I was feeling better for a few days and now I feel like I want to hurl. I am cozying up with a nice big bowl and some of my mom's club soda. I kind of wish I would barf already and stop feeling nauseas(sp?).

 to anyone who's wondering, I'm sick, and have been for over a week now. hopefully it wears off soon, because my brain feels like it's dead. I can't even concentrate to read fanfics. (What kind of cruel world is this? I can't have fun goofing off when I feel yucky)

bye for now

The General Imaging Co. A1030 camera officially disappoints me.

What awful photo taking abilities. I should save up to buy a 'brand name' type camera instead, so it doesn't look like I'm taking cellphone pictures. Seriously, I  know megapixels aren't everything, but I figured that by the time you got to 10 megapixels or so, you might actually have taken the time to see that the amount of information being stored in every photo to reach that resolution wasn't utter trash.

I'm not exactly a genius with a camera, but I've handled enough to know how stupid mine is.

To show you, here is a picture of a chair leg against my carpet. Notice its amazing hiding techniques? This is even with flash *on*.


 

**sigh**

My carpet doesn't even look real. It looks like a brown blob with a noise filter put over it.

Camera, you fail.
 

 I'm sick and staying home from school, which is ill advised, but then, my immune system never took such advice into account.

In a moment of Brain Drift, I noticed that I could spell a band name with my meds. Ludo, anyone? Going to go back to resting. I'm sleepy  and spoiled; I had saltine crackers for breakfast and they were really wonderful. (I love my mom).

Bye.

I'm wondering if anyone knows what happened to the wonderful original slash writer the_dystopian...? Anyone?

There was a fic. Either original or fanfiction, I don't know -- but it had a bit about someone being described, in their memories, by their boyfriend, as having eyes like wet leaves on sunlight. And the character said 'don't you mean sunlight on wet leaves?' and the boyfriend said 'no'. And then like a week later, killed himself. This is all part of the emo background of the character, and not part of the central story, but I can't remember for the life of me what story it is. 

Anyone have any idea?

 My right wirst and arm hurt. Owwww. Ow ow ow. I have no idea what I did to them. I have a semi-brace on (not one that holds things stiff, but one that you tighten around your wrist to just sort of remind you not to go too crazy with it) and I'm hoping that will help it not hurt tomorrow ;_;

Drawing hurts. Typing hurts. LIFE, WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?

So today I was on my next to last dosage of serataline, and decided to get a refill. Apparently, I can't. Why? Because it is 'too soon'. I picked up this batch on the seventeenth of last month according to records, (which I believe is true) and it had 45 pills. I am to take a does of 1.5 pills each day.

Except it can't have had 45 pills, because I only have one more dose before I'm out.

I don't mess up and double dose on meds, or anything like that, and even if I had, I would have had to screw up and double dose repeatedly before I ran out this quickly.

Basically, I'm going to have a week with no meds. Going without 150 units of Serataline after having been on it? Is not going to be fun. Not even the tiniest bit. At least I'll be drugged up to my eyeballs for part of the withdrawal: on Monday, I get my Wisdom Teeth out. Basically, I'll be miserable and dizzy anyway.

Still. I'm seriously freaked, because I have no idea how this would happen.

I don't want it to be upheld. I don't, I don't, I don't.

I wish I could make people LOOK at what they're doing - not as just a concept to debate as a pastor or priest or authority figure has TOLD them to work with, but instead present them with real people. Let them get to see them as PEOPLE, not some abstract concept of homosexuals -- and then make them deny their right to marry. See if they still can. See if they could do it to their faces.

Does anyone know what's up with Kira? The Dear Author page that I stalked for a while is no longer an option in terms of asking what's up, since the comments are closed again.

Anyone who can let a curious girl know what's happening?

Thanks, all.

http://videos.orange.es/video/iLyROoafJ2DL.html

Some guy getting interviewed about himself and sports and blahblahblah.

And meanwhile in the background? Almost at the end of the interview. Some guys making out in towels.

Neither of the interviewers notice. GOOD TIEMZ.

Amazon is....
So. Has anyone else noticed Amazon doing some... weird things?

