1. I am unemployed as of January 1st. Not the greatest start to 2010, then.

2. Avatar is absolutely stunning.

"gods is being like demons - is big thing, not safe"

Driving through the city this evening after an 11 1/2 hour day at the accounting job and seeing what were presumably work Christmas parties at every turn, I thought for a second, "I wish I was at a fancy Christmas party tonight. Sniff sniff. Here I am, driving home alone after a long day..."

...and then I thought, hold on a minute, Zebra, you hate work social functions. They leave you tense with agitation for about a week afterwards, and you come home and inflict your loathing of them on everyone you know via lengthy posts. You've done this year after year. You've even made up an acronym for them! 

Then I laughed all the way home.

* Dreaded Work Social Function.

Long day today, mostly productive in as much as I worked a lot but it was hard going and I had to break every half hour. This is better than the 15 minutes my attention span was before, but deadlines loom tomorrow and I'm so tired right now I have no confidence in myself. I'm back down to zero attention span, though, and further work won't accomplish anything.

Sargon is sick and I think I am coming down with it. It's not the worst thing ever, but I need to get this shit done before it hits, if I am. So, sleep.

I went back to the physio this afternoon. My neck/shoulder wasn't getting better and I'd developed a headache. The freezing of the shoulder had dissipated so I was using words like "pinching" and "stretching" and she didn't like the sound of that. I got a stern talking to about computer/work time and then she got down to the business end. It's a recurring problem now and if I don't take care of this, well, you don't muck around with your neck.

Looks basically like bad posture due to too much computer time. I must have originally done this to my right hand side which is why I switched my work mouse to the left hand side about two years ago. It's taken that long but now the problem is on the left - bad computer posture and leaning on the mouse arm. That's seized everything up. But due to too much (probably laptop) computer time, I'm hunching forward and have lost the neutral neck position so that when I turn my head, it's not turning, it's laterally moving. Hence the crunch and the pinch and the ow ow pain. But. Now we know what's going on here. For a while it almost looked like it was yoga !!! - two weeks in a row waking up on a Thursday in excruciating pain.

I'm to limit computer time this weekend. Work on spinning my neck on the axis and the neutral neck position. And I'm going back next week and she thinks maybe this is no longer a treat and then leave it issue. She said the word "exercises" ...

Which is fine. Better to get on top of this now and possibly save myself 70 years of neck pain.

But I can't help thinking that the universe is conspiring against me! I was only just this afternoon saying on cassiphone's lj that I have been thinking I need to better plan my evenings, set times or tasks for TPP work and then put the computer away - both to act more efficiently, I think I am spending longer on tasks than they need just because I can (ie tons of stopping and starting and wandering off tangent aka internet surfing) and to give me more time to read or sew or whatever. And that this would um, get the laptop out of my bedroom. Seems that decision has been made for me.

https://twitter.com/Naamah_Darling

Expect there to be amusing roleplaying quotes, complete non-sequiturs, and a great deal of swearing. I will probably talk about sex a lot. That or my cats. Who knows?

This thing doesn't list "friends," it lists "followers." Awesome.

I expect there to be naked men on my front porch by morning. Well, give them a blanket or something. I don't want to have to go fishing their gonads out with my only crochet hook.

Man Becomes Metaphor for America

I would like to be clear that I don't think this is funny. I think it's terrifying.

That doesn't mean that I'm not laughing.

The last few days I've been feeling motivated but not particularly clever or energetic, thus I've been doing sitting-down tasks like drawing and dyeing my hair..and badly adapting a mens shirt. Pictures follow, this stands as much as a warning as a tutorial, though the resulting shirt is certainly wearable, if nothing else a waistcoat hides many sins :)

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Weddings in the Age of Facebook.

I ROFL'ed.

( Cutting for Tweet's sake. )

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So, have y'all all heard this story about the Indian villager who used hand tools and fourteen years of his life to carve a tunnel through a mountain?

He did it so that he would have a secure place to park his truck.

More detailed article here.