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5892 / 7000 words. 100% done, 70 dollars contributed!

This is NOT for NaNoWriMo. This is for the personal fundraiser post that I put up for the sake of the Pretty Bird Woman House women's shelter. It was burnt down by arsonists, it desperately needs donations so that it can be rebuilt, and I'm offering 1 cent per word for all the authors and fanficcers on my flist with consciences and time to write a drabble or a fic for a good cause.

Fic-contributers so far are

ceresi and

ohsnikt. *pokes her flist* There are 87 of you, it takes less than ten minutes to write a drabble, and it's for a good cause. Plus, you get a receipt to make you feel all warm and fuzzy.

( Receipts so far are found here. )

Link of the Day: HIV Neutralized.'

With the latest advances in treatment, doctors have discovered that they can successfully neutralise the HIV virus. The so-called ‘combination therapy’ prevents the HIV virus from mutating and spreading, allowing patients to rebuild their immune system to the same levels as the rest of the population.

Forget Dumbledore being gay, THIS has to be the best news of the month! ♥

Current Mood: relieved

Checking my e-mail, I found the following brief message from my mother:

Pal your boss called and said that they will like you to work during your X'mas break and that they will pay you this time. I had to tell him that you will be here only for 10 days but that I am sure you would like to come and help them out. He says that he will not be here during Christmas and that he needs to be working with you but most probably during summer he would like to employ you with a pay.

Over the summer, I had an unpaid internship with the Nuclear Power Engineering Section of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) at the UN in Austria. The work I did there impressed them enough that they offered me a short-term contract for when I graduate from Wellesley -- and apparently, not only that, but they wanted me to work there over Christmas too!

I am grinning here and completely and totally overcome with sheer glee.

I loved working at the UN. I loved the environment. I loved the work itself, I loved the feeling of accomplishment, I loved the idea that I was helping with something important.

And they loved me!

Since, however, I am going to be spending only 10 days in Austria over Xmas (and will be deadly jet-lagged for at least two of them), I guess that actually working at the UN this winter is impossible, especially if Pal needs to be there with me. But oh, man, I wish I could. I really want to know what important document it is this time, and as a starving college student, I could definitely do with the extra money, even if working for the UN isn't quite on the same level as waiting tables or selling blood.

Did I mention I loved my summer internship? Because I did. And I am thrilled to know that they appreciated my work so much that they not only offered me a post-graduation contract but wanted me to work for them again this winter!

The level of glee I'm experiencing is off-the-charts. I have no idea how I'm ever going to get to sleep now.

Current Mood: excited

Watch this.

It's one of the most fantastic speeches that I've ever heard, not just about everything that Bush has done, but also about how the American people chose to let him get away it. Context is that Alan Shore is an attorney whose secretary is on trial for tax evasion as a form of political protest.

Transcript of the speech.

Alan Shore: When the weapons of mass destruction thing turned out to be not true, I expected the American people to rise up. Ha! They didn’t.

Then, when the Abu Ghraib torture thing surfaced and it was revealed that our government participated in rendition, a practice where we kidnap people and turn them over to regimes who specialize in torture, I was sure then the American people would be heard from. We stood mute.

Then came the news that we jailed thousands of so-called terrorists suspects, locked them up without the right to a trial or even the right to confront their accusers. Certainly, we would never stand for that. We did.

And now, it’s been discovered the executive branch has been conducting massive, illegal, domestic surveillance on its own citizens. You and me. And I at least consoled myself that finally, finally the American people will have had enough. Evidentially, we haven’t.

In fact, if the people of this country have spoken, the message is we’re okay with it all. Torture, warrantless search and seizure, illegal wiretappings, prison without a fair trial - or any trial, war on false pretenses. We, as a citizenry, are apparently not offended.

There are no demonstrations on college campuses. In fact, there’s no clear indication that young people seem to notice.

Well, Melissa Hughes noticed. Now, you might think, instead of withholding her taxes, she could have protested the old fashioned way. Made a placard and demonstrated at a Presidential or Vice-Presidential appearance, but we’ve lost the right to that as well. The Secret Service can now declare free speech zones to contain, control and, in effect, criminalize protest.

Stop for a second and try to fathom that.

At a presidential rally, parade or appearance, if you have on a supportive t-shirt, you can be there. If you are wearing or carrying something in protest, you can be removed.

This, in the United States of America. This in the United States of America. Is Melissa Hughes the only one embarrassed?

( Continued transcript of the speech. )

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I adore that speech. I adore him. I have to admit, I've only watched one ep of the show but watching him soapbox on YouTube is FANTASTIC.

Brad, creator of livejournal, is leaving for Google because and SixApart might be looking for a buyer for their company.

You know, this actually might be why there hasn't been any response to the general outcry about the journal deletions, strikethrough being replaced by bold, etc. I mean, yes, fandom is making a huge stink but the creator of the site leaving is kind of bigger and definitely worse PR, overall. If everyone's too busy dealing with that to deal with fandom, then I can understand that -- though that still doesn't explain the idiotic comment screening or the fact that three of the four charities that got donations from the Permanent Account sale had ties to a Six Apart investor.

