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[Jan. 25th, 2012|11:21 am] |
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Last night was a special kind of stressful.
( tl;dr: lightning makes nights bad )
In unrelated news, I am giggling way more than I should be at ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tallymarks and all the HOMG about Hogsmeade and dates. I kind of love it forever and always. This game makes me happy on the inside. |
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| Being a Marketing Coordinator, Part I |
[Jan. 18th, 2012|04:13 pm] |
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Part of my job as marketing coordinator is to collate the necessary materials for proposals for which we're subcontracting. Usually, they ask for understandable things: resumes of people who will be working on the project, project sheets that demonstrate our experience in the project's area, a company summary, and the logo. Occasionally, however, they ask for weird things.
Like today.
Among the list of things for today's subcontractor proposal was this:
Please include an inspirational phrase or saying that characterizes your firm's culture.
I... have no idea what to write here.
My husband suggested "We have awesome lunches" (because we do). I'm just stumped, overall. What sort of company culture can be summed up with an inspirational phrase? And what constitutes a phrase as inspirational instead of just trite and about the company?
:\a |
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| Food for thought. |
[Jan. 6th, 2012|08:39 am] |
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So as a result of this conversation between Michael and Julianna (aside: homg I love this game), I woke up this morning thinking, and here is what I thought:
What memory/thought would you use to conjure a patronus?
It's got to be something strong, so it can't just be a memory of "oh, I had a good day the other day, sort of, I mean there wasn't any traffic." And it probably shouldn't be something where you think "Oh, that time with my ex was so fantastic!...I wish we were back together :c" Michael, in those comments, is theorizing that it works better when it's a memory connected to someone that you love and feel protective over, since the patronus charm is a spell of protection, but it's still food for thought.
( EXPECTO PATRONUM under here... ) |
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[Jan. 5th, 2012|12:38 am] |
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[Dec. 14th, 2011|04:04 pm] |
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Annnnnnd alwaysconquers.
I banged that out fast. I am kind of impressed!
Also, zero things are happening at work. My manager even told me that if the owner wasn't here, she'd have sent us all home early. Sigh. |
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[Dec. 11th, 2011|06:42 pm] |
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I'm dorkishly excited that I got into dtw_mods and I crave backstory like a... thing that craves things does his craving. Yes.
I have Georgina Smythe (call her Georgie, experimentally), who is a 1978 Hufflepuff prefect person and whose reputation in the early years was "that girl who blew up the potions lab while making boil cream, but we all had clear skin for a week, so that was kind of cool." She's currently working at the Apothecary in Hogsmeade with hopes to become a potioneer for St. Mungo's eventually and spends her Friday's taking care of her grandmother and her free time adding ingredients to preexisting potions to make them better or attempting to create her own. POTIONS ARE AWESOME GAIZ.
And she totally needs friends and backstory and stuff so PLOT WITH ME I AM SO EXCITED EEE. |
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[Dec. 8th, 2011|11:41 am] |
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Oh my god it is cold outside.
This is me, de-lurking and babbling mindlessly about my life since I last disappeared. At least partly because I was like "Ooh, dtw_mods looks fun, I should apply!" and at least partly because my eyes are bleeding from trying to figure out what font our website designer used on these teeny tiny buttons. SO taking a break from buttons and ranting about my life.
( Blah blah life blah )
And, yeah. Things.
Applying for games is weird. I've lost all concept of what makes a good application and what doesn't, so I'm all D: and panicky and have no idea if I'm doing good things or if I'm just sort of barfing words onto a screen. It's just really weird and I feel simultaneously old and young.
How are you? |
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[Sep. 12th, 2011|12:45 pm] |
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I GOT INTO POTTERMORE~
AND I AM IN GRYFFINROAR!
NimbusRose113 because apparently, I somehow managed to get two accounts.
Add me~
Also, I am not surprised about getting into Gryffindor, because every "official" sorting hat thing has been like "Abby, you are a Gryffindor" even though I'm like "but... but... HUFFLEPUFF." I also got teary-eyed about my wand and about being sorted because wtf.
POTTERMOOOOOOOORE!!! |
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[Sep. 4th, 2011|05:45 pm] |
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I'm a dummy who emus and then disappears from IJ for two weeks. Sup y'all. |
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[Aug. 21st, 2011|02:43 am] |
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( Large image! )
Yup. |
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[Aug. 19th, 2011|01:07 pm] |
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So. What do you do when you're more terrified that an interview went well than you are that it went poorly? |
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[Aug. 11th, 2011|03:11 pm] |
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Ever have a really great character idea and get most of the way through the application only to find out that while you were trying to avoid losing the idea by typing as fast as possible, someone else held the character?
