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There are a few tags I'd been meaning to implement, and an offhand comment from Ari prompted me to actually do that today. On my way back from getting lunch just now, I was thinking about the fact that I did my backtagging sporadically and so I really should start from the beginning and go through methodically -- which reminded me that I started my journal in early April and hey that means that this year I failed to mark my 8(!)-year LJ-versary.
Closer in to Teele Square (coming along Broadway from where I live) all the sidewalk snow is gone, which was disconcerting. Frustrating, however, was that the traffic lights were just flashing yellow, so I had to wait for a lull in traffic and kinda dart across. (I was also annoyed because to look at the traffic lights required me to basically look into the sun.) When I came back about an hour and a half later, I was pleased to see what looked like someone working on the base of one of the signal poles. Though six and a half hours later when I was heading to the train station it was (still) blinking. Hee, I'm thinking of The Twelve Pains of Christmas -- "now why the hell are they blinking?"
I want basic black non-leather shoes and boots (approx. ankle height so I can easily wear them with jeans), appropriate for both outdoors and at work. This should not be that difficult. And also dress pants that fit. (Scrub pants like for the gym would be an added bonus. Oh, and pajamas. And possibly some new bras. I'm so demanding, I know. I really just want this stuff to magically appear in my bedroom as I do not enjoy clothes shopping much at all.)
Also: my hair is annoying me. Why does it do that stupid curling out thing?
Advent meditation: Isaiah 9:2-7 (RSV)
Alex did the meditation. He talked about how the "For unto us a child is born" bit is so familiar to him from growing up in a church (especially a church where "the Christmas Eve service was always led by the youth") and then said, "I'm not sure that I had ever read carefully the full passage from Isaiah in which that phrase appears. What strikes me most in doing so is that beside and among the joyful passages that I remember so clearly are references to oppression and battle that on first glance sit oddly with the message of hope. If Christ's appearance did not bring about an end to these sources of suffering, it seems a bit less clear what to make of the uplifting sides of the story on which we prefer to focus." He concluded, "though it may not be apparent, the spread of peace will continue, and the message of Christ will play its role in that process."
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joy sadhana for Advent (23)
"Joy Sadhana is a daily practice in the observation of joy." -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mylittleredgirl [more info]
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before our God to prepare the ways, to give knowledge of salvation to God's people by the forgiveness of sins. By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."
-Luke 1:76-79
Five good things about today:
1. I got about 8 hours of sleep.
2. I got lovely Christmas cards from my grandparents and from Layna. Dude, I am impressed at the home-made-ness of your card. The text inside is too cute not to share.
4. Shells & cheese for dinner at my parents' house.
5. Being with my parents and brother makes me really really happy.
Three things I did well today:
1. I woke up (and got up) before my 9am alarm yet again.
2. I did assorted errands.
3. I did some back-tagging. [I have 996 tags. This 1000 tag limit makes me wanna cry. I can delete the "movies: watched" by year tags 'cause most movies I watched well after they came out anyhow, but I like being able to divide tv shows by season. There are single-use tags I can collapse into broader tags and it won't be horrific. But I have hundreds, probably thousands, of entries which are tagged minimally if at all, and part of the way I motivated myself to push through was to allow myself to just give things unique tags, knowing I could go back and figure it all out later.]
Bonus: Lay-reading.
Two things I am looking forward to (doing [better]) tomorrow:
1. Figuring out details for the Greece-and-Italy trip with my brother.
2. Super tasty baked goodness from my mom. And possibly non-perishable gifts as well.
Bonus: Secret Slasha (and Yuletide).
I want basic black non-leather shoes and boots (approx. ankle height so I can easily wear them with jeans), appropriate for both outdoors and at work. This should not be that difficult. And also dress pants that fit. (Scrub pants like for the gym would be an added bonus. Oh, and pajamas. And possibly some new bras. I'm so demanding, I know. I really just want this stuff to magically appear in my bedroom as I do not enjoy clothes shopping much at all.)
Also: my hair is annoying me. Why does it do that stupid curling out thing?
Advent meditation: Isaiah 9:2-7 (RSV)
Alex did the meditation. He talked about how the "For unto us a child is born" bit is so familiar to him from growing up in a church (especially a church where "the Christmas Eve service was always led by the youth") and then said, "I'm not sure that I had ever read carefully the full passage from Isaiah in which that phrase appears. What strikes me most in doing so is that beside and among the joyful passages that I remember so clearly are references to oppression and battle that on first glance sit oddly with the message of hope. If Christ's appearance did not bring about an end to these sources of suffering, it seems a bit less clear what to make of the uplifting sides of the story on which we prefer to focus." He concluded, "though it may not be apparent, the spread of peace will continue, and the message of Christ will play its role in that process."
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joy sadhana for Advent (23)
"Joy Sadhana is a daily practice in the observation of joy." -
mylittleredgirl [more info]And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before our God to prepare the ways, to give knowledge of salvation to God's people by the forgiveness of sins. By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."
