picked a handful of violets in my name

sofiaviolet @ 2011-04-08T20:50:00

2011-04-09T00:53:38Z

Oof. Spend 30-ish hours finishing a paper and being at work, and you wind up with 50 open tabs after you skip 120 entries back. (Back when I was primarily reading on LJ, I would have had to skip farther back but I wouldn't have needed to open as many tabs.)

internets

Dreamwidth invite code, free for the taking, or check dw_codesharing.

Warning: the queue for the importer is really backed up right now because so many people want to import and because LJ doesn't have the resources to give the import tool what it's asking for. If you can wait to import, please do.

What to do with Dreamwidth: a list of tutorials and information

Follow Friday

leverage_flashfic! The Leverage panel at Muskrat Jamboree wanted a flashfic comm and I volunteered to run it. No one has posted fic yet, but I am soliciting prompts.

ao3some, which may win for best comm name.

lj_refugees

dw_community_promo is hosting a communities-only version of Follow Friday.

Links

melannen: Love & Marriage

One thing I love in a good SF story is ways of doing love, marriage, and romance that don't buy in to our society's idea of love+romance+sex+monogamy all on one single person as the only way to do it.

denise: (no subject)

I've seen people wondering why imports are taking so @)#$(*& long. This might help shed some light:

synecdochic: LiveJournal's DDoS and Russian Politics

So, people who grumble about "the Russians" taking over LJ should remember that in Russia, LiveJournal isn't just the top blogging platform, it's the blogging platform. It is Russia's free press. It is the tool being used to fight corruption and advance the cause of democracy. And, more practically to LJ users, the Russian-speaking sector of LJ is the reason LJ is still there at all.

helens78: Vote Ticky!

I am in favor of tickys because tickys are a form of communication. They can help engender community and relationships in a way that can enhance comments rather than replacing them or taking away from them. When someone isn't commenting, it's impossible to know if it's because they're lost for words, aren't on a platform suitable for lengthy comments (how many users read the site from smartphones now?), don't have a lot of spoons, have to conserve typing time... or aren't reading and don't care. Seeing people's names crop up repeatedly in tickys helps us discover who out there is giving us their time and attention, and can be a greatly-appreciated form of support, even or especially in times when hearing many individual comments -- and feeling obliged to respond to each of them -- can feel overwhelming.

EDIT: dw_maintenance: LiveJournal slowdowns/DDoS affecting importer, crossposts

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multi-part post

2011-03-11T14:31:26Z

Links

charmian: more notifications problems at LJ?

Currently there's a notifications problem at LJ, which apparently has something to do with a third party [EDIT: possibly Spamhaus]. People are getting fairly upset about it in the comments of the news post (well, also because of the banner color scheme).

Also, LJ is currently blacklisted with Spamhaus.

azurelunatic: Spamhaus and LJ

LJ has been listed by Spamhaus, which has likely got a decent amount to do with the notifications some people aren't getting. I propose a plan of action for users to help the Abuse Prevention Team squish as many spammerbots as humanly possible.

Follow Friday

lireavue has been posting good links and personal accounts of the Wisconsin protests.

laughingrat posts about library and social justice issues.

helpfordelight is an auction comm to assist delight with moving out of an unsafe housing situation and paying for her mother's cancer treatment.

three_weeks_for_dw is ramping up for another round, beginning on April 25th. Planning of activities is currently in progress.

unclutter is devoted to getting rid of one thing per day and one thing per new thing. (Kind of high traffic, but a really great way to clean sustainably.)

dw_meetups is usually pretty quiet, but if you are interested in hanging out with other Dreamwidth users, you should subscribe in case someone plans a meetup in your area (and/or plan a meetup yourself!).

Boston meetup

Boston Meetup: tentatively scheduled for 3/17

Meme

View Poll: Ask me a question!

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sofiaviolet @ 2010-10-08T19:53:00

2010-10-08T23:55:32Z

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"genitals as signifiers": when birth is a "social emergency"
What I really wanted to share with you in this post, though, is several paragraphs from the first chapter of Part Two in which Karkazis describes the way myriad ways in which children born with no immediately apparent sex identity are experienced as a matter of "social urgency" by their parents and the medical community. I realize it's kinda academic and somewhat heavy on the specialized terminology. But I think she's packing some pretty important stuff into these paragraphs (pp. 95-97). Reading this narrative, I just felt an overwhelming sadness in my chest for these tiny persons whose very being is somehow construed as problematic -- who cannot be incorporated into the human community, it seems -- because they lack a clear "girl" or "boy" box in which to be situated.
staranise: Automated bingo cards, get 'em while they're hot
This is just the first draft. I want to add to it--and I would be thrilled if other people wanted to add to it. This program was a fannish endeavour, if fandom itself is a fandom; I wanted to create something that would help other fans do what they love.
yvi: Flattr
Basically, it's a micropayments system to everyone on the internet who participates - you determine a certain amount of money you want to spend every month, pre-load your account, click on however many Flattr buttons on the web you want to, and at the end of the month, that money is devided between the pages you clicked for.

