After yet another day o'fail, let's have a little fun!
Pick one of my icons, and I'll tell you something about it: why I use it, why I like it, or even why I made it (if I made it myself).
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Pick one of my icons, and I'll tell you something about it: why I use it, why I like it, or even why I made it (if I made it myself).
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After yet another day o'fail, let's have a little fun!
Pick one of my icons, and I'll tell you something about it: why I use it, why I like it, or even why I made it (if I made it myself).
[<a href="http://angelikitten.dreamwidth.org/icons"My Dreamwidth icons</a> are more up-to-date than <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=angelikitten">my LiveJournal icons</a> (most of which are inactive), so I'm likely to like them more. I'll talk about either though.]
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Pick one of my icons, and I'll tell you something about it: why I use it, why I like it, or even why I made it (if I made it myself).
[<a href="http://angelikitten.dreamwidth.org/icons"My Dreamwidth icons</a> are more up-to-date than <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=angelikitten">my LiveJournal icons</a> (most of which are inactive), so I'm likely to like them more. I'll talk about either though.]
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- Mood:
gloomy
"I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet." - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Martin Veil : On my first day of law school, my professor says two things. First was; "From this day forward, when your mother tells you she loves you - get a second opinion."
Jack Connerman : [chuckles] And?
Martin Veil : "If you want justice, go to a whorehouse. If you wanna get fucked, go to court."
Martin Veil : Why gamble with money when you can gamble with people's lives?
Just to bring a few smile and laughs :)
Jack Connerman : [chuckles] And?
Martin Veil : "If you want justice, go to a whorehouse. If you wanna get fucked, go to court."
Martin Veil : Why gamble with money when you can gamble with people's lives?
Just to bring a few smile and laughs :)
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." Martin Luther King, Jr.
LiveJournal's making a change to the gender setting on the profile page.
I... I don't even have words to explain how much this hurts me. And it does hurt, because I can't see what good limiting the gender option does at all, especially if the information is staying private.
It's probably silly of me to be crying about this, but I just don't need this shit right now.
(For those who'd like suggestions on how to deal with this, this post has some ideas, which is where I found out about it.)
[Edit] Apparently the change is not going through (edit at the bottom of the page). I don't trust this.![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
elf explains why better than I can.
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* Gender will be a mandatory field at account creation.
* LiveJournal is removing the Unspecified option for the gender field. That's right: you get to be male or female. Period. That's it. (Source.)
I... I don't even have words to explain how much this hurts me. And it does hurt, because I can't see what good limiting the gender option does at all, especially if the information is staying private.
It's probably silly of me to be crying about this, but I just don't need this shit right now.
(For those who'd like suggestions on how to deal with this, this post has some ideas, which is where I found out about it.)
[Edit] Apparently the change is not going through (edit at the bottom of the page). I don't trust this.
elf explains why better than I can.- Mood:
crushed
"Promise me you will always remember this: you are braver than you feel, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think..." -Christopher Robin to Pooh (A. A. Milne)
- Music:tswift
Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. ~Murphy's Law
I tell you this, and I tell you plain:
What you have done, you will do again;
You will bite your tongue, careful or not,
Upon the already-bitten spot.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ~Will Rogers
Never do anything that you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics. ~Author Unknown
I'm not entirely sure I want to talk about the last few days, because every time I think I'm doing okay, something brings me right down. For example: yesterday, me and my walking stick managed to get around a huge supermarket without falling over or collapsing even once. Today I try to do the same thing around town, and I nearly fall over while trying to get off a chair. I don't mind falling, but I damn well did not need to be laughed at by strangers for it.
I am going to have a good relationship with this walking stick. I'm adamant about this (partly because it's not the stick that makes me fall over, it's whatever's wrong with my back, so there's no real reason to hate the stick). So I tried to make a walking stick icon. I only found one picture I liked (but not love, which is a shame), but now I have 8 versions of the same icon, and I really can't choose one...
PS: Yes, my walking stick tag could be better/funnier/make more sense, but no ready-made puns about walking sticks come to mind.
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I am going to have a good relationship with this walking stick. I'm adamant about this (partly because it's not the stick that makes me fall over, it's whatever's wrong with my back, so there's no real reason to hate the stick). So I tried to make a walking stick icon. I only found one picture I liked (but not love, which is a shame), but now I have 8 versions of the same icon, and I really can't choose one...
PS: Yes, my walking stick tag could be better/funnier/make more sense, but no ready-made puns about walking sticks come to mind.
- Mood: crushed
"Stress is like waves on the ocean. Unprepared every wave is a disaster. For the skillful surfer every wave is exhilaration."
