Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind...

lattara — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:02:29 GMT

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!

lattara — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:47:45 GMT

Merry Christmas, everyone!

A story of hope and perseverance. And fic en masse.

lattara — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:30:10 GMT

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.

Not panicking, but...

lattara — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:24:32 GMT

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.

About to go crazy. Can you tell?

lattara — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:32:22 GMT

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!

Diod glass, $1.99. Lovely colour.
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).
Leran pendant lamp, $89.99. Big, handmade, and would look awesome over a dining table.
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.
Malm 4-drawer dresser, $129. Asymmetrical and streamlined.

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

Despite the contents of this post, the author is actually quite calm

lattara — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:39:37 GMT

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.

From my darling Marie with love

lattara — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:26:38 GMT

Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one reason why I like you. Then repost this and spread the love.

<3

lattara — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:46:57 GMT

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!

IAWTC. A lot.

Oh, My Chemical Romance. *beams*

lattara — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:15:59 GMT

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.

hearts in eyes

lattara — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:35:22 GMT

Oh, MCR, how do you remain so awesome?

So, uni starts tomorrow

lattara — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:28:01 GMT

A partial list of projects I have not undertaken this summer, despite really, really wanting to

-- sewing a sun dress

-- making a skirt

-- re-upholstering my desk chair

-- making new earrings

-- putting together silver jewelry again from scratch

-- putting up two van Gogh pictures in my apartment

-- actually, buying those two van Gogh posters

-- oh, and there's also the matter of that mirror I found lying around and appropriated. The floor is not the best place for it, you know.

-- reading all the books I got for Christmas

-- dealing with the 40+ unread emails in my inbox

-- catching up on Criminal Minds, White Collar, Leverage and the Middleman

-- getting something more cheerful to hold my earrings

A partial list of what I did do this summer that I am very, very pleased I did

-- kept going to the gym

-- helped my brother move, and undertook the frankly frightening task of painting his bathroom. Three times.

-- got an extremely well-paying job that is awesome, yet fills me with anxiety

-- dealt with this anxiety constructively

-- am now over it. Mostly.

-- went to Germany!

-- twice!

-- made bagels for the first time. Note to self: try again when you have a better oven available.

-- helped a friend move

-- went to England!

-- twice!

-- read a very dear friend's dissertation through, and for the first time had the thought that I *could do that* in two years' time

-- bought new ballerina flats

-- started using the Mooncup, and haven't looked back since

-- kept a plant alive, despite all (unintended) attempts to the contrary

lattara — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:18:15 GMT

So, does anyone know how to extract the audio from youtube and convert it to mp3-format?

Just askin'. :)

The habits of the nocturnal Studentus Studentus

lattara — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:45:21 GMT

At the moment, being on holiday is vaguely unsatisfying. Probably because I'm not doing anything, which is caused by my having no money to speak of and a bad habit of curling in on myself and just letting myself be alone in my flat and bored when I have nothing concrete to do. It means that I neglect friends and eat too much sugar. Of course I just need to do something, but it's a bit easier said than done.

Anyway.

I am doing well! And also officially a bachelor of science, which I have received printed on a very nice piece of paper. This was in my mail box when I came home from a week at my darling ink_splotch's (vampirespider on LJ) house. Oh, and there was also this other lovely person there, but I've forgotten her LJ username. Bad Sofie. ;)

Anyway, we had a fantastic time that was over far too quickly, but I still think back on it with a grin on my face. And now I think I am going to kill the enormous spider that just crawled by. Excuse me.

Now: sleeeeep

lattara — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:36:01 GMT

Holy shit. I just handed in my bachelor's thesis.

I AM A BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, WOHOO!

(everyone who points out that I'm technically not done until I receive my grade will be taken outside and summarily shot)

lattara — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:12:40 GMT

A measure of how awesome my life is: last night, in my step class, the instructor put on MC Hammer's Can't Touch This because we were doing such a great job.

Seriously, I am never leaving that class. I don't care that it's only an intro course.

In other news: yesterday it snowed and it was very, very grumpy-making. Wet, cold, and miserable. I did manage to finish the first part of my thesis, though, which means I am about half-way there, right on schedule. Yay! (Unfortunately, I am also at that point where I'd be willing to chuck it all out and go to India instead of writing another word - but this, too, shall pass.)

How are you guys doing?

But at least it's spring!

lattara — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:11:37 GMT

Apparently, the only retailer who knows that to some of us, underwire is not helpful - and more like incredibly painful - is American. So the fact that Victoria's Secret has no European web shop annoys the crap out of me.

I just want bras with no underwire! How is it so hard?

*sighs*

If you have any recommendations for wireless bras (... I'm used to putting internet after that, so I just had a moment of weird cognitive dissonance), I'd be very, very grateful. H&M used to have them in their Our Perfect line, but discontinued them some time ago. Preferably either from somewhere in Europe with a web shop, or something physically placed in Denmark. If no one has any ideas, I'm sort of forced to pay 34 dollars for shipping plus a 25 percent toll to get something from Victoria's Secret.

In other and happier news, you're talking to a (hopefully) soon-to-be Bachelor of Psychology!

