I don't have the first entries from that blog easily available. I was using a different blogging platform at the time, and though the entries are saved, I have no idea where they are. I think they were little things like "Hello, world" and "I read this book today." The blog hasn't evolved much

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Hope we get to play tonight. This is, of course, the only night with predicted rain. Lovely.

  Have a Little Faith in Me, Mandy Moore
  Traitor's Moon, Lynn Flewelling
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This is a big day.

Happy Anniversary to my parents. I'm so proud of you for staying together and staying in love. <3 <3 <3

Happy Birthday to Kate and Gordon! *party*

And this website turns six. Six years I've been doing this. Six years of very infrequent blogging and not so often with the layout changes...

I really should have gotten a new layout up. I've got one almost ready, but I've been a bit stymied by the changes MT4 made to their default code, so it's...not...quite...there yet. Soon.

Still writing, still reading, still dreaming. Have a great day, folks.

  New Moon, Stephenie Meyer (yes, again)
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Here there be monsters...

So here you go. After nearly a year, a new layout. Pirates, again. Sorry for the long wait. Things in RL decided to be more important. Besides, I really liked the old layout. This one isn't so fancy, but I had fun with it.

Tonight I get to see PotC 3 with Leah at 9:30. Yay for advance showings! Will let you know all about it tomorrow.

Boo for my poor little iBook which is currently (hoepfully) on its way to the Apple Depot to get a new logic board. Maybe. It has been acting really funny, but of course it acts fine for the people at the Apple Store. I actually stopped in twice, and neither time did the laptop go wonky. I made them take it anyway. It's still under warranty, after all. Here's hoping it doesn't get erased. At least I have my story file.

  "Singapore," from the At World's End soundtrack

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Yes, I'm late on posting. But lest you thought I'd forgotten what a momentous day it is today, I thought I should put something up...

It's Kate's (friend) and Gordon's (coworker) and Leah's boyfriend Peter's (you need more clarification?!) birthday today. (triple yay!)

My parents have been married for 31 years. (double yay!)

This website has been live for 5 years. (yay!)

Anything else I've forgotten? Aside from the writer's meetup tonight...

Hard to believe I've been writing on this thing for five years. Just like it's hard to believe that a) it's been five years since I rocked it at the UAA championships in GA and b) I was actually *in* GA this past weekend. I'm not completely recovered, but I do have a nice tan

I promise you that there will be a new layout this year. Yes, I have had the same Pirates 2 layout since the movie came out last year, and *of course* I know that the 3rd comes out next month. I actually have three layouts started, just not finished. I'll get one up soon. Possibly after neurobio ends.

Thanks for reading. Let's see how long I can stick it out.

  Tonight, Jars of Clay
  American Gods, Neil Gaiman (trying it again)
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Alrighty then. Etoiline is now hosted at Site5.com. Seems like a great deal, and everything seems to be working on their end. On MY end, however...this is mainly a test post to see if MT is acting up, because the other big database hog on my site is my gallery, which is most vociferously protesting working. Unfortunately before I changed DNS settings, I didn't look at the gallery installation and turn something off I should have before I ported it over. And I can't change it without changing the DNS settings back, but when I tried to do that earlier, the domain didn't resolve, when putting it at the new site took rather little time...maybe I'm just too impatient.

I just want to do a clean install of the whole thing, but I really don't want to have to relabel everything...

  the really loud heater
  Summer Knight, book 4 of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
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So yesterday we finally got hi-speed internet for the apartment. Joy. But it certainly wasn't without its hassles.

First, we ordered it last week and never got a tracking number for the modem. Since our service was confirmed to be activated yesterday, I started looking at my account over the weekend to see if I could find out what was wrong. I finally realized monday night that for some reason the shipping address, which I'm pretty sure I specified as being the same as the billing address, only had our apartment number and not the street address. I called AT&T tuesday to see what could be done, and see if they had a tracking number for me. Lo and behold it was wrong there too, and of course they had already shipped it (which is good, I suppose, but don't you think someone would have noticed that it had no street number?)

The lady at AT&T (who was very nice, but I don't remember her name) actually called UPS while I was on the phone with her, and the not-so-nice lady there said there was nothing to be done about it at that moment, I would have to call the next day (when it was to be delivered) and change it with the delivery person. Sigh. So I wake myself up early and call the UPS distribution office and (of course) the package is already out for delivery and has been since 4:30 in the morning (according to the tracking number that the AT&T lady nicely provided). I explain my story over again, and *this* woman says I'll have to wait until there's one attempted delivery before they can change it. You might have noticed by now that I am NOT a morning person. And I was already annoyed that the whole thing had gone wonky, so I tried to be nice as I pointed out, "It has NO ADDRESS. How can it be ATTEMPTED if there is NO ADDRESS to deliver to?" "Oh, we have to check with the sender and see if they have it wrong." "The sender knows it's wrong. You know it's wrong. I know it's wrong. Why can't we change it today? The service is coming on today, and I don't want to pay for a day of service that I can't use because you won't try to change the address." "Oh, alright, I'll call AT&T and make sure this is right, and I'll attempt to call the deliveryperson."

Sigh. Thank goodness. They were supposed to call me at work to confirm that it was going to the right place, but they didn't, of course. I eventually called back to check, and lo and behold, it had arrived! The UPS guy must have thought my roommate was very popular since she had gotten packages (for me, natch) two days in a row.

