picked a handful of violets in my name

I've locked my old LJ posts down to private; this means everything from journal creation to April 2009. There were a lot of posts I wanted to take down because of their content (particularly everything about The Ex), but I had neither the time nor the inclination to do item-level evaluation when I made the decision to lock those posts.

I am in the process of sorting through my various imported entries (I had many accounts prior to sofiaviolet, going all the way back to 2002), tagging the really old stuff, and unlocking what I feel comfortable sharing. I only want to do this once, and I only want to do it in one place. I'll post again when it's done.

Off to tackle 2002.

azurelunatic: PSA: RTE data loss warning | azurelunatic: PSA: RTE data loss warning

If you have the <lj user> tag more than once in your entries, with a user first and then a community, the RTE is eating the data between those tags.

Bug only seems to be occurring on LJ.

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I have written almost 4000 words today. Not sure how that happened. Going to finish this entry and see how far I can get.

Tomorrow is my birthday. I will be 22. I have to go to work for 9am (my finding aid is ready to level up, although it will probably need a lot of work after Boss and I go over it), but classes don't start until the 11th.


ETA: By the way, guys. I do not answer my phone if I don't recognize the number. If you have my number and want me to ever pick up the phone when you call, PLEASE email your phone number to sofiaviolet@sofiaviolet.com, so I can add you to my phonebook.

This message brought to you by someone calling from a 631 number and not leaving a message.

ETA2: If you don't have my number but want it, email me! Though again, please give me your number so I know who the heck is calling/texting me.

ETA3: Broke 5k. I have no clue how, since I just sat around notficcing with myself. \o?

Look, I wrote stuff!

(The wall is actually a real place in my neighborhood, though auriel is a fake place in my head. I walk past the wall every day. Maybe it will give me something I truly need, one day.)

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All the MCR fans reading this journal have probably already seen morebliss's Gerard Way picspam/quotespam, but my mom hasn't. (We are crossing our fingers so hard that they play New Orleans in June, so I can take my parents.)

Speaking of my parents! They will be here on Saturday!! !!!!!!!

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( Mainly intended for people who are seeing this on LJ... )

denise asks over in dw_biz: How many icon slots would be "enough" for you?

Looks like LJ got notifications back up - the message at status.livejournal.org has changed and I got a few day-old post notifications in my inbox (and a couple of very recent icon notifications). They say it'll take about 24 hours for the backlog to clear. I have no idea whether the email half of the system had started sending out the delayed stuff, since I haven't been waiting on any.

I'm probably going to be offline most of the weekend - between the driving and the conference and the socializing, I won't have much time, and I will be trying to use what spare time I do have to write.

I haven't had a chance to read anyone's posts, DW or LJ, since Thursday morning, though I did skim a bit. I have barely had time to check my email. Assume I will be unavailable until Sunday evening.

:D

from thelemic

My username is sofiaviolet.

My journal name is Sofia Violet Emilie Blackthorne. I picked out my own name - a combination of not having ever liked what my parents named me and long-term immersion in pseudonymous cultures. I was originally planning to keep my middle name, but Sofia Emilie does not flow.

My journal title is "picked a handful of violets in my name," which comes from a poem I started but haven't finished. It's about lesbians. // My journal title is "The Love Letter Sessions," which was the title of a poem I wrote in high school. It was about lesbians.

My journal subtitle is "right between the scapulae, back of the heart," which is from another poem I wrote. The first assignment for my spring 2009 poetry workshop was to answer the question "What is poetry?" // My journal subtitle is "a life you don't despise." I think it's a lyric, but I ran into it out of context, as someone else's journal title or subtitle.

My reading page is "relevant to my interests." Because it's true. // My friends page is "Friends or Enemies," because of that website.

My default userpic is a little drawing of violets I turned up in a google image search.

If you can't access livejournal: your ip address is probably blocked. Try rebooting your router and/or modem and/or computer, which should reset your ip address, which will hopefully let you access the site.

I can access my lj inbox and individual entries on my friends' journals, although I'm having trouble staying logged in for any length of time.

This might be a good time to note that I'm no longer using my lj friendspage - I've either set up a feed on Dreamwidth (for journals whose content is public and journals that haven't friended me) or subscribed to you such that your entries appear in my lj inbox along with comment notifications and stuff. This cuts down the number of places I have to visit to keep up with things.

This might also be a good time to remind everyone that there is absolutely no new-and-unique content on my lj - everything originates at DW. If you are using both sites, Dreamwidth is where you should be reading me.

Also also also! I have ten Dreamwidth invites right now, if anyone wants one. Otherwise they will sit, sad and unused, until I come up with good usernames for my fictional characters.

I mean, I've been carrying it around since last March. It's a 5-subject composition book, and I tend to write pretty small. Lots of pages. Lots of words. It survived my MCR trip last May (without getting barfed on, which is more than I can say for my pants), and I've brought it with me almost everywhere.

The front cover is starting to tear away from the binding, and the entire cover/binding is separating from the pages. I need to repair it somehow. I think the answer is... duct tape. It usually works. Or I can ask at work, since someone there has probably done a wee bit of conservation on something.

One of the reasons I love writing in notebooks is that I can ignore my inner editor. I have to keep going - damn the plot holes and the continuity fail - or else pick a different scene to start writing. I do more writing on my computer, but sometimes I just need a notebook. If I'm feeling distractable, especially.

Of course, I look for all sorts of ways to make myself write. Unfortunately, I can't participate in kink_bingo because I don't write fanfic, but I am going to use their list as a way of prompting myself. Writing a random sex scene is a good way to get in my daily words, and sometimes it's helpful with regards to characterization.

bexless: Size Queen. Femmeslash om nom nom. Written for kink_bingo.

If you post cool content but you didn't have me friended on LJ, I set up a feed on DW (since I was only seeing your public posts anyway) and defriended you on LJ. I'm trying to centralize myself on Dreamwidth as much as possible. I won't abandon my LJ-based friends, but if I was just a follower, then whatever.

Someone is setting off fireworks, and has been every night since Saturday. It's annoying and it really upsets my upstairs neighbor's dog. >:(

My computer did actually die of water damage. It just took two weeks for the logic board to fry all the way through.

So it's off for repairs, and I don't know when I'll get it back. I'm hoping for some time next week and fearing that's too optimistic.

I am checking my email once or twice a day, but I'm not going to be reading my flist until I get my own computer back. I'll try to catch up then, but no guarantees.

... oh, who am I kidding? Yes, I'll catch up, although it might take me anywhere from a couple of days to the better part of a week, depending on what else is going on.

ETA: Wow, I'm all kinds of dumb lately. I never actually posted about this. But yeah, in a stunning display of fail, I dumped about three ounces of water on my laptop on July 27th. It finally gave up the ghost on August 8th.

Meh. Gonna take the lj-strike time and get some more writing done. My output tanked after spring break. Well, tomorrow I'm going to write. Tonight I have to do an assignment for linguistics. Last of its kind, yay, and it shouldn't be very hard. I just don't really feel like working on it.

In the future, I'll probably be updating through my wordpress blogs The Love Letter Sessions and Auriel, but since they're both configured to crosspost here, you shouldn't see much difference.

ETA: Also. Database software that: is free, will work on a Mac, and doesn't take mad skillz. And by software I really mean mysql clients, because I have successfully installed mysql, but I cannot figure out where to go from here. /o\