-Luke 1:76-79
Five good things about today:
1. I got about 8 hours of sleep.
2. I got lovely Christmas cards from my grandparents and from Layna. Dude, I am impressed at the home-made-ness of your card. The text inside is too cute not to share.
Happy Christmas!3. I got picked up on the train. I was reading Our Lives As Torah and as we pulled in to Norwood Central they announced we were gonna be standing by for a few minutes, and this guy sitting across from me asked me about the book I'd been reading, said he'd seen it a number of places but had never read it. It's possible he was just making this up, but there was at least some effort (I have low expectations from random guys, what can I say?). He was un-creepy enough that I let him give me a ride home (he lives in Walpole but parks at Norwood Central, which makes sense since the Walpole train station's kind of in the middle of nowhere) and he didn't try to kiss me goodnight as I'd feared he might. He invited me for coffee or a drink and I said I had to get home since my parents were expecting me for dinner, and that tomorrow I would be doing family stuff but possibly later in the week (he works at Fidelity, near South Station). I didn't feel like we really clicked, but I'm willing to try some practice at this dating thing (assuming he actually calls).
May peace and joy be with you.
Love,
Layna
PS Can you maybe teach me to love winter?
4. Shells & cheese for dinner at my parents' house.
5. Being with my parents and brother makes me really really happy.
Three things I did well today:
1. I woke up (and got up) before my 9am alarm yet again.
2. I did assorted errands.
3. I did some back-tagging. [I have 996 tags. This 1000 tag limit makes me wanna cry. I can delete the "movies: watched" by year tags 'cause most movies I watched well after they came out anyhow, but I like being able to divide tv shows by season. There are single-use tags I can collapse into broader tags and it won't be horrific. But I have hundreds, probably thousands, of entries which are tagged minimally if at all, and part of the way I motivated myself to push through was to allow myself to just give things unique tags, knowing I could go back and figure it all out later.]
Bonus: Lay-reading.
Two things I am looking forward to (doing [better]) tomorrow:
1. Figuring out details for the Greece-and-Italy trip with my brother.
2. Super tasty baked goodness from my mom. And possibly non-perishable gifts as well.
Bonus: Secret Slasha (and Yuletide).
Advent meditation: John 1:9-14, 16-18 (RSV)
Karl did the meditation. He focused on "the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, full of grace and truth. From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace," saying, "the older I get the less important the need to explain becomes. What matters is being able to trust God's astonishing grace and to find joy and wonder in the sheer miracle of it all."
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joy sadhana for Advent (22)
"Joy Sadhana is a daily practice in the observation of joy." -mylittleredgirl [more info]
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before our God to prepare the ways, to give knowledge of salvation to God's people by the forgiveness of sins. By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."
-Luke 1:76-79
Five good things about today:
1. I got like 9 hours of sleep.
2. I found out a woman at CHPC is a Smith alum (Baldwin House, English major, class of '81).
3. After church, I talked to Ari until my phone died (approx. 2hrs -- times like this I wish for a landline).
3a. We dorked out about fic fests and personal fic stats and tagging. [It occurred to me about a half an hour after my phone died that hey, if I were trying to find out when mosca had first visited me and was not having success searching via tag, I could search my e-mail since obv. we had communicated that way prior to actual visitation. *facepalm* I do continue to think having a catch-all tag for hanging out with people would be helpful.]
3b. We were talking about our parents and other people's parents, and I was yet again reminded how grateful I should be for my parents. So, dear mom and dad: Thank you. Thank you for modeling a healthy committed relationship and for encouraging us your children to live our own lives as we see fit -- making it clear that you were (are) always available to listen and/or try to advise, but trusting us to make our own mistakes and allowing us to choose how much of our lives we share with you. I am so grateful that you do not have serious mental illness and that while you didn't hide your pain from us (in the sense of cultivating an unrealistic expectation that anyone could be 100% happy and generous and patient and etc. All The Time) you tried not to take it out on us when you were feeling in a bad way because of stuff unrelated to us.
4. I continue to really enjoy Sean (CWM).
5. There was lots of tasty food at CHPC Coffee Hour (blueberry bread and chocolate chip cookies and baby carrots and corn chips), and CWM dinner was yummy pizza (and super-tasty store-bought fancy chocolate cookies).
Three things I did well today:
1. I woke up (and got up) before my alarm went off.
2. I did laundry. And took out the trash and recycling. (The curbside snowbank extends some feet into the sidewalk, so there's no easy way to put out one's rubbish, but our recycling bin is full and we're on to our second bag of paper recyclables and we have a full trashbag -- and didn't think to bring the barrels on to the porch during the snowstorm, not that that would -- so I'm just putting it out. And yes I know it's raining tonight, but I don't want to have to worry about waking up early tomorrow to put out the paper recycling.)
