Left Brain, Right Brain

1. Copy and paste your friendslist behind a cut.
2. If you've friended multiple journals by the same person, delete all but the "main" one.
3. Bold the name of everyone you know or have met in "real life."
4. Italicize the name of everyone you've spoken to on the phone.
5. Underline the name of everyone you've chatted with online.
6. [Bracket] people you've known, online or off, for more than five years.
7. Turn family members red
8. {bracket} people you've corresponded with via email
9. *star* people with whom you've had offline correspondence

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I don't know why I didn't see this before. LJBook lets you turn your entire LJ (including comments and pictures!!) into a very nice pdf file. I don't think I would ever need to do this, but it's nice to know the option is there. I tried it. I've been doing this LJ thing since May 7, 2004, and my LJBook was almost 350 pages long. I'm sure it will get much longer.

One of the things I liked best about this was the fact that you could browse in Adobe by year and month, and the file itself also had a Table of Contents with clickable links for every single entry title, so you could just jump to the page where the entry was.

If I ever move my blog from here, I might have to use this service. Good thing to know.

I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that LJ is going to rollout TrackBack support by the end of December. Maybe just for paid members at first, but when the November News Wrap Up ends with "Stay tuned to news. We've got more exciting announcements coming for you in December!" ...well... I can't help but hope a little!!

Can I just say that I REALLY REALLY REALLY love the new LJ Portal aka "My LJ"? Cuz I do. Those lucky paid members got to use it first, but in the last few days as I've started using it I've really grown fond of it. And now it's finally on the menu, too!

All of you, LOVE YOUR PORTAL! It's super useful! And rearrangeable, too. Sweet!

I was just looking at one of the communities I am a member of here on LJ, and I saw someone who had the SAME hamster-rockstar picture that *I* like to use!!! So for right now, I am switching to a moon. When I'm not being so lazy all the time, I'm going to make my own animated .gif that is totally unique... but for now, I'm lazy. And I don't usually like just using a picture of my face. Boring!

This is a post from bellapoison's journal. It's pretty funny.

frino inspired me to play around with the look of my LJ some more, so here is the new incarnation! Please pay close attention to the fact that I have now incorporated Esperanto as a supported language, and as the language of my Comment links and stuff. ^_^ As some of you may remember, I learned Esperanto a few years ago over the summer. It is VERY easy, and pretty fun, and makes learning other languages easier, too! For more information about Esperanto, here are a few helpful links:

• The Wikipedia entry about Esperanto



• Multilingual Information Center about Esperanto



• The Esperanto League for North America

It's funny. It seems like whenever I want to read random people's LiveJournals, I get a disproportionately large number of Russian ones. Weird.

Just ate some takeout from Dino's, this totally GRAVY Greek fast-food place down on Snelling and Larpenteur. OMG, I want to die, it was so good. I have to go there way more often. Seriously. Die. Good. Mmmmmm.

Wanna go to sleep now. Soooo satisfied.........

Scrollin scrollin scrollin... keep that text a-scrollin! Scrollin scrollin scrollin, rawhide! I mean, HTML!.

OK, when I was younger, I used to journal sporadically. It always felt like a chore. I'd open my little book and write what happened during the day. Bleh. Well, sometimes it's interesting to go back and read it, but kind of pointless. For the last few years, I write when I feel like it, and it usually ends up on a legal pad or in some random notebook that I find laying around the house, or on here. But instead of trying to force myself to just recount the events of the day, I just muse on what I am thinking about or feeling. It's a lot easier to do (sometimes) and definitely feels better. Cathartic. Although I do sometimes just write down the events of the day, it's only when I feel they have been emotionally charged for me in one way or another, and I need to get them out of my head and on paper (online?) so that I don't have to carry all that emotion with me into the night. So.

Sunday night I was SO upset about something, and I couldn't find my little notebook that I try to keep with me so I can jot down things that come to me during the day. That was SO upsetting. So I had to grab a legal pad that I found and just write a couple furious pages out so I could sleep. (The computer was off by then, otherwise I would have written it here.) Sure enough, I felt WAY better after getting it all out on paper, and the next morning I had no worries or frustrations on my mind. I feel sorry for people that don't know the therapeutic benefits of journaling.

Time to go make a tuna melt. With Frank's. Mmm. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.