Although, when I say soon, I mean June. And when I say Bachelor of Psychology, I mean congratulations, you've just finished the part of your education that, granted, forms the basis for the Master's in Psychology, but doesn't, in itself, qualify you to do anything but teach high school. With a couple of years' worth of extra training. But hey, you could do another two years and get your Master's!

But because I am weird, I am actually looking forward to those two years (and the authorization after that and the specialization after that...).

No, what I actually wanted to tell you is that I am finally (finally!) on a kind of a roll with my Bachelor's thesis. I probably shouldn't say to much (I'll probably jinx it), but so far it's going almost... well. This makes me deeply suspicious, as it has never happened before.

In today's moment of zen: the sun is shining. Mmmm.

Okay, so when the weather report said snow storm, they weren't kidding, were they?

lattara — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:39:46 GMT

Good news: last semester has been conquered! I have joined a gym! there is yummy, yummy food in my fridge!

Bad news: I had to cancel pilates due to snow! the earrings I ordered from etsy.com have not yet arrived! love life is DOA!

Anyway. I'm cuddling up in a blanket with a good book and enjoying myself, even if the lack of personal interaction is threatening to make me a bit barmy (don't worry, this happens every holiday - everyone from uni has gone home, and my older friends from the area are on different schedules).

This is the sort of weather people bake in, isn't it? *urgently wants CAKE*

PS. Ignore the lameness of this post.

Mmm, recs

lattara — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:31:40 GMT

It is a sad, sad day when you realize that you have more recs in your delicious account marked gen than kink. Seriously, very sad. Although I also noticed that I'm going to hit a thousand recs soon! This is actually fairly pleasing to me, even if no one but me actually uses the damn thing.

When I hit a thousand, anyone want a celebratory recs set? With a theme? Plz use comments to discuss.

In other, more personal news, I was diagnosed with hypermobility in my arms and fingers this week. Strangely, I am quite happy about these news, mainly because they explain why my right arm continues to be fucked up nearly three years after I injured it, and come with a very understandable set of directions to follow in order to not inflict any more damage [er, does anyone have good ideas for training exercises that train the muscles in the upper part of your fingers? If, say, one wanted the tips of one's pinkies to stop bending backward at 90 degree angles when one cuts something? I can't afford physical therapy right now, but I'm saving.]. Also, I was right! Everyone thought I was exaggerating, but, um. No.

Okay, so I'm not the prototype of a hypermobile person - my thumbs, for example, are completely exempt from the diagnosis - and since it hasn't been discovered before now, I think it's quite safe to say that I don't have the strongest case of it in existence. So don't worry excessively, is my point. I know I'm not.

But that's what's going on with me right now. How are you guys doing?

That's not all that's fragmented...

lattara — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:52:57 GMT

I just defragmented my harddrive(s). It took 19 hours.

Probably I should have done this sooner.

Dear internet [or: why did she bother to post this]

lattara — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:04:30 GMT

- today while shopping I saw a man who looked just like Hiro from Heroes, only not so cute. Also I want cake, and to go to IKEA.

Leverage continues to be awesome. I am actually not hating Sophie this season; yay!

Informal poll: to wash or not to wash the floor? That is the question i put before you, o great internet!

lattara — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:36:31 GMT

I just had the most amazing weekend with ink_splotch / vampirespider. We geeked out, ate good food (having a kitchen? Awesome), and watched the entire first season of The Wire, followed by Jesus Christ Superstar.

You are all fired for not getting me to watch The Wire sooner. Omar, I should not be finding you this endearing when you're holding a gun to someone's face. And yet I doooo. *beams*

The bad news is that my arm is acting up again, and has taken the other one along with it for the ride. This means strength and stretching exercises for an hour twice a day (as if my life wasn't glamorous enough), but it's bearable because no one says I can't watch TV while I'm doing it. Oh yeah, man, I work the system.

Still about a month left on my holidays, and I plan on using the time to its fullest. Like, maybe I'll clean my apartment. Or maybe not. :P

And they say I'm crazy!

lattara — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:02:18 GMT

Last night I had a visit from one of my friends, and our conversation turned so dirty that all my subconscious could come up with for dream content was going food shopping with my brother.

Napkins were on sale.

I think I may have lost brain cells

lattara — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:02:39 GMT

Attempting to read Laurell K. Hamilton's Blood Noir. Oh my God, this book is so stupid. And I'm not even finding the sex very interesting, either.

Because I got roped into it by Marie

lattara — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:48:54 GMT

A meme! I can't promise to be very eloquent, but try me if you're interested.

Comment and I'll...

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ (no, you don't have to).

She's leaving home

lattara — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:53:49 GMT

Just sitting here, relaxing in my new apartment. *grins*

It's quite awesome: small, but inexpensive, and close to everywhere I need to be. My internet is up, I have a land-line, and there are two bookcases just waiting to be filled up right behind me. In other words, this is very, very neat-o.

I also have a dining table, which some people envy me. *looks meaningfully at certain person on flist*

This would all, of course, be much more awesome if a) I had something to do, like, say, uni and b) my father wasn't so broken up about my leaving home. Major guilt for me, let me tell you, even though he's being very good about it.

Anyway, this is an awfully big adventure, and if you live anywhere near me, come and join me in having fun with it. :)

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