3. I figured out my travel (and thus dinner) plans for tomorrow evening.
Two things I am looking forward to (doing [better]) tomorrow:
1. Running some errands.
2. Going to (two!) Christmas Eve service(s).
BONUS: I get to be a lay reader at the CHPC service.
And one non-glee:
My apartment has been at 68F fairly consistently ever since, oh, Halloween. While this feels fine (and sometimes even on the cool side) in the big open common spaces, in my bedroom (and we all spend most of our at-home time in our respective bedrooms, with our doors shut) it feels over-warm to me. I've been willing to believe that OriginalRoomie really does feel cold in her bedroom when it's like 65 -- because she's under a lot of stress so her metabolism's fucked up or whatever [since we kept the heat at like 64-66 last winter] -- and she's moving out this spring and I haven't yet seen a utility bill (due to a goof on her part, I overpaid over the summer), so (in part because I'm confrontation-avoidant) I've just been letting it go, often opening one of the windows in my bedroom. However, I came home from church at about 8:30 tonight and her bedroom door was open and I saw her lounging in her room in a t-shirt and pants. Hi, it is late December. You can put a sweatshirt on. I didn't say anything (see aforementioned) but, gar; I am so much less inclined now to be patient and whatever. (For the record, I checked the thermostat in the living room about a half hour later and it said 68F.)
Karl did the meditation. He focused on "the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, full of grace and truth. From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace," saying, "the older I get the less important the need to explain becomes. What matters is being able to trust God's astonishing grace and to find joy and wonder in the sheer miracle of it all."
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joy sadhana for Advent (22)
"Joy Sadhana is a daily practice in the observation of joy." -
mylittleredgirl [more info]And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before our God to prepare the ways, to give knowledge of salvation to God's people by the forgiveness of sins. By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."
-Luke 1:76-79
Five good things about today:
1. I got like 9 hours of sleep.
2. I found out a woman at CHPC is a Smith alum (Baldwin House, English major, class of '81).
3. After church, I talked to Ari until my phone died (approx. 2hrs -- times like this I wish for a landline).
3a. We dorked out about fic fests and personal fic stats and tagging. [It occurred to me about a half an hour after my phone died that hey, if I were trying to find out when mosca had first visited me and was not having success searching via tag, I could search my e-mail since obv. we had communicated that way prior to actual visitation. *facepalm* I do continue to think having a catch-all tag for hanging out with people would be helpful.]
3b. We were talking about our parents and other people's parents, and I was yet again reminded how grateful I should be for my parents. So, dear mom and dad: Thank you. Thank you for modeling a healthy committed relationship and for encouraging us your children to live our own lives as we see fit -- making it clear that you were (are) always available to listen and/or try to advise, but trusting us to make our own mistakes and allowing us to choose how much of our lives we share with you. I am so grateful that you do not have serious mental illness and that while you didn't hide your pain from us (in the sense of cultivating an unrealistic expectation that anyone could be 100% happy and generous and patient and etc. All The Time) you tried not to take it out on us when you were feeling in a bad way because of stuff unrelated to us.
4. I continue to really enjoy Sean (CWM).
5. There was lots of tasty food at CHPC Coffee Hour (blueberry bread and chocolate chip cookies and baby carrots and corn chips), and CWM dinner was yummy pizza (and super-tasty store-bought fancy chocolate cookies).
Three things I did well today:
1. I woke up (and got up) before my alarm went off.
2. I did laundry. And took out the trash and recycling. (The curbside snowbank extends some feet into the sidewalk, so there's no easy way to put out one's rubbish, but our recycling bin is full and we're on to our second bag of paper recyclables and we have a full trashbag -- and didn't think to bring the barrels on to the porch during the snowstorm, not that that would -- so I'm just putting it out. And yes I know it's raining tonight, but I don't want to have to worry about waking up early tomorrow to put out the paper recycling.)
3. I figured out my travel (and thus dinner) plans for tomorrow evening.
Two things I am looking forward to (doing [better]) tomorrow:
1. Running some errands.
2. Going to (two!) Christmas Eve service(s).
BONUS: I get to be a lay reader at the CHPC service.
And one non-glee:
My apartment has been at 68F fairly consistently ever since, oh, Halloween. While this feels fine (and sometimes even on the cool side) in the big open common spaces, in my bedroom (and we all spend most of our at-home time in our respective bedrooms, with our doors shut) it feels over-warm to me. I've been willing to believe that OriginalRoomie really does feel cold in her bedroom when it's like 65 -- because she's under a lot of stress so her metabolism's fucked up or whatever [since we kept the heat at like 64-66 last winter] -- and she's moving out this spring and I haven't yet seen a utility bill (due to a goof on her part, I overpaid over the summer), so (in part because I'm confrontation-avoidant) I've just been letting it go, often opening one of the windows in my bedroom. However, I came home from church at about 8:30 tonight and her bedroom door was open and I saw her lounging in her room in a t-shirt and pants. Hi, it is late December. You can put a sweatshirt on. I didn't say anything (see aforementioned) but, gar; I am so much less inclined now to be patient and whatever. (For the record, I checked the thermostat in the living room about a half hour later and it said 68F.)
