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Hey, LiveJournal! Remember me?
For a while now I've been trying to decide whether I wanted to start actively using LiveJournal again, or whether I would move my blogging elsewhere (possibly just a standalone wordpress blog at my own website). For now, though, I've decided that LiveJournal is as good a place as any for personal rambling posts.
The last post I made here was when my ( Read more... ) -
Goodbye, Morris-kitty.
At around 11:00 this morning, Morris lost the use of his back legs entirely. He cried and desperately tried to drag himself around the house. We called the vet, and got an appointment. Honestly, we knew what the recommendation was probably going to be, but one always hopes for a little miracle ( Read more... ) -
Morris-kitty
Morris is not doing so well. He's been losing weight rapidly and seemed to be in pain. We had taken him to the vet and it was suspected that he was having tooth problem again. The vet looked at his teeth and noticed that on one of his back teeth the gums had pulled away and exposed the root. She said that there is an autoimmune condition that some ( Read more... ) -
Confidence and Creativity
My self-confidence issues have a way of revealing themselves in really odd ways. There are the usual manifestations, such as extreme social awkwardness and crippling anxiety over things like driving anywhere even vaguely resembling a city. Although I acknowledge that these are mostly irrational fears, at least these examples are situations where my ( Read more... ) -
My Ongoing Quest to Stop Eating So Much Crap
I fall into really bad eating habits easily. Mostly this comes in the form of fast food. The shame of it is that I don't really even like fast food that much; it's just convenient. I actually prefer healthier foods the majority of the time. It's really just a matter of kicking myself in the butt to make myself go grocery shopping, and then actually ( Read more... ) -
A Necessary Waste of Life
I want to preface this post with a disclaimer that my intention here is not to criticize anyone for their own reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden. I have to admit that I initially did feel uncomfortable with some of the overtly celebratory comments I was seeing, but after clearing my head I remembered that we are emotional beings, and that ( Read more... ) -
Regarding social media and intellecutal property rights.
So, this morning, several of my friends posted one of those "re-post this status" scare messages about how Facebook intends to steal everything you hold dear. This one was something along the lines of "Starting Friday Facebook will own the publishing rights to your photos" with instructions on how to keep Facebook from allowing third-party ( Read more... ) -
Annual Otakon Fan Art Restrictions Drama
Back in 2006, Otakon began restricting how much "fan art" could be sold at artist alley tables. I'm not going to go into the full history of the restrictions, but it's mostly been geared toward cracking down on artists who mass-produce prints and merchandise using trademarked characters for which they do not have legal licensing/permissions. This ( Read more... ) -
Unpleasant Dreams
My sleep patterns have been really screwed up since recovering from the flu. At first I thought it was just the erratic sleep patterns from being sick, but one would think that over three weeks after returning to work my sleep schedule would have at least somewhat readjusted to diurnal again. It's been slightly less time since I finished taking all ( Read more... )