So. We got the modem. Try to set it up, but the unhelpful folder containing the setup cd doesn't mention the fact that registration won't go through unless your default browser is Internet Exploder (misspelling intended), which both I and the roommate, owning Macs, don't use. So we called AT&T, who was helpful and led us to the setup page (in IE, boo) so we could finish. Why couldn't the folder say, This registration requires IE. If you cannot use IE, please point your browser to.... Would have saved us a lot of trouble.

Okay! Fast internet, as long as you're plugged in. My roommate had a wireless router from her previous apartment, and it had been working, with a small snafu: the setup page was in Italian. Since neither of us speak more Italian than Ciao you can see how this would be a problem. I might have gone for the internet search route first, but my roomie called Linksys, and after about 15 minutes of trying to explain our problem to the tech guy from India (who was obviously just reading off a sheet) it finally got through to him that a) our setup page was in Italian and therefore we had no idea which button to click and b) we were using Macs which technically aren't supported by Linksys (which is stupid, because the setup is EXACTLY THE SAME, just with a different OS look)...

The guy goes, "The setup page is in Italian?"
Us: "Yes, that's what we've been saying."

(Pause. A really long pause)

Him: "JESUS CHRIST!"

Which we both found hilarious. We totally stumped the tech guy, AND made him curse. So eventually we figure out which buttons to press, and we rename the router and configure it. Lo and behold, there is a wireless network! I can connect to it! So can anyone else! Therefore we must change the password.

He wanted us to use our phone number, which we both thought was silly, so we started thinking up combinations of our name and other numbers, etc, and they didn't work. He just kept telling us to use the phone number. Finally we got an error saying it needed a hex code or something, so I asked, "oh, does it have to be numeric?" And he said yes, as if he had been saying that all along, which he hadn't. What would have been so hard about saying, "use your phone # or other numeric code"? Sigh. We ended up using the phone number because we knew we could change it later.

BUT...

Somewhere between renaming the router and changing the password, it all went away. And we couldn't get it back. The guy kept telling us to go to the website and download things, which we couldn't do since everything was messed up. It ended with my roomie hanging up on the guy, unfortunately, and the router won't work now. I tried to reflash the firmware, but I don't think it went through. Ugh.

(ETA: one week later) The kicker of this is that there have been wireless networks floating around the apartment for years. It seems that there is at least one other Linksys router out there, and I think, somehow, we managed to change the settings on THAT router and not our own. I think this, because long after the router was disconnected to anything remotely resembling power or internet, the network we had named was still out there, but unconnectable. And to make it even more fun, one time when I was DIRECTLY connected to our router, the setup page connected us to somone else's router!

(ETA: October 1, 2006) Roomie had friends in town for her birthday, and the guy said the router was probably dead. Sigh. Roomie might try to get a refund since it's not that old, but I don't hold out much hope. I guess we can try getting another one on eBay or sth, because it's rather annoying to know that I could have gotten the network adaptor package and theoretically this wouldn't have happened. we didn't get it because she had the router...hopefully we can get it fixed soon.

And if you managed to read all that, have a cookie.

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New Layout Time! No particular reason, just thought it was time, and I'm still fond of the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (even after seeing it three times) so here you go. Hope you like it...should have everything it needs on there, finally got some issues worked out, so items should be in proper places. Let me know what you think.

I really need to tell you about Vegas, and find time to take pictures of my haircut (it's not that short, really) but I'm finishing up the layout for the archives, so perhaps later.

Oh yes. Happy Royal Birthday, Cousin that I love

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Yay! I got my iBook back yesterday instead of today (or later in the week) and it was just fine. They said the main logic board had failed, and was replaced, and since it's still under warranty, it didn't cost me a thing! Sweet.

Of course, the silly thing is, even though I got the laptop back last night, I still only wrote about 730 words. Unfortunately that's less than half of what I needed. Behind already. Alas. But I'm working on it. I have more ideas still! I was just busy studying...you know, for that class I'm taking? We have a quiz tomorrow with twice the questions that are normally on the quiz, and that means I have to know all the parts of a skull. I'm screwed.

Oh well. I'm just glad that the comp is back and in working order. Of course it came back fine, but I don't trust my luck enough to not worry about it. And man was it weird to not have access to one for the weekend.

This week starts off a very busy month at work...lots of important studies going on. Unfortunately I can't take off work the day that the fourth HP movie comes out, nor can I attend a midnight premiere the evening before. Because while I can live with three hours of sleep, it's probably a bad idea the night before wielding sharp instruments. I might be able to finagle it so I can leave early and catch a matinee showing on opening day, but that night I have to help my parents set up for the big Parkway South Craft Show. Saturday I'll be at one of two craft shows, if my mom gets into the second one, so I might not be able to attend that day either. Sigh. I know that it's silly to be attached to a fandom like this, but I really do want to see it, and I hate waiting. Did I mention how I'm very much pro-instant gratification?

Wish me luck on NaNo. Bad idea to fall behind on the first day, but at least I've got the time to make it up I must remember to actually cook something for dinner tonight, though. It's been too long. Pasta here I come!

  The Lunatic Cafe
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In honor of the new movie Elizabethtown coming out today, you have a new layout. Lots of new things tried in this design, and it's not finished yet. I hope you like it...it took me a long time to learn the CSS. Please forgive the odd placement while I try to figure out which stupid DIV tag isn't closed. Everything that you remember should be here, it just might be in an odd place. If you see something that you know absolutely cannot be right, comment, and I'll see if I can fix it. And if you notice it, it's most likely that I noticed it too, since it's still being updated. I hope to have an archive page redesign up soon, but it might be a while. I've got a list that's slowly but surely being checked off. If the colors are screamingly annoying, comment, and tell me what colors would be better. I like having my (ahem) fans' input.

