let's stumble towards success and pack some snacks for little breaks

Me: Oh man, I just know one of the comments on this post is going to say "ha ha, where's the like button?". Yep, there it is. Ugh. That joke got old about two minutes after Facebook came up with the whole liking thing.
Mike: LJ needs a "punch" button.

People keep lamenting how everyone's moved to Facebook and no one reads LJ anymore, but I haven't really noticed a significant drop in posting/comments. Of course, the people who post and comment aren't necessarily a true sample of those who read, so:

[Poll #1721260]

EDIT: Well, it's been less than half an hour since I posted this and I've already gotten fifteen responses to this poll. I'm pretty satisfied with that as an answer.

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What the fucking fuck?

EDIT: LJ changed this question. It originally read: "If you were the TSA at Hogwarts, which Harry Potter character would you pat down, and why?"

I finally finished that HnG mood theme I started way back in August! I am pretty happy with it.

Samples:

productive: bouncy: geeky:

rushed: full: lonely:

The whole thing is here. If you want to use it, ping me and I'll send you a zip file of the images.

There's this study I read about recently that found that people are happier overall if they think about good things that happened during the day while they fall asleep. I tried that for a few days, but I kept either forgetting or simply crashing as soon as my head hit the pillow (in case you haven't noticed, I've been busy lately). So instead, I created a new LJ, happypurpleone. Every day, no matter how shitty it is, I'm going to think of good things that happened and list them there. I don't expect anyone to friend that journal; the items on the lists so far are mostly pretty mundane, and I'll post about anything interesting here. Just letting you know it exists.

I also joined rawr_comm, an exercise community mostly consisting of NPL members. Puzzling and exercise; why not? I do karate twice a week, and that usually lasts about an hour and a half, but Sifu is really cracking down on us for not even stretching on the off-days, and I should exercise more than twice a week anyhow. I used to jog, but that required me to set a good chunk of time aside, and my shins started really hurting, and shin-splint stretches weren't helping at all. So I'm going to start stretching every day, doing crunches on a regular basis (because they're easy to do; no equipment or planning necessary), and pulling out the DDR mat more often. No, it's not going to prepare me for a marathon, but hey- I'm not trying to run a marathon. I'm just trying to move around a little more.

Maybe I'm just being overly picky, but on LJ's main page, it says "Baaaaah", says Frank. It kind of irks me.

I got up at 6:30 yesterday in order to be at the TLC when it opened at 8, just in case I was supposed to be there then. Good thing I did, too, because I was in fact scheduled to work at 8. Not only that, but I'm scheduled to work at 8 Monday through Friday all semester. Joy. At least they didn't schedule me for Saturdays. I spent most of the morning handing out coupons for free cafeteria stuff and helping new students figure out how to get to their classes.

I have Ms. Scott for political science, and she was very familiar with me, pretty much establishing me as teacher's pet. We'll see how long that lasts. Hopefully, she won't be too pissed at me by the end of class to give me a good recommendation letter. Sharai is in that class with me, which I suspect will save my ass multiple times this semester.

Sociology (Sex Roles and Sexuality) is interesting. The teacher didn't lecture, but had us all sit in a circle and introduce ourselves in great depth. She said that we'll be covering personal stuff during the class, so we need to be comfortable with each other. There were some boring people and some very interesting ones. One girl said perkily, "I'm eighteen, I have a sugar daddy boyfriend who's ten years older than me, and I'm taking this class because I like to have sex!" There's someone I know through All Souls in the class, too.

Someone needs notes taken for them, so I went down to ABLE/Access and signed up as a note-taker. As long as my handwriting is legible for the first three weeks and he doesn't drop out before midterms, I get fifty bucks at the end of the semester... which is pretty sweet for doing something I do already.

I played the "my love is like a storybook story" song from the credits of Princess Bride on my bass last night for about half an hour straight. I'd almost forgotten how incredibly therapeutic playing music is for me. I guess I got so frustrated with the Suzuki crap that I sort of gave up on the violin. I really hate the Suzuki method. It places a lot of emphasis on perfection- I remember my teacher making me play the same measure about fifty times in a row just because I'd settled into the habit of playing the open A string instead of the fourth finger on the D string. It didn't exactly spoil the violin for me forever, and I still play sometimes, but I always feel self-conscious. Milo just feels more peaceful. Besides, it's harder to play a sharp or flat note on a bass. And I love that "storybook story" song.

I stayed up until four-thirty AM last night working on my LotR-boys mood theme, and now it's one-fifteen AM and I just finished picking out the pictures.

I did, however, pick every single one from my stash- no Internet searches. I have 283 pictures in my "LOTR Boys" folder on this computer, and I went through them all about four times finding moods. No repeats, either: one mood, one picture.

I have church tomorrow, so I need to sleep now, and Rain's sleeping over tomorrow night, but I might be able to do cropping and borders later this week.

I have posted over 4100 comments on LiveJournal.

Just thought I'd mention it.

Happy Boxing Day.

EDIT: Also, GIP.

The following are communities I found by searching the interests "coconuts" and "penguins." Because I was bored. They are not communities that I recommend; I merely found the names amusing.

cleaveland: (Note: their userinfo is worth looking at just for the poem.)
cranfnberry
_l_a_u_r_a: ("Is your name Laura? Do you WANT to be named Laura?")
ffrohcac: (Note: It stand for Fruit Fetishists for the Reunification of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.)
fragilegravity
fun_gone_awry (Note: on the userinfo of this site, I found the following website: www.ihateclowns.com This website is amusing.)
geekharem
hardcore_emu
implied_penguin
intylerwetrust
smileyoufucker
nunsgonewild
_ljwhore
mangollama
no_pudding

Also, the lyrics to "Disposable Teens" make me feel happy, for some reason:
( And I'm a black rainbow... )

Perhaps... I should go to bed? *blinks at clock* It's two AM, and I have dishes to do. Only, it still feels like midnight, because I'm on CA time. Must correct that.