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August 5th, 2007
 | 01:28 am
Dear person I don't know who recently friended me and then defriended me again, using the journal  valar, and whom I have just friended to find out who you are - could you introduce yourself, please? I'm rather curious.
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June 7th, 2007
| 07:19 pm
MEMO RE: SEXY
Sexy is now officially out of style plz kthnxbai.
Sure, it's been substantiated that someone brought it back (certain sources say Alison, others claim (obviously spuriously) that it was Justin Timberlake, and a small but staunch phalanx of rogue journalists (aaah, rogue journalists :D) assert that it was me, which is of course rubbish. I brought hot back. From Venus. Who had stuck it in Pandora's box and given it to Psyche to carry to Persephone). But now it is most definitely out again. I mean, come on, sexy is so earlier this year. Please.
Do you want to know what's in right now? What's absolutely comtemporary and current? And post-sub-pre-ante-anti-modern? Steamy. Uh-huh. That's the new in word for attractive and sensually appealling.
SPREAD THE WORD, GUYS.
(Also thesaurus.com lists 'blue' as a synonym of 'sexy.' o.O)
(So the song has kind of already passed out of the current cultural consciousness (I think (I hope)). And I'm commenting on it now. But isn't that the point? It's out, right? Isn't it? I say it is.)
THERE IS NO MORE SEXY. NONE. NO SEXY FOR YOU.
Current Mood:  weird
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June 6th, 2007
| 09:09 pm
Wow, so Windows Live Mail, guys. I knew I didn't want it. And here's why:
'What did you like better about the look and feel of Hotmail better than the Hotmail?'
Uh-huh. I finally caved and tried the new one, hated it, and promptly switched back. And that is an actual question on their customer satisfaction survey to determine why I hated it so much. It is a very representative sample, too. I despair.
Other questions and options included: 'Why did you prefer the original Hotmail better?' and one of its wonderful possible answers, 'It took me longer to do basic tasks on the Hotmail than it did on Hotmail.'
I should've just answered in the free response box that 'I just liked Hotmail more betterer than the Hotmail, which I did not prefer.'
I hate Windows so much these days. XD
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April 19th, 2006
| 11:28 pm
I just had to. I had been toying with the idea of actually getting a friends only banner just because there lots of pretty ones, and then Alison went and convinced me. Here you go. XD
Thank you, Alison. XD
Current Mood:  happy
Current Music: She Loves You ^^
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January 19th, 2006
| 09:51 pm - Mari, the Writer: A Developmental Portrait - Frog's New Coat
My mum unearthed this a while ago, and I read it and was truly amused. I meant to post it here, and while talking to Alison tonight about things we'd written ages ago, I went and found it and typed it up. *grins*
This is a story I wrote with my dad when I was seven. I believe I mostly dictated and he typed.. I've preserved the typing exactly. I know the commas are painful. I really don't get that. o.O;; I mean, my dad's good at writing and all.. he would have to be, to be earning his doctorate and all. He is a good writer. So I have no idea what's up here.
Other than that, no disclaimers. Except that these are some of the first stories of any length that I wrote, and certainly the first typed ones, and I really like them. They're terribly amusing. ^^;;
( Frog's New CoatCollapse )
Typing favourite and colour without their us is physically painful. Seriously.
But there you have it. *greens*
Current Music: Fairy Tale ^^
Current Mood: happy
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December 29th, 2005
| 02:26 am - And now for something completely different.
I've been promising Hawky I'd post about this for months, and I'm really quite embarrassed I never have. Alison's probably been expecting it for ages, too. Which, you know, makes me worry that some leader I seem to be, putting things off like this, and all, except..
( Okay, skip this, dear sirs, as it'll just make you leave due to lost interest before you reach the point.Collapse )
Anyway. On with it!
Does anyone remember the letter-writing project?
A few months ago Alison decided that she probably wasn't going to be able to run it, and handed the whole thing to me to do with it as I would. Of course, if you want it back, Alison, you may certainly have it. Which isn't in any way to say that I'm trying to pass it off to someone else, just.. in case you'd prefer to have it back.
In any case. I'd like to get going on this, and I'm sure all the rest of you who were previously interested would like to, also. But we need to decide what we're doing.
For instance, we need a name. Hawky is quite fond of Project Snailmail, but all other suggestions are also welcome.
We also need a timeframe. I had intended to start it at the beginning of 2006 and run it through to the end of 2006, announcing it sometime before or during November and giving people all of December to work on getting things together post-Nano. But, well, Nano and then personal affairs rather kept postponing that.. so here we are.