They've taken down the rankings on several LGBT books and, when asked, said they were getting rid of 'adult content' to appease the 'general audience'.

Except that, interestingly enough -- all of the adult content? Is only LGBT content. And it isn't even all adult.

the following publications remain on the sales ranking system:

-Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds by Chronicle Books (pictures of over 600 naked women)
--Rosemary Rogers' Sweet Savage Love" (explicit heterosexual romance);
--Kathleen Woodiwiss' The Wolf and the Dove (explicit heterosexual romance);
--Bertrice Smal's Skye o'Malley which are all explicit heterosexual romances
--and Alan Moore's Lost Girls (which is a very explicit sexual graphic novel)

while the following LGBT books have been removed:

--Radclyffe Hill's classic novel about lesbians in Victorian times, The Well of Loneliness, and which contains not one sentence of sexual description;
--Mark R Probst's YA novel The Filly about a young man in the wild West discovering that he's gay (gay romance, no sex);
--Charlie Cochrane's Lessons in Love (gay romance with no sex);
--The Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience, edited by Louis-George Tin (non-fiction, history and social issues);
--and Homophobia: A History by Bryan Fone (non-fiction, focus on history and the forms prejudice against homosexuality has taken over the years).

And since the homosexual books are being bumped... that means that when you search for homosexuality (I did so myself, since I couldn't quite believe that they'd gone that far) your first available titles are...

1. A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality
followed by things like
You Don't Have to Be Gay: Hope and Freedom for Males Struggling With Homosexuality or for Those Who Know of Someone Who Is
and
For The Bible Tells Me So
and
Can Homosexuality Be Healed?

SERIOUSLY?

If this strikes you as wrong at all, spread the word. People absolutely should NOT be able to do this. It isn't FAIR.

for articles on this:

http://i.gizmodo.com/5209149/amazon-deems-lgbt-books-too-adult-for-search-best-seller-lists

http://www.queerty.com/gay-lit-too-adult-for-amazoncom-20090412/

http://www.examiner.com/x-3569-Denver-Internet-Examiner~y2009m4d12-Online-censorship-Amazon-strips-ranking-of-Gay-and-Lesbian-books

http://firefox.org/news/articles/2703/1/Amazon-De-Lists-Books-With-GLBT-Themes/Page1.html

Sorry for anything stupid or misspelled in this. But you have to know the crazy stuff I have to memorize, because I want you all to feel properly sorry for my poor, exploded brain.

ETA: My bad, it is too long to post as one entry, so you'll only get to see a little. T_T

 

 

 

Whut.

What happened to mangarevolution.com? I guess it closed, but... why? When did this happen? I was just going to look up a tutorial there (one that I apparently should have saved, dammit) and it wasn't there to look at. FROWNIE FACE.

since when am I an insomniac? It's like my ADD is keeping me awake - I'm about to go to sleep and then 'oooh, shiny!'.

Lalalalala.

I really need sleep. I have sooooo many things I need to get done tomorrow. >_o

But for now I am freeeeeeee freeeeeeeee freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. To sleep.

I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE PRETTY DAYS WITH FLUFFY DANDYLIONS AND MAGICAL PONIES <3 LA LA LA LA LAAAAAAAA.

Good night. :3

I hate when I can't find things.

Right now what I can't find is my tiny yellowed-old-plastic clip-on microphone.
Grrrr. >_<

Also, the Shiki action figure (and I finally figured out who it was! After, like, a year) that I had wanted in the Trendy store (that's a name, not a description. Though it's that, too.) is not only not in stock, but will never be in stock there again.

Sigh.

If you're curious what the action figure looked like, it's behind the ( cut ).

every so often, lifehacker has posts that have less to do with technology and more to do with how to deal with life in general.

They did a pretty good anti-procrastination article: Solutions to Common Productivity Problems

I've decided that today should be my own personal Modern Plumbing Appreciation Day. Not feeling very well.

Lots of homework due this week. Not a good time to be sick.

My beautiful pleather bomber jacket tore. T___T

In a hideous way, not a badass way.

I think I'm going to go mourn that for a bit.

My most vile of nemeses has a name. And that name is tonsillolith.