Tonight not only do I get to see a movie with Orli, I get to see it at the Moolah Shrine Theater which has couches in the first five rows. Hopefully we'll snag one of those, but it's first come, first served, so who knows?

And it's official...I've got my tickets to Vegas. Now all I have to do is not spend any money from now until then, and I'll be ok...though I really want an iPod Nano for the trip. Wouldn't that be grand.

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Finally, the blog is back up again. You might not have noticed, since the index page was still up, but I had to go back in and reinstall everything before I could get the entries I made last week to show up. So yes, I'm still here, but just now had time to download and reupload everything. Cross your fingers that things continue to work.

Tonight is the writer's meetup for the month and I feel bad. I did very little writing, and I can't claim the MCAT as an excuse this time I do have a story idea for this year's NaNo, but it would involve me learning about religion, which I don't know if I would feel comfortable doing. It's not that I'm not religious; I just don't want it shoved in my face for a month. If that's not it though...I need a new idea.

And I shouldn't be thinking about that anyway, since med school application should take precedence. But I'm sure you all know how good I am with precedence...Right now my problem is knitting/crocheting. I learned how to knit sometime last year, but the very first project I did (forgive the link, the gallery isn't working correctly right now so the picture links are crucked. Just saving the place for future reference) was lost, so I wanted to try to make another hat out of the same yarn, with a matching scarf. Turns out that they don't make that color yarn anymore, so I'm going to improvise and make a hat and scarf with fuzzy trim. Yeah. And I got a free pattern for easy crochet, so I'm trying to do that too. It's darned hard to keep the number of chains right. In knitting you can usually clearly see where the next stitch is, but the yarn that I'm using for crochet is very bulky, which is usually good, things go faster. But in this case it obscures where the next loop is...so I've got a very lopsided scarf begun as I try to increase and decrease...I've got a shawl in the works too. Maybe if I ever finish you'll get pictures.

Since I couldn't post here for the past week, I put an entry on LJ asking why YOU think I should be in med school. So far the only response I got (feel free to add to this here ) was from my loverly friend Punz, who contributed the following:

Subject: Why Jen Should Go To Med School
1. because she wants to
2. because she's clever
3. because she has lots of medicalistical/sciencey experience (ie labortaory work)
4. because she's compassionate and cares about people
5. because she listens well and would therefore have a great bedside manner, and because talking about bedside manner can lead to silly jokes about in-bed manner, and so on, and who would want to pass up that opportunity?
6. because she knows she wants to and isn't just like hmm maybe?
7. because she's worked in a related field thinger for a while and has proven her gumption and ability to stick it out. even though med school is hard.
8. because she's awesome and [insert school here] would be goshdarn lucky to have her.

If only the med schools were nice like Punz. I doubt she would charge me $160 to send an application, either. Help me out, huh?

I think I'll get a credit card sometime soon, because I sure don't want to have to pay all of these application fees at once. And I suppose it would be good to have something for Vegas. We'll see. Seems like I'm venturing into realms unknown quite a bit lately. I hate the feeling ouf floundering, being out of my depth, but I think I just might have to get used to it.

At least I can fix my MT installation and finally get Thunderbird (Mozilla's answer to Outlook Express; download it now!) to work on both my home and work computers. Silly strange plus sign in username. Now if I could only get the old gallery links to work.

Off to work.

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...or make new layouts. (the title is from the Oscar-nominatee for Best Song from the movie version of Phantom, sung by Minnie Driver in the film and Beyonce on the show, for some unknown reason...) I've actually had this done for a while, just never got around to putting it up. I was a little busy, if you hadn't noticed. Hopefully this layout will only be up for a few months, as I hope to do something cool for Kingdom of Heaven, and that opens in May...we'll see, I suppose. I need good pictures first.

And on the computer front...things are going ok, mostly. There are some printer issues, but perhaps it will work out. It's very pretty, though, and sometimes it jumps on someone's wireless network, though it's titled my apartment number. Weird. I have to restrain myself from playing with it, since there are more important things to do like studying for orgo (speaking of which, I think the lab midterm was a near total disaster; thank goodness it's only worth a lab report). I could tell you all about the damn 3 am printing session last friday/saturday night, but that would take up too much time before orgo starts. Don't you just love it when you're very far behind in reading? Boo.

I still want a vacation, but I doubt I'll get a raise anytime soon, so said vacation, if it happens at all, would not consist of a trip. Alas for me and my lazing desires. Oh well. Better study while I can. And yes, I know there are things wrong with the layout. I will fix them. Soon. Just not now. Now is class. Adieu.

  Tonight, Jars of Clay

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Yes indeedy, here's the first entry with the new iBook. Egad, it's late, so shouldn't really be doing this. Everything seems to be in its proper place, but for the fonts I had installed...I'll probably have to search them out again. Oh well. If that's the only thing that's wrong with a new comp I won't complain! Busy busy day tomorrow. Er, later today. Best get some sleep or I'll be napping while I'm isolating...trust me, that would be a bad thing.

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Well, I'm back...Now Leo can putter around here and procrastinate all she likes.
And now for the Way to Have a Stressful Weekend; or the Way to Make All Emotions Related to Money Flash Across Your Face in an Instant; or How to Feel Wonderful About a New Purchase But Dread the New Number on Your Bank Account.
So, last friday night (after seeing Constantine all by my lonesome, which wasn't a bad movie, as far as that genre of movies goes...) I was working on the part of my orgo lab that was due the next day. (Boo saturday lab. ) I realized that I had to print it out (which, really, I discovered, I didn't have to, but it made more sense to have it printed out) and not having a printer at the apartment, ran over to work and printed it out (and faffed about, of course). Now, I left the computer on as I normally would, as it has a nice Phantom of the Opera screensaver which works as it should. The monitor has been flickering a little bit, but it always goes away. I fully intended to get a new computer soon...I realize I've been saying this for quite some time now, but the flickering really got to me. So it wasn't quite a surprise when I came back and the screen was dark. Not dark like the computer was sleeping...so dark it was like the brightness had been turned way down.