LJ for the fail.
Nov. 30th, 2007 11:20 amI'm a couple days behind in updates, but I've gotta rage.
1. Yes I still hate S2.
I was trying to explain to someone about forcing your style on the comments page, so I screencapped what I want entries to look like when I view them.
LJ has an option so I can make all entries I read off my friendspage display that way.
wisdomeagle noticed this same thing, and settiai commented that you can still change it here. Bless you.
2. "Adult Content"
In skimming the flist last night, I saw that LJ had implemented its previously-talked-about flagging-for-adult-content function.
From the LJ FAQ:penknife points out that:
Edit: You'll also see those override cut-tags if viewing a journal marked as Adult/Explicit [even if you're a logged-in user with an of-age birthday listed You can tell LJ your birthdate and have it display only to Friends or None.] if you have your Settings on "collapse adult content." (I can't remember if LJ made that opt-in or opt-out.)
killabeez explains: "here are some quickie links to fix things if you are getting the annoying "adult content" links everywhere on your friends page and want them to go away" /edit
3. Finite Tagging
This morning,penknife writes:
I was actually just starting a round of backtagging yesterday, and now I'm all anxious, 'cause I know I can't add very many new tags. Dammit, and one of my strategies for trying to just Get Stuff Tagged was to try not to think too hard about the tags, knowing I could go back and re-tag for streamlining; now I feel much less easy about creating unique tags that I can just go back and deal with "later."
1. Yes I still hate S2.
I was trying to explain to someone about forcing your style on the comments page, so I screencapped what I want entries to look like when I view them.
LJ has an option so I can make all entries I read off my friendspage display that way.
http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/But if I'm direct-linked to an entry I have to manually add ?style=mine to the end of the URL unless they've done the following:
Comment pages: View comment pages in your own journal style
When you follow a comment link from your Friends page, you can view that comment page in your own journal style.
http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bmlIn browsing around to find this, I saw that Dystopia (and XColibur) were no longer chooseable options as viewing schemes -- and I know LJ has randomly switched me, and others, out of Dystopia in the past, so this is a legitimate problem.
Disable customized comment pages for your journal
wisdomeagle noticed this same thing, and settiai commented that you can still change it here. Bless you.2. "Adult Content"
In skimming the flist last night, I saw that LJ had implemented its previously-talked-about flagging-for-adult-content function.
From the LJ FAQ:
Automatic Cuts & Intermediary Pages
Flagged entries or entries in flagged journals/communities will be completely hidden behind lj-cut tags for logged out users or logged-in users under the age of 18.
For accounts registered to those under the age of 18 or those viewing while not logged in the entries will have additional intermediate pages with content warnings :
* Adult Concepts: [You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors]
* Explicit Adult Content: [You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults.]
Viewing Entries with Intermediate pages
Those viewing while not logged in will see an intermediate page with a content level warning before viewing an entry, journal, or community set as Adult Concepts or Explicit Adult. Those under 13 will be automatically blocked, while others must confirm their age (at least 14 or 18 years old respectively) before viewing.
penknife points out that:I tested this, setting my own journal to "Adult Concepts" and then to "Explicit Adult Content." If you're logged out, you get a click-through warning asking you to verify that you're 14 or older (or 18 or older).I would have no problem setting my journal (especially my ficjournal) as Containing (Explicit) Adult Concepts, but this makes me seethe. Yes fic/art will still have headers at the top, but if you're blogging about a book/movie/tv show you'd have to warn for spoilers in the title of the entry (including informative tags is also an option, but only if you have S2, since tags don't display in main/flist view in S1; I wish someone would hack a workaround for that, btw, because that's the only thing that tempts me about S2) and/or go back to the listserv convention of "spoiler space" at the top of entries.
Then you can see the journal, but all entries appear as lj-cut. The lj-cuts read "You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors." (for "Adult Concepts") or "You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults." (for "Explicit Adult Content.")
Any actual lj-cuts are not visible to logged-out users in a journal set as "Adult Concepts" or "Explicit Adult Content" -- when you click the adult content warning lj-cut, you see the entire entry -- which may make browsing while not logged in more problematic in terms of seeing spoilers, large images, or personal squicks. However, tags remain visible outside the lj-cut, as do entry titles.
