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[Dec. 14th, 2009|11:09 pm] |
thanks ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) izzybeth: Livejournal is gonna make gender selection mandatory!? HELL TO THE NO.
Here's a post by synedochic on dreamwidth about it. ETA: If you read her post, you can see that this code won't be released. Yay!
I have never specified my gender on my livejournal and never intend to do so, much less* because someone wants to target sexist, obnoxious ads at me. Ads that I will never see anyway.
Oh, I have been avoiding the whole leaving LJ thing ever since people started abandoning ship but this honestly might be the last straw for me if they really go through with it. (Who am I kidding)
Speaking of marginalization, haven't received a reply from the dockers people. Perhaps I won't?
*This is so not a correctly phrased sentence but I am blanking on it and I need to go to bed. |
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[Dec. 11th, 2009|11:33 pm] |
So ethrosdemon made this post about Dockers the other day, and for whatever reason it pissed me off enough that I sent a strongly worded customer feedback email on the page she linked. Now, I was probably just going to forget about it, or be placated by a form letter, at least glad that I had sent in a coherent email with correctly spelled words. Well, I wish I had saved what I wrote, because I got a response today! It may or may not have been a form letter--who knows-- but if it was it was a really bad choice of form letter.
"The Dockers(r) "Wear The Pants" campaign is intended to give men a reason to love their khakis, the focus of this campaign. We apologize if our efforts did not resonate with you."
"We apologize if our efforts did not resonate with you."
"We apologize if our efforts did not resonate with you."
WHAT??? ARE YOU SERIOUS?? Top ten things to say to someone if you want to make them argue with you. Wow. I gotta tell you, I was really ready to get a vague but inoffensive placating e-mail, to move on with my life and let it go. But them's fightin' words, people. Alex described it thus: "THAT IS TOTALLY A FUCK YOU TOO BAD EMAIL! I have to give them props now. It's not just an ad campaign-- it's how they genuinely FEEL."
I look forward to the response to my response. |
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[Dec. 8th, 2009|02:17 pm] |
Ice! On a car!
MADNESS PEOPLE
it was pretty
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[Dec. 2nd, 2009|01:48 pm] |
ETA: yarny picture.
( yarny thoughts )
Non-yarny thoughts
1. I think I want to take my drafting table into my room. The reason for this is twofold. First of all, if it were in my room, it would be in a room with a south facing window, and right now I am really enjoying spending time* in there so ... Also, were the drafting table NOT right next to my desk, it (as well as the chair that goes with it) might stand a better chance of not being a receptacle for items that are on my desk and in my way when I am sitting at my desk. But I think I want to finish painting my closet (yeah that sounds familiar, right? Screw closets! Storage space is nice but what a hassle to paint) before I move anything in there.
2. Speaking of which my desk is a MESS right now. SUCH A MESS. Maybe that'll be my next move since I'm out of textiles to manhandle for the moment.
2a. Which is why I haven't scanned anything in a while... there's nowhere to put my laptop.
3. I can't believe it's december and it's almost 2010. I don't approve. I liked 2009. Not like, what happened during the time period known as 2009, it's just a better number. 2010 is so... I don't know. Twenty ten is like how much you pay for dinner, you know? And that 1 is just in there, ruining everything, you know? THE NUMBER 10 HATES RAINBOWS.
*I am tired and cold and sick so I wander in there to get a blanket and end up taking a nap, don't judge me |
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[Nov. 28th, 2009|03:26 am] |
So I'm sick again* (when am I not) and I can'tfucking SLEEP because I'm lying down and all I can do is cough up my organs and it's so loud and awful I am sure I must be keeping people awake. So I have been lying in bed rolling around coughing since like 12:30 and I finally just GAVE UP and got out of bed to get some hot cider and sit at my computer like a sad lonely person and I'm standing there in the kitchen and it just starts POURING OUT. Like the sky opens up.
Like, wtf, that was kinda awesome. It's seriously coming down. It wasn't even cloudy or anything today. In fact I would classify the day's weather as "nice."
God well as long as I am up at 3 am ruining my sleep schedule that I have kept mostly on target despite the fact that I've been on vacation let's have some pictures shall we.
Here's my room, we finished painting it. It is turquoise as hell and it's really excellent. It's so bright and happy during the daytime. This house has always seemed dark to me, but that's largely a result of the long time off-white wall color, apparently. I moved my bed in there but that's about it so far.
And here's a close up of my second weaving project from class (you can see a wider shot on my flickr page, but it honestly isn't a thrilling photo. I'll have to figure out how to take better pictures of it after I hem it and stuff.) It was supposed to be a shawl but it's kind of an awkward size or something so who knows, but it is made of all handspun yarn, and it's done, so yay there.
Oh, and an update on my poor smashed finger. I smashed that finger so bad, people, that it didn't stop bleeding for several days. I haven't been able to knit or spin on spindles since then. Anyway, I'll spare you the graphic description of my smashed finger, but suffice to say it's rendered my left hand pretty sad and useless, and the fact that I've been sick (despite the fact that I didn't want to ADMIT that I was actually "pretty sick" and didn't just "have a scratchy throat*") meant that when I tried to draw it looked like I was losing my mind, that narrowed my possible activities this week down to two activities.
