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Social Problems final was today, and this was my project: A short, chutes-and-ladders-style game about information security online.

( Game board under here )

Only one final paper left, and it's not due until early Friday afternoon. I think I'll probably try and get it written tomorrow, when I'm not working on laundry 😂

Current Mood: satisfied

conuly

You'd think we'd get snow, but no. Tomorrow's forecast thus far calls for a "wintery mix". The only wintery mix I want is cocoa and marshmallows, not whatever the hell happens to fall from the sky like soggy doom confetti.

19F, jesus. At least it'll be warmer tomorrow. Warm enough to get a fucking wintery mix instead of snow, which is what we really want.

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conuly

So much awful stuff happens to the protagonists in the last third of the show that I often don't make it all the way through. It's worth it, though - my favorite character suddenly gets enough growth to become my favorite character, and the villain dies in a very satisfying way, allowing me to say ( Read more... )

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conuly

The river is famous to the fish.

The loud voice is famous to silence,
which knew it would inherit the earth
before anybody said so.

The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.

The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.

The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom.

The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
which is famous only to floors.

The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.

I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.

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soc_puppet

Interview with a Human Services Professional paper: Completed and turned in last night!

Interview with a living ceramicist paper: Completed a few days ago
Accompanying PowerPoint presentation: Completed today! turned in with the paper

Still to do:

Tweak the game I made for Social Problems, due Tuesday (basically done, then just needs printing)

Write the accompanying paper, due Tuesday (there's a template that's basically a walkthrough, I'm not too worried)

Personal Mission Statement for Intro to Human Services, due 2pm on Friday (not started, but I have the most time left for this)

Current Mood: determined

conuly

I can see you're not a cook. You can't exactly dice thyme. The leaves are pretty tiny. If they're fresh, you just strip them from the stem. I suppose you can then chop them more finely, but dicing? You'd have more luck trying to dice time.

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conuly

The Trump administration’s NSS announces a dramatic reworking of the foreign policy the U.S. has embraced since World War II.

And that's not the most alarming thing about it.

conuly

Which, good for her, but she's not going to make the big bucks in social work, which is what she's getting her BS in. Well, best of luck to her anyway. (She does have her eyes wide open, because everybody has told her that. Unsurprising.)

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conuly

so now I'm spending some part of my evening with another coworker instead of by myself, which means I can't just summarily turn off the TV. Other people are weird when they want the TV on even if they aren't watching it, but since they think I'm weird for preferring blissful silence I guess sometimes I have to compromise.

Which means that the other day my entertainment choices were either a long and frankly tedious piece on the JFK conspiracy theories, or HP1. Welp, JFK won't get any deader, and practically speaking, JKR won't get any richer. The choice wasn't really very agonizing, is what I'm saying. I feel like maybe it ought to have been, but no. (That place does not have enough channels. If I'm going to be stuck watching TV for even part of the night I really need to figure out how to get my phone on the screen.)

All this led me to realize something that I somehow don't think I ever thought about before, which is that the plot of book 2 doesn't make any fucking sense, like, right from the start. How exactly did Lucius set it up so that he'd happen to bump into the Weasley family? What if they hadn't gone shopping that day? There clearly was a lot of planning that went into this, so what was his backup? Really, none of those plots hold together if you look at them too hard. And that's not too unusual for fiction, but I'm not particularly inclined to be charitable about it.

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conuly

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But never fear, he no longer has a bear living in his crawlspace. He now has two bears.

soc_puppet

Intro to Human Services:
Interview with a Human Services professional: Done
Reflection paper on interview, due Friday, Dec 5: ~~Not~~ started
Personal mission statement, due Friday, Dec 12: Not started

Social Problems:
Research a particular topic as a social problem: Done
Do a creative project based on your research: Mostly done, needs touch-ups
Write a paper about your research topic and your creative project: Not started (has a very detailed template I can probably just fill out as the paper)

Ceramics:
Interview with a living ceramicist: Done
Reflection paper on interview, due Sunday, Dec 7: ~~Mostly done~~ Done!
PowerPoint Presentation on interviewed ceramicist, due Sunday, Dec 7: Not started

I'm going to try and get the one interview reflection done tonight, and then take a break. (I'd aim for both, but they're both minimum two pages, and I'm not sure I have enough juice for that.) I want to go ahead and make the Paid Time for Mood Themes announcement on

moodthemeinayear, but alas, I must use my brain power for this, instead 😩

Edit: First reflection paper is done! Time to dig out my notes from the other interview and contemplate at least starting the second one.