Edit: You'll also see those override cut-tags if viewing a journal marked as Adult/Explicit [even if you're a logged-in user with an of-age birthday listed You can tell LJ your birthdate and have it display only to Friends or None.] if you have your Settings on "collapse adult content." (I can't remember if LJ made that opt-in or opt-out.)
killabeez explains: "here are some quickie links to fix things if you are getting the annoying "adult content" links everywhere on your friends page and want them to go away" /edit3. Finite Tagging
This morning,
penknife writes:Another LJ change, not announced in*cries* I have . . . 977 tags right now. Once they made tagging functional for S1 (at least minimally -- see display complaint above) I got sucked in, and now they're telling me THIS? It's bad that after all of StrikeThrough and BahleteGate and everything, this is what makes me want to run away, isn't it?news (why do we have
I was actually just starting a round of backtagging yesterday, and now I'm all anxious, 'cause I know I can't add very many new tags. Dammit, and one of my strategies for trying to just Get Stuff Tagged was to try not to think too hard about the tags, knowing I could go back and re-tag for streamlining; now I feel much less easy about creating unique tags that I can just go back and deal with "later."
I did a serious revamp of my UserInfo. Pithy and therefore hopefully new-user friendly, though it feels fantastically boring to me. [Ari will sympathize with the fact that I can't figure out how to tag this entry for this piece of content -- some variation on "self: lj: userinfo"? Oh, this reminds me, though, that I was gonna look up Semagic and tagging.] 
( Semagic and tagging: problems and solutions )
I opted not to sign up for the EDS class, 'cause I realized that between ASL and CAUMC I would be attending all of three evenings worth of class.
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Jessica and Bianca had to have seen my dogtag this morning when we were talking, and they didn't say anything about it. (I had been concerned that it would clash with the professional image we're supposed to be presenting -- not that I think queer != professional, but that imprinted dog tags != professional.)
Mary Alice loved my dogtag (and knew immediately that it was re: "Don't ask, don't tell"). I had lovely chatting with her and Greg.
Greg said that on Sunday(?) he and his wife got out at Arlington and walked around and going up either Boylston or Newbury, they passed a church with a big pride banner and she was confused and, recalling our conversation, Greg explained that yes there are a few churches that are accepting/affirming of gay people. I said there are in fact a lot.
Nicole and I chatted briefly about our weekends and she said she volunteered at an AIDS clinic Saturday morning and got invited to have a spot on the float (but it was like 11am and she had things to do that day, so she declined, though she did end up seeing part of the parade). When I mentioned how my usual Sunday is church-laundry-church, she said, "You're all-church all-the-time, you're going straight to heaven -- you're on the fast lane." I said a lot of it is queer church, so probably there are plenty of people who don't think I'm going straight to heaven :)
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I had a headache all day, so I was gonna do the elliptical 'cause that's low-impact, but at 5:30 they were all in use. The students are supposed to be all gone; how is this possible? So I did the treadmill at 5mph, and it felt like a comfortable jogging pace, but I was so not up for it. A couple times I took it down to 4mph for ten or twenty seconds of fast walking, but at 14min I ultimately quit. I've done the half hour multiple times before, so I was telling myself that I could do it, but pushing myself that much just wasn't happening. An elliptical had opened up, so I did that for 5min, but then I quit that, too. Going home and taking drugs and lying down seemed the healthiest thing I could do for myself.
I took a quick shower first, obviously, and they've replaced the old scale where you move the weight bars with a digital one, so on a whim I stepped on it.( I am not at all unhealthy, but I worry that talking about weight numbers could be triggery, hence cutting. )
( Semagic and tagging: problems and solutions )I opted not to sign up for the EDS class, 'cause I realized that between ASL and CAUMC I would be attending all of three evenings worth of class.
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Jessica and Bianca had to have seen my dogtag this morning when we were talking, and they didn't say anything about it. (I had been concerned that it would clash with the professional image we're supposed to be presenting -- not that I think queer != professional, but that imprinted dog tags != professional.)
Mary Alice loved my dogtag (and knew immediately that it was re: "Don't ask, don't tell"). I had lovely chatting with her and Greg.
Greg said that on Sunday(?) he and his wife got out at Arlington and walked around and going up either Boylston or Newbury, they passed a church with a big pride banner and she was confused and, recalling our conversation, Greg explained that yes there are a few churches that are accepting/affirming of gay people. I said there are in fact a lot.
Nicole and I chatted briefly about our weekends and she said she volunteered at an AIDS clinic Saturday morning and got invited to have a spot on the float (but it was like 11am and she had things to do that day, so she declined, though she did end up seeing part of the parade). When I mentioned how my usual Sunday is church-laundry-church, she said, "You're all-church all-the-time, you're going straight to heaven -- you're on the fast lane." I said a lot of it is queer church, so probably there are plenty of people who don't think I'm going straight to heaven :)
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I had a headache all day, so I was gonna do the elliptical 'cause that's low-impact, but at 5:30 they were all in use. The students are supposed to be all gone; how is this possible? So I did the treadmill at 5mph, and it felt like a comfortable jogging pace, but I was so not up for it. A couple times I took it down to 4mph for ten or twenty seconds of fast walking, but at 14min I ultimately quit. I've done the half hour multiple times before, so I was telling myself that I could do it, but pushing myself that much just wasn't happening. An elliptical had opened up, so I did that for 5min, but then I quit that, too. Going home and taking drugs and lying down seemed the healthiest thing I could do for myself.