And of course there was no way to bring it back to normal. The video card or tube or whatever finally said to hell with this, fuck y'all AND this popsicle stand, and is kaput. Of course, to fix something like this, especially on a computer as old as the one I had (which I was sort of proud of...an original clamshell Blueberry iBook, the first of its kind) is heinously expensive and not worth it. So, I have now *paid for* a new iBook, but don't have it yet, since the nice people at the Galleria Apple Store (thank goodness there's an Apple Store at the galleria...used to be the only one in town was out in West County, where everything is hard to get to and mucho expensive) are supposedly transferring the goods from the old iBook to the new. Hope they could do it ok. I bet it makes things a little hard when you can't see the screen. Too bad there was no deal for getting an iPod and the computer...there was one at the beginning of the school year, but of course, my trusty little computer was *working* then...I did get a printer, though. You could either get a printer for free or an all-in-one scanner/copier/printer/card reader (for the day in the sometime future when I have a digital camera) for $30. I got the all-in-one, since I've always wanted a scanner. Go me. Man, my bank account is hurting. I had to transfer money from savings. At least I know I'll get a nice tax refund this year, it would have been nice had the computer waited until then to putz out on me, but I guess I'll get a new bike when I get that refund instead. And here's hoping that there's nothing wrong with a two year old return like there was last year.

I surrendered my baby to the techs Saturday night. Tammy the saleslady (who was quite nice and gave me lots of discounts, as far as that goes) said they would try to get to it as soon as they could, maybe Sunday. Unfortunately no. My mother called yesterday to check if there had been a new addition to the family. Then she pointed out, "See how good a grandmother I would be?" Mmmr. I'm working on it. I'm a little peeved because I realized that instead of the work number, they have the number of the apartment and therefore if they *do* call I won't know it until I get home, most likely after class because it's a pain to try to leave early before class, especially with Luigi the Italian back and quite ready to do lots of experiments. Alas. And if I can, I'll head over to the 'rents and get gas at the 'cheap' Shell station, and see if I can find the *ahem* cd's of things that I saved from the last OS X computer I had. Unless, of course, anyone wants to contribute to the 'Get Jen Word and Photoshop for OS X' fund.

(Side note: I'm quite happy to have OS 10.3.x, which is collectively known as 'Panther.' Yes, I know I'm a little silly. Sue me. I have a favorite animal.)

Hopefully when I write next, I can say it's from my lovely little friend, which is thoughtfully pre-installed with a wireless card, so I can surf at the library without wires! Whee!

Hot damn! You actually read all that? wow.

  Rob Thomas: Lonely No More (free download from a Pepsi cap)
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I finally upgraded MT to version 3.15. Hopefully with the increased functionality of Blacklist 2.0 I can get a handle on this crazy spam. We'll see.

I brought back the 'ask me anything feature...has a snazzy little layout, it was, how you say, a quickie. I kill me with my little J-C reference. Check out the link at the top of the entries and ask a question! Perhaps I'll have an answer for you

  Jars of Clay: Trouble Is

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So this isn't solely an ad post, I can ramble a bit about studying for orgo, and how very sad I am that the stupid final is Monday so I won't get to spend much time with the wonderful people coming into town for the holidays this weekend. I am finding it immensely hard to keep my mind on orgo, even without the temptation to pop in the RotK:EE, since I don't have it Grudgingly I admit that it's good that Mom is holding onto it for me. But I just want to touch it...lol. So sorry Molly and Alex and Leo that I'll only be able to see you for a short time on Sunday. It looks like I really shouldn't even go carolling with the AHS drama alums, as much as I would like to. I suppose I'll have to resign myself to singing along with my Christmas cds and KEZK, the soft rock Christmas station.

I hope that Molly and I get to watch RotK together sometime, and Leo needs to watch HP 3...sigh. I keep thinking that I've got a break coming up or something, even though I don't, really. Well, I guess I could take some vacation while there are no classes, but I guess I'm still stuck on the "christmas vacation from school" thing, even though it's been two years. Bah. I really do need to take vaca anyway. Here's to Jen and Lell going to NY! Yeah. Next summer.

Oh, why don't you head over here and check out these story banners? Well, there's only the one right now, hopefully there can be more uploaded later. I like hosting people.

I guess I should get back to voting and studying. Sigh. What a way to spend a friday night.

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Comment spam really sucks, and I'm worried that it's knocking other (legitimate) people off the blog. Sigh. No one's commented since the beginning of the month. I've done test comments myself and know that comments work...some people have reported getting 404s when they click the comment link. I don't know what that's from, because the site shows up fine where I am, on two different computers. If you are having a problem posting a comment and you can't (for some reason) use the 404 form to send me where you got the error, please send an email to me at etoiline [at] etoiline [dot] com and I'll see what I can do.

One of these days I guess I'll break down and upgrade to MT 3, even though there are some things that I don't like about it. And I've got to start thinking of a new layout, not that I don't still love Peter I know that the index page is a little slow to load, forgive me for being on the high-speed at work. But I like having everything there on the front page...alas. I'm just a wannabe techie. Whatever. I'll shush now, as this too-long entry was just so I would remember that link about a possible spam-basher. We'll see. Please comment so I know you're out there!