:C |
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| I love this. |
[Aug. 3rd, 2011|12:20 pm] |
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Throw a bare-minimum concept for a character at me (e.g., 'Amish fighter pilot' or 'dystopian werewolf' or something like that... like the holds page at Neopolis!) and I'll flesh it out with a sketch of a background and personality/a PB/the kind of game they might be in/etc. Just for kicks and giggles, to stretch creative muscles. |
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[Aug. 3rd, 2011|09:56 am] |
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ElmWillow74!
Claudie ilu. |
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| On Pottermore and the realization that I'm Old |
[Aug. 2nd, 2011|08:13 am] |
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So I realized today, as I got up at my usual time of 6:30 a.m. CST and blearily clicked over to Pottermore to see if there was any hope of me getting a beta key that it's more likely than not that I won't make it into the beta.
On the one hand, this is a good thing. Beta testing can be full of frustrations and bugginess and requires all sorts of things that, if I get this job (please God, I need to get this job) I won't have time for. The best people for beta testing are those who have a lot of free time on their hands and a lot of patience to deal with bugs and quirkiness that are always inherent in things being tested, and at this point, that's not me.
That said, I know I'm fooling exactly no one: I'm disappointed and feeling old.
( A ramble about being old and being a fan ) |
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| Also, RP stats |
[Jul. 27th, 2011|09:17 am] |
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And then some RP stats.
( Including repeats ) |
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| bouncebouncebouncebouncebounce |
[Jul. 22nd, 2011|02:40 pm] |
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Woefully incomplete, saving now so I can read things and make sure he gels with the rest of the gaaaaaame.
( GEORGE GEORGE GEORGE ) |
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[Jul. 22nd, 2011|07:10 am] |
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I don't think this counts as a spoiler, since it's technically a line from the book.
So here.
( And I feel like RP babbling too ) |
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[Jun. 6th, 2011|07:08 pm] |
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First:
omg.
Second:
Am apping Sally-Anne Perks at salemmods. May yet regret this. She's a 1998 Hufflepuff, played by Adele, works as a morning DJ on the Wireless, has all sorts of fun.
This may yet be a bad idea. Not sure yet. We'll see how crazy work is once I get into a routine. Because I just started today at a job where I make more money than I've ever made in my life doing what I've been training for two years to do. Booyah, internships. |
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| So I got married. |
[May. 31st, 2011|05:02 pm] |
( More pics below! )
And stuff. And games that look sexy, as always. I love you all. |
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[May. 13th, 2011|10:12 pm] |
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So count me among those showing back up because IJ is saying "guess what! DELETED AND PURGED!" I managed to save the stuff from BL, BW, and Perdition/Redemption, but I'm really bummed because now Bev is gone. She didn't have much in that journal anymore, but she was a favorite of mine and I'm sad that her journal is gone.
Anthony's gone, too. A lot of people are gone. It's kind of sad, seeing all those strikethroughs. This is what happens when you don't check the email address for your old journals anymore. I'm honestly not sure how to feel except... well, kind of sad. I don't do a lot of journal-based stuff anymore, so I don't really need those journals to be like "well, here's my RP history!" but it's still nostalgic. It's fun to look back on Sirius/Hestia comment wars, read SOAP, amuse myself with how crusty Polly was, how horny Claudette and Aeneas were, etc.
It's funny because I haven't been away from journal-based games because of real life. I've actually been just RPing so much in WoW that other RP falls to the wayside. I'm a bad, I know. I tried RPing here again and I just couldn't keep up :x It doesn't help that I never use AIM anymore, so chatrooms just...don't happen. I am a bad. And I feel bad.
Right now, I am nine days out from getting married (and believe me, if I wasn't, I'd be jumping into the pools of some of the fantastic games I see people talking about here... going back into tech writing this summer = less time for WoW but more time online = need outlet). I'm starting my tech writing internship at Sabre Holdings one week after we get back from the honeymoon. In that week, I need to get a Texas driver's license and buy a car, since about a month ago, some talented human being took the corner of my street at around 80 mph and swiped off the front end of my Yoda. I was asleep in bed at the time, but hrnnnn. Shitty timing.
I spent most of this semester being a professor and taking creative writing courses for my minor, which OH MAN. If you ever want to experience "stressed" and "busy" for yourself, do exactly that. The last week, I spent every waking hour with WoW open so I could chat for sanity and grading manuals and feasibility reports and writing and revising and OH MY GOD. I will tell you, I have been in tears SO many times over the past couple of weeks.
But it's over and after my internship, I just need to take two tests and I get my MA. It's incredibly surreal. I'll be working after that, presumably, for about a year and then, God-willing, it's off to USC to get my PhD in creative writing. i r smrt.
