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cimorenelately i've been in a phase where i manically consume things: real books mixed with badfic by the archive and the occasional spot of goodfic, and various tv things for good measure1. i've also been a bit freaked out over paperwork, but i finally finished assembling the bits of the application to renew my residence permit yesterday.
i find it hard to divide my attention well between consuming and writing; it makes me a little anxious to leave writing unfinished while i do much of anything else, although i can't write solidly without any breaks, so i need the occasional piece of fiction to read. this is another manifestation of my ocd tendencies which perhaps i should battle against, but i don't bother, really. so for a few weeks i haven't been writing, really.
also, i am experiencing a strong (seasonal?) craving for new shoes. i saw these in the Tacky Department Store You're Embarrassed to Shop In2 when we were looking for wax's dress shoes for the wedding. they are on sale now, but i still didn't buy them. i am a little dubious about the whole pink thing in principle, even though when i am looking at them i am irresistably enchanted, as by a badly-behaved puppy.
finally, the new release of opera, v 9.01, has many points which render it superior to mozilla (even if lots of sites refuse to acknowledge it and make their pages not work with it, grr). it fixed the right-click-on-image bug and it's got widgets now in addition to that extremely convenient and functional sidebar, so i have a tetris widget and temperature and currency converters and a bunch of international clocks to show me![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hollsk-time and isilya-time and central time and pacific time and gmt. but on the bad side, it's having some kind of a disagreement with lj somewhere and has started rendering my livejournal wrong, with the navigation text in the tags/links bar in black instead of grey. it's very distressing to the eye, and i wasn't able to fix it even by hard-coding the grey colour into my layer. i don't even know how to report the bug because i have no idea what it's doing.
1. and in this case, a lot of hikaru no go doujinshi, which for the most part are bad (or mediocre) fic, but many times have nice artwork, which makes them much more palatable.
2. i guess sort of like a finnish sears or jc penney. as for the embarrassment, apparently my social group operated according to the same manual as daniel vosovic's. but now i feel kind of cheated because we didn't have anybody adorable and gay... unless you count the way matt and david were always wrestling so enthusiastically that they broke furniture and hurtled into the walls? they were kind of the momokai of the central IB program, now i think of it. andguinevere33, remember how they tried to get us to go to prom with them at the last millisecond as like a package deal???? omg, this explains SO MUCH.
i find it hard to divide my attention well between consuming and writing; it makes me a little anxious to leave writing unfinished while i do much of anything else, although i can't write solidly without any breaks, so i need the occasional piece of fiction to read. this is another manifestation of my ocd tendencies which perhaps i should battle against, but i don't bother, really. so for a few weeks i haven't been writing, really.
also, i am experiencing a strong (seasonal?) craving for new shoes. i saw these in the Tacky Department Store You're Embarrassed to Shop In2 when we were looking for wax's dress shoes for the wedding. they are on sale now, but i still didn't buy them. i am a little dubious about the whole pink thing in principle, even though when i am looking at them i am irresistably enchanted, as by a badly-behaved puppy.
finally, the new release of opera, v 9.01, has many points which render it superior to mozilla (even if lots of sites refuse to acknowledge it and make their pages not work with it, grr). it fixed the right-click-on-image bug and it's got widgets now in addition to that extremely convenient and functional sidebar, so i have a tetris widget and temperature and currency converters and a bunch of international clocks to show me
hollsk-time and isilya-time and central time and pacific time and gmt. but on the bad side, it's having some kind of a disagreement with lj somewhere and has started rendering my livejournal wrong, with the navigation text in the tags/links bar in black instead of grey. it's very distressing to the eye, and i wasn't able to fix it even by hard-coding the grey colour into my layer. i don't even know how to report the bug because i have no idea what it's doing. 1. and in this case, a lot of hikaru no go doujinshi, which for the most part are bad (or mediocre) fic, but many times have nice artwork, which makes them much more palatable.
2. i guess sort of like a finnish sears or jc penney. as for the embarrassment, apparently my social group operated according to the same manual as daniel vosovic's. but now i feel kind of cheated because we didn't have anybody adorable and gay... unless you count the way matt and david were always wrestling so enthusiastically that they broke furniture and hurtled into the walls? they were kind of the momokai of the central IB program, now i think of it. and
guinevere33, remember how they tried to get us to go to prom with them at the last millisecond as like a package deal???? omg, this explains SO MUCH.
