Apollymi ::||:: Dark Passion Play

Well, I'm obviously back in Florida. I'm still not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, I had to come back to earn money. On the other hand, my sister can be a lazy mofo and not stay at a job more than two months. Why can't I? But on the other hand, I know money is good and, if I want to continue to have money and spend money, I can't be like my sister and steal, beg, and borrow money -- I have to earn it. But I really want to be at home or at my grandparents' right now.

This is a dilemma.

In other news, the wank that never ends has made CNN.com. Yep, CNN, late as usual. We've been following it on Fandom Wank since November. Because Cleolinda is cool like that.

I don't know about LJ. I'm still debating on LJ. I might do a post in the next week or two, and determine how much I want to stay there based on said post's responses. In other words, leave it in the hands of the LJ FList. Maybe with a pretty gigantic Friends Cut, I could be persuaded to return on a more full time basis. There is a great deal of venom that circulates that list. Not like here. Here, we have kitties.

Since I was at the grandparents' having fun and stuff all weekend, I got no writing done. In fact, I barely got any reading done. I barely finished Dead Beat, but now I'm finally started on Proven Guilty. My gods, that book is HUGE. Maybe it'll actually take me a bit to finish it.

And I've been typing for a bit over an hour (I keep getting distracted), so I'm going to shut up and bugger off now.

Ciao!

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."

Obi-Wan Kenobi, you were a genius.

Speaking of scum and villainy, I think I need to clear out my LiveJournal friends list a bit. Maybe a lot. Vitriol of those levels due to someone wishing to lodge a relatively mild form of protest over unwanted and frankly somewhat unnecessary -- not to mention hidden from large section of the user base -- changes to a service they have used for years is completely uncalled for.

In fact, I might just see if I can't port over the feeds I read and leave it at that. Some days, LJ just pisses me off too much to stay. The only reason I stay is to keep up with the one or two people who will not move over.

LiveJournal has a way of really pissing its userbase off lately. (And by lately, I mean in the last two or three years.)

I predict a great influx of people joining up here and at the alternative sites: here, Journal Fen, Dead Journal, Blurty, Commie Journal, and the others. Amusingly, of that list, I'm on all but one of those.

All the same, it's all I can do today to keep my eyes open. I woke up at 4 a.m. and couldn't go back to sleep. I eventually opened the bedroom door to kittens, and Boo and I crashed on my bed for about 20 minutes before I just gave up, got dressed, came downstairs, fed the babies, and made my own coffee. I should be working on Verdant, because I've yet to get a page in the past three days due to extreme busy-ness, but when I'm this tired it would just be gibberish. Maybe gibberish is what I need to get back in the flow of things.

...If I don't fall facefirst into my coffee. Now that I'm up, I'm exhausted.

I look down at what I'm wearing for the day, and I realize that apparently I couldn't be arsed to give a damn about anything today. It's black cargo pants, Halloween skull socks (in orange, green, black, and white), and a shirt with a yellowish base, purple and maroon butteries, and purple sleeves. I'm so fashion-talented today.

And for the record, I seriously need a new job. Private sector admin assistants make $8+ an hour more than me. Hell, admin assistants in other parts of state government make more than me. Data entry clerks working directly for the state make more than me! I could pull up any number of listings on it... but only when I'm more awake.

So... yeah. I'm either gonna curl up with some Get Backers (till Farscape is here), some Dresden, or try to work on Verdant.

Since LiveJournal seems to be in an especially fine (read: crapped out) mood today and I feel I must share this thought...

The best leap of logic in quite a while:

"Machiavellian" to "Mafia Alien"

I can't even claim credit on that one. That was allllllll Doc.

Okay, till all this brouhaha started on LiveJournal... again. Can't say for certain how often this will be used since I have the Caleida and GreatestJournal as well, but we'll see.