~Deepak Chopra
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” — ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- Mood:
busy
"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.” -Winston Churchill
"There's nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged, only to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."-Kurt Vonnegut
"I recognize in all humility that I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is...But I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about." -Dostoevsky
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.” -Winston Churchill
"There's nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged, only to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."-Kurt Vonnegut
"I recognize in all humility that I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is...But I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about." -Dostoevsky
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
-Howard Thurman
-Howard Thurman
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. ~John Milton
Merry: I don't know why he's so upset. It's only a couple of carrots.
Pippin: And some cabbages. And then those three bags of potatoes we lifted last week, and, and, the mushrooms, the week before.
Merry: Yes, Pippin, my point is, he's clearly overreacting. Run!
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.--Harlan Ellison
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.--Aldous Huxley
"Time passes in moments, which, rushing by, define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards it's end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why all things happen?" Dana Scully, The X-Files
Merry: I don't know why he's so upset. It's only a couple of carrots.
Pippin: And some cabbages. And then those three bags of potatoes we lifted last week, and, and, the mushrooms, the week before.
Merry: Yes, Pippin, my point is, he's clearly overreacting. Run!
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.--Harlan Ellison
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.--Aldous Huxley
"Time passes in moments, which, rushing by, define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards it's end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why all things happen?" Dana Scully, The X-Files
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." Dumbledore
The enemy of man is not a palpable evil, nor is it materialism. It is spirituality divorced from tolerance and patience. - Author Unknown (at least to me)
The enemy of man is not a palpable evil, nor is it materialism. It is spirituality divorced from tolerance and patience. - Author Unknown (at least to me)
- Mood:
ecstatic
exhaustedThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
- Marcel Proust
"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. "
~Audrey Hepburn
"Winter must be so cold for those with no warm memories... And we've already missed the spring." - Terry McKay
"There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean." - Nickie Ferrante
"What makes life so difficult?"
"People." - Terry and Nickie, respectively
"I really hope you've found happiness, and if you're ever in need of anything, like someone to love you, don't hesitate to call me." - Kenneth Bradley
"There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean." - Nickie Ferrante
"What makes life so difficult?"
"People." - Terry and Nickie, respectively
"I really hope you've found happiness, and if you're ever in need of anything, like someone to love you, don't hesitate to call me." - Kenneth Bradley
Now Brain, we need to talk.
I thought we had an agreement. In addition to the nights of too many thinky-thoughts and ridiculous nightmares, you get one "sleepless" night a month, where you get to do whatever you want. The only rule is that, at around half 5 in the morning, you let me sleep for 1-2 hours so that both you and I can be alert the next day, and everyone's happy.
So, what the hell happened last night, Brain darling?
There was a lot of reading, and that was fun. It wasn't the same as reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy in 6 days, or the 5 book-a-thon we had a few months ago, but it was still enjoyable, and I would very much do it again.
But you broke the rule. The only rule. And now, nearly 37 hours after I was last asleep, my body is screaming in agony. You thought you'd got away with it, seeing as I'd been pretty much fine all day. But no. My body isn't used to this, so it doesn't know where its limits are - it just kept going along, and then suddenly pain! out of nowhere. Pain and very heavy limbs. And blurred vision.
And so Brain, I say unto you: you sir, are a git. Don't you ever do this to me again.
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I thought we had an agreement. In addition to the nights of too many thinky-thoughts and ridiculous nightmares, you get one "sleepless" night a month, where you get to do whatever you want. The only rule is that, at around half 5 in the morning, you let me sleep for 1-2 hours so that both you and I can be alert the next day, and everyone's happy.
So, what the hell happened last night, Brain darling?
There was a lot of reading, and that was fun. It wasn't the same as reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy in 6 days, or the 5 book-a-thon we had a few months ago, but it was still enjoyable, and I would very much do it again.
But you broke the rule. The only rule. And now, nearly 37 hours after I was last asleep, my body is screaming in agony. You thought you'd got away with it, seeing as I'd been pretty much fine all day. But no. My body isn't used to this, so it doesn't know where its limits are - it just kept going along, and then suddenly pain! out of nowhere. Pain and very heavy limbs. And blurred vision.
And so Brain, I say unto you: you sir, are a git. Don't you ever do this to me again.
These are my words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.
— William James
— William James
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~Pablo Picasso
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ~Stella Adler
Painting is silent poetry. ~Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ~Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917
When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas. ~Dena Groquet
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ~Stella Adler
Painting is silent poetry. ~Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ~Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917
When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas. ~Dena Groquet
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