And so it begins, in earnest.

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Guess what exists!?

Green tea flavour Soy Dream!



And it's not bad. (pretty mild maccha flavour but maybe that's 'cos I just sucked down a bottle of Ito-en green tea)
The world.. it is my vegan oyster now. :D

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Dear Bonita,

Fuck you for losing my god damned paperwork not once but twice. I have lived in supportive housing for a little over 1 1/2 years. Is it my fault that YOU lost my fucking paperwork not once but TWICE? I may be bipolar and in need of government assistance while I await my social security disability, but even I am more fucking organized than you. Get your fucking head out of your ass, clean off your desk and you might fucking find it. Furthermore, FUCK YOU for telling not only myself BUT Jeff that we CANNOT move out? Excuse me? We can move out whenever the fuck we like! You don't own us. Just because we're the best residents that you have doesn't mean that we WANT to stay in the fucking middle of gun shot central...which, I might add is NOT productive to our mental wellness. Yes we are moving out...and oh, by the way, we're not telling you..but we move tomorrow...and there's not a DAMN thing you can do about it. So what if the prostitutes and drug dealers are being evicted...who else is going to move in? I'm not sticking around to figure it out. Oh, and holding up our application for the other apartment didn't work...we got it WITHOUT your renter verfication, so kiss my ass bitch.
To think at one point in time I liked you.

No love,
The best renter you've said you've ever had


Dear Broadripple Trails,

You don't want us living at your apartments? Well fuck you. We found something bigger in a better location, cheaper and with MUCH more friendly staff...and guess what? It only took one day to process our application, not a fucking week...So fucking sit on your thumbs and twirl bitches.

I hate you with a passion,
Christi Marie

The 'y' key on my keyboard is borked so it makes half of my IMs look like the were typed by someone with a "special" spelling ability.

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So... And I know this will cause a bunch of flames, but why are there panhandlers from Milwaukee on State Street?

I got out of work today downtown and I was hit up by 4 men who said they had just come from Milwaukee - each individually as I walked along or was sitting waiting for the bus. I also had some of the regular Madison people do their thing, too, but because they know they can get cited for it, they were much more subtle and actually entertaining compared to the guys who claimed to be from Milwaukee.

Are they now busing people to Madison to deal with their own problems?

The Katrina Pain Index.

This makes me want to sob and scream and maim and vomit all at the same time. It's intolerable. It's monstrous and inhuman.

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I'm reluctant to pass myself off as some kind of authority on writing, because I still have a lot to learn, but from time to time I'm asked a question that I can answer with some degree of confidence.

That happened earlier today, and (as you'll see at the end of this post) I thought it may be worth sharing here.

On Aug 28, 2008, at 12:52 PM, [redacted] wrote:

When you're writing something that's not for a blog, like a book or script, something that has to remain a secret until it's published, do you just go bonkers?

Yes. Yes I do. It's really hard, because as a blogger you're used to instant feedback to keep you going, but when you're working on something that can't be shared or released the same way blog posts are, you can lose your way and lose your confidence.

I've found a couple ways to help overcome this:

1. Blog less. It's incredibly hard to blog and write a book at the same time, because you're using different muscles. Think of it like trying to run the 100 meter dash and do a marathon at the same time.

2. Make a deadline for yourself, then work backwards to have milestones every day or week, whichever works better for you.

3. Give yourself little rewards when you make a big milestone (5K words, 10K words, 20K words, first draft completed, etc.)

4. Don't show your work to anyone until the first draft is done. Don't even excerpt little bits and put them on your blog. I put about 30 words from House of Cards online, and I lost all of my momentum as a result. I'm not sure why this happens, but it really sucks when it does.

5. Find an editor who you trust to work with you. Good editors do more than just edit the draft you give them, and I know this because I have a great editor.

You know, this may be useful to other people. I'm going to anonymize the line I quoted from you, and post this on my blog. I'm sure readers will have other bits of advice and experience to share in comments.

-Wil

This isn't anything more than common sense, I guess, and it's not even that original (the post I linked to day before yesterday about blogging vs. writing a book covers most of this in much greater detail than I did) but I hope it's helpful anyway.

