Daily Song (right-click): Jack Off Jill - When I Am Queen
One of the first songs I put on the Gwyneira playlist (Gwyneira being one of my characters - she lives in the foreground of my brainchatter and likes to accompany me when I go shopping. She also has the dubious distinction of having been resurrected from suicide by the professor in charge of her floor at Argent University. Number of people who know she was actually dead: 3. Number of people who were in the room when she came back: 3. Number of people who live with her who know this stuff: 0.)

Link roundup will be delayed. I am writing the essay for my honors seminar, the one on mental illness in popular culture, and it is prodding at the epic 'meh, fuck it, idunwanna' that characterizes my depression. Meaning the essay is going so slowly omfg. (Current plan: write essay until I can no longer think. Set alarm and go to sleep. Finish essay tomorrow. Go to campus, print essay and hand off to professor. Come home and email essay to classmates, as they requested in class.)

I can also post the paper, or excerpts, if any of you would like to read about the differences in portrayal of mental illness between The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's journals, and a biography called Rough Magic.

1. If there are things you want to know about me, ask them! I will compile an answers post soon (either after the last paper of the semester is done, or when I need a break from actually working on it).

2. The location of the LJ affiliate script has changed. Since the script messes up ctrl-click/right-click, jonquil suggests two fixes. xenacryst explains the security issue with giving up control over one's outbound links.

3. Closet cleaning challenge in homeeconomics101. I got started with this a couple of weeks ago, but it kind of fizzled. I have a bunch of stuff to get rid of, and I still have to go through half my closet and both my dressers (yes, both. Shut up, I have a lot of clothes.)

4. Apparently, I am attending a Priscilla, Queen of the Desert party tonight.

1 Get Mikey Laid fic-and-art fest prompts now open.

2. helens78, creator of the dreamsheep (see icon), is offering Dreamwidth points in exchange for dreamsheep anthropomofic. There are already some cute drabbles and such in the comments.

3. azurelunatic addresses social obligations (or lack thereof) to respond to comments.

4. stepps: what to do with Dreamwidth: a list of tutorials and information

Since I'm awake a whole hour earlier than planned, I figure I have time to give you guys another update on my academic progress over here!

The text of the KGB paper is done, and so are most of the footnotes. I need to finish the citations from Wilderness of Mirrors and give it one more read-through for suck and typos.

The text of the sociology paper is mostly done. I need to do its citations, and to keep adding stuff to the later paragraphs - I analyzed 8 photos of women from tumblrs I'm following, and each of those many photos is shorter than the last. I can probably accomplish most of that through actually comparing the photos to each other; currently each paragraph analyzes a single image.

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. )

Dreamwidth has merch now!

dw_mobile has been created for the project team working on the mobile version of the site. See also dw_biz for the brainstorming post.

azurelunatic is running an Emergency Fic Drive to keep denise occupied while she is prevented from typing by a hand injury.

viklikesfic is hosting an RPF comment fic meme as part of three_weeks_for_dw.

factfinding is a place to ask research questions and help other people out. Like little_details.

Did my taxes at the last minute. I will probably wind up using most of my return to help Ellie pay our renters' insurance.

*has a five-day weekend* I have spent today doing nothing productive whatsoever. I think this might be related to my inability to remember my meds over the past few days. /o\

You should link me to your tumblrs, people.

I started this post yesterday! Really! /o\

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azurelunatic: Why I think Dreamwidth is a special Free/Libre Open Source Software Development Environment

A very detailed step-by-step guide to using OpenID. Written for the members and commenters of spn_bitesized, but generalizable to the rest of Dreamwidth.

This got mentioned in irc: kiwikiwi listed some of their favorite features on Dreamwidth, focusing on lesser-known things, and there are other people chiming in in the comments.

via Racialicious: University of North Dakota retires "Fighting Sioux" nickname (which, I'm sure, makes my uncle very happy!)

I've started using my tumblr, if only to reblog things I like. So, given my interests and who I'm following, there are many pictures of girls in various states of undress, ie NSFW.

ETA: tumblr's Dashboard is pretty awesome, actually. I had been following tumblrs-as-feeds on my dreamroll, but I'm going to unsubscribe from all of them on Dreamwidth in favor of my Dashboard. Makes my dreamroll a bit more SFW and a bit less overwhelming.

Tomorrow I have to accompany Ellie to the FedEx depot to sign for her package. Because apparently woodworking tools require the signature of a 21+ person. *sigh*

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And now I go off and write my essay on corruption in post-colonial African governments.

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As far as napowrimo goes, I'm doing all right. I managed to write yesterday and today, but only late in the day ("oh shit, gotta do my poem"), and they're essentially remixes of older poems I've written.

I definitely have a huge problem with consistently being able to write poetry. Sometimes I get into the groove (usually coinciding with poetry-writing courses or segments of courses, which is convenient and suggests it's more about habit than some kind of cyclical inspiration thing).

I haven't done much Auriel stuff lately, either. I haven't worked on the Big Damn Map for a week or so, and I haven't been writing for *cough* way too long. Ugh ugh ugh. Poking through my journal from mid-2007 to whenever I started the next one, I've found some little tidbits that might prove inspiring, tucked away amongst bandom squeeing and notes from Italian class. Because I'll take that kick in the pants now, even if it fucks with my ability to write poetry this month.

Bleh. On that note, to bed with me.