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This is really cool: Webphilia Advent Calendar 2004. You should check it out. There are some spectacular blends there. Inspiring. Just like talking nutrition with the applied phys. folks at the holiday party. Makes me feel inadequate that I don't work out or do amazing things with photoshop. Ah well. One of these days when I get a new laptop...

  Josh Groban: Remember When it Rained

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So you probably noticed there's a new layout. I don't know what it is about me and layouts but I just don't have a quick turnaround with them. Had the picture done about two weeks ago but was just now able to get all the coding done. Hah. Done. There are still some weird things, like why my posts are getting progressively more indented as the archives scroll on...guess I'll have to look at the code again. Ah well. Hope you like. Feel free to comment or gripe. It's still in progress, be warned.

And yes, I know that the Peter Pan movie came out last year and the dvd came out way back in May, but I just got it myself and truly adored it. Jeremy Sumpter is too cute for words and another notch in the 'jailbait' section. I don't care. The picture was too much fun. Thank you ohsomuch to Thia for her glorious star brushes. Exactly what I was looking for.

Happy Friday before Halloween! Yay dress-up time!

[ETA: I can't believe how many times I've had to open up this editing window to fix that thing or the other. It seems it never ends! Sigh. Adult ADD anyone?]

  Something Corporate: As You Sleep

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Celtic Astrology. My tree is The Hazel

IN LOVE with the Shoebox Project, a fan recreation of the Marauder's Era at Hogwart's. Yes, another HP obsession. But it's illustrated, and funny to boot! If you don't like HP you'll be confused, but you could still gush at the good writing. I love Moony.

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Well, you may or may not have noticed that there are now colored scrollbars! Yahoo! And the site doesn't get bigger than 1024x768. Thanks to SN for telling me what's up with CSS.

In other news, the first softball game was cancelled because of field conditions. Ah well. Next week, perhaps. Hopefully we'll get some in before it gets too much hotter...though it's plenty hot now. mmm. summer in St. Louis. Gotta love it. Or not.

I'm interested in web design again funny how it comes in cycles.

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yes, yes, I know. things are wonky around here. but at least you can still read. *knock on wood* I'll fix it...soon.

[ETA: Now it's working again. And no more unsightly search boxes! Although I'm probably pulling lots of kbs on the background jpg ]

Remind me to tell off all the people who come here talking about how I was wrong about Imana Nushif. Read the rest of the journal, people! And I've asked it before and I'll ask it again...why are you coming here for it anyway, if just to put me down? Thanks. More later. Maybe. Gotta go catch 24.

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Alex won't like that I'm not reading the Iliad but this morning when I was waiting for bloods I made an AIM Expression. Go me. I am so creative. You can check it out here. Be warned, it is Troy themed and focuses mainly on Paris. Yay antihero.

I taped Oprah yesterday because Brad Pitt was on...yes, they showed scenes from Troy...and Eric Bana came on too...and Orli taped a bit because he's still shooting Kingdom of Heaven over in Morocco. Sigh. Hunk o' hot men on that show. Can't wait for Troy! whee!

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WP: Describe division 3 ways, drawing on a different sense each time.

At the end of the night I was dizzy, the alcohol dividing my sense of sight from the reality. When I knew I was looking forward, but my brain persisted in thinking that the world was swaying. The darkness behind my lids was comforting. I thought my friend was split in twain when I opened my eyes, but I knew the truth when we gripped palms. The birdsong of early morning shifted from one side of my head to the other as a robin exchanged one branch for another. The bed was too persuasive to ignore. I'd leave the division for another day...perhaps when I woke things would have multiplied back to normal.

not so good, eh? that's what you get for writing at midnight.

So you like the new layout? It still needs work but at least you can see the pretty pictures Please comment. And look for the new little features

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I swear, yesterday the sidebars were in the right place. But now they're not. silly css. one of these days I'm going to get them to work. Probably not before I make a new layout though I'm sure there's something in the old default css that's screwing it up but I just...can't...find it. eh. I promise, when the Troy website goes up it'll be fixed. meh. then I'll figure out how to use the Amazon plugin and the rest of the lovely php things that happen when your page extension is php.

[end rant for the day]

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I'm not a very good coder. I'm a terrible programmer, since I never really learned how. But I can have fun with html and php and such, and hopefully make the site look better. You may have noticed how the sidebars finally sit where they're supposed to and some misc links have been fixed. Some of them, anyway. Does it look better? Bet you can't really tell. But I know.

Do you need hosting? Now that I have this new hosting provider I have lots of space. Yay! Oh. need to remember to change my mailing list. And re-add the ask me anything feature.

Here is my Geek Code, for those of you curious...

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GE/FA/MU/S/TW d- s: a-- C++(+)>$ U@ P+@>+ L@ E--@ W(++)$@>+++$ !N !o K--? w--(+)@> !O M+>++$ V? PS+() PE Y PGP-@ !t !5 X()@ R>+$* tv+>+$ b++++>++++$ DI-- !D G e++>+++$ h r>++ x-
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

Get your own here. Decode it here.

And the whole reason I started this entry... Visit Blog-Fu and read the funny coding silliness. Of course the actual articles this particular entry are taken from are pretty much over my head anyway, but at least the ones highlighted are funny...yeah.

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did it work?

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It works today Whee! Thank goodness the cache was refreshed or something. That means I can get back to working on my site! Now if only I could figure out which email is going where Those of you who had email addy's through me...I'll get to you in a sec. I just hope all my hosting stuff is going ok! You'll get your ftp login/pass soon...please email me so I know that you got my message!

