picked a handful of violets in my name

*flop* I definitely ran out of spoons for socializing. I'm still suffering those effects.

Stuff that happened: I met a bunch of people! Including zeenell in meatspace for the first time, viklikesfic, cesy, cinco, eleanor_lavish, schuyler, melannen, libitina, merisunshine36, and lots of other people.

A+++ con, would attend again. (Already preregistered for 2012!)

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No pictures today; my outfit was kind of boring. Pinstripe pants and a Threadless shirt. (I will try to get up a picture of my jacket, though, because it's fucking cool. Black, with larger versions of these clasps.)

The good news is that the next few days may be warm enough for me to wear some of the cute stuff I picked out. And I have actual reasons for leaving the house, which forces me to put clothes on. \o/

Plans! I am having a busy weekend, it looks like. Friday night is Slutbutter, because Cameryn Moore (most of my weekend is because Cameryn Moore). Saturday, I want to go to Sowa Open Market, and then Ellie and I are heading out to Wilmington again for roller derby. Sunday is the Flea at MIT again (note to self: visit ATM beforehand), and then Phone Whore, and then Fuckbucket.

My Monday is currently 100% empty, and I am going to nap hard, motherfuckers. I will have earned it.

Daily Song (right-click): Cobra Starship - Move Like You Gonna Die

1. history: Another book, and a consideration of a historiographical problem

2. jjhunter: dreamsheep poem

3. trascendenza: On Cantonese tones.

And since it's now technically Friday... boston (which I co-mod, as of recently). And unfunnybusiness_dw exists. I love reading steampunk_nusantara.

I'm actually pondering pruning my dreamroll... so I suppose this would be a good time to declare amnesty: if you're tired of my face or my links or my frequency of posting or my whatever, you can unsubscribe!

If you used the opt-out I linked yesterday, you might want to go back and do it again. Turns out it's set opt_exclude_stats 1.
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Roller derby: awesome! We had to learn the rules and scoring practices through osmosis (and really could not hear the commentators well at all). We also ate some fried dough (truth in advertising!), which was basically a large flat beignet. Nomnomnom.

This morning, we went to the Flea at MIT. The original plan was for me to take the train; Ellie was driving but she had already promised every possible seat in her car to people from Wireless Club. But two cancellations later, I had a ride, yay.

Here are pictures of the things I got! Since I, uh, don't know what some of these doodads are called.
( Not that it matters that much. I'm just going to wrap them in wire anyway. )

National Poetry Writing Month begins tomorrow! Join in at napowrimo!

Hello Kitty wine, making me wish I actually drank wine.

age_of_sail kink meme, open to any seafaring or related historical fandom.

The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center is bringing the Clothesline Project to South Station.

International Transgender Day of Visibility

I have 10 invite codes! (They were distributed to lissa_and_kitty, who is fictional and has little use for them.) You can comment here or email sofiaviolet@sofiaviolet.com if you would like to use one. ETA: Here are two of them: C9J7QA7JAEHN6AAAFW36 and 9Q33X8JR3DZJBAAAFW37, for those who would rather not comment or send an email!

Follow Friday: "Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die". Just introduce us to some new things to read."

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Any Boston-area folks want to see Thursday with me at the Palladium? May 1st. Would be helpful if you have a car, since I won't be able to drive by then.*

* Yeah, I know. Ellie has convinced me. I get my learner's permit, she teaches me, I get an actual license, I sign up for Zipcar, I drive her around when she needs to buy GIANT pieces of wood.**

** We have a pretty nice woodworking shop in the basement now. Also some apparently very laid-back landlords.

Take action to save the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program.

Ellie is apparently making duck gumbo for Thanksgiving because A) fuck turkey anyway and B) we will be feeding probably more people than a single roast duck would satisfy.

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shadesong/shadesong is looking for people to make t-shirts for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center's Clothesline Project.

She says:

The Clothesline Project is for survivors of rape, sexual assault, incest, domestic violence, any kind of sexual violence, but can also be for loved ones of survivors; there are shirts by parents, partners, and friends of survivors. (Note: I am hoping for shirts from male survivors and anyone else whose experience challenges people's assumptions of "the typical rape victim", but I will take any shirt you want to make.)

This shirt-making event will take place at Shadesong's house at a time to be determined. They're also looking into ways for non-local survivors to contribute.

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mark did a code push last night. Things that are live include a fix for removing users from subscription filters (basically, It Works Now) and yvi's sticky entry patch. To set a sticky post, you can choose any existing post and enter its URL or ID at the bottom of the Display settings page. Crossposting from clients should now work, although I haven't mucked around with it since I don't use a client. There are also a bunch of new themes.

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Johnny Blazes will be performing Wo(n)man Show at Northeastern tonight. But Ellie isn't coming, because work. You should come and hang out with me, though! Email me if you are coming and we can meet up. Doors at 7:30, show at 8.

... and using subject lines:

1. Today is my mother's birthday.

2. I need to buy a new alarm clock. I somehow managed to break mine. :( I didn't even have it for more than a couple of months.

3. I am looking for podfic recs! I often have the opportunity to listen to my ipod at work, but I spend too much time fiddling with it whenever it plays a song I don't like, and I suck at playlists. But today I listened to inkjunket's reading of sevenfists's The Sky-High City and it was awesome. Just what I needed.

So, yes. Ur podfics, give them to me. Bandom preferred, but feel free to take this as an opportunity to recruit me into your fandom via ficcy goodness.

4. How much do I love Firefox's search capabilities? I found the links in #3 so quickly in my bookmarks/history.

5. I really need to import/upload/redo my tags and icons. But I need to catch up on writing even more.

Manually crossposted between sofiaviolet.dreamwidth.org and sofiaviolet.livejournal.com.

One of my brother's friends gave him a wifi detecting t-shirt. It lights up. I'm not even kidding.


My mom dropped her phone in the sink, but Dad took it apart right away and dried it out and it's working again.


FedEx says our package from home was delivered to the back door today. Uh, no it wasn't. It's either at someone else's house (fail, delivery guy) or someone stole it. And will probably be disappointed unless they actually wanted a shitload of peanut butter crackers that have probably been recalled, and other similarly inexpensive stuff.


Today I have written 1100+ words in a document called idfic. Urgh. Why can't I be inspired to work on something that doesn't make me cringe in embarrassment??

Getting started on my day an hour later than I had planned. (Fuck you, migraine!)

Dyed my hair yesterday. I think that's why I had the initial headache - noxious fumes.

Also, I have figured out that the main trigger for my odd brand of migraine is Prior Headache That I Tried To Treat With The Wrong NSAID. /o\

Originally published at The Love Letter Sessions. You can comment here or there.