
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Jews. Masons. Crazy + Google = Jackie Mason & The Jewish Mason Dixon Line.
Can I get a little help from any Jews on my flist? I was reading over at kita0610 and saw something mentioned "Judo Mason Conspiracy" also 'Jews. Masons. Crazy'. Can I get some links or extra context?
( I'm so confused )
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What does it mean when your backstory feels more interesting and engaging than the story you want to tell NOW? What if you can't even figure out what story you want to tell NOW. You just know how the backstory goes. But the reason you don't want to write it, is because it's all been done before / it's areas and topics that have been crossed before / you're bored with reading all this done before stuff.
I don't want to re-invent the wheel!
And yet as much as I want to know what happens NEXT (or in my case 10 years later), I don't have any story ideas at all. I've got one 'And then he comes home'. And after I describe that? Poof. Nothing.
But my head goes sparking off for the back-story, seeing layers and possibilities and how it relates to other characters in that universe.
It's very.... odd.
Is it fighting the story that wants to be told? Is it hard headedness?
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| 2009-01-29 02:34 |
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Dear Anonymous Poster,
I've no idea what you thought would happen, or how you thought I'd respond to the post you linked me to: Dear Blue States. I do not find the writing to be oozing with White Privilege, not do I think the women who wrote it are 'bitches' or 'horrible human beings'.
In fact I'm rather impressed and grateful that someone's taken the time to point out that the North of the US isn't the bastion of upright clean living, never a problem with race or class or misogyny in sight that some Northerners would like to claim. I'm glad someone pointed out that Dr. King agitated in the South but Malcom X was agitating in the North. And that they were both addressing two angles of the same problem in two somewhat different environments.
I didn't see someone claiming credit for the Civil Right's movement - I saw writing claiming that the movement was born in the South - yes, due to particularly inhumane treatments (which they included mention of). I saw mention of the attitude that Northern Universities & Colleges are better; A writing off of a whole section of the country and swathes of people. A thinking I fell into myself in highschool because I heard no one talking about schools outside the coasts.
I saw someone actually mentioning the plight of the Chinese who also helped build America and regularly don't get any credit for it what so ever.
I saw subtext that this thinking of Red and Blue States is what President Obama was working against. It's all the US. It all has shameful history. It is two halves of Manifest Destiny; the half that thought it, and momentarily held the immigrants (it wanted rid of) that would then be pushed act on it, alongside the half that yes, did take it up and strike forward feeling it was their superior right as Northern educated, blue blood/old money white men. I also saw the subtext that just as the blame in the country has two sides, so does the trembling hope for the future and some confusion about the path to take to get there and many people, mostly willing to go at it and figure it out themselves or with a little help.
So no, I don't think it was 'a dreadful piece of crap'. I really don't.
Moreover I find it telling that someone EVER wrote a Dear Red States Letter where they basically threw aside and away all the black folk who LIVE in the south along with all the white. So please, don't bother to comment on my journal again. It seems obvious to me that you've no idea at all of what I'm like and we have two very different world views that will just not be aligned. And I'm rather glad you don't have a journal, because now I don't have to take the little extra energy and ban it.
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Right, so I spent the night dealing with sadness, depression and oddly enough lovely friends. Of course their loveliness only added to the crying. But that's not my point. Remember the Dove Evolution ad? Go on, youtube the words and you'll find it. Well I remember that it clued me in to the exact details of how models don't look anything like themselves in the final product. I had always had a general sense and then a bit more when it came time for me to do my own dabblings in photoshop, but this made it specific for me.
Then last night came PhotoshopDisasters. The next time I hear my sister mention working herself to the bone to exercise and stay fit and not be fat (she's taken after our mother in a serious way and is very petite but worries because Mom, is well, Mom) I'm going to point her to this site. Because it made me realize that as a whole, we the general public, myself included, no longer know what a real human body looks like. Specifically we don't know what a real female body looks like.
( Cause this gets long... )
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Blu Ray vs DVD.
SA has my unhappy thoughts.
Cusswords under the cut, since my dad reads my blog.
( Bad word bad word completely stinking badword )
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Dear bridgetmkennitt,
My computer heard 'Possible early retirement/shift worker/backup?' and decided to do I don't know what. But things are happening. Slightly scary things. If the time has passed and your comp monitor has gone to someone else - no worries. I'll just be getting myself a monitor for Christmas (or begging my mother for one) instead of an mp3 player.
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C/P Comment:
So I read this on Sunday and then I came back to read it again because I was still so completely 'OMGWTFSeriously?'. Your parody did more to blow my mind at this than all the reviews I've read. Probably especially since I thought Mormon + Vampire Book must mean ex-Mormon and then I found out - uhmm, not so much.
Actually commenting because this is the umpteenth time I've heard the Buffy/Angel ripoff in comments to this and I still maintain it's a ROSWELL ripoff of Liz and Max. The whole 'stalk you cause I love you' + 'save your life, reveal what I am' + 'me and my merry band of non humans' + 'it's too dangerous for you to be a part of our lives but omg I looooves you'.
