Have wasting time down to an artform now.

[clo_again]

My paid account expired and since I'm not sure if I want to give Livejournal any more of my money at this point, I let it. Then I remembered how many pictures I had linked from Scrapbook and cursed a lot when I realised my now-vanished journal header was nowhere to be found on my computer. So, cue a very quick "find&replace" some colours in the CSS and a thrown-together header in Photoshop.

I suspect I will get fed up of the background. Very soon. I always figure I'll try one and then two days later I'm attacking the HTML with a hammer to get rid of it. In this case I think it's the wrong colour anyway but I'm so fed up of Photoshop and colours and oh, I'll just leave it.

For people who aren't on my Twitter: other than LJ fixing up today, I spent far too many hours in Photoshop making something I'd wanted to make for seven months and never got around to doing; you remember the WTF photoshoots of the eight of them standing awkwardly by a red bus and the eight of them standing awkwardly on the steps but mostly, that marvellously odd one of them all posing in front of a fireplace in their suits and looking rather like a mafia gang?







Yeah. I made the Wanted poster. It was begging for it. You know, quietly enough for me to put it off for six months.

Today does rather illustrate my life of late, or rather, of the last few months. I keep applying for jobs (probably less than I should be but still, enough for me to really be hating writing cover letters by now) and getting turned down or worse, not hearing anything. But! Someone who saw me on Jobsite just called to offer me 3-4 weeks temp work of data-entry at a local hospital, which sounds utterly tedious but is paying £7.50ph. I'm absolutely willing to do something mindnumbing for four weeks for £7.50ph. And at least then if I get interviews I can say "Look! I have temped! Not just sat on my ass for months!" (which is basically what I have done. Except I went to Wimbledon! I should actually do a Wimbledon post sometime. Not today; I'm trying to finish Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey because my Read My Own Height 2010 is going depressingly slowly.)

So, here's a post. Hopefully tomorrow or the day after or sometime, there will be another post. I'm getting most of my hair chopped off on Tuesday because I'm sick of it taking half an hour to dry with a hairdryer, so that might be worth a post. Also, I should set up Dreamwidth crossposting. Sometime soon.

This is my life and it's not interesting right now. Tune back in next week when things will have changed! Or not but you know, I live in hope.

Comments

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

Goldteeth Federer? Oh, you. ♥

[clo.livejournal.com]

I wanted something with gold in it. And I figured if Roger was a mafia boss, he'd so get gold teeth. ;-) It made me laugh way too much!

[jesse-kips.livejournal.com]

I totally caved and kept my paid account - mostly for the icon spots, and the ability to track stuff. I am so easy!

Also, well done on the job! When do you start??

I am looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday, YAY :D

[clo.livejournal.com]

I can give up icons (or pay for a Dreamwidth and get loads) but oh, Scrapbook! With the unlimited picture sizes and no ads and simple uploads! I think I may yet cave because of Scrapbook. And the tracking. I'm missing the tracking. Damn your temptations LiveJournal!

On July 19th! So I still have all next week free. ^_^ I just need to do a test run with the buses one day next week to make sure they drop me at the right place and not in the wilds of Cumbrian countryside. The timetable claims it will be fine! But my track record of reading bus timetables is...not good, so we shall see. ;)

Me too YAY! Sadly, I've not started writing the book yet. But you know, there's three whole days to go! ;) More shocking miracles have happened.

[jesse-kips.livejournal.com]

LJ does have more temptations than you might first assume! But tracking is right up there - I love it muchly.

That's good then! Not rushed into it. And I know what you mean about bus timetables - I find them some of the worst to read!! My natural lack of navigation skills doesn't help either!

Three whole FULL days before Starbucks! And I don't even have an original fiction idea, let alone a story to write now I am moving on from my first novel attempt! Perhaps something with zombies?? We'll see :D

[clo.livejournal.com]

For things like kinkmemes where you need to track comments individually, paid accounts are *so* worth it. Except for when the notifications don't send and you realise a week later that you have a million comment!fics to catch up on. ^_^

Very good! Time to get some extra sleep in. Working buses out in new places is impossible. >_< They just don't make sense! I'm hope I'm right thinking that there's a bus I can catch. Guess I'll find out later in the week.

One and a half days now! Still time! You writing zombies would be BRILLIANT. :DD Have you seen this? It was recced to me but I haven't got around to reading it yet. It looks awesome though. :D

eta: Editing comments is also good because apparently proof-reading them before hitting post is just too difficult. *facepalm*

[jesse-kips.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the kinkmemes are where I do most of my tracking - but yeah, it's very annoying when LJ decides to hold out on you... although saying that, it does make for a lot of nice reading all at once!

I have seen that book - it's on my list of books to buy/read this summer! It looks very interesting. And my writing about zombies came about because I had a dream that I had been (wrongfully) imprisoned, and when I was in jail there was a zombie outbreak. So, I might give it a go?? Could be interesting! And I look forward to your story in ONE day!

Haha, I love being able to edit comments as well. Very handy :D