So glad to see that my account still exists! I would've hated to have lost it--so many memories are stored here. And yes, I am old-ish-fogey-ish in the social media stratosphere, but I have to admit that Live Journal still has features and a sense of holistic connection that Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. will never match, so I'm here ( Read more... )

Okay, this is mostly a timestamp for myself (because who reads LJ nowadays anyway? :P), but I was just reminded that tomorrow is the pre-screening of The Empty Hearse, Episode 1 of Sherlock Season 3, in which Sherlock's survival of the Reichenbach Fall is explained ( Read more... )

A few minutes ago, I read this entry on someone's lj as Quote of the Day:

Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
-Sylvia Plath

Before even stopping to think, this was my immediate gut response:    Oh, shut up, you putz.

Of course, Sylvia is dead and therefore shut up for all time, so it's probably in bad taste for me to be ( Read more... )

(snatched from Kryssa and Nekonezumi)

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

Although I was pretty much a fully formed adult before das Intertubes was ( Read more... )

Here it is, the night before Easter, which is technically the High Holy Day of my faith (although we seem to put more emphasis on Christmas for some odd reason)

...and I have zombies on the brain. No disrespect or blasphemy meant to the Cornerstone of the Church, of course; this has more to do with my recent reading material.


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Well, I’m just full of sunshine and lollipops tonight, probably because it’s snowing like the dickens, and I love snow and winter, whereas the rest of my family (and the city and the region) are grousing about Where the hell is spring, already?!! We have at least 2 inches of snow on the ground so far, and the trees are flocked (they’ve limited ( Read more... )

Well, it's been seven days since the end of National Novel Writing Month 2008, and I might almost be back to normal. I need to beg your indulgence for a moment, however:

( Sorry, but I just have to crow a bit )

So, I just got home tonight from work at 11:10 PM (- -;;), and I'm really burned out, but I have to slam another 1000 words into NaNoWriMo before I go to bed.

Fortunately, drox  came to my rescue with a short exercise in procrastination that helped restore my sanity. Here's her book meme with the following rules:

Rules:
*Grab the book nearest you. Right ( Read more... )

I have one thing to say:

YEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

(weeps liberal elitist tears of socialist joy)

...we of the past send greetings.

That saying, well known by University of Illnois at Urbana-Champaign students and alumni, is carved into the base of the Alma Mater statue that stands at the entrance to the main quad at UIUC. The words always seemed a little "Huh, that's nice, but boring," to me as a student, but it resonated in my heart for the ( Read more... )