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Recently

I have finagled my inbox all the way down to four things in Priority Inbox (one of which is my flight info and one of which relates to the practice GRE I'm taking tomorrow), and eleven things in the regular inbox, none of which requires an actual reply (they're all emails containing coupon codes I stand a decent chance of using - I keep them in my inbox so they don't get lost, and so they can be easily deleted once they expire).

Anyway, yeah. Practice GRE tomorrow (free, and it's been a while since I've taken a test like that). I should just register for the next convenient real GRE,* since it's not like I am going to study. And I went to an hour-long thingy about grad school, in which I had a lot of things I sort of knew confirmed, and had to suffer through a lot of stupid questions. Not sure it was entirely worth not getting paid for that hour, but eh.

In other "did $thing like a motherfucking adult" news, I have successfully paid the internet bill (which we just didn't receive last month, wtf. Verizon has the absolute worst billing system in the world, I swear), and requested an absentee ballot (since, oops, out of town for the election).

* Or maybe not, since it looks like I don't actually need it. IDK if I should take it anyway, though. So, uh, I turn to my dreamroll! For your information, I am seriously considering the Archives/History dual degree program at Simmons** but also seriously considering just the M.S. and going back for a history degree later. So y'all should give me advice on that, too.

** xkcd really nailed it.

Links

• Disabled Feminists: Let’s Bust Some Myths: Depressed People Are Always Sad or They’re Faking!

  Mix up a few details, and Blanchard’s story is a pretty common one. Whenever I talk to people who are currently living with long- or short-term depression, or have lived with it in the past, they tell me the same story: Friends thought they were faking because they managed to get out and have a good time. They laughed at a joke once and everyone decided they were “over” their “funk”. They didn’t act like stereotypes of depressed people, so they must not actually be depressed.

• britpop


• Browse Dreamwidth styles by color group and color characteristics.


• And there was going to be a link to a really cute picture I found while doing my actual job today, but it's on the test server, which A) I don't remember its IP address and therefore can't get to it from here and B) I probably shouldn't be linking the test server around anyway. But old photos of serious-looking small children, woo.

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

Memery

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Ellie and I were going to have a roast for dinner last night, but it had gone off. We wound up getting Indian food at Ghazal instead, along with Courtney. And as we were settling the bill, other people we knew walked by. So we wound up following Cid, Jason, Daly, and Scarlet to JP Licks for ice cream (and then everybody got to say hi to Brashani and Christian too, when they stopped by), and then went back to Cid and Jason's apartment - in theory to play Clue, but we actually wound up watching Crank 2 and yelling at the shenanigans.

Then Ellie wanted to get some stuff from Woodcraft today, so I went with her because I wanted to get out of the house. I wound up getting some turning blanks: black and white ebony, rosewood, lignum vitae, and olivewood. (Not a new hobby! I make little wire trees in addition to jewelry, and thought it would be awesome to attach the wire trees to small pieces of actual wood.) I'm going to have to cut some of the blanks into smaller pieces, and probably surface them a little.

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My apologies if you're having issues with the color contrast on my journal at the moment. It's a) only halfway switched to new colors and b) seems to be using the wrong properties in certain places. Will fix this evening.

Edit: colors should be better now. Poke me if text isn't showing up well on its background.

I've put in several hours hacking the shit out of my layout, and I've been pretty happy with the results.

But there are a few things that are still broken, either because I haven't worked on them yet, or because I can't figure out how to fix them.

1. I want the entire month to show up on my entries, not the three-letter abbreviated version. I also want full days of the week. "Monday, April 20th, 2009" instead of "Apr. 20th, 2009."

2. The spacing on the stuff under my userpic is messed up. Plus I want to make new images.

3. The links, tags, and page summary all have more space around them than I want.

4. I want to fiddle with the lavender box at the bottom of the post. It takes up too much space.

5. I would prefer that tags on entries be comma-separated or split into two or more columns. The single column format looks bad with more than a couple of tags.

6. The text marking mood/music/location doesn't seem to want to be modified in any way.

7. Greater visual difference between my name and the link to my site (to the left, under the userpic).

8. I'm going to give up my randomized background images, but I want to make my random song lyrics work. (For examples, go and refresh my LJ a couple of times.)

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