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I received packages Monday from not one but two lovely ladies of SG: Twinkie and Judas.

Twinkie sent me the awesome A Book of Surrealist Games as a late b-day present. She is such a sweetie! The book is too cool and once I stop being lazy I'll try to start up some threads in my puzzles group for some of the collaborative games in it. Thanks doll

I bought from Judas three used CDs: Michael Jackson - Thriller, Bjrk - Selmasongs, and Ani DiFranco - Living in Clip. I haven't listened yet (I'm ridiculously slow to use newly acquired things... unless they're books) but I will soon. As a bonus she also included a book of her poetry and that = supercool.

I totally finished Mostly Harmless today, and now I totally get to start on the Chronicles of Narnia, to which I have been looking forward immensely ("up with which I will not put!") At first I was pretty disappointed with Mostly Harmless, as Dentarthurdent warned me I might be. But I'm starting to feel that some of the big things that bothered me about it were all intentionally done as part of his ironic humor. Maybe even the plot point he left hanging and never resolved (I'm leaning towards"not" on this one though). I'm debating whether I still want to call these things a big cop-out or not.

Here are the things that I first thought were cop-outs, and now am not so sure.

Now that that book is out of the way, I got to experience the joy of opening something brand new (an act that I listed under "makes me happy" before I went all emo). I got to open my Chronicles of Narnia boxset (which I could've done when I actually BOUGHT it, but... didn't). I normally register all my books on bookcrossing (for which I just got a ton of referrals thanks to my posting my referral link on the boards... oh if only I could get referrals for SG where they actually COUNT for something) but with this being a boxset, and with me thinking (hoping, praying) that this series will become a favorite very near and dear to my heart, I think I'm not even going to register them at all so I don't have to mark them up.

I'm back into reading books and just now I found myself wishing I had some cool "ex libris" stamp or stickers or something. I love my books, and I want to show them the love. I only wish I had more than two bookshelves and more than (what I estimated for the "how many books do you have" thread) some 300 books. Some of them were bookcrossing books but, as I've probably mentioned, I sent most of those to other bookcrossers because they were sadly collecting dust on my shelf. Most of my shelves aren't stuffed to the gills either; there's room for more.

Once I stop being lazy (yes, I said it again, because I'm being THAT lazy) I'll put up a site for my greasemonkey extensions. I'm actually really reluctant to advertise them on the boards even though I think a lot of members would get a lot of benefit from them, because after some comments by Olivia and s5 in a thread of another member who made a greasemonkey extension, I get the impression that staff really frowns on this sort of thing (I think mostly because no matter how many times I try to warn people, some may still go whining to staff and not me if it breaks the site). So yeah. I'm leaning towards not sharing them on the boards. I posted about my sticker gallery fix in the SG army group, and posted about my background-changing extensions in SG Hopefuls where the girls were talking about having a hard time picking out their own posts in a sea of pink. And people didn't seem to be that interested so whatevz. h8rs.

It makes me happy in my pants (to use a catchphrase of an awesome Australian friend) to discover the Fleetwood Mac fans among you. I really didn't think SG would have very many of us FM fans. Truth to tell, a lot the music that of SG members/SGs seem to like, I seem to hate. I can't even listen to SG radio except the show with the girls (and I don't stay up for that anymore anyway). And in fact I think I even took my headphones off in the middle of one of the shows when they played a song between calls because I couldn't stand the music. Oh diss.

"Manditory" is up there as one of the misspellings that make me feel like someone is driving hot nails into my eyeballs. But "definately" takes the cake. Somehow I don't feel like burning my clothes and soaking myself with acid when I spell it that way myself. I honestly don't understand why not. And I just found this thread.¹ A good summation of the things I loathe. What an awesome thread. Some of the posts in there damn near take my breath away. I am THAT PICKY about spelling. ("differen't"? )

I was, for reasons unknown, blessed with a knack for spelling and relatively good usage at an early age². Scarily, I see my skills on the decline. I don't know if it's from having to type so damn fast to keep up with the internets³ or what, but the amount of typos I make on the way to making the words appear on my screen is getting alarming. See? I almost said "ARE getting alarming" instead of "is". What's happening to me?

I wish I were radder and had stuff to say in the feminists group. One of my problems is a fear of being opinionated (which some feminists would perhaps argue is a fear of being too masculine), but the other, more worrisome problem is apathy. For a moment I wanted to blame my apathy on my depression, but that's a cop-out (speaking of cop-outs) and I'd look like an even WORSE person if I did so. I would actually like to discuss this with people. If I didn't have such a pathetic (not apathetic; two words) fear of starting threads on the boards, I might start one in Lifestyle about it. I can't be completely apathetic if I want to try to change that about myself... right?

I even just saw something said on the site that made me slightly alarmed, something I thought I should "take issue" with. But then I had the fear that "if I do that people will think I'm a bitch"... and that's kind of frightening, really.

At least I used footnotes in this journal entry. That's pretty rad¤. Not rad, though, is the fact that the SG font size is a touch too small for the superscript charaters to be easily distinguishable from one another (also not rad that I couldn't make this sentence a footnote itself because I ran out of symbols. Damn.) I would even make the footnotes clickable if we wereª at liberty to create link anchors. I had a fleeting thought to leave the footnotes as comments in my journal and use the "link" link to make them clickable. Yikes. We might as well just install a USB port in my forehead and be done with it.

¹ And through that thread I discovered this one, and regardless of whatever happened to the member who said it, this comment totally made me giggle, because it is almost EXACTLY what I was thinking (I was thinking "ass-kiss", but close enough). And the comment that the guy would cry like a seven year old when he gets caught: priceless. Man, I don't know why I'm feeling so vindictive tonight.

² And pickiness. LOTS of pickiness.

³ Most of the internet slang I see, I hate. Particularly "teh". That one I use only in extremely rare cases (like the other day I decided it was okay to call Twinkie "teh rock", because I felt the "teh" added a little extra love), but usually if I find myself thinking of using it, I question myself for a long time. However, calling it "internets" makes me giggle too, and I am therefore allowed to use it. So HA!

ª I was inspired by aksiokersa though, so I can't fully take credit for it. She was rad first.

¤ originally typed "were were"