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Dear Anxiety Attacks:
I didn't miss you. Go away. Really.
unlove,
-me
PS: and never come back D:<
That's all from this corner of cray. I'm assigning this as a resolution for the rest of the world to make for me. (I can do that, right? Right?)
Happy New Year's, everyone <3
(Hopefully this youtube embed thingie works. If not, feel free to just... wonder about my sanity.)
Normally, when a place has a new layout or format or style or -- basically, when new things happen to beloved sites -- I complain bitterly. People move my buttons. Things look alien. My comfort zone is no longer as comfy -- I need to resettle.
Today, in a brief moment where I took time to ignore the piles and piles of storyboarding that are currently eating my life, I loaded a story on AO3 (archive of our own) -- and the style had changed. Normally - especially with my current, stress-numb mind - this would be a cue to start a little tiny fit of despair ('why do they do this to me? do they want to make my brain hurt? my life is nothing but hardship and misery!' etc., etc) but I am surprisingly okay with what they've done. I liked what they had before for its simplicity, but they've kept things pretty simple -- and I use javascript bookmarklets to impose CSS changes to make the background for text grey, so the change from white to grey is hardly something I could complain about.
The serif, drop-caps titles for each piece is pretty classy. The whole change was pretty classy. The grey, rounded buttons? Totally something I can live with. It isn't quite as simplistic as the previous layout (and yes, I like simple schemes, okay? If your page explodes in my face and has a clock that sings to me and little ripples that follow my suddenly flower-shaped cursor, I will claw at my face in horror) but it is still classy, and not even close to face-clawing territory. Also, the buttons haven't suddenly been switched around.
A+, whoever is responsible. That was pretty much painless, even for me and my grumpy, judgmental, change-loathing self.
♥
ETA: my icon looks hilarious, though, because it's a transparent PNG based off the old icon, but embellished -- and since the icon is apparently resized, it makes it look like someone has double-vision issues. Also, the skin "the screeny exposure" loads hilariously with my browser. Still? A+. My idiosyncrasies don't dictate what people should code for -- all I have to do is resave my icon as something rather less transparent, or to change the size of the character to match the new icon-size behind it.ETA#2: awww, but it is apparently not particularly mobile friendly. Fortunately, the AO3 twitter status account indicates that this is a known issue, so -- I hope that gets resolved soon.
My dad is coming home from a business trip in Texas. As soon as he and my mom arrive here, I may ask them if we have any ginger ale. I'm not a soda person - which means I don't even know where in the house to look to see if we have any. Which is kind of sad.
Head hurty, tummy roll-y misery. Phooey.
- I feel:
miserable
Okay, so there's a song and I'm -- curious if anyone knows when/why it was recorded.
I was playing a playlist from Myspace of Adam Lambert's music, since I'm old fashioned and have CDs, and rather than constantly switch between them, I often just listen online, because then I don't stop mid-homework. (Of course, inevitably, I'm stopping in the middle of homework. Because -- what? I MISSED SOMETHING.)
One of the songs that popped up was called "Beg For Mercy". And it sounded like Adam Lambert -- some of his older stuff (More growly-rock-ish? Less pop or ballad or -- just, more Citizen Vein-ish, from the few random snippets of sound I've heard from their old stuff.) I'm assuming it's from those days, but I'm not sure, and I was wondering if anyone had any more definite background on it? I want to stop my homework entirely and go on a research-spree, but. Well. Yeah. So I'm posting the question here, in hopes that somebody might know the story already.
In any case, I like it, even if it isn't quite the style that he seems to have now. If anyone wants to take a look (well, a listen) go ahead and check out the myspace link « here. »
Now back to homework.
(Also -- it's TJR's bday! I am stupidly happy. It's like it's a holiday in my brain. Probably, this weird kind of thinking is a sign of early onset dementia.)
- listening to:Adam Lambert - Beg for Mercy
But also, there are icons. I'm focusing on the positive. There are icons, and the default icons are ADORABLE. Mine was keyboard cat, and the other icon I've already seen was the honey badger icon. Naturally, the honey badger icon was on someone's delicious account who I know is a Kradam shipper, which is only funny because I'm psychotic and they were Kradam shippers with a badger icon. It's funny if you get it. If not, just assume that the internet is playing a joke at everyone's expense. Because it totally is.
I made my own icon. I wanted to make it fit, but I had trouble communicating a sparrow with the simplistic, cartoonish vibe that the icons had. So it isn't perfect by any means -- but at a quick glance, it'd mostly fit in among the other default icons.
Oh my gosh though, this was a brief break in a nightmare of neverending storyboards. (Not nearly as fun as the neverending story. trust me on this one.) and now I need to go back to work on those. So. Wish me luck?Also MY BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW. I tend to set it as april first on a bunch of websites, because that'd be a more interesting birthday to have, and I don't care what machines think when registering (especially when the birthday won't be displayed anyway) but now the world shall know the truth: I am actually a Libra. And a freak, who has a favourite pretend-birthday. (It turns out my brother does, too -- but I can't remember if he set his to the first day of the year, or to the leap year. One of the two.)
Anyway. Work. And maybe a little sleep, if it becomes necessary. (Hah. Might just be over being sick, now, though, which is a relief like you wouldn't believe.) Rambly, aren't I? Well. No time like the present to get work done. I'm off~
- clean room
- yes, really.
- 45 mins a day on it 'til it's done.
- it might start eating people alive otherwise
- 3d bike project
- minimum of an hour per day
- failure is so not an option
- storyboarding homework(!)
- see rules above in regards to failure and/or the option of doing so
- get a job
- try trader joes
- try mitsuwa
- try school (as a last resort)
- stop failing to finish things
- art
- other art
- even more art
- the game.
- dammit.
- i lost the game
- I feel:
drained
i have been up for wayyyyyyyyyyy too long and like
i had managed to not hear TJR's voice ever. like, ever.
not like you can hear it in concert, so.
VOIIIIICE. adorable. squishy squishy. i want to be TJR when i grow up now
8D
SHUT UP THIS IS TOTALLY REASONABLE
i don't really want to be him. it is just that i have not had sleep and
idek he is TINY somehow (not actually small, but young-seeming?)
the internet is here so that i can say things like this and feel embarrassed later
but w/e. please everyone feel free to laugh at me.
but, like. tiny. and so cool D:
and for an emo turn of emotions:
dammit, why am i so uncool. someday i wanna not suck at like everything. i never get things done in time or anything and it's desperately uncool. leonardo da vinci also had problems finishing things, but then, he was leonardo da vinci, and even his unfinished stuff was like giving birth to shining unicorn babies with phds in physics who could sing opera in every language or something. i wanna get things done, i wanna be awesome, i wanna be amazing at things and just knock people's socks off. except that seems rude, so they can keep their socks on, because it's really hard to find matching pairs, yeah? and shoes don't wear as comfily without them.
someday, (someday soon, while i'm not yet old. except i already am, a little) i wanna be cool. i want to do cool things with cool people where a world can see all the coolness that is happening with all the cool people doing cool things chilling in cool places and like, idek when this turned into something that can only happen in a walk in freezer but the train of thought has been in a horrible trainwreck okay.
- I feel:
brainz?
Today's random thought: the narrative style of the movie 'Amelie' is not entirely dissimilar to that in the television show 'Pushing Daisies'.
- I feel:
dazed, but caffeinated
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