This is my life

At least, judging by the posts of the last few days.

choralmusic, found at the Community Rec-O-Matic in the DW news post (and I think rydra_wong's Community Rec-O-Matic is still going too).

So, y'all know there is a Anonymous Love Meme going on over on meloukhia's journal, right?

You can nominate yourself or someone else, and I'll be nomming a few more, but for people I know and love that are already on there: synecdochic, marina, v_angelique, rydra_wong roga, thingswithwings, yvi, deepad, eruthros, amemthystfirefly, sabinetzin, katemonkey, kanata, medie, telesilla, toft, helens78, darkrose, thefourthvine, astolat, general_jinjur, elynross, amadi, bossy_marmalade, busaikko, jumpuphigh, afuna, damned_colonial, princessofgeeks, and gblvr. And those are just the ones I recognized offhand - go leave everyone some love!

I just realized that I have 25 invites for GoogleWave. (I haven't had a computer that could run it until recently, and then I forgot about it - kinda like everyone else, I think.)

Want one? It's yours. Just comment or email me. My email is kisahawklin at gmail. I'll need your email address and comments aren't screened, so if that's sensitive info, you might want to email it.

Also - I have some Dreamwidth invites. There is a long post coming about how AWESOME Dreamwidth is. You know why? Because when the jerks like the ones that prompted the strikeout and the boldout at LJ came knocking at Dreamwidth - they were turned back. And when they went after the payment source (PayPal), Dreamwidth said - 'well, screw you, PayPal. They're not doing anything illegal and they're not doing anything against the TOS, so we'll find someone else to take our business.' (And offered a free month of service to paid account users because they'll have to find alternate means of payment (sending a check or money order) to insure uninterrupted service.)

And THAT is what makes a journaling service to me.

Okay, so maybe THIS is that post. And it's not so long. But I love Dreamwidth, and I love the community here, and I spend a lot of time over here. I'm still watching and posting at some communities on LJ, because I can't help it (mckay_sheppard certainly isn't going anywhere), but I'm going to be commenting with my Dreamwidth openID, and it won't be long before I'm doing all my commenting on LJ with my Dreamwidth openID because LJ is not the service DW is, and I want to spend my money and time with people and a service I can respect in the morning. I still love you, if you want to stay on LJ, but since I can't LJ from work, it's tough for me to comment or respond to comments. I will try to be better about that, but I have to do it from home (I can DW from work, another bonus), and I'm not always spectacularly motivated. DW is working on making the LJ flist even more accessible from DW, so hopefully there'll be more options for me soon (and this just goes to prove that people who think DW is anti-LJ are really not thinking too clearly - they are doing everything they can to let people on DW stay in touch with their LJ friends with the minimum of fuss).

Okay, so now it's long. I've needed to do that for a while. I don't want to offend hard core LJ-ers, not at all. I just want to talk about how much I love DW, and the people behind it, and how they handle things, and I want everyone to see how shiny it is.

From LJ feedback:

Thank you for taking the time to contact us with your concerns. We understand that gender is not binary, and intend to respect that understanding for our users.

At this time, the code you reference is not live on the site, and will not become so in the future. We know that you, and many other users, have serious concerns about any requirement to specify gender, so we'd like to take a moment to explain events and our position further.

The intention of this code was to change the sign-up process to include a field for the selection of gender; that the code would completely disable the "Unspecified" option at the same time was deemed unacceptable. While the code in question had gone to our beta (testing) server, it had not gone to our production server, and will not do so due to this problem. Furthermore, we'd like to clarify that code posted to the changelog community is not always final, as such code must then go through the beta testing process and can often be changed before actual implementation.

Additionally, some erroneous information has been spread regarding the potential public display of the gender field. We would like to clarify that gender is not currently publicly displayed on the profile, nor anywhere else on the site, and there are no plans to change this behavior.

A note from Anjelika Petrochenko now on synecdochic's original post.

Does this change anything? Not for me, really. I knew LJ was made of fail, this just cements it. You can't convince me that if there hadn't been an uproar they would have pulled it because it was a bug.

I've been more and more over on Dreamwidth; besides the awesomeness of the company, they don't have ads, they believe in and promote diversity, and they try to keep things as transparent as possible so you can see what's going on. *tempts*

*Reading Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. So far, so fantastic. cupidsbow posted a little bit about this sometime last year - I think she saw him speak. He's coming to JHU; he'll be on campus Tuesday, Oct. 6th, 7:30pm, and it's FREE. I'm going. If you're around Baltimore and might be interested/have the time, lemme know. You can park by my house and we can walk up together. Maybe dinner before? Should be a fascinating lecture!