I don't think that I can start backing up my journal until I'm at uni, since it requires installing stuff, but here is a guide on how to do it. It'll let you transfer all your old entries to another journal, without having to do it by hand, which is incredibly time-saving.

brown_betty also has another useful entry on backing up LJ memories. In my case, I'm just going to go through them by hand and stick them up on my delicious account, I think.

At the same time, you can use Semagic to update multiple journals at once so as to maintain a nominal presence on LJ and test the waters of the other journaling sites.

If you want to keep up with people that are moving off LJ, try FeedReader for RSS purposes.

Edit:

brad has his own post about it, wherein he says that it's not SixApart's fault that he's bored and some other things.

Current Mood: irritated

Yesterday, I did an absolutely awesome job on the website that I'm designing for the UN -- it was so awesome that not only my boss but also the IT guy complimented me on it. *preens* I told my mother about it and she brought me a huge sunflower in a vase that I bought her years ago for Mother's Day, so that's brightening up my office at the moment.

I think that I'm going to update on every odd day this July, just for the hell of it. So, with that said, Happy belated Birthday, Josie! If you want a fic or drabble or icon or header, just drop me a comment and I'll add it to the list of stuff to do.

Also, Happy Birthday in advance to Dani, who's going to celebrate another year on this planet tomorrow. ♥ I'll e-mail you my giftie, okay?

Apart from that, SIAN IS COMING DOWN THIS MONDAY! *dance of glee*

Friday was my first day working at the UN. I now have a grounds pass with a photograph of myself and a black bar reading 'Intern', access to all sorts of nifty facilities including a coffee machine that dispenses cups of hot chocolate for only thirty cents, and my very own desk in a room that I share with Bitsy (nickname), the other intern.

Since most of the department was away on a retreat, there wasn't actually any work for me to do. My computer hadn't been set up yet, and I finished all the reading material and guidelines within two hours, so I was told to explore the UN. I chose not to do that, though, since my parents both work there and I already know it off by heart.

Instead, I asked if there was anything at all I could do, and was given two sheets of numbers to cross-check, along with an apology from the lady M. (I'm using psuedo-names for the sake of some anonymity) who gave them to me for giving me her work. I got that done by lunchtime, had an hour-long lunchbreak with Bitsy, three male consultants one of which had grey eyes that looked like they should have a hint of green, and then another fifteen minute coffee break. The afternoon was spent drawing, writing a letter to Matt, and doing some typing work for my mother, for which she paid me five Euros.

In case you think I'm getting off easy, get that idea out of your head right now :P I had to sign a confidentiality agreement in the morning, promising to not give out any information I gain while working at the UN (I'm going to be editing and correcting documents on Nuclear Power, in addition to the technical work), and my department apparently meets every Monday morning at 8:30 to review what they've accomplished over the last week.

In other words, I have to stand up every Monday morning and say what I did last week. And the upcoming Monday, I have to be in by 8:15 to meet with my immediate supervisor, Mr. V. Most of the people are already there and working by 7AM, but they leave by 4:30PM. I'm not sure that I can manage getting in so early (UN regulations say that fixed-hour staff have to be in by 8:30 to 9:30), but I can try. I don't have to swipe in/out, so they can't track how many hours I spend working per day, but I'm expected to do forty hours a week, and eight hours a day.

Yesterday was just to get me settled in. My real work is going to start on Monday, and it'll start when I stand up and introduce myself, red-black faux-hawk and all.

Wish me luck, everyone. The 25th floor (and yes, my office is very high up) won't know what hit it.

Current Mood: accomplished

First of all, sorry about not replying to comments, I have only very little Net time at home so I'm going to respond to comments when I have more time to reply instead of just read.

Secondly, signed a lease for an apartment-type deal. It's the top floor of a house, so it has a bedroom, a study and a bathroom with a little bit of roof that's like a terrace where I can sun myself. The kitchen is on the ground floor but I'll have the house to myself between the 10th July and 11th August since the owner and her daughter will be away on holiday.

Internet-wise, which is the most important thing, she has Chello and unlimited Internet, but she doesn't have it set up for wireless yet. One of us is going to need to buy a wireless router so that I can get Net access -- assuming I move in on Monday as scheduled, I should have the wireless Net up and running by Tuesday. I still won't be around as much as I am during the uni year, since I'll be working most of the day but the weekends will definitely be my time for catching up on Net stuff!

Transport-wise, there's a bus that takes about ten minutes to get to Kagrannerplatz, and then I can take the U-Bahn from there to the UN. So possibly about twenty minutes to get to work, which starts at 8:30, meaning I should wake up around 7:30 in order to have time to shower, eat breakfast, get dressed, etc.

Parents are jointly giving me a lump sum of 2,500 Euros for my 21st birthday present (birthday is 10th July), and I'm supposed to pay rent and all other expenses over the summer from that. Rent for that place was originally 500 per month but I got her down to 350 instead, thankfully. Calculations for the next three months are under the cut.