I took a quick shower first, obviously, and they've replaced the old scale where you move the weight bars with a digital one, so on a whim I stepped on it.
( I am not at all unhealthy, but I worry that talking about weight numbers could be triggery, hence cutting. )Damn, the weekend's half-over already.
Dec. 16th, 2006 10:56 pmApparently NewRoomie+gf had a small party last night with some friends, so I'm rather glad I didn't come straight home (though I probably would have been able to fall asleep no problem).
I got my hair cut this morning. Wednesday Alyssa and Thursday Cailin both complimented me on my hair -- which as ironic since I was planning on getting it cut. I had it in a more defined side part than I usually have it, and it did look good, but I felt fairly confident it would start annoying me again soon, so I kept my appointment. I got it trimmed and layered, and of course now it's falling in my face a bit. I definitely like the cut, though.
It really bothers me when people on the street ask you for money and then keep asking you for more (seventy-five cents, a dollar, three dollars, five dollars) -- you're being nice and giving them what they asked for and they're making you feel guilty for not giving them more. I know [okay, technically, I "believe"] that Christ would take them to a sandwich shop and sit down to a meal with them, and I think that God wants us to be that good, but I'm just not (especially 'cause feeling like I'm being taken advantage of does not make me want to be good.).
"and it's bad to have eyes like neon signs flashing open open open open open open open open open all the time"
I came home and made donations to real charities (Doctors Without Borders and First Book), which I had been meaning to do for a while.
I spent way too much time on Ari's tags this afternoon. (I corrected lots of tags, so you can sort by usage at Tags Management and delete the zero use tags. It's probably good I can't access your Tag Management or I would be so tempted to rename tags by my own subcategorizing preferences. There were some duplicates I left alone 'cause I didn't know what your preference was re: hyphens and underscores, and other 'cause I didn't know if the duplication was intentional -- though I often doubted it.)
viathistlerose: SCMA installation gets Golden Plunger award
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Today I:
* mailed a package
* got my hair cut
* fixed lots of Ari's tags
* took out the trash
* washed dishes
* bought groceries [I splurged and bought egg nog.]
* cleared out some of the crap in my room (Yay, tomorrow is trash night!)
* took a long nap [I only got 5-6 hours of sleep last night.]
What's up with the superpowered dreams? This morning between turning off my alarm and getting up I had a normal mundane pseudo-dream, but this evening I dreamt I was like Claire but also with phasing and I sort of had Lwaxana Troi as a mother and she didn't want me to tell anyone and I was a teen and met a my age Clark Kent a la Smallville sort of and later met a guy with a hanglider in a scene out of a Forester or Waugh type novel who may have been superpowered also and to whom I was telling my lifestory.
* read the "Penelope" chapter, and Blamires chapter thereon (i.e., have now read all of Ulysses)
Edit: * finally responded to comments about Episcopalianism
I got my hair cut this morning. Wednesday Alyssa and Thursday Cailin both complimented me on my hair -- which as ironic since I was planning on getting it cut. I had it in a more defined side part than I usually have it, and it did look good, but I felt fairly confident it would start annoying me again soon, so I kept my appointment. I got it trimmed and layered, and of course now it's falling in my face a bit. I definitely like the cut, though.
It really bothers me when people on the street ask you for money and then keep asking you for more (seventy-five cents, a dollar, three dollars, five dollars) -- you're being nice and giving them what they asked for and they're making you feel guilty for not giving them more. I know [okay, technically, I "believe"] that Christ would take them to a sandwich shop and sit down to a meal with them, and I think that God wants us to be that good, but I'm just not (especially 'cause feeling like I'm being taken advantage of does not make me want to be good.).
"and it's bad to have eyes like neon signs flashing open open open open open open open open open all the time"
I came home and made donations to real charities (Doctors Without Borders and First Book), which I had been meaning to do for a while.
I spent way too much time on Ari's tags this afternoon. (I corrected lots of tags, so you can sort by usage at Tags Management and delete the zero use tags. It's probably good I can't access your Tag Management or I would be so tempted to rename tags by my own subcategorizing preferences. There were some duplicates I left alone 'cause I didn't know what your preference was re: hyphens and underscores, and other 'cause I didn't know if the duplication was intentional -- though I often doubted it.)
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thistlerose: SCMA installation gets Golden Plunger award----
Today I:
* mailed a package
* got my hair cut
* fixed lots of Ari's tags
* took out the trash
* washed dishes
* bought groceries [I splurged and bought egg nog.]
* cleared out some of the crap in my room (Yay, tomorrow is trash night!)
* took a long nap [I only got 5-6 hours of sleep last night.]
