Two one zero codes available today! The invite code system demands that I give it an email address for you - contact sofiaviolet@sofiaviolet.com if you don't feel comfortable leaving your email in a public comment. And yes, anonymous and OpenID comments are on.

You could also check out hatman's New Account Fairy post in dw_rocks, paidaccountfairy, or dw_codesharing.


I'm going to try doing a bit of support - I helped out at random on LJ's support boards for a while, so I'm not completely clueless, but I'm definitely not an expert.

Tangentially, I had to teach my mother what a cut tag does last night, via telephone. *facepalm* I thought she knew! Hopefully she hasn't missed out on too much of my content since she started reading my journal.

If you had an OpenID on Dreamwidth but have deleted it, that was probably a bad idea. Go undelete it so you can manage imported comments.


I agonized over it for a while, but now I have a seed account. I'll be playing paid account fairy with my friends in the near future.


Now I should eat some lunch.

Fall Out Boy show last night was good. So glad I ran into insunshine, gigantic and 1001cranes.

Hey Monday were all right. I like Cassadee's voice, but only when she's singing. Metro Station were fun. I thought their setup was kind of weird. All Time Low were all right musically, but all signs point to them being douchebags, so no. Cobra Starship were tons of fun, as always, but Gabe really needs to stop touring for a while and take care of his voice, dammit. Fall Out Boy were pretty good, and they played a nice set. The screens kind of confused me, but I guess it's better than the fucking wall of fire they had last time I saw them (I was surprised that Andy didn't melt on that tour, tbh).

Just glanced at a picture of this guy I went to school with in New Orleans (ah, facebook, how useful you are), and he looks kind of a lot like Joe. Heh.

Shiny factoid you might not have known: if you sign into Dreamwidth using your OpenID, then set and verify your email address, you'll get an invite code on the 30th. You can then use it yourself to make an account, or forward the invite email to someone else for their use.

Signing in with your OpenID will also allow you to test out most of Dreamwidth's features (though not posting, crossposting, or importing, sorry), which can help you decide what you want to do with your invite.

dw_codesharing will become active around open beta and could be another good place to get a code.

I will also have some invites to hand out come the 30th, but I have no clue how many.

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I will continue to crosspost to LJ, with comments redirected to Dreamwidth.

So far I have been granting access and subscribing liberally; I expect my reading and access lists to shrink once I get some time to evaluate them. I also expect to put access filters into place eventually. I do not plan to use reading filters (though I'm pretty sure they're not available yet), ever.

I am making an effort to post publicly whenever possible, so that I don't need to concern myself too much with access or filters.

... 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.

It's been a pretty busy few days...

Stuff for making jewelry arrived Friday morning, but the gold and silver colored wire doesn't match the plated findings, so I have to send it back and invest in gold-filled and sterling wire. Friday night, I partied with my classmates from the poetry workshop. Saturday and Sunday were the Skillshare.

( Friday: Symposium )

I staggered through the door around three in the morning and woke up pretty late on Saturday.

( Saturday: Skillshare day 1 )

I chatted with my parents for a little while, then nabbed some Popeyes and went home.

( Sunday: Skillshare day 2 )

I went home a little after ten and managed to get lost on my way back to Shawmut, so I called my parents and had them read directions to me over the phone. When I got home, I finished my work for my sociology class, then checked my email and found a Dreamwidth invite code.

And here I am.

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

( two shows I went to and two I didn't )

Also, guess what? I am probably going to take the amateur radio licensing test along with zachens and the rest of Wireless Club. zachens wants to ride in the Bikes Not Bombs thing in June, but also wanted to coordinate water stations and such - so I will be coating myself in spf 70 and taking over the latter part of that sentence.

That's on June 7th, and I got myself a ticket to see Taking Back Sunday on the 27th. So I will go back to New Orleans some time in between.

I am only online right now through the grace of UPS.

The power went out at my apartment. zachens has confirmed that the neighbors one house up the street are also without electricity.

NStar has been called. They didn't know what was wrong but they did give me an automated callback. My power should return by 10:30.

The weird thing it, the power isn't 100% totally and completely dead.
* zachens dragged out the voltmeter and the outlets are all putting out ~9 volts.
* The GFCI near the kitchen sink was buzzing for long enough that we called Dad. It stopped, though, while I was on the phone with him.
* The motion-detector and light in the front hall of this building work.
* The light in our front room works, but the outlets don't power anything.
* The light in zachens's room works, but the outlets don't power anything.
* The ceiling light and fan in the bathroom works, but not the GFCI or the lights over the mirror.
* The refrigerator is running. Light comes on and everything. Pantry light is out, though.
* Some basement lights work, but others don't. The dryer works.

Current theories include: electricity is one fucked up force of energy; we have a poltergeist; the house is possessed. Two of those would require judicious application of Winchesters. Other theories are, of course, welcomed.

Yes, zachens has already twiddled with the circuit breakers. Twice.

EDIT: All lights in apartment (so, front room and zachens's room, then) have gone out. Afraid to check elsewhere. Also heard a high-pitched beep. IDEK.

EDIT 2: zachens is listening to "Danger! High Voltage" during the power outage.

EDIT 3: \o/ The electricity! It returns!

That's apparently what I do when I take my meds regularly.


First project may never be posted, although I am writing it out as an LJ post. I feel like I don't have anything fresh to say about big picture issues relating to Racefail 09 (I have been following it via metafandom), so I'm trying to analyze things I can do. And since I have seen a number of entries about what people can do in their real lives, I decided to focus on how I am going to try and fail less at tackling issues of race in my writing.

But as that is long, self-indulgent, and still unfinished, I may never actually post it - so don't hold your breath or anything. But do go and read some other people's posts.


Second project is a personal undertaking, though it was sparked by the fact that I'm currently sitting in the NUBiLaGA resource room. I thought I'd make up a little list of all the LGBTQ&c collections we have in the archives, and distribute it to NUBiLaGA members for their edification. I figure it's a little better than just pointing them straight at the archives website, and all the links will go directly to the appropriate finding aids.

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Sorry about not posting a picture of my awesome outfit from yesterday. I came home and took a nap instead. Maybe you will get pictures of the articles of clothing, without me in them.