oh make me over

[sofiaviolet]

In my enthusiasm for this whole enterprise, I'll be continuing the daily link roundups. I never thought I'd be that kind of blogger, but I seem to have developed the habit, even before I was doing a specific kind of link-gathering. But while link-collecting is a useful service, I also want to be making other posts, especially in the context of three_weeks_for_dw.

One thing I'd like to do is provide a new song every day!

Daily Song (right-click): Hole - Celebrity Skin
Within the first week this song was on my ipod, it went straight to the top of the most-played list. It remains in the number one spot, with almost three times as many plays as the next song down.

blnchflr has asked me to write about unreliable narrators, although this will take a few days. (I shake my fist at the end of the semester.) I am still accepting prompts, questions, et cetera, via comment/pm/email/carrier pigeon.

Poll #2898 Some ideas I already have...

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 32

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I think you should post about...

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... your physical surroundings.
25 (83.3%)

... history.
19 (63.3%)

... your artistic endeavors.
22 (73.3%)

Physical surroundings:

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Fashion and/or the contents of your closet.
19 (63.3%)

Your apartment.
15 (50.0%)

Your neighborhood.
23 (76.7%)

History:

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Life in the archives.
16 (61.5%)

Your research interests.
22 (84.6%)

Artistic endeavors:

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Jewelry.
23 (76.7%)

Other things involving wire.
20 (66.7%)

Painting.
20 (66.7%)

Poetry.
10 (33.3%)

Prose.
13 (43.3%)

Auriel.
10 (33.3%)

Icons.
14 (46.7%)

Comments

[redsnake05]

I am terribly inquisitive about the insides of other people's closets. Also, life in the archives. I cannot decide if I imagine you with a hammock or a coffin for your snoozing pleasure.

[sofiaviolet]

Coffin is more probable. You probably could string up a hammock in the processing room, but it would really get in the way.

[turlough]

I'm not doing the poll because I always feel so weird when people ask what they should write about in their journals. It's their journals, they should write whatever they want.

[sofiaviolet]

Yeah, but knowing that X people want to see Y helps motivate me. (All of my ideas seem pretty popular, so at this point it's more for prioritization than anything else.)

[dorkpie]

I'm planning on getting my own apartment in a few months, so I'm desperately curious for how you've managed. (The inside of your closet, though, sounds interesting as well, and it seems like the kind of question that holds quite a bit of potential for hilarity.)

[sofiaviolet]

I have lived in this apartment since August of 2008 and I still have one box that I haven't finished unpacking. /o\ I am so not good at this.

I own some very weird clothes, including a 1950s skirt printed with fleur de lis and a pair of boots with giant wooden platforms. I would not wear them together, though.

[dorkpie]

I have to ask: what's even in that box? (I think I still have an unpacked box in my old room in my father's house, actually. Huh.)

Oh, I love skirts from the 1950s! :D

[sofiaviolet]

Clothes. (Most of my boxes contained clothes.) I have dug through the box a couple of times looking for things, but I never quite got around to fully emptying it.

:D I don't have as many as I would like. I don't wear them often enough to justify an extensive collection, and they tend to get bid up very high on ebay, which is where I get a lot of my clothes, especially older things.