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Well, welcome back to etoiline.com. I hope things are working more or less as they should, though the 'dreamer,' 'content,' and 'realm' areas of the site are not up and won't be until I get a change to rewrite the php which caused the lovely downness of this site in the first place. And would you believe that I CAN'T SEE MY PAGE ON MY COMPUTER! This is not the normal computer I work on. Sigh. Quit caching my page, dammit!

Today is going to be hell. It was gonna be hell before I learned that our newly part-time tech Mark (the semi-cute guy) was sick today and won't be in. Now it might be slightly less hell because we might not do a part of the exp since there's one fewer pair of hands, but I've still got two different isolations to do today and Luigi can't help since he's busy upstairs. sigh.

Lovely to have a rant on the first day back, eh? By the way, Kate, if you see this...the Moonstone Chronicles are back up, as are the Decadence chapters

Anyone out there have trouble with installing Movable Type? lol. I feel disloyal typing that in Greymatter

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Not a live mouse, silly, a computer mouse. It's a Logitech optical mouse which makes me happy, though I think something was messed up originally so the comp was being a little wacky. And (mostly) unrelated to that, some of you might have noticed the site being down a bit in the last few days. This is because I was trying to use a referring script that was working for a while and then suddenly stopped...so I played with the htaccess for the main directory but alas apparently I can't do that anymore.

Those of you who have changed hosting providers...what's your experience been like? I think I'd really like to change providers and I'll probably go with Moll's, Surpass but I'm not sure. Anyone have good ideas? I've still got a few months with my current host, so I'm not concerned, yet...what does concern me is that apparently while I own my domain, I can't administer it. I think this is because I bought the domain through my host, so they set it up...but in order to keep my domain name if I transfer hosts I'll have to change things and I hope my current host won't bitch about changing if I do decide to change. I should...I'd get more room, more bandwidth, for about the same price. Eh. I guess we'll see.

ATTENTION! The Aspire Exchange is all new! I totally redid the layout, but no one's joined recently so there's not too much to do with content. I thought about switching to a PHP banner exchange to automate signups but when I tried to install it weird things happened. So it's still a javascript exchange...if you have a button, or you'd like to make you a button so you can join, please please visit the link above and sign up! Thank you

Apt. update: for those of you who didn't already know, we got a couch for the apartment! It's old and used and didn't have proper cushions but we fixed that. We got a slipcover that didn't fit, then a slipcover that had water stains, then the proper size. Yahoo Target. Yeah. So now hopefully Leo will watch more movies with me I'm such a lazy bum. All sorts of other things I could be doing... but I have all these movies to watch! I've been a bad girl and spent lots of money at Borders and Best Buy on good dvds...good news is that I should get a pretty nice tax refund. Bad news is it should all go into my savings account so I don't spend it! Money for grad school anyone?

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE VOTE!!!! I need all the help I can get this week. Vote links are under each post or on the sidebar...thank you thank you

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On January 24, 2004 the Macintosh celebrated its 20th birthday. Unveiled two decades ago, "the computer for the rest of us" was the first consumer-level computer to include a graphical user interface and a mouse. The original all-in-one model had a peppy 8MHz processor, 128K of memory, 3.5" floppy drive that used 400K disks and an integrated black-and-white display. It sold for $2,495, which was rather pricey back in 1984. More legendary than the product itself is the advertisement that introduced it to the world.

Ridley Scott's Orwellian ad, in which a young women rises up against autocracy and conformity, stunned many viewers of that year's Super Bowl "1984" went on to win numerous awards and is still regarded as one of the most powerful advertisements ever made. Apple has posted an updated version of the commercial that gives the young woman something to listen to as she rails against big brother. You can view it at http://www.apple.com/hardware/ads/1984/. (from Mac Hot Tips email)

Funny how I'm older than Macs. I love Apple!

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So all of you who were wondering what the heck those numbers near the bottom right of the layout were for...there's finally some content! Er. There are now even more ways to leave the stars behind because I updated the 'outs' page finally. So go visit all those fine upstanding sites and forgive me because I haven't gotten around to deleting sites off my blogroll. Speaking of, does anyone know if there's a way to manage your own blogroll, as in you control the scripting? It would be nice because as you all know I'm a cheapskate and hate paying for things online, so I only have the one free blogroll allotted to non-Gold users. But I'd like to have more and have a little more control over it...eh. Just me being power-hungry I guess.

Don't forget to wear red tomorrow for Chinese new year! Alex, there's your reminder not my fault if you don't read it until tomorrow!

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If you go to Google and type in "miserable failure" (be sure to include the quotes) and hit 'I'm Feeling Lucky' just look at what comes up.

CSS is fun. All you aspiring web designers should check it out. I'm currently obsessed with how to get a picture to underline a link when you hover over it. Yeah.

and did you hear about this guy? Microsoft fired him for taking a picture of Mac G5s being delivered to their loading dock...silly MS. If they didn't have a better browser and the omnipotent word processor I would not use them! bah!

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...for a new layout, anyway. Still working the kinks out, as usual. But at least the front page is pretty!

Nine days till RotK. Can you believe it? Perhaps I should run a poll...should I really dress up for the premiere? I wonder who else will come in costume...my thought is that it's going to be rather chilly. Not that the costume isn't warm, but it's not as if I'm an elf who does not feel the wind's bite...thoughts?

