May. 11th, 2005

Grumble

May. 11th, 2005 11:09 am
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What's up with LJ? Nothing will load when I use Firefox, but apparently it's working with IE...

Anyway, here's the post I wrote hours ago and have been trying to post since:

Work is crazy-busy, and is the last place I want to be.

LJ sucks and is not loading, so I'm writing this in Notepad. For some reason, it's harder to write a journal entry in notepad than the LJ interface. Doesn't feel "right".

Based on a rec from [livejournal.com profile] mctabby, I'm reading The Shadow of His Wings. While it's a well-written fic, it's Harry/Draco and I'm having a really, really hard time getting into it. I'm sort of seeing the reason why people who aren't into Harry/Snape have a hard time reading fics with that pairing -- pairing fics seem to make certain "assumptions", and if you don't believe in that pairing then the assumptions are hard to accept. (Like in Shadow, adult Harry is glowering at adult Draco... then for no reason at all notices how good-looking Draco is. I'm sitting here thinking "Sure, you MIGHT be able to acknowledge that your life-long enemy isn't ugly, but you're still unlikely to be turned on by that..." So even though we haven't even gotten to any sex scenes yet, I'm just not buying it.) If this were a Harry/Snape story and Harry suddenly had some little understanding about Snape's motivation for being so mean, I'd be a whole lot more accepting of it...

FFXI: Leveled RDM to 5 last night (nearly 6). Enjoyed it quite a bit. (I wonder how much of my ass-kicking goodness comes from /MNK and how much is there naturally?) Only downside to this is that my monk is only level 4, so I'm going to have to keep leveling it right from the start. Tonight I need to buy lots of stuff before leveling (armor, shield, see what spells I might not have).

I've been reading the LJs of so many people in HNM LSs that I'm really, really feeling the push to get really high level in some job. There's so much good stuff happening out there, and I can't attend any of it! I'd love to try one of those battles that takes hours to complete. To quote a movie, "I want to be big!".

I made bolts for half the night, but that's so boring I couldn't force myself to keep at it. I'm going to take a break for a while, otherwise it'll end up making me quit the whole game. The only big purchase I have left (my scythe) won't be needed for 6 more levels, so I have time (and I need "only" about 500K more towards it).

...and what the heck is LJ doing? Still can't make a post.

Grumble

May. 11th, 2005 11:09 am
thistlechaser: (Default)
What's up with LJ? Nothing will load when I use Firefox, but apparently it's working with IE...

Anyway, here's the post I wrote hours ago and have been trying to post since:

Work is crazy-busy, and is the last place I want to be.

LJ sucks and is not loading, so I'm writing this in Notepad. For some reason, it's harder to write a journal entry in notepad than the LJ interface. Doesn't feel "right".

Based on a rec from [livejournal.com profile] mctabby, I'm reading The Shadow of His Wings. While it's a well-written fic, it's Harry/Draco and I'm having a really, really hard time getting into it. I'm sort of seeing the reason why people who aren't into Harry/Snape have a hard time reading fics with that pairing -- pairing fics seem to make certain "assumptions", and if you don't believe in that pairing then the assumptions are hard to accept. (Like in Shadow, adult Harry is glowering at adult Draco... then for no reason at all notices how good-looking Draco is. I'm sitting here thinking "Sure, you MIGHT be able to acknowledge that your life-long enemy isn't ugly, but you're still unlikely to be turned on by that..." So even though we haven't even gotten to any sex scenes yet, I'm just not buying it.) If this were a Harry/Snape story and Harry suddenly had some little understanding about Snape's motivation for being so mean, I'd be a whole lot more accepting of it...

FFXI: Leveled RDM to 5 last night (nearly 6). Enjoyed it quite a bit. (I wonder how much of my ass-kicking goodness comes from /MNK and how much is there naturally?) Only downside to this is that my monk is only level 4, so I'm going to have to keep leveling it right from the start. Tonight I need to buy lots of stuff before leveling (armor, shield, see what spells I might not have).

I've been reading the LJs of so many people in HNM LSs that I'm really, really feeling the push to get really high level in some job. There's so much good stuff happening out there, and I can't attend any of it! I'd love to try one of those battles that takes hours to complete. To quote a movie, "I want to be big!".

I made bolts for half the night, but that's so boring I couldn't force myself to keep at it. I'm going to take a break for a while, otherwise it'll end up making me quit the whole game. The only big purchase I have left (my scythe) won't be needed for 6 more levels, so I have time (and I need "only" about 500K more towards it).

...and what the heck is LJ doing? Still can't make a post.

Yo, Cehra!

May. 11th, 2005 11:20 am
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[livejournal.com profile] yshyn, check out this comment thread. We're talking about you and ways you could be making money.

Yo, Cehra!

May. 11th, 2005 11:20 am
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[livejournal.com profile] yshyn, check out this comment thread. We're talking about you and ways you could be making money.

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