So I went and signed up for it: (I'd love to see a Dreamwidth feature that accomplishes this with points. I do it manually sometimes, but it's hard to remember.)

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look alive, sunshine (WHAT ARE THEIR FACES OH MY GOD)

2010-09-17T23:13:36Z

Recently

Looooong slog at work today. Ia ia vertical file fhtagn! And I have to do more of it on Monday. (Hell is interfiling.)

Memery

( Friday Five: travel )

Follow Friday

followfriday | Latest Things tagged follow friday

( caution: teal deer crossing )

Links

( 6 links )

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sofiaviolet @ 2010-09-10T19:21:00

2010-09-10T23:23:27Z

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I bought more fiber! Only a few batts, though, and none of them were very expensive. Still need to learn ALL the steps for knitting projects, not just the part in the middle.

And I was chattering about Dreamwidth to Cory, and he started asking questions, and now I think I may have recruited his entire D&D group. Or at least him, for the purpose of a D&D blog. I foresee some unofficial Support work in my future...

Follow Friday

britcoms
Anything and everything relating to British comedies is welcome there (reviews, news, favourite clips, fanfiction, discussions about actors' other projects, and anything else I've forgotton to mention). The only no-no is filesharing of full-length, commercially available episodes; otherwise, join in and have fun!
aslinterpreters

fleecefiberyarn

Links

Disabled Feminists: Normalising Accessibility
Having accessibility notes does not create universal access. But it’s certainly a step in the right direction, of getting people to think beyond ‘special treatment‘ by positioning accessibility as something broadly relevant to most people, and something of equal importance as ‘who, what, where, when, why, and how.’ Which, for many of us, it is.
melannen: (no subject) [poll]
When I am talking about the novels, animated series, comics, web extras, role-playing games, audio dramas, and so on that are authorized by a particular fandom's owners but are not part of main canon, I call them:
emceeaich: Stay Alive
Many of our friends, family, and loved-ones who don't are constantly told, implicitly and explicitly, that they have no value, and ending one's life can be alluring. Fighting injustice is part of preventing suicide.
foxfirefey in lj_refugees: PayPal conduit offer
Somebody's comment on the last post made me feel like I should make an offer to be a PayPal conduit for people who can't pay Dreamwidth in other ways. I'll do this for at least two weeks from the date of this post.

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yawns

2010-09-04T03:09:02Z

Recently

I've been following the latest LJwtf and going to work, pretty much. Managed to wear a skirt today, and I think every single person I work with complimented it.

( Follow Friday )

Links

( 7 links )

Plans

Get rained on and blown about. Hope the power stays on long enough to to chat with C. for a good long while. Drive up to NH with Ellie and shadesong for the art retreat, and catch the bus back. Drag Ellie to see Scott Pilgrim, get groceries, and pick up the hair stuff I forgot last week. Make attempt number 4 at purple hair: bleach a thick streak and purple it, then update the rest to black.

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overwhelmed in advance

2010-05-14T06:05:08Z

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!

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sofiaviolet @ 2010-04-30T22:38:00

2010-05-01T02:38:27Z

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.

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long-ass post is long

2010-04-24T03:40:20Z

Took my final for Soviet Secret Police today. I think I did well - there was one "identify this document excerpt" that I swear I had never seen before, but it was a small part of the test.

I foresee using this icon a lot while I'm in New Orleans this summer, and I need to upload one of the "emphasizin ur POC" icons as well.

I have missed my one-year anniversary on Dreamwidth. But it was because I had papers to write, so I will just commemorate it now.

( links galore )

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sofiaviolet @ 2010-04-16T11:31:00

2010-04-16T22:34:20Z

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.

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Oopsies.

2010-04-10T17:11:42Z

I started this post yesterday! Really! /o\

follow friday
three_weeks_for_dw
pacifi_cant, for those of us who can't be in Seattle this weekend for Pacificon/Bitchin' Party
Latest Things | follow_friday

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.