I'm seriously rethinking Roswell now, pondering if there were Mormon analogies within it that went over my head the way Narnia's Christian analogies did.(Seriously, I thought Aslan represented Baldur & the White Queen was a female Loki - thus the reverse from fire to ice) Because for the first time I find myself thinking - Mormons as Aliens? Making the Feds the bad guys? That... should my brain go there?
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| 2008-11-23 05:13 |
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Tobias Buckell. Ill. Hospitalized.
WTF WORLD?!!!!
I'm glad he's at home now but freaking freaker fricassee?! The world is not supposed to go scary and freak ass weird right now.
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Jason Momoa was attacked. The idiot who did it has been charged. He attacked Momoa with a pint beer bottle. To the face. The actor needed 140 stitches and reconstructive surgery. On one of the websites reporting it, someone claimed (in a comment to the news byte article) to be the brother of the attacker and claimed it was not an unprovoked attacked; Jason hit on his brother and his brother responded.
I don't know what offends me more.
That people think violence is excusable.
That people think violence as a reaction against a show of attraction by the same sex is excusable.
Or that people think claiming an actor is gay on a site talking about him being attacked and injured is daring. Because people think saying someone (an actor/celebrity) is gay, is a possible flame/insult.
Yes, I know trolls are trolls and say trollish bullshit. I understand this fact. On the internet one is anonymous and fools come out to play. But I'm still angry as fire and offended by it.
I have found out that an exec from SGA has spoken to Momoa and that he's fine and recovering and aware that his fans send him their well wishes. That's a comforting thought to me, because my first thought was Lisa Bonet going 'Oh fuck, baby, hot damn! What he did to you?!' And his child being terrified that Daddy looks so hurt.
ETA: Gay comment was comment & bottle to -face-
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I'm not finished reading this ?something? on Firefly by LJ's _allecto_. It's called A Rapist's View of the World: Joss Whedon and Firefly
Annnnd I'm having some issues. Like I said, I'm not even halfway through this already but I want to roll my eyes the way the poster claims the sight of Zoe calling Mal 'Sir' made her want to roll her eyes. I find myself going - Yeah, cause it's so horrible that in a military command, the second in charge person is a black woman who calls her commanding officer sir, cause y'know, that's what you do in the military.
Then she goes on to say how Mal tells the black woman to shut up, later on in the first few scenes of the pilot and that it's horrifying and sending a terrifying message of how much Joss Whedon hates women because Mal's quoted as saying "Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.” Because Kaylee's being cheerful.
I find myself going 'Wow, way to reach for the histrionics'. Like I've never told anyone (young children even) how I want to hang them from their ankles and dunk them in cold water. OMG. Someone call child protective services!
Then there's the part where there's snark over Inara apparently - ‘Companion’, Joss Whedon’s euphemism for prostituted women. Cause apparently courtesan's, such as y'know, the courtesans of Venice in the was it 14th century (?) etc, who were women who controlled their own fates and status via sex and were so rich that legally wedded wives felt threatened and instituted clothing and appearance laws - isn't something the OP is aware of.
I just can't read anymore. I can't take this individual (the OP) seriously. This is feminism?
I mean I think there are some skuzzy issues surrounding all of Joss' work and Firefly has the largest issues mostly because he didn't get 7 yrs to correct himself, just 14 episodes and 2 hours of movie. But seriously?
I think I can almost understand why people think the words 'Lesbian Feminist' mean some white woman with a knife is going to self conjure into the room and castrate any male being she sees.
The OP continues her screed on a wordpress blog here. She calls a male feminist a 'magical unicorn' (zombiemallet Don't even look. She's not worth it. You'll upset yourself. I'm telling you now. DO NOT GO THERE). And talks about how he seemingly out of nowhere came to the conclusion that she believes all sex is rape and disagrees with her on that point. But that's where my mind was headed too, so I wonder if that makes me a magical unicorn - oh wait, I'm gay, black and female. I already am.
Yeah... I'm just gonna move on and be glad I dumped the terms feminism and feminist out of my personal dictionary way back in the beginning of the year. Cause ... yeah. It's like seeing the crazy uncle at a family reunion with alcohol in one hand and his dick out his fly that he's holding in the other. It's just 'Someone get him some strong medication and lock him up in a room where he can't harm anyone'.
ETA: Apparently this was craziness that went around last year that I missed somehow.
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So my internet is paid for by my landlady, lovely woman. Tonight my internet started shorting. OMFG Verizon. Your stupid modem is dead. Luckily I have an old modem to use. But how the hell is one meant to survive without internet to access the effing phone number and other contact details to tell Verison that one's cheap little pos modem is dead?