What's up with the superpowered dreams? This morning between turning off my alarm and getting up I had a normal mundane pseudo-dream, but this evening I dreamt I was like Claire but also with phasing and I sort of had Lwaxana Troi as a mother and she didn't want me to tell anyone and I was a teen and met a my age Clark Kent a la Smallville sort of and later met a guy with a hanglider in a scene out of a Forester or Waugh type novel who may have been superpowered also and to whom I was telling my lifestory.
* read the "Penelope" chapter, and Blamires chapter thereon (i.e., have now read all of Ulysses)
Edit: * finally responded to comments about Episcopalianism
Yup, definitely cramps. Yesterday I thought it was something I ate, but today it came back and turned into something more clearly identifiable as cramps.
I'm also blaming my recent incessant hunger and possibly also the resurgence of my "omgwannamakeout" on this. Oh and the fact that suddenly seven hours of sleep wasn't cutting it as sufficient. Would be nice if I were regular enough to be able to predict this stuff rather than figuring it out after the fact.
No one commented on my yummy shirt today. It's a darkish blue with silver trim (and most importantly I had forgotten how super-comfy it is) and I think it looks really good with my coloring and certainly more flattering than the turquoise loose knit sweater I wore yesterday and got two compliments on for the color.
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I was telling Alyssa about people potentially staying overnight for my apartment-warming 'cause of travel time and that I've only lived there three months but I've had overnight visitors twice so far which is funny because I don't think of myself as especially social. Alyssa said she thinks of me as very social -- that she feels like I'm always going out and doing stuff. Which is not exactly untrue, but still surprised me.
(Later, I was thinking that only six of my friends and two of my relatives have seen my apartment since I moved in. And Ari's the only one who's seen what it "really" looks like -- i.e., complete with living room furniture.)
The above parenthetical will change after the party. The current attendance numbers are approximately 25-40 (the yeses plus the maybes). Yeah, I was a little surprised, too. This (plus an e-mail from my mom) means I may have to reevaluate the amount of food provided -- though so many people are planning on coming late and/or stopping by briefly that I probably shouldn't worry too much. (I also need to decide about alcohol. And find a good fruit punch recipe.)
RA called this morning, and while we were chatting she asked if I'd gotten her invitation yesterday for pre-party this Saturday -- 'cause it bounced back from a lot of people (all gmail she thought). I said yes I got it and would probably be there around 7:30. (The invite said 7-9.) She said I'm always the first person there, that I get there at 7 and everyone else gets there at 8 -- and that that's cool. I said yeah, I saw it started at 7 and thought I'd purposely try to get there a bit later than that -- "not that I don't enjoy your company" I hastened to add; she said that way (my coming at 7:30 versus 7:00) at least she'd be there :)
I sent my evite Fri. Aug. 25 -- almost exactly one month before the date of the party itself. I've mentioned the party in front of Eric since, but I was very good and didn't explicitly ask him if he was attending. (He's on the evite list but hasn't rsvp-ed.) We were chatting this afternoon, though, and I did directly ask him. He said "It's on my mind" and that "I don't know what I'm doing next weekend." The obvious response to that (which I gave) is: "You're coming to my apartment. That's what you're doing next weekend. Of course." Apparently "I don't know if I'll even be in the city next weekend. But if I am, I'll be at your apartment."
We also talked about our plans for this weekend, and he thinks I'm a bit young to be attending "luncheons." To me, the word conjures up church functions (which is what this is) rather than specifically old lady functions (though okay, the two are clearly related). Thoughts?
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I'm considering adding ":[text]" to my "tv: firefly: episodes" tags to demarcate episode -- in part for easy searching (the point of tags, right?) and also because in my first-run viewing (just backtagged today) I didn't always name the episode and would like to be able to see which episode prompted any given vague squee without having to go look up original airdates. This would be an additional rather than a replacement tag; so you could still view all the episode entries in one full list.
The more I backtag the more I wish the S1 display could show you all the tags on an entry when you're viewing a page of entries by tag. Does that sentence make sense? I mean the username.livejournal.com/tag/yaddayadda display. (I also really dislike that S1 forces tag display into this very basic page; one thing I love about S1 is that I can have different looks for different stuff -- journal mainpage, calendar, friendspage. However, they have finally coded in Previous/Next 20 so you don't have to manually add ?skip= onto the end of the URL when viewing an S1 journal by tags. So that is a huge huzzah.)
I am trying to force myself to just tag by content as I go so I can have a prayer of getting all these entries tagged and then I can go back and smooth out the redundancies and clarify what specific tags mean. Either way it is so intimidating/daunting, though.
Would it surprise anyone that I have only tagged a small fraction of my <3,000 entries and currently have 435 tags? Is the more appropriate question whether that fact would scare anyone?
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Every time I hear Patty Griffin's "Mary" now I think about how I chose it for "A song about the end of the world" for August's frankenmix. (And I also still always think about the Inara vid which introduced me to the song.)