1. Cleaning up the house and that kind of crap, which only had so much energy for and
2. spinning yarn on the spinning wheel.
Oh wait, I thought of a third
3. Crochet. HA HA YEAH RIGHT.
I have spun so much yarn in the last few days, people. Considering I'm a pretty slow spinner and all. I plied a giant skein of white yarn that I haven't had the gumption to skein up (I hate making yarn into skeins, it is a very boring activity), 4 oz. of sparkly orange and pink yarn (yes....it has sparkles in it. More on that when I have pictures**), 4 oz. of brown alpaca singles (just finished that today so it needs to sit before I ply it. Also I didn't feel like plying) and I'm halfway through 4 more oz. of blue and green wool. I'll probably finish spinning that tomorrow and then WHO KNOWS!! I'm getting tired just thinking about all this. God, why am I awake.
Well, in the time it took me to write this post that freak rainstorm let up. At least I got to enjoy it. I took some cough syrup and drank my hot cider, maybe I'll be able to get back to sleep.
* Or, as my mom said once, a "thratchy scrote"
** I forgot, I took a picture of one of the batts, so here's a dramatically photographed, sparkly preview. It's like the surface of a magical wooly planet. |
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[Nov. 18th, 2009|02:05 pm] |
Here's the other snippet I mentioned. I drew this sometime this summmer and clearly never finished or scanned it. I figured I;d just put it up as is cause I hadn't posted any snippets in a while anyway.
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[Nov. 18th, 2009|12:08 pm] |
You know what would really motivate me at the start of a project
BLOOD SPATTERS ALL OVER MY FRESHLY PAINTED WALLS.
let's just say i'm having luch BEFORE anything gets done |
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[Nov. 18th, 2009|09:47 am] |
WHAT'S GOING ON
in my boring life
oh god this got long ( Read more... )
Still been drawing, I have some snippets to post, but I can only scan with my laptop and it's currently in the hallway being my painting tiem jukebox so I haven't scanned stuff for a bit. Actually, I DO have a snippet scanned, and when I tried to upload it my website was giving me sass... when I have it on I'll upload that and post it later.
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[Nov. 3rd, 2009|08:21 pm] |
Here's art for the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) startrekbigbang fic Seascape, by rip_the_tide. The fanmix is by alldoubtaboutit.
Our posting date is tomorrow (Nov. 4) but I'm posting this now because I'm working early tomorrow and I don't want the author to have to wait on me to make the master post tomorrow. (and I'll forget to post it before work in the morning if I don't do it now, so... um, don't open before christmas?)
( Cut for width. ) |
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[Oct. 24th, 2009|07:04 pm] |
I took pictures at the u2 show. Not that many, since I was on the rail with jigofspite and much jumping and fist-pumping occurred. Also, most of my pics were out of focus (security wouldn't let me take my dslr in so all I could do was crank the exposure down two steps on my point and shoot and hope for the best.) More on flickr, they're not thrilling photos but I promised Amy I'd upload them.
(The show was awesome fun, but I don't really have a lot to say about it and the people on my friends list who really care were there anyway.)
So what's up... well I spent all of yesterday in the GA line (we got there at like 5:45 am. no lie) and then at the concert. Today we ate at IHOP and the taste of the viva french toast combo after 2 meals of taco bell and a day of snack food was amazing. I even ate the eggs, people. I CAN'T STAND EGGS!
I knitted about 10 inches of a sock in the GA line yesterday. It is a glorious sock. I thought I'd knit more but I spent more time talking about what was NOT happening in the line than I did actually doing any time filling activities.
ETA: Also, I was trying to explain to Alex where I was standing, and I looked at all the las vegas u2 uploads on flickr so far (most of them are mine, to be fair) and found a picture that PROVES I was there. (HA) Not really, but if you have a burning desire to know where I was standing, you can see my arms in this picture. If you go to all sizes > original size, my arms are sticking up in the lower right hand corner of the picture, between the feet of the two right most orange-shirted people on the stage. You can tell it's me because I was wearing my blue and brown striped H&M hoodie. I was inadvertently dressed for visibility (was wearing a bright yellow t-shirt as well.) |
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[Oct. 20th, 2009|09:13 pm] |
Amy picked these colors.
I spent several hours today drawing a really boring 1 point perspective picture* uh I mean...working really hard.
*spot the boneheaded error that I had more correct before I "fixed" it |
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[Oct. 18th, 2009|07:57 pm] |
You ever like, work on a painting or something... you're just sitting there, listening to music, getting down with your bad self... then suddenly you zoom out, step back, whatever, and it's like you get slapped in the face? Yeah. Pink. Who knows. |
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[Oct. 18th, 2009|01:05 am] |
having my monitor resolution set so high is really troublesome. I can color things at a really high resolution with no problem... but then I resize them to a normal size and it just looks TINY. |
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[Oct. 16th, 2009|08:50 am] |
In the space of about an hour last night I got clobbered with some intense sore throat pain and sinus congestion. Like, from 0, to "my entire jaw is going to explode from referred pain." My sinuses hurt. My eyes hurt. The roof of my mouth hurts. I can't sleep at ALL. I finally got out of bed because it was just too gross to lie there and be all snotty and not even be able to sleep.