So tomorrow that's what I have to do. I have to call, if I can't get it to work with the extra modem I have, my landlady and tell her that my modem has died. Ugh. I seriously don't want to deal with people right now. I'm trying to adjust to the new guy therapist, and winter and pain and finding some kind of flow in tidying things up and ugh. Everytime the landlady shows up I feel an utter failure. But I have to tell her cause the information is all in her name. Shit.
And it's not accepting the spare modem. I'm gonna go through the proper steps to certify the regular modem is dead before doing anything else. Right now I'm just so full of.... This is not helping me deal with all the stuff I've been trying to deal with. I have a doctor's appointment today and just - geeze fuck it all.
( Read more... )
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My day so far. Attempted to sleep because I was tired. Sleep turned into 2 hr nap - as if going to bed at 11:30pm is somehow ridiculous. Then got up and couldn't get back to sleep after warm milk. Figured I'm up now, step into bathroom and realize - omg, cat pee. After years of only peeing in her litter box, my cat has peed outside her box at LEAST once a month since the move. The only theory I have right now, given that she pees on soft things - towels (hers), bathmats (the bathrooms) and a month ago the futon (the cotton of which I'm still washing in fits and starts) - I think it's possible that she misses clumping kitty litter because it was soft. She's pooing in her litter box. It's just the mysterious problem with pee.
( Bitter, bitter grumbling )
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Soooo, someone on my flist posted the trailer. I didn't know what it was for, watched and then found myself thinking.
WTF? Is Roswell so old already that Hollywood can crib off it for a movie? Damnit! I know 'meet cute' is the term in romantic comedies, but is there something else possible for action? I'm sure zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com used it to describe Clark and Lex in the tv series Smallville. Her theory was that part of the reason the slash seemed so prevalent was because Clark and Lex met so epically, just like the typical romantic couple; encountering one another in a distinctly unique way that set up how important they would be to one another.
Roswell had Max interact with Liz for the first time, despite her being a girl he seemed to stare at (moon over) - by saving her life, thus revealing his secret.
This trailer for Twilight pinged ROSWELL to me in hard ass, six foot, neon sparkling letters.
I find myself thinking I can understand some of the irritation of older generations when a younger generation member runs up to them, holding a wheel all "Look look! OMG! It's round! And it rolls!" And the older generation member goes. "Yeah. It's a wheel. Seen one before. Been there. Done that. Am wearing the damn t-shirt."
Is 10 years really that old in television/movie history?
Or perhaps should I be asking Twilight Author Stephanie Meyer. Wikipedia says Twlight was first published in 2005. Roswell ended in 2002. So what? Three years later Meyer decides to retell sell the story of Max and Liz... but with werewolves and vampires? I mean, yeah the whole 'bonded for life thing' whatever the hell they call it in Twilight is a trope that's pretty damn old. I first encountered it in Richard and Wendi Pini's Elfquest series; recognition.
But Roswell had the foretold couples to be, as well. Heck now I've made the connection I don't think I'll ever stop plugging Roswell characters into the Meyer's plot, every-time someone mentions a bit to me.
Oh yeah and before someone tells me that every story ever told has been told before blah blah blah, there are only but X amount of stories told in the world blah blahhity and the craft is in how you tell it. I'm going to say off the bat that Meyer's Twlight was only unique to me, not having read the books, because I heard about sparkling vampires and people bonding to infants (of the girl they were originally crushing hard on). Seriously, that's unique for values of carnival freak shows and taking the customer's money. Now however, seeing the movie put a hard parallel between Twlight and Roswell? The uniqueness remains with the crack, but only so far as: This has got to be the crackiest AU of Roswell ever.
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My computer heard 'economic crisis' and 'worried about money' and has decided to be difficult. First my keyboard started acting up. Then when I thought it was something simple enough that I wouldn't need to unplug it - it did something weird to firefox, which now won't load. And then it started weeping.
Yes I have water on my desk. But the water's on the opposite side from the keyboard and nothing's leaking from my roof, so I've no idea what's going on. I tried to unplug and blowdry but it still wouldn't work so I had to hunt down an old keyboard. And the first one I found was difficult to type on.
That was an hour ago.
Now Firefox wants to load, but immediately crashes. It somehow auto updated on one of my profiles tonight, despite me having no auto update on all my profiles. So now my main profile won't load.
None of this is helping the anxiety to deal with the appointment later today. I seriously want to cry.
Tomorrow's (Wed) also my last joint therapy session before the switch over is complete. With the rain and pain, this anxiety, the computer suddenly deciding to be wonky and firefox going kerblewy... I'm very 'Wahhh!' right now.
ETA: Fucking lovely firefox. Instead of fixing an obvious problem like 'My computer crashed during an update' one is advised to start a whole new fucking profile and shift things over and THEN re-download the fucking add on's. I'm just all fuck what about Scrapbook and everything I'd saved now.
ETA:Safemode and checking add on by add on seems to be working. Of course it's now time for me to get ready to leave the house.
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