Edit 2: Intro to HS reflection paper started, basics of getting paid time for mood theme completion posted to

moodthemeinayear 👍

Current Mood: grumpy

conuly

Honestly, if you ban somebody it ought to warn you before you comment on their posts so that if you forget or don't realize you don't end up in an awkward situation.

conuly

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conuly

I have the distinct impression that Adrian Tchaikovsky doesn't like Donald Trump.

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conuly

Which I nearly forgot about, but here we are!

You can buy points here, and then spend them on a paid account.

And then you can post a poll!

Poll #33906 Gratuitous poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26

View Respondents

On a scale of one to ten, crickets or walnuts?

View Answers
Mean: 6.46 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.71

1		2 (7.7%)
2		1 (3.8%)
3		2 (7.7%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		3 (11.5%)
6		3 (11.5%)
7		7 (26.9%)
8		1 (3.8%)
9		2 (7.7%)
10		5 (19.2%)

conuly

I don’t want to say
things were indescribably
bad exactly

but things were
indescribably bad exactly

I don’t want to say the tide
went out and left him
gasping—a landed fish precisely

but the tide did indeed go out
and left him gaping—a dropped ghost

to make matters worse
god gathered up all of god’s things
and paddled out on that tide
so he swore he would die

and to make matters worser still
he rocked back and forth
in a bubble rather boggy and sad

ate nothing but thistles therein

I don’t want to pretend
things were very much worse
than they were
but they very much were

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conuly

are you seriously telling me that chronic nosebleeds are potentially (yet another) symptom of (the same underlying connective tissue problems that ultimately cause) hypermobility?

Well, fuck.

(Oh, and myopia's on that list too, but I somehow find myself less flabbergasted by this one.)

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soc_puppet

Ah. So. Um.

I have just been officially gifted a whoooole bunch of Dreamwidth points to reward as I see fit to participants at

moodthemeinayear, just to encourage more creativity and participation and stuff. With instructions to ask for more if I run out, and also to encourage anyone who makes a qualifying mood theme to consider submitting it to be site-supported. (And also I'm maybe being informally recruited to be the/an official Dreamwidth mood theme uploader person???)

I need. To take some time to think about how I would award these points.

(Initial idea: One month of paid time for anyone who completes just the Minimum Track, three months for anyone who completes the Medium Track, and one year for anyone who completes the Maximum Track, but like. Given that the community is supposed to be low-stress and low-pressure and allow participants to drift in and out, maybe I should instead do "One month of paid time for each Part/eighteen moods completed"? And then throw in some bonus paid time for anyone who completes the Maximum Track and/or submits a mood theme to be site-supported? Hrrrmmmmm...)

Current Mood: ecstatic

soc_puppet

Dunno when I'll be able to submit it for consideration as an official mood theme, but in the mean time, here's a preview: ( 117 Cloud Moods )

Anyway, if you want to get a jump on things, here's a downloadable .zip of all of the above moods, plus a super secret alternate version of Quixotic!

Current Mood: creative

denise posting in

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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

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soc_puppet - DON'T Play with Internet Safety
conuly - Brr, it's cold out.
conuly - Finished a relisten to Wolf 359
conuly - Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye
soc_puppet - Homework Victory!!!
conuly - Dear fanfic writer:
conuly - (no subject)
conuly - Today's coworker is in college in the hopes of increasing her earnings
conuly - Switched shifts
conuly - I had no idea bears were so squishy!
soc_puppet - Final Projects Progress Report
conuly - Hey, can somebody who knows pauraque ask if they intended to ban me?
conuly - Merry Early Christmas!
conuly - Just finished Bear Head, the second Dogs of War book
conuly - Don't forget about the DW points bonus sale
conuly - The Early Years by Mark Waldron
conuly - So, wait, wait, wait wait wait....
soc_puppet - Incoherent keysmash goes here
soc_puppet - Cloudy Daze Mood Theme
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DON'T Play with Internet Safety

Brr, it's cold out.

Finished a relisten to Wolf 359

Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye

Homework Victory!!!

Dear fanfic writer:

(no subject)

Today's coworker is in college in the hopes of increasing her earnings

Switched shifts

I had no idea bears were so squishy!

Final Projects Progress Report

Hey, can somebody who knows pauraque ask if they intended to ban me?

Merry Early Christmas!

Just finished Bear Head, the second Dogs of War book

Don't forget about the DW points bonus sale

The Early Years by Mark Waldron

So, wait, wait, wait wait wait....

Incoherent keysmash goes here

Cloudy Daze Mood Theme

Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!

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December 2018

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