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wiseheart ([personal profile] wiseheart) wrote2012-10-07 07:59 pm
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Birthday Party - The Second Coming

As you all know by now, LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But some of us still had most of the comments in our inbox and decided to reconstruct the original party as well as we can, because we had great fun and the discussions were wonderful.

However, to avoid the same mishap occurring to us, we've decided to open up a second entry for further comments while working on rebuilding the original. We still have two days left, and we won't allow LJ to crash our party!

The original entry had 1328 comments, on 6 pages. The reconstructed party has now 500+ (all reposted within one day and a few new ones added), having reached Page 7 already.

Let's see what else can we come up with. New guests are welcome to share the fun. :)

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I got distracted from this by moving furniture about in my living room - it had been an issue for a while - but now is hopefully more convinient. However, I still have piles of random junk sitting in the middle of the floor - all the things that had been hiding under and behind things - and I should sort it all out, but it is a rather depressing task.

Anyway, party :)

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Party is always good to make one feel better. Especially a virtual one, with no dancing involved, where one would wait in vain to be asked for a dance. Those are my most humiliating memories.

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Virtual parties certainly have a lot of advantages.
(I mostly refused to go to ones that involved dancing as I am so bad at it - plus they'd usually involve loud music so make it hard to have good conversations)

[identity profile] espresso-addict.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, god, you've reminded me of one of mine -- I hate pop music & used to refuse to dance at discos when I was a teenager (now I just don't go to them, but I'm less self-conscious also). One party my friends decided to nag me into dancing, and when that didn't work, they recruited a male friend of someone's boyfriend to ask me. Repeatedly. While his friends stood in audible range, laughing. It was sooo embarrassing -- at this point I'd hardly spoken to a boy who wasn't related to me or much younger than me (I went to a single-sex school and had no friends outside it).

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
How horrible!

My school organised dances with a boys's school. Hearing about these from older people (load music, dancing, dry ice, sneaking around trying to have more physical contact that the teachers approved of), I refused to go - I think I had to get a letter from my parents in the end to be allowed not to!

[identity profile] espresso-addict.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I should have just not gone, but I was a lot less confident in my opinions back then (I was about 15 or 16). I kept going to the things right through sixth form.

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It is hard to know what is best to do - I did badly at that during university, did too many things because other people wanted me to...

[identity profile] espresso-addict.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I did a bit better at university than in my teens, but it's not until my late 20s/early 30s that I really managed to evade peer pressure. (I don't think it's coincidental that it coincides with getting heavily engaged in internet fandom.) Not that it has no effect on me now, but I make a conscious effort to ignore it.

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods* Fandom was good for me as well - really made me better able to know who I was and to not be so dependent on rl acquaintances for social things....

[identity profile] espresso-addict.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It definitely makes meeting people with whom one has common interests and values easier.

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes :)
and leads to parties like this and wonderful conversations :)

[identity profile] espresso-addict.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
We should keep up Soledad's party all year! Though I'd find it hard to get other things done!

[identity profile] espresso-addict.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Finding a better arrangement for furniture is always very satisfying, and some of the stuff you've uncovered might be useful!

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods* Needles, pins, pens, medicine cups,... :)

[identity profile] espresso-addict.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Pens definitely. I also tend to lose remote controls, books, important pieces of paper... And Mr EA is forever dropping coins down the back of the sofa.

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Remote and books, I usually end up actually looking for sooner - but so many pieces of paper, and by the time I find them I can't remember why they were important...

[identity profile] espresso-addict.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I have this awful tendency to lose notes for stories, which are greeted with cries of joy if they turn up. Unpaid bills, not so much :(

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods*
I've taken to keeping story notes on the computer - then I lose then less (except when the computer crashes) and don't have to be able to read my own writing.

[identity profile] espresso-addict.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Very wise! Particularly if you take back-ups. What almost invariably happens to me is that I write a first plot outline, then print it out and scribble on it, a lot, and only very rarely do I get back to changing the original file. I keep on trying to change this habit, but never succeeding -- I took to typing late (early 20s) and I think my brain is still more creative when faced with paper & pen. The thing I really need to learn to do is stop using a red pen, as it disappears in sunlight!

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
At the moment most of it is on gdocs - which is fine until the internet is down and I want to work on things. I keep meaning to start using dropbox (even have an account), but I want to more the files there during the unmetered internet time and I never seem to get that far...

[identity profile] espresso-addict.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
You're technologically way ahead of me. And way more organised. I never even manage to move the files I share between laptop & desktop to the file server!

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I started using gdocs for Yuletide a couple of years back because I was terrified of my computer crashing and just kept on - although then they changed the interface to make it much less user friendly.... :)

I have too many old computer hard drives sitting around waiting for data to be retrieved, but somehow it never gets to the top of my to do list...

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-09 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
This conversation inspired me to get started on using Dropbox properly - copied my photos over to it and it has now spent several hours syncing them from one computer to the other! ;)
Hopefully it will be faster when I am only syncing working files!

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
About a year ago I started assigning different notebooks (the paper kind) to different fandoms, where I keep my story ideas and fragments collected and ordered. They also have their special place in the book-case - sometimes I even remember which is which. *g*

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2012-10-08 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Very organised! :)