I'm also blaming my recent incessant hunger and possibly also the resurgence of my "omgwannamakeout" on this. Oh and the fact that suddenly seven hours of sleep wasn't cutting it as sufficient. Would be nice if I were regular enough to be able to predict this stuff rather than figuring it out after the fact.
No one commented on my yummy shirt today. It's a darkish blue with silver trim (and most importantly I had forgotten how super-comfy it is) and I think it looks really good with my coloring and certainly more flattering than the turquoise loose knit sweater I wore yesterday and got two compliments on for the color.
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I was telling Alyssa about people potentially staying overnight for my apartment-warming 'cause of travel time and that I've only lived there three months but I've had overnight visitors twice so far which is funny because I don't think of myself as especially social. Alyssa said she thinks of me as very social -- that she feels like I'm always going out and doing stuff. Which is not exactly untrue, but still surprised me.
(Later, I was thinking that only six of my friends and two of my relatives have seen my apartment since I moved in. And Ari's the only one who's seen what it "really" looks like -- i.e., complete with living room furniture.)
The above parenthetical will change after the party. The current attendance numbers are approximately 25-40 (the yeses plus the maybes). Yeah, I was a little surprised, too. This (plus an e-mail from my mom) means I may have to reevaluate the amount of food provided -- though so many people are planning on coming late and/or stopping by briefly that I probably shouldn't worry too much. (I also need to decide about alcohol. And find a good fruit punch recipe.)
RA called this morning, and while we were chatting she asked if I'd gotten her invitation yesterday for pre-party this Saturday -- 'cause it bounced back from a lot of people (all gmail she thought). I said yes I got it and would probably be there around 7:30. (The invite said 7-9.) She said I'm always the first person there, that I get there at 7 and everyone else gets there at 8 -- and that that's cool. I said yeah, I saw it started at 7 and thought I'd purposely try to get there a bit later than that -- "not that I don't enjoy your company" I hastened to add; she said that way (my coming at 7:30 versus 7:00) at least she'd be there :)
I sent my evite Fri. Aug. 25 -- almost exactly one month before the date of the party itself. I've mentioned the party in front of Eric since, but I was very good and didn't explicitly ask him if he was attending. (He's on the evite list but hasn't rsvp-ed.) We were chatting this afternoon, though, and I did directly ask him. He said "It's on my mind" and that "I don't know what I'm doing next weekend." The obvious response to that (which I gave) is: "You're coming to my apartment. That's what you're doing next weekend. Of course." Apparently "I don't know if I'll even be in the city next weekend. But if I am, I'll be at your apartment."
We also talked about our plans for this weekend, and he thinks I'm a bit young to be attending "luncheons." To me, the word conjures up church functions (which is what this is) rather than specifically old lady functions (though okay, the two are clearly related). Thoughts?
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I'm considering adding ":[text]" to my "tv: firefly: episodes" tags to demarcate episode -- in part for easy searching (the point of tags, right?) and also because in my first-run viewing (just backtagged today) I didn't always name the episode and would like to be able to see which episode prompted any given vague squee without having to go look up original airdates. This would be an additional rather than a replacement tag; so you could still view all the episode entries in one full list.
The more I backtag the more I wish the S1 display could show you all the tags on an entry when you're viewing a page of entries by tag. Does that sentence make sense? I mean the username.livejournal.com/tag/yaddayadda display. (I also really dislike that S1 forces tag display into this very basic page; one thing I love about S1 is that I can have different looks for different stuff -- journal mainpage, calendar, friendspage. However, they have finally coded in Previous/Next 20 so you don't have to manually add ?skip= onto the end of the URL when viewing an S1 journal by tags. So that is a huge huzzah.)
I am trying to force myself to just tag by content as I go so I can have a prayer of getting all these entries tagged and then I can go back and smooth out the redundancies and clarify what specific tags mean. Either way it is so intimidating/daunting, though.
Would it surprise anyone that I have only tagged a small fraction of my <3,000 entries and currently have 435 tags? Is the more appropriate question whether that fact would scare anyone?
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Every time I hear Patty Griffin's "Mary" now I think about how I chose it for "A song about the end of the world" for August's frankenmix. (And I also still always think about the Inara vid which introduced me to the song.)
I have caved. Due to its appeal as a supplemenatry search function, I have begun tagging my entries. With 2000+ entries, this will of course take forever. I did a bunch of recent ones, but obviously it'll make more sense for me to start at the beginning and work my way through. This also means I'll get everything into Memories (my primary search function). Oh the joys of coming up with categories (she says sarcastically, because she is detail-oriented and perfectionist and thus spends what some might consider way too much time thinking about such matters). Concern: the dominant sorting mechanism seems to be category:subcategory. I validate this, however doing it myself it sometimes feels too squooshed, like I would rather do category: subcategory. Thoughts?