I used to joke about it all the time but never thought I'd actually see the day.......I had an encounter with a customer yesterday who actually expected the employee's of the particular store to have knowledge on content AND author background on every single book on our shelves.
She didn't seem to understand that it's pretty much impossible to have infinite knowledge on hundreds of thousands of titles, not to mention the authors who wrote them.
I would like to see her work in a bookstore. Perhaps then she'd understand.

*smirk*

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/08/look-a-deliciou.html

Oh!

[Eyes roll back into head like it's friggin' SHARK WEEK]

Loreh W., where would I be weethout your submeeeeeshonssss [singsong]

Wow.

Elizabeth Dole is running for Senator in NC.  She's currenlty trying to vilify her current opponent, which always happens in these elections. 

So what did Kay Hagen do that makes her a target?

She decided to talk to some atheists.

Don't believe me?  Think it's being exaggerated?

The Dole Press Release.

Some gem quotes:

You can tell a lot about a person by their friends and these are friends most North Carolinians would not be comfortable having over for dinner.

Wow.  Apparently North Carolinians won't even eat with us.  I bet that's a surprise to my uncle, who has dinner with lots of people.

...the money that's paying for [the campaign] is coming from the left-wing fringe of political thought.

All atheists are a left-wing fringe.  Those libertarian atheists are clearly confused. 

The person she's meeting with is "an advisory board member [...] of The Secular Coalition for America which is "the national lobby for atheists, humanists, freethinkers and other nontheistic Americans with the unique mission of protecting their civil rights.”

This is portrayed as bad.  I guess we don't deserve civil rights.

And Liddy Dole is always portrayed as a moderate republican.

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Since this post, I've been wearing skirts more and more often, and even managed to get some suitable shoes for wearing with them! Today, I went shopping, bought a new skirt and a brooch, and got my hair cut (I think it's a little too short, but since I seem to manage to go months without getting my hair cut, that's probably for the best!). ( So -- pictures! )

Oh, nearly forgot: for your reference, I'm 6ft tall, and somewhere around a size 18 (I'm not sure what I weigh).

Originally published at The Null Device Blog. You can comment here or there.

First, despite three emails, including one from the president of the company, exhorting that I don’t need to have any physical boxed software shipped to me because I only need the upgrade license, EastWest/Soundsonline charged me for shipping and shipped me a box of discs that I already have.  Apparenlty there was a special box I needed to check on the order, and numerous personal emails and requests go unheeded if you don’t have the box checked.

I found out yesterday that RobPapen Blue, a synth I use a lot, just had an upgrade to v1.8.  Great, I went to download it…and they’ve changed their login and user database stuff around since the 1.7 upgrade.  Fine.  I set up a new login, and it asks for my Blue serial # (which I ahd stored for my old login) and…well, I can’t find it, because it was printed on the inside of the box, which was one of the only casualties of the last basement flood.  Hopefully they’ll have pity on me and be able to recover my old serial.

Sigh.

meme from everyone:

(not bitter)

1. They are watching TV. What are they watching?

2. You're out to eat. What kind of dressing do they get on their salad?

3. What's one food this person doesn't like? What's one food this person could not live without?

4. You go out to the bar. He/she orders...

5. Where did he/she go to high school?

6. What size shoe do they wear?

7. If this person were to collect anything, it would be...

8. What is their favorite type of sandwich?

9. This person could eat/drink ______ everyday.

10. Favorite cereal?

11. This person wouldn't be caught dead wearing?

12. Favorite sports team?

13. Who will he/she vote for?

14. What is their sign?

15. What is something you do that he/she wishes you didn't?

16. How many states has this person lived in?

17. What is his/her heritage?

18. You bake them a cake for their birthday. What kind do you bake?

19. Did he/she play sports in high school?

20. This person could spend hours...

21. He/She wants a new...

22. The CD I would probably find in their vehicle is...

23. What can you do that will guarantee a laugh from him/her?

24. Does he/she get along well with their family?

25. If money wasn't an option, I would buy him/her...

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/08/all-i-ever-want.html

And now she has not just one but SEVEN HUNDRED OF THEM!

Wait, wait, before you think 'crazy cat lady' get a load of this awesome story.

And dogs too, Emma S. Visit this amazing place online at Cat House on the Kings.com