picked a handful of violets in my name

I think I sprained my back. DNW.

On the bright side, I did get all my furniture arranged. Now I need to finish unpacking so I can use my desk (currently blocked by two large boxes) and close my closet door (I keep injuring myself - if it's not my hip against the door, it's an ankle or foot tangling with the futon). Also: posters and artwork!

I was going to post a shitty diagram of where everything is, but it was too hard.

I have a whole wall with absolutely nothing against it. My desk is in that corner, but it hardly takes up any room. Someone talk me out of taping up a whole bunch of paper and using it as a huge map of Auriel and environs or something.

And if you do enable me on the map thing, at least stop me from taking pictures and emailing them to my workshop with the subject line "underdeveloped setting what?"*

... It could be about ten feet wide, I reckon. What is wrong with me.

Sleep. Sleep fixes everything.

*More on this when I have time to write up something that makes sense.

Ten feeeeeeeeeet of paper, omfg. Needs moar cartography skillz.

My mother will be pleased to hear that I made a friend in meatspace. She is the other NaNoWriMo writer and fellow fandomer in my fiction workshop. We bonded over RPGs and our classmates' general fail at commas.

I have been encouraged to turn in a synopsis as my first thing for the entire class to critique, but I'm not going to get started on it until the professor emails us examples of what he's looking for. Which means I'm going to go to the library after class and print out my two existing drafts of a first chapter, so I can work without having to switch between windows.

Actually, give me your opinions!
[Poll #1265585]

Today's topic in Women's Studies is the social construction of gender. Where is my goddamn nailbat.

For once, I am being responsible and not procrastinating on homework! (Okay, I am using this assignment to procrastinate on other ones that will be less awesome.)

Fill in the blank for first year art students: "Hey, aren't you in Addison's _________ class?"

It should, if possible, be a large enough class that the (shy, not prone to people-watching or random chitchat) addressee could have been to class a couple of times and not noticed the speaker.

Or tell me if "Addison's class" could be specific enough on its own.

I'm relatively unworried about my parents, even though they're not leaving town because Dad got declared essential after Katrina (apparently they need more computer people on hand during disasters). Ochsner is like a fortress.

Which frees me up to worry about other people, like some of you and the neighbors and people my mom works with and my mom's whole school and - crap, who am I forgetting?

I think my evening will be spent unproductively refreshing hurricane maps and trying to get rid of this headache.

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.

My dad needs to convert some PDFs into another format - all he needs is the info, no formatting or anything. Anybody know how to do this?

ETA: Solution found. New tech question: anyone else have trouble with Gmail forgetting that you've read/starred/deleted certain messages? I will deal with everything in my inbox, wander off, and come back only to have to deal with it all again.

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Week in the Life Game:

For one week, you are to post photographs taken during the day.

Rules:
1. You must take between 6 and 8 new photographs per day. Fuck that.
2. Your WITL must be consecutive. No skipping days.
3. You must post your photographs at the end of that day, sometime after the last picture is taken.
4. Each photograph must have the time taken beneath and a title, with no other explanation.
5. You must post these rules at your first entry, then link back to it for the other six days so that people will know wtf you’re doing.
6. Your post must say “A Week in the Life of [your name/username], Volume [whatever day you’re on].”

This will be two Weeks In The Life, because I’ll be in New Orleans for two weeks.

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Sorry it's late. I had a headache.

Day 1, Volume One + meme rules
Day 2, Volume One
Day 3, Volume One
Day 4, Volume One
Day 5, Volume One

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