Thank-you!

[katiefoolery]

Today, I would like to thank the Australian government for giving me money.  Huzzah!  I like it when you give, rather than taking away.  This more than justifies the advance spending I did on all that manga.  Actually, it might even signal that some more buying is in order...  I mean, seriously - if we have to choose between gifting my Timothy with a new computer or me with more manga, then what's more important?

Or I could just be a little bit addicted.

The other thank-you goes to lj_releases for alerting me to the fact that I can use image placeholders on my friends page.  A double huzzah for you!  No longer do I have to worry about large, un-cut images distorting my layout or sucking up my download limit at work.  'Tis wonderful indeed.

In other news, I shall soon be attempting to convert my layout to S2, which means the current one may look either a) exactly the same, b) totally hideous, or, c) incredibly default-ish.

Comments

[gravityslave.livejournal.com]

I've been a paid user for 3 years and I still haven't managed to get around to designing a layout for me! :-(
But incidentally, you have inspired me; my goal for my two weeks off is to write nearly 1000 words PER DAY! Might as well go for broke, eh? With no job and nothing but time and no money to do anything crazy I might as well catch up on my writing! I plan to continue writing while my son and I are away at camp as well, I just can't manage a thousand words per day by hand... ::grimaces at the memory of hand cramps past::

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Well, sometimes it can be a real hassle to design your own layout. I only do a new one every couple of months or when it gets to the point where I just can't stand looking at the one I'm using at the time.

What a plendiferous writing challenge, though! Do you know what you're going to be working on, or will you just decide from day to day? I think you're very wise to scale back the amount of words when switching to hand-writing. My other problem would be trying to decipher said hand-writing once I returned to the computer...

[gravityslave.livejournal.com]

It's a novel that has been in the works for nearly two years now. The idea has become more and more clear to me, and the entire project has evolved a lot, so it'll be interesting to see where it takes me. I plan to work on it for the first two weeks, and then maybe just see what I feel like writing when at camp- it's way out in the middle of nowhere and on a lake in the woods, so I may feel like writing poetry. :-)
My handwriting is pretty terrible, I have to admit. I really wish I could type exams rather than attempting to handwrite them- my hand cramped up in 8 minutes this past Tuesday when I was writing my final for a film class.
I'm hoping that I'll get some energy back through this, to be honest- I've been at the end of my rope for months and I'm physically and mentally exhausted. It's either this or I go crazy. :-)