Stess's Journal

Primero que nada quiero desearle un ¡FELIZ CUNPLEAÑOS! ajust_miya espero se la este pasando muy bien, sorry el gráfico lo hize bien a la carrera :S, no me acorde cuál es tu personaje favorito de ouran, pero si te gusta tamaki vdd?

Y segundo pedir disculpas por ausentarme tantas semanas, ni siquiera complete el meme de los 7 días,  lo peor es que probablemente seguire igual, las cosas siguen de cabeza y las próximas semanas van a ser bastante agitadas  , pero espero que mucho mejor que las pasadas, sobre todo por el nihongo no matsuri que es esta semana y mi cumpleaños que ya se acerca  , bueno los dejo tengo prisa y sorry por no pasarme por sus journals, lo haré en cuanto pueda

Hi everyone, this is your reminder to enter the Creativity Challenge! Your icons are due by Saturday, November 14 at noon central time. We have two entries so far!

Mistaken for someone interesting, I have been interviewed at blogcritics.org. (We did it in October, so mentally replace "next month" with "this month.") In what is probably a first, I am actually asked about The Secret Life of Dolls a good bit. Also discussed: The Third Man, nineteenth-century fancrazy, and my newest "hobby."


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Here's the poll for WEEK 204. The results will be posted on Wednesday at 8pm... Good luck everyone! And remember:



( vote here )

Here's the poll for WEEK 223. The results will be posted on Wednesday around 7pm... Good luck everyone! And remember:



( vote here )

If you're one of these Winners for the Actor Challenge of Week 221, come take your Banner :)

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qioui (x2)
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lastyearswishes
planetgal471

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CONTESTANTS: 00
Actor Submissions: 00
Capt Submissions: 00
Text Submissions: 00


Please remember to read the rules carefully for each challenge, because they vary depending on what they call for. If you have any questions, please leave a comment and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Also, we nominate all winning icons to hp_awards. If you do not want your icons to be nominated, you need to say so when you submit your entries !


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If you have ideas for a future challenge, drop a line in our suggestion box! Also, please help us by adding to the community resources !

CONTESTANTS: 00
Actor Submissions: 00
Capt Submissions: 00
Hunt Submissions: 00



Please remember to read the rules carefully for each challenge, because they vary depending on what they call for... If you have any questions, please leave a comment separate from your entry post and I will get back to you asap!


( challenges behind the cut )



If you have ideas for a future challenge, drop a line in our suggestion box! Also, please help us by adding to the community resources!

I have a Listening Behavior exam in an hour.

It was supposed to be last week, but the professor forgot/misplaced the exam and postponed it.

I didn't really study for it last week... and I don't have any intention or inclination to study for it this week. Sorry, Listening Behavior, it's not me... it's you.

WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW CHRISTMAS SHINDIG AT MY HOUSE NEXT MONTH OKAY GUYS

This is going to be a costume-mandatory party - and consequently a body-acceptance-mandatory party, because as you all know I have got some curves and I ain't dressing to hide them

And unless I get major negative feedback, this is also going to be co-ed, since most of us there will be married/involved/somethinglikethat and hopefully others will be OK with that.  (Costumes are required, but not required to be showy-offy of your body if you're not down with that.  You don't have to wear lingerie to prove that you like your body or anything like that - just wear what you like, and like yourself for it!)

We're thinking about the second week of December (6th-12th) - lemme know what night would work best for you.  I know it's finals week for Harding kids, but those of you Harding kids who will come won't be affected too much if we do it on Friday or Saturday, I think.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

OH AND YOU HOT NURSES MAKE SURE YOU TELL ME WHAT WORKS FOR YOU SO I CAN SET IT IN STONE AND YOU CAN GET OFF OF WORK FOR IT OKAY BECAUSE I AM TOTALLY GOING TO ACCOMMODATE YOU.

RSVP here plxkthx :)

Okay, you know what? I've held out for nearly three and a half months now, but I am nearly at my breaking point (even though we are now in the home stretch). I am SICK of not having my own computer to work on. There are huge disadvantages to sharing a computer that you just really don't even think of until you have to do it yourself. I HATE logging out of everything every time I walk away from the computer, because the hell I'm leaving my email accounts vulnerable to prying eyes. And on your average day? I need to be logged into LJ, JournalFen, Yahoo email, Gmail (with Reader and Documents), Twitter, Delicious for bookmarks, Pandora, a couple of message boards, and my file storage account; my life would be infinitely easier if I could just stay logged in. So I HATE dumping the cache and the cookies and the browsing history and even the SEARCH history if I so much as duck out for a glass of tea, and I HAVE to do it, because you know why? You know why? Researching the @#$%*&@ e-book footnotes, that's why. If I didn't, you'd go to the Google drop-down search box and get "bella's felted womb," "dead from coke," "edward lipstick," "gq motherfucker," "total eclipse sex scene," 5000 Twilight articles, and "twincest." And there is NO WAY I am letting my family know I spent that much time looking up shit about Twilight.

I can't do a whole hell of a lot on this computer either, since it's like eight years old as it is--in excellent condition, but it's only got 30GB storage, you know? You can infer from that what the processor thingamawhatever speed must be like. It just can't do a lot. It can't handle Skype, for example. And I don't have any of my pet programs (Semagic for LJ, TweetDeck, ACDSee photo organizing, and probably a ton of others I've forgotten because IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I'VE USED THEM), because the computer either can't handle a given program or it can't handle them all together. And we THOUGHT it had Photoshop, but apparently not, and while I'm pretty handy on that, I apparently am too stupid to operate MS Paint. People keep telling me how to crop and I just. can't. manage it. And then I go back to Firefox and accidentally hit "home" instead of "new tab" and I lose my entire LJ entry draft, because whenever it tries to recover a "saved" draft, it gives me the previous entry I already posted. HATRED.

