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corilannam) wrote2011-08-11 11:38 am
corilannam) wrote2011-08-11 11:38 am
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Someone just came into my office to deliver a FedEx and caught me trawling Facebook -- for purely work-related purposes! But there was no conversational opening in which to mention that, so now she probably thinks I'm a total slacker.
Oh well. Guess that means I might as well slack off!
Things I've been meaning to post all week:
* Interesting perspectives on the UK rioting/looting:
-- Penny Red - Panic on the streets of London
-- Eyewitness account of neighborhood looting
Stay safe, UK flist.
* On this side of the pond, the state of society is less flammable, but no less depressing -- How America turned poverty into a crime by Barbara Ehrenreich, an afterward to her book Nickeled and Dimed in its 10th anniversary.
* In the potentially world-changing (in a good way) news department -- New drug could cure nearly any viral infection
* For my greenies, some cool Android apps to help with environmentally safe and non-toxic shopping -- http://www.emagazine.com/magazine/app-happy
I'm not linking to the one about the effects of cell phone radiation. *g*
And back to the shallow waters of fandom--
* I think I am not going to finish myreel_merlin story by the deadline. This kind of breaks my heart, but there's just still too much to do and I refuse to shortchange this story except by the limitations of my own abilities. I will keep working on it and post when I'm done (assuming that's before the next round!)
* I have submitted my final votes and PTHON IS DONE. I have at least survived with my perfect participation record intact, if not my dignity.
* Update on my computer woes -- My desktop, which had previously succumbed to a really vicious Windows 7 security update, is up and running again, seemingly no worse for the wear! I had to reinstall Windows, but thanks to Dell's DataSafe emergency backup (which I didn't even know I had), I did not lose anything. EVEN MY CHROME TABS WERE SAVED, which of course, is the most important thing because that's where all the stories I haven't read yet live. And there are a lot of them.
Oh well. Guess that means I might as well slack off!
Things I've been meaning to post all week:
* Interesting perspectives on the UK rioting/looting:
-- Penny Red - Panic on the streets of London
-- Eyewitness account of neighborhood looting
Stay safe, UK flist.
* On this side of the pond, the state of society is less flammable, but no less depressing -- How America turned poverty into a crime by Barbara Ehrenreich, an afterward to her book Nickeled and Dimed in its 10th anniversary.
* In the potentially world-changing (in a good way) news department -- New drug could cure nearly any viral infection
* For my greenies, some cool Android apps to help with environmentally safe and non-toxic shopping -- http://www.emagazine.com/magazine/app-happy
I'm not linking to the one about the effects of cell phone radiation. *g*
And back to the shallow waters of fandom--
* I think I am not going to finish my
reel_merlin story by the deadline. This kind of breaks my heart, but there's just still too much to do and I refuse to shortchange this story except by the limitations of my own abilities. I will keep working on it and post when I'm done (assuming that's before the next round!)* I have submitted my final votes and PTHON IS DONE. I have at least survived with my perfect participation record intact, if not my dignity.
* Update on my computer woes -- My desktop, which had previously succumbed to a really vicious Windows 7 security update, is up and running again, seemingly no worse for the wear! I had to reinstall Windows, but thanks to Dell's DataSafe emergency backup (which I didn't even know I had), I did not lose anything. EVEN MY CHROME TABS WERE SAVED, which of course, is the most important thing because that's where all the stories I haven't read yet live. And there are a lot of them.
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How America turned poverty into a crime by Barbara Ehrenreich. This was really depressing. I know the poor are treated horribly in the US, but I'd had no idea it was that bad. I've been reading a lot of really depressing stuff in this vein lately - Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters, for example.
I've just done that update, and did not lose the porn torrent I was downloading! Ah, for the important things!
You deserve a medal for your pornathon record. I bowed out this year, because I found it so stressful last time!
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Hee! Yay for saving the porn! All my torrents came back, too, though I proceeded to immediately delete them all by accident myself. None of them were porn, though, so it's okay. *g*
Speaking of porn, the 'thon is definitely very stressful! I don't blame you at all for skipping it this year. It's fun, but I will definitely have to consider it very carefully before I sign up again. It's a major trial for my time management skills.