Happy New Year, everybody!

I spent it at a friend's sister's place, staying up much too late (four thirty, what) and eating too much good food. I hope you had a similarly good time and that your new year will be even better than 2011!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

The thing about not having posted since last year is that it gives you a kind of performance anxiety. What do I say? Should I apologize for my absence? Has anyone seen my socks(*)?

Anyway. *waves hands in mysterious pattern*

My life has for the past couple of months been taken over by life&etc. I realize that that's what I always say, but this time I sincerely mean it, as in, oh, yesterday I came home at six thirty. How early! Those of you with kids and full time jobs, you have my deepest respect. I am, as a part of my master's, doing a full time work experience/work practice about an hour away from where I live. It's exciting and interesting and awesome, but I am completely exhausted when I get home. Thank God I have no kids. Who knows what would happen. I am clearly not tough enough to actually have children.

This work experience unfortunately coincided with AVOS taking over delicious. Meaning that I have been too overwhelmed to actually deal with any of it, and as a consequence have read almost nothing - nothing! - for about two weeks. What tomfoolery is this?

I admit it, in the beginning I was optimistic. I said to myself: "self, AVOS simply cannot be evil. AVOS saved delicious!"

Yeah.

I think I may have to admit that I was wrong about that. (Note: I don't think they're actually evil. But they're sure not the delicious I loved anymore. It's almost like they're deliberately trying to screw all the previous users over.)




Which is why I need to link you to my pinboard account. I'll most likely be using that in the future, and not my delicious account, although they'll probably overlap for the time being. What ultimately convinced me was the ability to use networks almost like in delicious (or should I say, like it was formerly possible in delicious) and the ability to subscribe to tags. As well as the founder's acceptance of and willingness to work with fandom.

I've found as many members of my former network as possible on pinboard, but if I'm not subscribing to you right now, I couldn't find you again. So link me, please? I'd love to still read what you bookmark. If you've signed up for pinboard, that is.

If the ugly layout is stopping you from joining pinboard, don't let it! I spent yesterday customizing my pinboard experience (wheee!), and it is, true fact, dead easy. Other people (awesome people) have done the hard work for us already!

With the help of jerakeen I was able to prettify my pinboard pages substantially (and jerakeen was sweet enough to help me with some css here. If you're as stupid about CSS as me, chances are that you'll need it, too).

And then jerakeen and murklins (here) were my go-to guides for installing all of the neat greasemonkey scripts that have been made for pinboard (overview here), so that my user experience now rivals delicious at its best. Okay, just prior to its best. But it's still eons better than delicious now, which is basically useless to me.

And then! oxymoron told me how to install pinboard buttons in firefox. I'm fairly sure that, somewhere, angels danced. It is so neat.

And then I spent five hours reading fic. The end.





(*) True fact: I am wearing home knitted socks as we speak.

preparing!

Which is why I'm now on both diigo and pinboard, and will most likely move to whereever fandom migrates to whenever it does. I'm really sorry Yahoo is sunsetting delicious - because delicious is awesome - but it might not mean that delicious is going away entirely.

But until we know something I'll be backing up my bookmarks in three places: delicious, diigo and pinboard.

Honoring the sixth day of my Monday-to-Monday exam and the jitters that come from not having seen anyone human since Tuesday (Christmas decorations, no matter how much they look like actual - albeit tiny - people, don't count), here is a list of five IKEA objects that look very designer, one of which I own. For extra credit, pinpoint which one!

1. Diod glass, $1.99. Lovely colour.
2. Tirup swivel chair, $349. Has a very sweeping, organic look to it (although I tried this at the store, and it's incredibly uncomfortable. Ah, form over function).
3. Leran pendant lamp, $89.99. Big, handmade, and would look awesome over a dining table.
4. Nordmyra chair, $39.99. I like how the upper part of the chair makes it look like it's reaching upwards or like it's about to make itself ready for flight.
5. Malm 4-drawer dresser, $129. Asymmetrical and streamlined.

Now, wasn't that exciting? Excuse me, I hear a discussion calling.

So the answer to "what do I do the day before my week-long exam?" is "google apartments I cannot afford". Again. And Eames side chairs.

*sighs*

But they're just so pretty...

In other news, this day is also noted for it being the day I realized I'd forgotten to buy a third of my brother's Christmas present. Luckily not a big deal since the store was open (Christmas opening hours, I love you!), but it is making me doubt my brain capacity just a little. Ugh. How will I ever be able to put 12 pages of intelligent sentences together when I manage to forget what I'm doing half the time?

Also, my Christmas wrapping is totally fug.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!

IAWTC. A lot.

Oh, My Chemical Romance. *beams*

And continuing on with the theme of This Is Awesome, here is The .doc File of Alfred J. Prufrock by Copperbadge.

This morning I was asked to change my password on my work computer, as I must do every four months. And I sat there waiting for it to authorise my new password, and I thought, I have measured out my life in login codes.

And, as it so often does, then my brain screwed me out of several hours of productivity.

Oh, MCR, how do you remain so awesome?