And then I can't really save images (no room, plus other people looking at my shit) or watch videos (I hate being walked in on while I'm trying to watch whatever weird-ass thing someone just linked on Twitter. Mostly I just don't have time because I'm under the gun to get anything done before someone else needs the computer), assuming I could get the video to work at all. Because I physically can't get time at the computer as much as I'd like, my Google Reader news items just sit and pile up, so every morning I have "1000+," and one day I cleared 600 items and STILL had 1000+. I keep having to star things I want to go back and use in the footnotes or save pictures from, and I am TIRED OF IT.

If I didn't have the iBella--which at least has a camera, an mp3 player, and apps for Twitter, Pandora and my email that I DON'T HAVE TO LOG OUT OF--I would have gone insane by now. The day I figured out how to copy-paste links on my phone, I nearly wept for joy. Even there, I can't really answer emails or LJ comments at any length--if it's going to be a short reply, I can tap it out with a minimum of head-meeting-wall, but y'all know how wordy I am. We get to more than two sentences and I just can't manage it; I have to wait to answer until I get to the (shared) (family) computer. And then I have to log into umpteen thousand things all over again but then someone else needs the computer RIGHT NOW and I have to dump everything and hope no one noticed that I was at that moment searching "vampire sex toys." Oh, and blip.fm just doesn't work on the iPhone at all. RAAAAAAAGE.

Only one more week until [New Computer's Name] arrives. I will console myself with a peppermint chocolate chip milkshake from Chick-fil-A, I think.


ETA: THE MILKSHAKE MACHINE IS DOWN

WHY GOD WHY


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Congrats to the winners!

All winners, unless specifically requested, will be nominated at wd_awards

First place+14pts qioui	Second place+12pts minutesto12	Third place+11pts that_was_cheesy

minutesto12 are you okay with making banners for this challenge?

Challenge P you can find here!

So, today I'm taking my kids to the Zoo. It's "Little People" day at the zoo and my youngest is so excited to meet "Eddie" and "Sonia Lee" from the Little People (let's hope she doesn't get scared - people in costumes are still touch and go if she'll like them). But...this trip has inspired both of our challenges this week.

Becuase, aside from being toys, the Little People are also a stop motion animation show. So four the first challenge, your um...challenge is to icon a 'STOP MOTION' toon. Little People, Nightmare before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Wallace and Grommit, Chicken Run...etc. I haven't included any sample pictures but let me know if you need some.

+ Icons may be animated, and text is allowed
+ Please include the title of the cartoon with each entry
+ You may submit up to 4 Icons in this category
+ Images can be taken from screen captures as well as from promotional or still images.



And the other big reason we are going to the zoo is the Phoenix Zoo has Komodo Dragons now! They go "on display" next weekend, but zoo members can see them this weekend...and well we are zoo members. This inspired the second challenge which is MYTHICAL CREATURES. Now, talking animals don't really count as mytical. But Dragons, Unicorns, Elves, Gobblins, Faries, Trolls, Griffins...etc. Any creature from myth that is in a toon.

+ Icons may be animated, and text is allowed
+ Please include the title of the cartoon with each entry
+ You may submit up to 4 Icons in this category
+ Images can be taken from screen captures as well as from promotional or still images.




That's a total of 8 icons you can submit.
Icons are due on Sunday morning.
Any questions, just let me know. :)
Any suggestions for future challenge please comment as well.
Have Fun!

I was afraid I might have to extend this challenge, as it seemed harder than I had expected, but we had a bunch of wonderful icons submitted and I'm quite happy with the number of icons in each catagory. So with that, lets get on to voting!

( Icons and Polls Back Here )

Caroline's Saturday Night:

It started by reading 500 pages for English (at least it was a pretty easy read...).

Now I'm watching BBC's Little Dorrit and attempting to get WAY ahead on homework so I never feel the way I felt this week again.

It's okay to say that your jealous. I understand why.

Just a quick reminder to enter Week 204! All entries are due Monday, November 9th at 8pm Central Time (compare time zones). The current tallies are as follows:

CONTESTANTS: 05
Actor Submissions: 05
Capt Submissions: 07
Hunt Submissions: 08

Here's a reminder to enter Week 223 ! All entries are due Monday, November 9 at 8pm Central Time (compare time zones). The current tallies are as follows:

CONTESTANTS: 10
Actor Submissions: 09
Capt Submissions: 15
Hunt Submissions: 05 <<<

David Schwimmer is living in the apartment above my coffee shop, so I serve him coffee a lot. I've been given explicit instructions to "treat him like a normal customer," but part of me wants to be kind of a jerk and say things like,

"Is this coffee better than Central Perk?"

"Sorry, Gunther isn't working today..."

"How's Rachel?"

"Remember that time you were on 30 Rock? That must have been huge for you!"

Others...?

Your next letter is... P!

Rules & Info:
♥ All usual rules apply. If you haven't read them yet, please go here.
♥ You may submit up to THREE [3] icons for this challenge.
♥ You must post your icons in a comment to this entry.
♥ You must post your icons including icon itself and the URL to the image and how the challenge letter relates to your icon with source (movie/show the icon came from).

Deadline for this challenge is Friday 08:00 pm MSK time zone [UTC/GMT +3 hours], November 13

Entries: 02