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eleventh hour

2010-04-03T03:58:07Z

follow still-technically-friday!
academia is for academics. They have a friending meme up.
anchises writes excellent jdn. You may want to brush up on Mezzanine (product of synecdochic and ivorygates) beforehand.
brackets, for all your tournament needs!

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.

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Come say hi! I will be handling tickets!

2010-03-27T18:43:45Z

Follow ~~Friday~~ Saturday: anagrams. Also check out rydra_wong's Follow Friday: Steampunk of Colour Special Edition. Latest Things tagged 'followfriday'

In dww_styles, foxfirefey sums up the recently-added styles and themes.

yvi and commenters are pondering ways for users to support Dreamwidth financially and encourage developers to work on specific bugs, at the same time.

I saw Dr. Feelgood last night, and it was awesome. Boston-area people should come! $15, Cambridge YMCA in Central Square. Doors at 7:30 and show at 8:00.

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paper names that will wash away / in a heavy rain

2010-03-20T02:48:42Z

Follow Friday: followfriday | latest FF posts
duesouth rarelitfic fuckingdocs 100women
getting_started is a great place for people new to Dreamwidth to get answers to technical questions.
factfinding
napowrimo/National Poetry Writing Month is April.

Dreamwidth has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code!!!

petra: Only one word for yes (White Collar, awesome smut written for kink_bingo, OT3)

Meme from marina: Ask me a question about one of my icons. I'll answer, either directly or with a drabble. (Probably not a drabble, as I don't have many fannish icons and don't really write fic, either.)

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sofiaviolet @ 2010-03-12T21:59:00

2010-03-13T03:00:52Z

Follow Friday:
crock_o_dial for sharing slow-cooker recipes
create_my_comm for when you want a community to exist on Dreamwidth but aren't up to maintaining it yourself. Folks are currently looking for a community sort of like little_details, but which also allows posts looking for fact-checkers, research aides, and fail-spotters.
azurelunatic is good people.
rydra_wong always has links to useful, good, thought-provoking posts.
thingswithwings is a kink_bingo mod and plenty interesting in her own right.

erda is running a Dreamwidth Anniversary Fest timed to coincide with the one-year anniversary of open beta.

And I am exhausted, so I'm going to sleep now.

ETA: katieastrophe is running an anniversary meetup in London. (If you can't make that, try dw_meetups to arrange something in your area.)

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brb, learning to parallel park

2010-03-05T21:16:35Z

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."

fucking_meds for your various medications and how much they can suck, con_txt for CON.TXT, getting_started for Dreamwidth 101 questions, magpie for jewelry-makers, macapps, pretty_pixels for icons, queerlygen, fandomcalendar
followfriday | Latest Posts

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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.

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and another thing

2010-02-20T17:23:17Z

Adding to yesterday's Follow Friday: synecdochic has just created fucking_meds, "because the only thing worse than the fucking drugs is not having the fucking drugs."

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follow

2010-02-20T03:58:24Z

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.

white_collar and leverage! I just started watching these shows very recently and I find both delightful.

co_workers_suck is a new community for the obnoxious people you work with. Presuming you work with some, which I don't.

kink_finders is another new community devoted to finding fic that hits a particular narrative or sexual kink.

solarcat is awesome, and one of my bffs! She writes bandom fic (MCR and Panic), plus one MCR/AI8 crossover. I am going to try to make her write the toppy!Frank fic we briefly discussed at the Flea. ♥__♥

followfriday | latest posts tagged follow friday

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sofiaviolet @ 2010-02-05T12:18:00

2010-02-05T18:58:41Z

People in/near Boston: Ellie is looking for laser hair removal or electrolysis in the near future. Any advice, experiences, recommendations, warnings, etc?

Also, happy birthday, Ellie. (Not that she will see this.) We are getting delicious noms with cool people in celebration.

***

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.

synecdochic is writing a poem every day this month.

Speaking of poetry, that community is still open for posting of single poems whenever you feel like it, but now you can sign up for a week of posting 5 or more poems, too.

homeeconomics101 was started by yvi for those of us who are not so great at that household-management stuff.

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ff

2010-01-08T20:46:32Z

beginningcocks, bringing infinite lulz at bad sex practices, bad sex writing, and occasional trivia. Also, lube/not lube.

copperbadge. I don't know how to sum up his journal, so just go and read.

lauredhel, also of hoydenabouttown_feed and disabledfeminists_feed.

cimorene's regular features include shoe posts and badfic summaries.

oursin makes thoughtful posts on a variety of subjects.

dailyprompt posts one writing prompt per day.

followfriday / tag feed

***

New hard drive has arrived. Time Machine did its first backup last night while I made myself dinner (small pieces of chicken thigh and onions, sprinkled with thyme/cumin/garlic powder/cayenne, deglazed with vermouth and and a wee bit of soy sauce, and served in a bowl of chicken ramen - was good, will try again).