This is the most slow-moving and annoying illness I have had in a while. Seriously, I felt like dying on SUNDAY and it's just gotten worse and more stupid as the week wears on. |
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| whine/ramble |
[Oct. 15th, 2009|01:31 pm] |
I'm tired of that dream doodle being on the top of my LJ every time I open the page.
UGH I AM SICK YOU GUISE. I know, what a newsflash, but I've got some stomach flu or god knows what and it's just been a miserable week. (My mom is sick too, we are the soup and crackers twins.) I had to work tuesday and wednesday and apparently was in DENIAL about how sick I was* because yesterday I spent most of the day trying not to throw up on someone, came home and ate some soup, then passed the hell out at 6:00. Yeah that's right, I went to bed at SIX PM! Meaning I missed weaving class (again) and woke up this morning at approximately 9:00, totally confused, my stomach KILLING ME, also having tweaked something in my lower back (AGAIN**). So of course I'm all "I'm up early! I should get stuff done!" So I scanned stuff from my sketchbook*** and then I've spent the rest of the morning/day so far sitting here, reading blogs and trying not to fall asleep again.
My life. It is exciting.
In other news, I've been thinking a lot about drawing (more than I've actually been drawing, but hey...baby steps) and thinking about re-drawing BTLC. Not just re-drawing it but doing it over. I thought I'd start it next month but then I realized I'd have to do a lot more backstory planning if I were planning to remake it so that it's better, with fewer bad stupid dumb jokes, and makes slightly more sense.
*With this kidneystone/whatever abdominal pain/swelling/constant nausea it can be hard to tell if I am in pain or not to begin with, so it's a toss up whether or not I actually am sick or not at any given time until I either throw up or completely fail to stay conscious during daylight hours.
**I think abdominal pain is making my muscles tense which keeps tweaking my back, OR SOMETHING
*** I think I'm on the verge to moving up to a larger sketchbook size, but that would make scanning IMPOSSIBLE. (More impossible than it already is considering my scanner won't install correctly on Vista. Not that I mind scanning with my laptop, it's just annoying to have to transfer large files to this computer if I want to color them, and then not be allowed to save as JPEG anyway. SO DUMB!!!) Thoughts? |
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[Oct. 10th, 2009|12:05 pm] |
Last night I had some awesome dreams, one of which was a dream wherein I rediscovered 24 episodes of something I had animated (and apparently, dubbed, set to music..whatever, it was a dream) during school. This must have been precipitated by my recent rediscovery of the Clavo Clavum Pellere book that I made a few years back in school. I say rediscovery because I don't remember drawing ANY of it. I VAGUELY remember the colored illustrations but that is IT. I was amazed that it was like...not terrible. That I actually liked the comics in it. And creeped out that it's totally unfamiliar to me. (Sidenote: When I am going through old sketchbooks I seriously remember almost every drawing. It's rare that I find a drawing that I did completely unfamiliar, so it's a little.... yeah. Creepy.) ANYWAY... this dream was seriously awesome because the animation in the show was REALLY good, and the story was kinda awesome (I don't remember any of it now, of course.) It was loosely related to the Merchant and Sun Prince story I was working on a while back. Seriously....it was sweet. At some point in the dream my friend Jeff and I were watching it and I was scrolling around on some website I had created for it where there were comments and critical praise and stuff. Dude, when I woke up and none of this was true, I was so disappointed in myself.
Anyway, the only character in that awesome show who wasn't an actual character I had already created (more or less) was this dude, who in my dream seemed like a total Grell rip off (probably because it WAS grell in my subconcious or what the fuck ever) except for the fact that the resemblance is only passing and he is just some normal, non-crazy, non-supernatural dude with no shark teeth.
I also woke up and my abs hurt. Like every time I laugh it kinda hurts. WTF, was I doing crunches in my sleep? Or was I just so tense from working yesterday (had a couple of out of control classes)? Who knows, but it's bugging me.
Time to eat muffins. |
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[Oct. 6th, 2009|08:09 pm] |
I downloaded GIMP so I could save jpegs. THAT'S DESPERATION. Seriously I dunno why tf I can't get painter 8 to save jpegs but whatever.
This is about as done as this is going to get... (especially once I noticed the wierdness going on with anhy's leg, oh well) Honestly, I thought I'd slap some flat colors on it and get bored. But I didn't! So here it is! It's really big because my monitor resolution is set really high. Is this way too big? Let me know.
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[Oct. 4th, 2009|12:02 pm] |
The last 2 shawls I've started knitting I have SCREWED UP SO BADLY. Like, had to unravel hundreds of yards, screwed up. UGH! The shawl I'm knitting on right now, I'm trying to finish as fast as possible, so of COURSE that means I screwed it up so badly it has to be completely ripped out.
I am really disappointed in myself and my inability to COUNT. Seriously, My weakness is COUNTING!
Snippet Grell soothes my rage a little bit, because like all snippet drawings he is obscenely cute. |
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