picked a handful of violets in my name

Daily Song (right-click): My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row
Since they're what I listened to at work today.

1. fairestcat: Some meta recs and a tangent about my own participation in these conversations

2. helens78: geek conventions and body/self image

3. sanguinity: There Are Some Battles That I Do Not, Will Not, or Can Not Fight

4. yvi: Dev \o/

5. roga: "APPARENTLY NORWAY IS SENDING TO THE EUROVISION THE LOVE CHILD OF JOHN SHEPPARD AND ADAM LAMBERT"

New layout on sofiaviolet. I took the Light on Dark theme for Funky Circles and made it really fucking purple.

Today's Groupon for Boston applies to classes at Bead + Fiber in the South End. Since there's totally stuff I haven't been able to figure out on my own at all.

As Ellie and I are leaving for Northampton in less than an hour (we hope), I will catch up on the interwebs later. I may or may not spend the day spamming the crap out of Twitter, and there may or may not be pictures when I get home.

Today's Daily Song is not a single song! I have zipped eight songs from the supplementary playlist for And In Darkness, Light, the name I use for stories about Marcus (currently in progress: a trilogy plus some other stuff).

And In Darkness, Light (Supplementary Soundtrack) 47.2mb

( tracklisting )

( how the music for AIDL works )

If I post about the actual content of AIDL, in terms of themes and plot and everything, that'll probably go in auriel, but I'll link to it the next time I update my journal.

( links )

Daily Song (right-click): Escape the Fate - Cellar Door
This may have to go on certain of my writing playlists. (Not playlists I listen to while I write, mind you. More like fanmixes I make for myself.)

Academichic: Dress Your Best Week
I'd like to participate in that, but IDK whether I'll have the spoons.* I could try picking out my clothes ahead of time and writing the entry in advance, I guess. I've been meaning to assemble fabulous outfits more often (inspired partly by one of my coworkers and partly by the underutilized parts of my closet), but, ugh, effort. This kind of thing is usually the first to get pushed aside.

When it comes to picking out clothes in advance, there's also the problem of Boston's highly fickle weather. I can't just glance at a forecast and create five outfits for a work-and/or-class-week! I have to have backup outfits: what if it rains, what it it's suddenly and briefly hot or cold, etc?

* I'm still trying to figure out the extent to which I'm comfortable with conceptualizing my depression as a disability. I often feel like I am too functional to really count. :\

( dreamwidth linkery )

Yesterday's concert was great (even though I had the nagging remains of a headache), and Thursday played some of my favorite songs, including the one I uploaded yesterday.

My train back from Worcester got in a little past two in the morning, and Ellie still came and picked me up.

I slept really really really late, and then Ellie and I went to Fourburgers (as Cambridge seems to be the only nearby place not getting its water from the "no srsly boil this" backup reservoirs). We attempted to figure out what Ellie should do for a cheap vacation, since she has this week off before summer term. Finally decided that maybe a day trip to Northampton was in order.

Then we tried to go to a grocery store in Cambridge but got lost, considered going to the one in Dedham we usually go to and rejected that idea except in case of emergency, tried to get on Memorial Drive but wound up on Storrow instead, decided to try the grocery at Jackson Square, and then actually went to one near Fenway because we wound up driving right past it.

So we have a case of bottled water now, and Ellie wants to go out to some lumber yard out in the middle of nowhere tomorrow, so she can get more if we need it.

Daily Song (right-click): My Chemical Romance - The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You
Since that's what Ellie asked to listen to in the car today. (She only seems to request MCR when we're going to be driving for a while, so I just start with Bullets and keep going until we get home. This is as far as we got today.)

If you want to vote for ideas I've already had or make topic suggestions, I'm going to begin work on those entries ASAP, probably later this evening.

Still sick, I guess. I came home from work and took a three-hour nap. Or it's like the summer after my freshman year, when I rolled off the airplane in New Orleans, ate dinner with my parents, and slept for eighteen hours.

Today is Dreamwidth's first birthday! A year ago, the service entered open beta; I was lucky enough to have received an invite code during closed beta. Denise and Mark have of course made posts for this momentous occasion.

Daily Song (right-click): Sleater-Kinney - Youth Decay
Always one of my first ideas when Ellie and I are going to be in the car for a while (my ipod freaks out periodically when its volume is up all the way, like when it's plugged into her stereo, so it's best just to pick an artist with enough songs to last the whole trip and then not touch the thing).

Follow Friday: followfriday | Latest Things
I love accessibility_fail and beginningcocks (NSFW) and dreamsheep and fucking_meds and shareandsharealike and three_weeks_for_dw and tickybox and transfic.
I would love to see bdsm and boston and camberville and davis_square and factfinding and history and leftoverresearchquarterly and polyamory and simmonscollege and style_salon become more active.
And as for people: ajnabieh, anchises, azurelunatic, charmian, damned_colonial, dingsi, eruthros, eumelia, heartequals, impertinence, languisity, lauredhel, marina, niqaeli, oursin, rydra_wong, stepps, synecdochic, thingswithwings, toft, trascendenza, trouble, zorkian, yasaman, yvi.

( Let me talk about clothes for a minute! )

Daily Song (right-click): Mindless Self Indulgence - Shut Me Up
Okay, at this point, it's looking like Daily Song will be a tour of my 25 most-played songs. So here's number three. I listened to this whole album a lot during my first year of college. (Relevant icon is relevant.)

And here are the links I had kicking around my Dreamwidth section of TooManyTabs (actual, organized link roundup soon, I hope):

charmian: recent LJ controversies, Three Weeks for DW and Active comms? And, is growth a problem? (maybe not)

holyschist: A totally non-scientific poll about blogging focus and Dreamwidth

heartequals: "How does one go about changing their internet name? People's internet names are so fascinating to me."

Ellie is watching Top Gear and laughing so hard it sounds like she's weeping in agony over her linear systems final.

1. three_weeks_for_dw starts tomorrow! The Latest Things page is already full of people planning their participation, and will be a great place to look for cool stuff over the next three weeks.

2. If you are going to participate, be sure to tag your posts three weeks for dreamwidth or threeweeks so they show up on the special Latest Things page.

3. I would like to post something every day; what kinds of posts would you like to see? Ask questions, give prompts, etc. Quoting from synecdochic, What kind of topics/entries would you like to see me posting about? Any particular questions you've always wanted to ask me but have resisted because the answer would be a huge essay? Ever want to wind me up and watch me go on a particular topic? Anything you've heard me say "I should write that entry about $foo I've been meaning to write" and have been patiently waiting for?

4. There's also this meme, which has popped up again: Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on alfalfa, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc.

5. If I have you friended on LJ, please fill out this poll or comment here to let me know how you prefer to follow me.

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

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.