I miss journal-based games, sometimes. It's hard to get my head around RPing this way, since WoW RP is so different, but I do miss them. And I miss all of you, a LOT. Who knows? I may yet be back. salemmods looks incredibly sexy, as does breakmods, so maybe if I find myself needing a way to pass the time during breaks...
Well, who knows? Never say never ;) |
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[Feb. 23rd, 2011|01:15 am] |
Regarding games: Yayyy got into WAH and Ling is cute and I am having fun already and it is reducing my stress. Hooray!!
Regarding life: Can anyone tell me how it is possible to get a 5 on an open book test? Because I'm baffled. |
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[Feb. 21st, 2011|12:07 am] |
So.
I just applied for my first Harry Potter game since inactivitying BW.
>_> |
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[Mar. 11th, 2010|12:47 pm] |
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You know that life is getting too busy when you actually do a celebratory dance because you're going to have time to take a shower. Yay!
Blargh, stress stress stress, stupid usability testing and report, interviews for a newsletter, toilet is broken (second time this week...awesome), packing to fly home tomorrow, I just want to sit here and stare at my computer without talking or thinking, but I can't because there's stuff to do.
But in happier news, I just found out that Scott Grimes (a.k.a., the hilarious and adorable Dr. Archie Morris on ER) is playing Will Scarlet in the Russell Crowe version of Robin Hood which means that I need to see that movie very, very badly. Leik woah. |
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[Mar. 9th, 2010|11:35 am] |
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That is all. |
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[Mar. 6th, 2010|10:38 pm] |
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Comment here with one or more of our pairings (romantic, platonic, haterade, whatever), and I will write you a drabble in six-ish words. It will either be six words exactly, or several six-word lines. You can request more than once! |
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[Mar. 5th, 2010|03:11 pm] |
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Pick one of my characters and I'll answer:
1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for?
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?
3. What do they dream about?
4. Are they happy in the relationship they're in, or are they wishing for something more?
5. What’s their biggest fear?
6. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
7. What is their fondest memory?
8. What is their worst memory?
9. What or who was were their most significant influence?
10. What do they believe makes a successful life?
11. What makes them laugh?
12. What are their religious views?
13. What is their greatest strength?
14. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?
15. Who is the most important person in their life?
16. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die?
ALSO, just throwing this out there...if anyone has anything that's, like, 15-20 pages long and needs editing between now and May, I need something to edit for a project, so you get free comprehensive editing and my love at the same time! |
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[Mar. 4th, 2010|03:04 pm] |
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ALMOST DONE.
Currently slogging through painfully painful expert review of a website (aside: expert my ass, it reads like a four-year-old wrote it), will then be banging out really shitty summary of articles I haven't read and then going to lead a discussion on said articles in class tonight. Hi, I'm going to drown.
BUT AM ALMOST DONE. Once this stuff is gone, I'll be free as a bird for the next several weeks. Hallelujah. |
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| The Week Of Doom |
[Feb. 28th, 2010|11:17 am] |
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So this week looks something like this:
- my first major assignment for editing class is due TUESDAY at the end of class. I have to copyedit a document (USING A RED PENCIL because my teacher hates us...I prefer to edit in pen because it's easier for me, but I understand why the pencil, in case mistakes are made, but I still really hate it with the intensity of a thousand suns) and create a style sheet for it, so that's going to take most of my day today and tomorrow.
- also on TUESDAY will be my editing test on punctuation. This seems like it's something that we should've all learned in the second grade, but trust me, there is no limit to the amount of grammatically failtastic fuckwittery that can come as a result of people not understanding punctuation rules.
- on WEDNESDAY, I have to submit a rhetorical analysis of Bill Clinton's 2007 commencement address at Knox College, and that has to be 5-7 pages long. The text itself is about 4 pages long, so this should be interesting, but considering that I've been doing analyses of poems, essays, and so on since I was fourteen, this shouldn't be a problem.
- what does worry me, however, is the presentation I have to do (also on WEDNESDAY) of my findings. It's basically...I have to give an overview of what I did in my analysis and make people want to read my paper. It has to be 8-12 minutes long, and it's kind of going to drive me crazy, I'm pretty sure because I have no idea what to do with it, and usually, for presentations, I have a pretty solid plan. So, woot?
- then on THURSDAY, I have to do an expert review of the Linguistics and Technical Communication Website for my school. Last week, we made a site map for that site, which was a pain in the arse, and this week, it's a review. We have to do this according to what's in the books for the course, which will be fun for me, since I don't own the books because I have no money. fml, really.
- and finally, also on THURSDAY, I have to write a two-page paper about some articles that I will be discussing with the rest of the class as part of a teach session. Thankfully, I will not have to do this ever again the rest of the semester, but right now, it's nervous breakdown time.
So in short: I am going to go take a hiatus this week because otherwise, I will go insane. Seriously. -__-"
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