( Fickle's math-fu is put to the test! )

Also, there's another protest-meme about writing sexy drabbles daily as a way of standing up for el-jay. Don't think that I'll be able to get steady enough access to actually do that until Tuesday, but I'm tempted to try. Flist, any thoughts?

[Poll #994544]

Back up your journal if you've got the time. If I get booted from here, expect to see me hanging out at JournalFen or DeadJournal again. GreatestJournal = haaaaaaaaaaate because of all the ads everywhere, but journalfen is hard to get accounts for (unless you're a paid user who can get free accounts created and unfortunately, I'm still not allowed to buy stuff online otherwise I'd upgrade my account over there to a paid one) and deadjournal still works off the account code system, unfortunately.

Oh, and anyone with any interest at all in fandom or letting fandom have a safe space on el-jay should join Fandom Counts. You don't need to friend it, there are zero entries there, it's just a quick way of showing how many of the journals on el-jay are fandom related.

The deletions aren'ta specific targeting of fandom but fandom journals are getting caught in the targets and damnit, I'm annoyed that

pornish_pixies got deleted because I had a great Regulus/Remus fic in my memories that was posted there and now I can't remember the author or anything that would let me find it again, just that the writing style reminded me of Wilde. When I've got the Net time, I'll join it with all my multiple RP journals as well.

Current Mood: accomplished

Question: What happens when you take a sleeping pill but pull an all-nighter anyway trying to get a paper done, pass out at the keyboard and then wake up, realize that there is no way you can get the paper done, and collapse into bed?

Answer: You wake up feeling like hell, absolutely starving and you have a headache that feels like someone set off an atomic bomb in your head.

Ow fucking OW fucking OW.

On the fucking wow side, I got a letter from the IAEA saying that I have an internship there for the summer. Exact paragraph that you'll be interested in goes as follows:

I am pleased to inform you that you have been awarded an internship in the Nuclear Power Engineering Section, Division of Nuclear Power, Department of Nuclear Energy, from 1 June to 31 August 2007. Under the guidance of Mr. P. Wincze, Quality Assurance/Management Engineer, your work assignment will be to review documents being prepared for publication, editing and correcting the text when necessary and maintaining the following databases: (a) Document tracking system; (b) e-Glossary; and (c) a clickable map.

Of course, problems are that I don't want to spend my summer in Austria and that my college starts before my job ends, but hey, look, shiny internship that involves maintaining a document tracking system and THAT sounds scary. Everything else sounds doable.

....Annnd the Internet just went down all over campus. FUCKING PERFECT. Savior, I'll probably be on MSN again by the time you see this, but I'm sorry about disappearing like that.

( Fickle killing time by talking about random stuff while waiting for Net to return. )

Current Mood: drained

Forgive the pun but I think that I'm still high on the shock of having got my ears pierced again. XD My parents got them pierced once when I was a baby, and then for the last seven years or now, I've been wanting to get at least another hole in my left ear but since I'm such an utter coward about needles and pain, I never actually managed to make myself go through with it.

And then, today, I did. I now have two earrings in each ear, instructions on how to take care of my new piercings, a memory of a pain that was actually milder than a blood test or inoculation, and a whole lot of gleeful shock.

I GOT MY EARS PIERCED!

*so, so proud of herself*

Matt (

daemonsadvocate) and I are officially together.

I'm probably going to be babbling about relationship stuff (along with a full explanation of how/what/when/where/why/WHO) in the future, so if you're interested in hearing that stuff, drop me a comment specifically saying you want to be on my r-life aka romance life filter. ♥

Current Mood: loved

Okay. Got all my boxes in my room, thanks to help from the ever-wonderful Lily and Alma, mostly unpacked, and put a self-imposed moratium on starting up RP threads until I am fully unpacked.

In the meantime, have a couple of memes on my personal journal. Because that takes up less time than RP, really. Reply to as many as you want, repost if you like.

1. Comment. I'll pick one of your icons, and tell you what the story I'd write about it is.

2. Choose one of my icons. Tell me what the story you'd write about it is.

3. Five things ficlet meme. Comment with five things you want to see written, and I'll do it. (Five songs Kaiba hates, five things Tobias never told Rachel, five bones Jason likes breaking, etc).

Fandoms are: Animorphs, Archie Comics (Nostalgia kick, SHUT UP), Batman/DC, Bruno and Boots, Chrestomanci, Discworld, Good Omens, Gravitation, Harry Potter, Naruto, Othello (the manga, seriously), Petshop of Horrors, Pokemon, Sailor Moon season R (please ask me for fic with Prince Diamond or Prince Sapphire or both, please), Yu-Gi-Oh, William Brown books.

Current Mood: amused

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{look upon my works, ye mighty}

{and despair}

Progress report!

Take that, HIV!

Who rocks the socks off the UN? I do, I do!

Free Speech, Boston Legal Style.

Rats deserting a sinking ship, anyone? Brad's out.

Who rocks the house? Fickle rocks the house!

Day Zero at the UN.

Apartment news + more on the lj strikeout '07 + drabbles

Ow fucking wow.

Holey inductions.

Mkay, 1st February now.

Moved inish and meme-ing!

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