*Another person that I really hope I don't get for my recipient. Why do people feel the need to lecture about good writing? The good writers get it; the not-so-good writers have to learn it - your little lecture isn't going to suddenly make them write IC. Also, am I the only person in the world who can write things I don't want to read? Or wants to read things I don't write? It seems weird to me to ask for things you could write yourself (ONLY things you could write yourself, you all know what I mean here, right?). That reminds me that I want to edit my post to add kink to my 'wants' and rephrase my mpreg 'don't want.' (Yes, that's just a 'note to self' right there.)

*Tomorrow is Lee Jeans Denim Day. I paid my five bucks, and tonight I'm going out to buy jeans to wear tomorrow. (No, I don't own any jeans. It's work clothes or pajamas for me, and not a lot in between.) We're supposed to bring pink food. There's already pink lemonade, ham, watermelon, some weird beet slaw thing, and a huge variety of baked goods. Can anyone think of anything else pink? I might be reduced to buying pink M&Ms.

*Jennifer's Body was indeed delightful. I didn't have any doubt once both fiercelydreamed and Matthew Gray Gubler liked it, but still. It's nice to be pleasantly surprised by a movie. Except for the really loud, really irritating teenie girl sitting two rows in front of us who very loudly said ( spoiler )

*Fame was ( spoiler )

*I'm finding I prefer to post to DW only a lot of the time, as I can answer those comments from work. I'm only crossposting roughly two-thirds of my posts. Anybody move over here completely yet? I still have friends that are not likely to move (I know this, as they've made DW accounts and don't use them), but I find that when I get home from work and can answer the LJ comments, I just don't feel like doing it. Anybody else having this problem? What do you do about it?

I have six Dreamwidth codes.

Who needs one?

Also - I sent a code to someone who has not yet used it. If you still want it, let me know now, or I'm gonna hand it off to someone else, mmmmkay?

Thanks!

...to say that if you're crossposting to LJ from DW, I've probably taken you off my flist at LJ. No worries - I still love you! And I'm reading you on DW.

Feel free to remove me too, either from LJ or DW or both - it's no skin off my nose, really. I know I can get in a groove (like last month with work) that's boring as hell.

So someone asked over at dreamwidth about importing deadjournals, and I remembered that I had two! Remember, fantasyisland? You were deadgaya and I was, predictably, kisahawklin.

I was there from mid-2003. There's a lot about my life in the ER, and my very first dipping my toes into fandom (which was a surprisingly solitary experience for me). It's interesting reading, though I have a hard time believing how old I was at the time. I'm TOTALLY importing both of my deadjournals if/when that option becomes available (my second one is my writing journal, and OMG my very first writings are terribly terrible).

But now I need to write - god, I just want to finish this damn porn! And also I started (and can probably finish) some utter crack (SGA, McShep, of course) while we were at the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival.

Time to hit post and see if my fancy html footwork worked.

And so I sat there, like a good little girl, with my year-long premium paid account sitting in my shopping cart, watching the seed account numbers fall and fall and fall, and it hit 'less than 50 left' and I went !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And bought a seed account.

WTF, self.

So it turns out that extreme stress is very bad for my digestive system. It's going to be a very very bad month. But I'll probably lose weight, so that's something. (I'm also exercising and giving up soda, so it's not *just* a high-stress diet.)

We saw Fast and Furious. IT WAS PRETTY.

I f*cking love Criminal Minds. Is it just me, or is Reid looking mighty unkempt these days? I want backstory. I haven't seen any decent CM fic though, so if you know of some, tell me.

I'm on Dreamwidth now. I'll be crossposting... likely forever, actually, as my flist is not terribly likely to migrate. I like Dreamwidth, I know the people in charge and trust them (especially with my money) so I'm going to move to Dreamwidth more or less permanently, and crosspost to LJ for those of you that aren't going anywhere. I know I should link links for those of you scratching your head, but god, I don't know myself except what I've heard at stitch n' bitch. Okay, wait. Here's the FAQs.

If you're on Dreamwidth already, tell me! (Especially if you changed your name like I did.) If you want a code, tell me that too. Like everyone else, I have no idea how codes are going to be distributed, but I'll make a list should I get some. <3