1TB drive has two partitions: the cleverly named Time Machine, which is for automatic backups, and ExternalBrain, for anything that doesn't need to be on my computer all the time (video, possibly my fandom-related picture folders).

ExternalBrain also currently contains my old backups, which were made manually whenever my computer would do something nervous-making. There is a lot of duplication, and it will take a while to sort through the backups to figure out what goes back onto the Macbook, what stays on ExternalBrain, and what can be safely discarded.

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sofiaviolet @ 2010-01-01T22:38:00

2010-01-02T03:52:18Z

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.

intro_to_cs is a community for people working through MIT 6.00: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming. The lectures and readings are available online, for free, and a new group of students will be supporting each other starting some time this month.

python and perl

follow friday tag feed

***

My parents have gone home. I'm quite tired in the wake of their visit - more people time than I'm really used to, even if they are family-people.

(Next time, I think we are going to visit them in December. Brrr.)

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Follow Friday.

2009-12-18T12:44:13Z

brigid
copperbadge
puzzlement
actyourwage
leftoverresearchquarterly

Find other follow friday posts at followfriday or on the tag feed.

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follow friday

2009-12-11T18:52:24Z

Bandom edition. [Keep in mind that this meme is intended to highlight nifty content on Dreamwidth, so the list below is limited to people posting at least their fic/art/recs on dw.]

( long list is long )

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sofiaviolet @ 2009-12-04T07:26:00

2009-12-04T12:40:56Z

So the one good thing I can say about my ex from high school is that he introduced me to soccer. The 2006 World Cup was during the last summer we were together, and we watched several matches at his house (usually in Spanish) and it was fun, and now I will watch it when I am in New Orleans (no cable in my apartment, and no working tv either) and there's nothing another family member wants to see. And since I also really like FiveThirtyEight, I was happy to see that Nate has done some World Cup 2010 statistical analysis stuff.

And it's Friday! You get an extra-long Follow Friday this week, since I missed last week due to broken interwebs.

538_feed, should you wish to read it on your Dreamroll
geekfeminism_feed, thecurvature_feed, and tiger_beatdown_feed, which I recced in yesterday's Best of 2009 post
boston, camberville, and davis_square
metaquotes
crochet, fleecefiberyarn, knitting, knittingpix, and ravelry

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Follow Friday. Spring registration.

2009-11-21T04:24:35Z

( Follow Friday: all-communities edition )

As always, please share your Follow Friday posts at followfriday.

***

Today is Dad's birthday. (I am not actually sure if he still reads this. Mom does. I already said 'happy birthday' on the phone, but it doesn't hurt to mention it again.)

I've bugged my honors advisor again, about the junior/senior project this time. It's not a requirement for the honors program (one can earn a course distinction and/or project distinction, and I'm on track for the former), so unless the history department will let me count it as my capstone, I don't think I'll do it. The effort:tangible-benefit ratio just isn't good enough.

( blah blah spring blah )

Why yes, yes that is two days off and no class earlier than half past one in the afternoon. *smugface*

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picked a handful of violets in my name

sofiaviolet @ 2011-04-08T20:50:00

internets

Follow Friday

Links

multi-part post

Links

Follow Friday

Boston meetup

Meme

sofiaviolet @ 2010-10-08T19:53:00

Follow Friday

Links

look alive, sunshine (WHAT ARE THEIR FACES OH MY GOD)

Recently

Memery

Follow Friday

Links

sofiaviolet @ 2010-09-10T19:21:00

Recently

Follow Friday

Links

*yawns*

Recently

Links

Plans

*overwhelmed in advance*

sofiaviolet @ 2010-04-30T22:38:00

long-ass post is long

sofiaviolet @ 2010-04-16T11:31:00

Oopsies.

eleventh hour

Come say hi! I will be handling tickets!

paper names that will wash away / in a heavy rain

sofiaviolet @ 2010-03-12T21:59:00

brb, learning to parallel park

and another thing

follow

sofiaviolet @ 2010-02-05T12:18:00

ff

sofiaviolet @ 2010-01-01T22:38:00

Follow Friday.

follow friday

sofiaviolet @ 2009-12-04T07:26:00

Follow Friday. Spring registration.

yawns

overwhelmed in advance