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that this page was missing most of the day. Or maybe you didn't, because this is your first visit to etoiline.com...in which case, welcome. Anyway, those of you who got to see the entire ugly structure behind the facade, I'm sorry. Most of you know that when you visit etoiline.com you're actually visiting etoiline.com/index.html. For some unknown reason, index.html and all single files not in a directory were deleted on my account (versus files in the Realm, which are in a different directory: etoiline.com/realm/index.php). I'm guessing it had something to do with my ftp being wonky earlier in the day, but luckily my host has archiving capability and I made use of it about three weeks ago. So yes, I'll lose some stuff, but luckily the whole site was not deleted. They are taking quite the sweet time to restore the archive, however. I hope they'll hurry up. I had to manually insert this index.html page...no big deal as the lovely blog is powered by greymatter and most of it's in another directory...but some of the links might be broken. If you find one, please please let me know, because I don't have an accurate list of files that are supposed to be on the server. Anyway. Go visit one of my other sites if this bores you or go read moonstone and give me feedback!

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I am pleased to announce that the realm of calenhíril is completely finished! Well. All images work, the clique is up and running, the site has been nominated for some awards...so go visit. Join the clique. It's quite easy now

Someone asked me What did Gimli say to Haldir when he said "ishkhakwi ai durug nul"? Was that an insult of some kind? and I'll say, I believe that it was supposed to be an insult in dwarvish but I don't think there ever was any meaning to it. I remember the clip in one of the fotr SE archives or commentaries where John Rhys-Davies was talking about that part and how much trouble he had saying it...and how it didn't mean anything. Eh. Who knows. I'd have to watch FotR SE again

Someone else asked me my name, but unless you mean who I am, I can't help you there...unless of course you were looking for your elvish name, in which case I would direct you to BarrowDowns. Yet another person asked, will i find HIM? and to that I say, dear God I hope so. Of course, that means I have to find "him" as well. Come on, someone out there is tall dark handsome and elvish. And whoever asked simply 3x5 would just get that it is my favorite John Mayer song and everyone should go to my stupid mouth and see if anyone's got a live version available.

Go visit the realm. And for all those interested...I finished chapter six of The Moonstone Chronicles. If you've been reading it, you know what to do. If you haven't, go read it and if you feel the need to read farther than chapter four, contact me to get the password...

Still haven't heard about the apartment. Sigh. Ah well. Going home now...

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I think I've fixed most of what's wrong with the Realm, again. Some pictures are still not showing up and I have no idea why...they've got direct links and everything. Ah well. But anyway, the clique is up and running, you just can't see the whole list, for some reason. So go join.

The Realm has been confirmed in the Middle Earth Awards and the Yummy-Lembas awards...yay! You can't vote for me in those, but you can go visit and see what they've got. Links are on the Realm index page.

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the realm of calenhiril is finally up and running again with a totally new layout and redesign of the site. It's php now so those pages shouldn't be such a bear to update. Clique members I'm sorry, I'm still trying to work on the clique part, I have to transfer all the members over and that's no fun. But I'll get it working sometime. And eventually that means I'll be able to finish the content sections of the main site, lol. Ah well.

But not this weekend. Looks like I'll be going to the renaissance festival with jess after all. We'll see. Early morning tomorrow if we do...and I've never driven that far before. We leave the driving up to my dad. Hopefully the 'rents will let me have a car with cruise control. Wish me luck...I've gotta get home and sew the rest of that skirt!

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Send a Spirit Wand!

Thanks, Alicia

I really need to work on my Legolas site. I'm itching to add all the new members to the clique! lol.

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The Aspire Forum is now blue. Go check it out, and post, damn you! lol. No one loves the forum. And remember the gallery is cool too. I'm trying to get back into that web-design mentality and fix up all my sites that haven't been updated in too long. Someone enjoy them.

It's just about midnight and there are people in this time zone buying the Two Towers right now. Sigh. I have to wait till tomorrow, but thank you Alex. It's a nice birthday present. Don't you want to get me something too? lol. You know what I'll be doing tomorrow, don't you?

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Not that most of you would care, but I installed PHPFanBase for future members of the all about the ears clique. Feel free to join before the new layout goes up. lol. lots of copying and pasting for me tonight, and the computer was acting strange. sigh. please keep working, dear iMac...I need you!

why do people keep bidding on the scanners I need? Don't these people realize I need this type of scanner? It's not like I want it for some superfluous reason...it's the only one that will work with this comp! Come on. Let me win an auction. For not much. I'm still mostly broke, even if I'm not in college anymore.

And another thing to be proud of...I finished the redesign of my Roswell fansite, Surrender to the Stars. Be sure to stop by and let me know what you think of it!

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Or at least, the whopping three 'ask me anythings' that showed up in my inbox last night. How exciting They're rather vague, so I'll interpret them as I see fit

Brooch making? Er. If you mean how to make the fellowship brooch from LotR, I used Sculpey clay: silver and two colors of green: dark green and iridecent seafoam green. If I had had more time I might have tried to work in a bit of real wire, but as it is it's only clay. Took me two practice leaves and a long time on the final one. Used my mother's clay modelling tools. Baked for however long in the old toaster oven retired for expressly that service (it stinks up your regular one). My mom glued the pin back on with hot glue, and secured it with a piece of leather. Savvy?

I saw a Shooting Star and I made a wish, will my wish come true? I hope so. Everyone should have their wish come true. And I'm a bit jealous. You got to see a shooting star? It's been a while.

John Mayer new cd? JM's new cd is called Heavier Things, and it will be available September 9th. It includes the great new single Bigger Than My Body, which is not at all what you think it's about. Also a great new song: Wheel. This song probably sounds better in concert, so you better find out when he's coming to town! Go buy it and support the stars.

and one from long ago:

Do you have a son? That would be a no. Need a guy to do that. Haven't had a boyfriend since high school.

