Procrastinating!

[brigdh]

It is vaguely warmer here! That puts me in such a good mood; I want to go run around to various parks and stroll down random streets. Quite possibly the same mood inspired the group of teenage boys playing skins vs shirts basketball I passed earlier. You guys, I realize that it's no longer the bitter, painful cold it's been, but it's only 39 and it's the middle of February. Put your clothes back on.

Alas, though, I cannot play half-naked basketball because I have to- let's see- "develop a model for the social dynamics of early villages and towns in late Neolithic Egypt". Fascinating.

You know, I've noticed that I overhear many more random conversations when I'm not constantly wearing headphones. My favorite so far involved a group of yuppies debating whether the United States was going to join the EU or become 'North Mexico'; it would have to be one or the other, you see, because "those people are just as smart as us, and they work harder".

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bad news

[rm.livejournal.com]

nor'easter coming tomorrow night.

Re: bad news

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen. My friends and family in Ohio are currently calling to terrify me with their local forecasts of twenty and more inches. But shhhh, I'm pretending that it won't hit here: I mean, once it's gotten this warm, it's not allowed to get colder again, right? It just has to keep going up.

Re: bad news

[gamera.livejournal.com]

Twenty inches?

And here I am freaking out about the forecasted twelve for my area.

Re: bad news

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yep! (http://bloodrace.livejournal.com/443341.html) (Ah, livejournal, you make everything easy.)

Although that's better than some little towns in upstate New York that got tweleve feet (http://www.tdn.com/articles/2007/02/12/ap/headlines/d8n89r7g0.txt) last week.

Re: bad news

[veleda-k.livejournal.com]

I mean, once it's gotten this warm, it's not allowed to get colder again, right? It just has to keep going up.

That's what I keep telling myself, but it looks like there will be snow here after all.

*closes eyes* If I can't see it, then it's not there!

Re: bad news

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Denial! It's not just a river in Egypt. It's a confusing river in Egypt. Why the fuck is Upper Egypt south of Lower Egypt!? I know I'm going to get them mixed up at some point in this paper and look like an idiot.

Re: bad news

[weirdquark]

I'd be guessing, but Upper Egypt is probably south of Lower Egypt because the Nile flows north, so Upper Egypt is upstream, and Lower Egypt is closer to the mouth.

I blame north-centric maps. North is not "up", it's just the way the north magnetic pole is pointing right now.

Re: bad news

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yep, that would be why. It just seems counterintutive to me, so I have to pause and picture a map each time I come across it.

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, teenage boys! X3! But yanno, this is why one should always carry around binoculars and a camera-phone. Just in cases. >3 *muha*

Wordsofastory, you've been so sweet about helping me in the past, and I'm afraid I need aid again. I've got a little ficlet, a oneshot (although we're talking Swordspoint here; name me a fic that has chapters! XD) and I have no idea how to post it. If I post it all in the "post to community" area, it'll all show up on the local page, right? Can't have THAT...*groans* I'm in a pickle.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

(Whoops, sorry for the last comment- I'm trying to make the HTML work.)

*laughs* They were indeed pretty. But I'm not sure the pretty is worth the cold.

Yay, story! So, what you want to do is put it behind a cut-tag, right? Something that looks like this post (http://community.livejournal.com/_riverside/2007/01/18/), and then people click on the link and that takes them to the story?

To do that, write all of your title and notes, and then just before the story starts, write [lj-cut] and after the end of the story write [/lj-cut]. Then you'll get a link that says "Read More", and people can click it to read the story. If you want the cut to say something special, write [lj-cut text="whatever you want it to say"] and after the end of the story [/lj-cut]. But replace the [] with the pointy brackets <>. You can read another explanation here (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75).

Is that all you wanted to know, or is there something more? I am totally willing to explain anything else.

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! This is super-duper! =3

But! Ehm...does that mean, if I just wanted it to say "Read More", I would write exactly "" before and "" after the story?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Uh, I think so, but unfortunately if you type the html examples into a comment, LJ thinks you're trying to make it work here, and the code disappears, so I can't see what you wrote between the quotation marks.

For "Read More", all you need is [lj-cut] at the beginning and [/lj-cut] at the end, but with <> instead of [].

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

X3! Oh, I did not see what it did! Yes, I typed what j00 told me inbetween but with <> instead.

*squibbles, clings* Thankja sooo much! This stupid humor ficlet is now dedicated to joo! :3

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee, thank you! I feel all special now, and can't wait to see it.

[chthonicsiren.livejournal.com]

The Weather People have been saying that it is going to snow like fuck tomorrow night. Whoopee.

Also, one of my favorite overheard conversations was a woman and a man on a street corner; the woman was desperately trying to break up with him but he was endlessly pestering her. It was great.

[chthonicsiren.livejournal.com]

Also your icon? I love it.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Yeah, I am so not looking forward to the snow. Even though people keep telling me wonderfully strange stories about New York in blizzards that involve things like horses and buggies and people skiing down the avenues, I think I'd rather stick with the forty-degree weather.