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sodding solstice
-yes I am still cycling through journal layouts in attempt to find something that looks okay, doesn't put post titles in allcaps, and will fit onto my tiny screen in a readable fashion. this is why I should never try to change anything ever.
-feelings erratically present in response to minor stimuli, mind dead of tired. Am marooned in the wrong bit of time & weather, should be somewhere-anywhere else. Stonehenge with Kathie, no 30 with Z & H and the Ms, or moved north already, I have no flying idea but here I am going outside in shirtsleeves at midnight on the shortest day of the year and realising I have no idea where I am, or when, or why.
-finally hit a break in â™ wreck; it will be a relief to get back to a nice sane fandom like Metal Gear Ac!d OH WAIT. no really I am going to go line-edit in bed for a few days. brain needs a rest. and then it needs to make Minette be awesome.
-heard that Pregnant Lady miscarried earlier this week; the universe, sometimes it does things.
-feelings erratically present in response to minor stimuli, mind dead of tired. Am marooned in the wrong bit of time & weather, should be somewhere-anywhere else. Stonehenge with Kathie, no 30 with Z & H and the Ms, or moved north already, I have no flying idea but here I am going outside in shirtsleeves at midnight on the shortest day of the year and realising I have no idea where I am, or when, or why.
-finally hit a break in â™ wreck; it will be a relief to get back to a nice sane fandom like Metal Gear Ac!d OH WAIT. no really I am going to go line-edit in bed for a few days. brain needs a rest. and then it needs to make Minette be awesome.
-heard that Pregnant Lady miscarried earlier this week; the universe, sometimes it does things.
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A lot of this stuff can be fixed with customisation to some extent (eg. shortening the width of sidebars so the entry text will be wider, plus almost all colour issues can be easily fixed in the colour customisation page), and I've heard that DW layout design is way way easy plus you get credit for it, but I am not very good with design stuff so prefer to use out-of-the-box layouts. What's your current layout called? I kinda like it but I would go with different colours.
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it's smooth sailing, i actually imported it from livejournal using this guide: http://starlit.dreamwidth.org/272.html
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Some things just work out for the best. Hopefully this is a wake up call and formerly pregnant lady becomes more vigilant about bc.
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The weather is weird enough; I am being stormed all over. I haven't line-edited today, only spellchecked and coded all the inevitable shittonnes of italics on autopilot (I hate rich-text posting on blog sites, I always use HTML); yay the eternal cycle of hating one's own work. Except now I am all 'blah' and not willing to deal with it, but I know there will be voice issues to fix and adverbs to crush to death. Just hope I am more up for it tomorrow or later tonight.
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Fff, it's been raing here too. It was really muggy and just a gross kind of day. This kind of weather happens here sometimes; my grandmother said her first Christmas in AL it was 75 degrees and her kids were all playing outside in shorts (and this was 1970 something).
I've started coding as I go. RTE sucks balls and the few times I've tried to use it, it fucked up the formatting. But that was LJ, and I seem to have ragequit LJ over the stupid Release 88.
WELL I PROMISE I WON'T HATE IT. I am feeling the same way about my fic. I am 75% sure it's just the usual writerly angst, but then again it could just be really terrible. In any case, I will be lucky to get any writing done after today. My immediate family is having an early Christmas shindig on Christmas Eve Eve, I have to work at 5 AM Christmas Eve and then go out of town to spend the rest of the holiday season with my lovely extended family. :|||||
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I find it a bit easier to write first and code later, but yeah, I am not up for dealing with richtext crap even if it would copypaste correctly from something other than Word, which usually fails. One catch here is that I really want a second opinion on a lot of aspects of it, and given that line-editing seems like a lot of work in order to half-ass something, but I still need to do it. I'll get this to you ASAP I swear. :(
If you want to just post from DW you can set it to auto-crosspost entries to your LJ. It even honours filters provided they have the same name on both sites. It's funny, everyone's suddenly running over here due to Release 88 and I'm hoping I can hang on and not change my blogging habits in response to this; I always found LJ a bit too public to really scream into the void the way I do here; I'd friended a lot of IRL acquaintances from when I was at college, plus a lot of fandom randoms who I don't know well at all, and who don't know me (because I never post on LJ). Just gotta keep NOT CARING.
augh poor you. I dunno about Christmas eve but I think I have to go to work at 5am the day after Christmas. sigh, and this might be the first time I've craved a proper family xmas since 1996, which may or may not be a sign that I am getting old. At any rate next year I hope to go home to my brother & sister if they'll have me.
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I think you shouldn't worry about it, though. there is no such thing as the perfect blogging site but enough people will probably stick with LJ. I mean to still to watch certain communities and journals, but I'm sick of LJ jerking its users around. Release 88 is the fail icing on top of the shit cake, afaic. At least DW uses a platform that fucking makes sense.
Thene :( why can't we pick and choose who we spend Christmas with, it's not fair. I am sure your brother and sister will be happy to spend next Christmas with you. ;__;
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Yeah, one thing about dw that does make sense is the pursuit of paid users rather than advertising revenue (although I personally am not interested in giving its admin a red cent).
;___; I shall ask them, at any rate. ofc it partly depends on me getting my life settled down by then.