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You know, it's silly, but I'm quite peeved to have lost the auction for the scanner. If only I had checked my email a little earlier. Sixteen (sixteen!) people bidded within the last hour of the auction, and being busy, I didn't even have a chance. Argh! And of course there's not another one out there. Bugger. And now I'm really running into the stupid freaking "only supports system 8.6 and above" problem. We have system 8.1, just a step down, really, but it screws everything up. Gah. It galls me to have to look for older items. And we can't just buy a new computer because the scanner doesn't work, but we really want a scanner at home. Why did that stupid freaking flashing floppy have to show up? And why won't any of the "troubleshooting" methods work? ARGH!

It vexes me. I am sorely vexed.

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Ok, as you see there's been a layout change! Hope you like it. Read all about it in the Layout section on the sidebar. You'll also notice the 1,2,3 & 4 for navigation. There's not so much content yet, but there will be soon! Yay! Comments please

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I'm always amazed, and I shouldn't be, at the time it takes to make things detailed. I sewed the sleeves on the jerkin today, and theoretically all I have to do is perhaps put in a few more grommets and sew the hooks and eyes on...good Lord do you know how long that takes? Thank God I'm not trying to sew in leather.

Wish me luck.

And is it really so hard to understand that the "got a question" box above is for you to input a question to *ahem* ask me anything...by clicking the button to the side of it? I keep getting these blank emails from that button. It's like a kid discovering a light switch: the kid gets to flip the lever while the adults get peeved. Feel free to really ask a question though...

oh, and if you noticed the last entry...I was very very drunk at the time, and immensely proud that I didn't misspell anything.

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Bonnie is back! Whoohoo! Go visit my sib. Sara is on hiatus but you can see her spiffy Coldplay layout at her blog. And it's not so new, but Moll is a genius.

what do you think, Matrix layout next? Take a break from the monotony of Orli? or perhaps John Mayer. Probably John Mayer. With lyrics from "3x5" and "Why Georgia." We'll see.

Egad but I hope we fix the computer. Else we're gonna have to lug up the old iMac and attempt to hook that up to the internet...

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Thanks for moving me up, folks. I've been in the forests of Lorien for several weeks now, and I finally made it back into the challenge! Means a lot to me. Of course, the wonder of all wonders would be to actually make it into the Tower in two weeks...anyway. Thanks for all your support and be sure to keep voting!

You might have noticed a bit of a snafu in the site on thursday night/fri morning, but all is well. There was a directional mishap with the renewal email making it to my inbox, and the company didn't send a reminder which makes me just want to scream. Anyway, it's all taken care of and etoiline.com will last for another year...and you can be sure I'll get my renewal in on time!

There will be more content soon, really. Cause I'm sure you all want to know more about my life and my passions. Ha. Moll is inspiring.

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Thanks for stopping by. As of the weekend I'd had 6999 distinct visitors...a thousand for every layout change, lol. *lifts champagne glass* I'm glad I can make you happy...I really love it. Here's to many more years.

Happy 27th, Mom & Dad!

Yup, that's right, my parents have their 27th wedding anniversary today. I find it extremely amusing that I managed to buy my domain on my parent's anniversary. I remember being so happy to be out of school and done with finals that I bought it about 1 am the day of and then when I got into the control panel I was like, hey that date's familiar. lol. At least I'll always know when I have to renew...Congrats, I love you, Mom & Dad.

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okeydokey, there's a new layout. still working out the kinks, as you can tell. Why does it never work right the first time? you can still comment, though, so send me your thoughts. K?

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I made a couple of buttons last night and actually got them uploaded. Also moved some old buttons in so they're all in one place. I'll make a permanent place for these sometime, I promise. And it will even have a swanky background and such, but for now you'll have to deal with just the names. Enjoy, and swipe 'em!

Links directory

And the exchange should work better now. I just have to change the code page and work out a few little weird things.

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Please remember to vote for me this week. And a new layout should be coming up soon. Very soon. And just to clear things up... karma votes are NOT the same thing as voting for the site in a web competition. I only need votes for the two links that are after "vote for ATTS" after every post. But if you want to tell me how much you like the entry, by all means, keep karma voting. Although I like comments better Now we take you back to your regularly scheduled blogging and I'm getting back to work on the new layout.

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I've noticed no one has visited my site exchange for a very long time. Anyone want to join? At least look at it. The Aspire Exchange. Hey! Vote Exchangers! want to put your site in the exchange? Say yes

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Did y'all see the comment from Sean Garrett on the post for 'Decadence'? A little bit spooky, if you ask me. Unless one of you was playing a joke on me...come out come out wherever you are. I hope by now you've noticed that the story is not finished. I'm sorry to say that you're insane in the story, and me thinking of that name has nothing to do with you lol. I feel like I just wrote a disclaimer. 'All coincidence with any persons, living or dead, is entirely unintended.' Are you still interested?

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Okay, I did it. I finally got off my lazy bum (or rather, sat down and forced my lazy bum to do it...but there's a new layout. Only took me two weeks. And now it's the weekend! Not everything is fixed as always, but I hope it will be soon. Tell me if you love it or hate it... and don't forget to vote! Thanks, melloneamin...

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there's a new layout at Aspire II if you'd like to check it out. Also uses layers, hopefully everything is in its correct spot. I miss ethernet. If you want to pay $10 more each month you can get dsl for more than one comp. Then you'd only be paying $60 a month, sigh.

I really want to go to UPenn. but it's so much money. I need to win the lottery. Or get a new job. erm.

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