I'm obsessively tagging all my old journal entries, and I'm up to November 2003. It reminded me that LJ exists, so I thought I'd come here and post. And then I remembered that I've got to get ready to go to work now. :(

Remember in my last post when I said I'd come back tomorrow but you might have moved in time like the fireplace in Doctor Who? That's what happened.

Bye! I'll come back tomorrow.

I was going to do a proper post but I feel too lethargic and stuff. Here's what it would have had in it:

some pictures of stuff
Me saying I've probably got some Dreamwidth codes if anyone wants them.
some other stuff I forget now.

AND NOW. I shall type without thinking first. It's a clever trick.

( only read if you're quite bored )

Hello. Sorry I haven't posted for ages. I kept thinking I ought to post about this before I started on any of the usual waffle and fluff, and I've been putting it off because it's not something I particularly want to talk about or expend any more energy on. But it's been bothering me that there might be people who don't know about this, and who deserve to, and a public post seemed the best way to stop that from happening. A heads-up, if you will. I've thought about it, and discussed it with a friend, and I see no reason why this shouldn't be made known publicly. If there is a good reason I'm not aware of, then of course let me know.

So, this will mainly affect people who were around in the Lotrips fandom of olden times. I recently found out (from a friend on the flist, who found out from someone on her flist, etc etc) that Kia Bright, known on LJ as hjartad and then punkmeanscuddle, did not, as we were led to believe, die in 2005 from heart failure/suicide. She actually faked her own death, and is still alive. I don't know how it all came to light, but it seems pretty definite that this is the case. It seems she's still in the same job, and may have accounts at Twitter and Last.fm. Like I say, I know little else in the way of details, but feel free to email me about it if you want to.

The awful thing about cases like this (one of the awful things) is that they leave you feeling a fool. You've been duped, and you feel (however unjustifiably) that everybody else must have known and not told you. I have no idea, really, how widespread this knowledge is, but I spoke to at least one person who didn't know and was shocked to find out. And, you know... there are lots of people I like and respect around these parts, and who deserve better than the lie we were unfortunately being fed for the last few years. (Absolutely no judgement intended on anyone who didn't want to post about it, I nearly didn't myself). So, um -- if you already knew... as you were, and if you didn't, I'm really sorry to be the bearer of ugly news. Oh, and apologies to the many people to whom this will mean nothing at all -- permission to scroll on by!

Right. I shall now move on, and get back to the waffle and fluff you love so much and tolerate so kindly.

I just hastily backed up my journal, just in case the world ends.

Unfortunately, this resulted in me sitting there reading my own journal entries from 2002, until I suddenly realised it had gone dark.

If (and I very much hope it won't) LJ does go belly-up, I may be forced to radically rethink my life. Which is in itself a worrying thought.

Have you ever wished to make a formal complaint about something but not known where in blue blazes to send it? Ever thought, "Hmm, whinging about packaging and traffic in my LJ is all find and dandy, but why isn't there somewhere more... formal?" Well, lazlet and I have, and we decided we'd absolutely had it, we'd had it up the back teeth, with not having anywhere to send our formal complaints. So we made formalcomplaint. Join, my friends, and let the complaining in a formal and yet reasonably entertaining manner begin!

formalcomplaint

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If that doesn't float your boat, how about this extremely lolworthy bad cake website:

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

So, I did the LJ strike, did you notice? It was partly just to see how staying away from LJ for 24 hours would affect my astounding lack of productivity. Turns out... not so much. I just hung out on the rest of the internets instead.

Then I tried to buy tickets to see Simon Amstell, but it's already sold out, which is sad. :(

I have done some knitting, though.

Dont you wish I'd stayed away longer?

ETA: Also listened to Tariq Ali on Desert Island Discs. Also watched the Paul O'Grady Show!? Life without LJ... it's weird.

Reply to your comments promptly, young lady, lest they grow cold and past their sell-by-date, and thence become unreplyable-to.

OH GOD WHY IS IS SUNDAY EVENING?

LJ YOU UTTER ARSE!

Stop it.

I love this community - found thanks to blythely!

day_on_earth

curiousworld or whatever yer name is now - you'd like this, I think.

Sorry I haven't posted for so long. Sometimes I think of things to say, but then I realise that these things are not very interesting, after all. Sometimes I think of things to say, but then I realise that, to say what I want to say properly, I need to do lots of finding and copying and pasting and linking, and then it's bedtime, and stuff.

So instead, I've been lurking, and reading, and occasionally commenting. I shall now commence to ramble.

( Musical musings )

( Musical rantings )

( Musical demandings )

( Musical memeings )

Oh yeah, and I meant to announce the fact that my website has upped and moved. It is now here:
www.tadorna.net
Please to be updating of your links and bookmarks if you so desire.

I will now go away and be quiet.