burning like matchsticks in the face of the darkness

So, it's funny, scrollgirl just yesterday did that icon meme which includes the questions "How many icons do you have total?" and "If you could buy space for more, would you?" and this morning my flist is abuzz with Loyalty Userpics.

Loyalty Userpics are extra userpics awarded to users as a reward for their paid account history with the site. You recieve one userpic for every three months of paid time you've bought for your account, and one userpic for every continuous 12 months of paid time your account has held. This is in addition to the minimum number of userpics allotted to your account.

Gifts of paid time from other users also count towards your Loyalty Userpic count. Additionally, permanent account holders will always have the maximum amount of Loyalty Userpics offered to date; currently, this is 32 userpics.

These userpics will be active as long as you have a Paid Account. When your Paid Account expires, your Loyalty Userpics will be marked as inactive. Loyalty Userpics are added to your account as soon as you purchase paid time.

For example, if you buy twelve months of paid time, you will receive five Loyalty Userpics: four for each three-month interval, as well as one for the entire twelve-month interval.

If you buy six months of paid time, you will receive two Loyalty Userpics; if you purchase another six months of paid time before the previous amount expires, you will receive three more Loyalty Userpics (two for the three-month intervals, and one because you will have held a paid account for a twelve-month period.)

Loyalty Userpic amounts are cumulative, and will never decrease, even if your paid account expires. When you renew your paid account, you will have the same amount of Loyalty Userpics as you had before, along with any additional userpics you earn from your purchase.

Edit: news posted with further info (plus new holiday gift options; bets on the popularity of virtual beer over virtual chocolate?) at 11:44am PST.

UMass lecture was nearly pointless, in part because i kept dozing off. Tomorrow after discussion i'm asking for an extension on my final paper and also inquiring as to what the nature of next week's lectures will be as i'm seriously considering skipping (with the theory being that i'll work on my papers).

Checked my mail. I had ordered the "original off-Broadway cast" Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack. What i received was the movie soundtrack. Sigh. Have filed complaint.

Got lovely Pooh &co. holiday card from dailestar. ::loves::

As you may have heard, the College is getting ready to install a new campus-wide telephone and voicemail system. [...]

We will also be changing the way students are billed for telephone services. Starting in January, students willl no longer pay a monthly charge for telephone service. Instead, telephone service, including voicemail and local calling, will be included in the room and board fee beginning in Fall 2005. No increased cost for this service will be included in the spring bill.

Because of declinging usage, the long distance billing program is being discontinued as of December 27, 2004. Students will still be able to use pre-paid cards and calling carrds to place long distance and international calls.

::hates on Smith College (in a relatively mild manner, but still) :: Yes, usage is declining as many people get cell phones, but not all of us have cell phones. *stabs* 'S not like i call home much anyway, though, so it's nearly a non-issue. I would be more pissed if it were happening earlier than my last semester here.

[I would also like to know why Groupwise is holding some of my e-mail hostage.]

I went to the Kennedy lecture. It was okay. I got the impression that it was additionally a memorial lecture. Craig Felton talked a lot about friendship in his introduction and concluded with "Blessed be the ties that bind" and i thought that was so dreadful given the subject of the talk.

So, um, i haven't done any work today (despite my good intentions) but i played with teh pretty. I now have lots of hot new icons and omgliekwhoa i hit my 50 (even deleted some pre-existing ones to make room). Never thought that would happen. I'd been wanting new icons and feeling like the pre-existing ones weren't adequate (not that i don't have much love for many of them, was just feeling like i needed more) so now i feel much better. I also posted much pretty to iconsensual. Mostly Asia Argento.

I haven't really checked my friendspage yet today, though. I should really do homework instead of that right now, huh?

Dear Jonah,

Your e-mail is broken.

A friend of mine mentioned this and i thought of you. Well, i thought of me first :) but it's for high school seniors.

http://karenandmelody.com/KarMelScholarship.html

P.S. If you ever wanna talk, e-mail me and if i'm at my computer i'll probably see the e-mail and sign on. [This goes for everyone, actually.]


Also, while i'm making announcements: http://www.livejournal.com/users/news/72473.html