My new idea for a start-date is the twenty-eight of February. It's a good time to start and end, and even though it seems perhaps too far off, I think it's better to build in too much time than too little, really. And I think we'll find it passes swiftly enough.
Do we want it to only last a year? There was a great deal of interest in continuing it beyond that, I believe, but there was also agreement that the cycle needed to have a break at least to admit new participants who hadn't previously made it in.
Or I suppose we could just make it a continuous ring, but that could get chaotic.
And then there's the whole plot aspect. I quite liked the idea of the whole 'Internet is no more and now this group of friends are writing letters to each other,' which I think is what was the generally-accepted story, but of course any further suggestions on that are open, also.
Especially if I'm remembering incorrectly and that's actually not what we said at all, in which case I plead Important Conversations and three-thirty in the morning and antibiotics clouding my brain, the pesky things.
Beyond that, well.. suggestions! Interest! Telling me if you even still remember what I'm on about! Instituting a coup de leadership de Mari if deemed necessary!
All are quite welcome.
I'll start a community for the project once we have a name. Names are good, comrades. Which is really funny said with a British accent, because.. it is. Comrade.
Wow, you can tell it's late when I start thinking anything to do with communism is funny. *shakes head*
But comrade has always tickled me.
But yes. Letter-writing project. The Great Letter-Writing Project, even. Discussion on it has Officially Begun.
Edit: Oh. And. Hawky has been very helpful in all of this. It's because of her that I even wrote this post tonight, or possibly ever.
All hail.
Current Mood:  silly
Current Music: Random short clips of things I wish I could hear in whole.
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September 13th, 2005
| 04:22 pm
( This post is highly offensive.Collapse )
Current Music: Mirror, Mirror
Current Mood:  here
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August 10th, 2005
| 12:46 pm
You know that meme where you post an anonymous comment and I'll try to guess who you are? I've decided I'll do that. Except, what's even better, I actually will really guess. ^^ You can do the 'deep dark secret' thing, and tell me that you're madly in love with a doorknob, or anything else you like, really.
I'm actually making a public post again just for this. Stunning.
Waitaminute. Franny Fox thinks being indifferent is good? Odd, odd fox. *pets him*
Current Music: The Battle of Stirling
Current Mood:  indifferent
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July 30th, 2005
| 05:03 pm - Gyah.
Everyone dehumanises someone. I don't think any large group is better than any other that way. No group like that is above hypocrisy and downright meanness. Anti-gay movements dehumanise 'gays.' Pro-gay movements dehumanise 'homophobes.' White supremacists dehumanise non-whites. Non-whites dehumanise whites. Adults dehumanise children and teenagers. Teenagers and children dehumanise adults. Males dehumanise females and females males. Science majors and arts majors. Intellectuals and non-intellectuals. Americans and non-Americans. Various social groups. Various countries. Various income levels.
The sad thing is, it's an obvious attitude to take that everyone not like you is less than you. But when you take the attitude that everyone who is not something that you are not, either, is less than you, then that's just sad.
Current Mood:  thoughtful
Current Music: Speed of Sound
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July 16th, 2005
| 08:22 pm
If anyone spoils me for the new Lord of the Rings book, I will be very very mad!!!!!!!!!
But ooh, I can't wait.. so many questions that need answering.. who's the King that's returning? Is it really Aragorn? That's too obvious. I think maybe it's Legolas.. maybe Thranduil dies and becomes King of Mirkwood, and it's called The Return of the King because he returns to his home in order to be crowned. Or maybe it's Merry. Or Gimli. He's distantly related to Thorin, right? Or Treebeard.
And ooh, will Frodo really destroy the Ring, after all? I'm so scared that Sam will come and find him already dead.. >.<;;;;
And is Pippin really going to die? I heard that Pippin was going to die. I don't want Pippin to die. I shall be very sad if he does.
There's always the question of Glorfindel. Whom is Glorfindel going to marry? It's very pressing.
Oh, and did you hear about the new Beatles album? I hear it's about some saint.
I totally can't wait for the new Oasis album, either! Be Here Now! It's going to be the best thing since WSMG!!!
I bet Gandalf and Pippin get to Gondor and find that it doesn't exist anymore. I bet Harad annexed it in a last-minute world takeover.
Current Music: Impromptu for Piano in E Flat Major - Franz Schubert
Current Mood:  Teeeheee. ^^&
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