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[cleolinda]

Well, damn. Finally my journal is back up--I'm on the chef cluster, so I don't even know if the entry before this is the last one I wrote. I can't remember--do y'all remember replying to another entry that isn't here now?

I'll tell you what I really missed about Livejournal--it wasn't my own journal at all. Honestly, all I did was work yesterday, and I didn't have a damn thing to say anyway. What I missed were my constant friends-list hits of music recs, celebrity gossip, movie trailers, hot actor picspam, political news, fresh-baked icons, RSS feeds, and bloggers who can actually spell. My friends list is basically a microcosm of everything I like on the internet fed onto a single page--no wonder I'm addicted to it. The people on other sites who've been making fun of emo teenies wailing for their lost journals all weekend--well, let me put it this way: if you think Livejournal is nothing but a bunch of middle-schoolers posting bad poetry about their latest experiments in cutting, maybe that's because you don't know anyone cool.

(And this was Hogsmeade weekend at hogwartsishome, y'all! Damn.)

Spent today with Grandma--Friday was her birthday, so today we had the big family lunch. Also, my parents went to see Phantom of the Opera, so we had a big roundtable dishing about movies, basically. George's verdict is that "it's a shame they didn't get a Phantom who could sing." My rebuttal is that George is not the audience they cast this Phantom for, if you know what I mean and I think you do. Also, my aunt, uncle, and cousin ganged up on us and convinced us to go rent buy Napoleon Dynamite, and I think I've convinced Grandma to watch the Golden Globes tonight so she can see clips from The Aviator; we bonded over a mutual love of young Katharine Hepburn while the roast finished cooking.

(I'm such a loser this year, y'all. For something like three years running, I had this huge awards season section on the Digest with weekly columns about who was in the running for what, and I'd do huge Globes and Oscar recaps, and this year I didn't even hear about the Globes until yesterday. I suck. P.S. I think The Aviator will win. It's the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, after all. Also, cross your fingers for Cate.)

Sigh. Back to work it is.

Comments

[zahavah.livejournal.com]

how do you find out what cluster your journal is on? everyone seems to know but me..

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

Where Am I? (http://www.livejournal.com/misc/whereami.bml) tells you which subcluster you're on.

[neflhim.livejournal.com]

It's odd, but there was an absolute void where the Globes publicity usually resides. Until, what, Friday? I hadn't even heard that neither Gibson or Moore was nominated for anything.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Okay, so it's not just me? Because it really does feel like a void.

I think a lot of it is that this isn't a particularly compelling year in terms of competition--you know, the way the competition turns into a saga in and of itself. This year, it's like, that depressing Clint Eastwood boxing movie, or the little indie movie about people sitting around drinking wine that no one saw, or the latest Scorsese movie. There's no OMG WILL LOTR GET ROBBED AGAIN!?! urgency to it, you know?

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

I know; not being able to catch up on my friends list and everything about drove me buggy. LOL I didn't realize until yesterday how many of the sites I regularly check are people's ljs...

[caffienerain.livejournal.com]

omgwtfcleo. I SO just saw Phantom last night, and every time "mah doggeh!" came on, I kept giggling throughout the whole thing. It was hilarious.

[annapiranha.livejournal.com]

I'm on the Chef cluster too, and I posted the same entry about eleven times before I read that the Chef cluster was having delays in entries showing up. So I had to wait up to delete the copies of the same entry. But everything's working now, which is groovy.

I caught you a delicious bass

[pigsnicket.livejournal.com]

Yes! Napoleon Dynamite is awesome!

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

If Cate doesn't win, it's a crime.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I have two words for you: Gwyneth. Paltrow. It's happened before, man.

Welcome Back! I just got back too!

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

croses fingers for Kate!

And yayys for a nice quiet weekend! But... damn I missed you all!

[zarq.livejournal.com]

I'll tell you what I really missed about Livejournal--it wasn't my own journal at all. Honestly, all I did was work yesterday, and I didn't have a damn thing to say anyway. What I missed were my constant friends-list hits of music recs, celebrity gossip, movie trailers, hot actor picspam, political news, fresh-baked icons, RSS feeds, and bloggers who can actually spell. My friends list is basically a microcosm of everything I like on the internet fed onto a single page--no wonder I'm addicted to it.

Amen, amen amen.

Glad you're back. :)

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

My God, I love your icon. Mostly because, well, I actually did most of that.

*laughs some more*

[comedownstairs.livejournal.com]

The people on other sites who've been making fun of emo teenies wailing for their lost journals all weekend--well, let me put it this way: if you think Livejournal is nothing but a bunch of middle-schoolers posting bad poetry about their latest experiments in cutting, maybe that's because you don't know anyone cool.

If that doesn't belong in metaquotes, I don't know what does.

[cellardoor28.livejournal.com]

is it wrong that i'm deeply amused that i'm on the filetmignon cluster?

oh, and in case you (almost certainly) didnt see this on my LJ today - i saw ian mckellen last night in gold hotpants.

that is all.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

That, I want to see.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_waterlilies/]

Dude, I was lost without LJ. As stupid as it sounds, I was. If I need something (pictures/information/whatever), a lot of the time, I run a search for it and see if a community pops up ("'Interest not found'?! What do you mean 'do-it-yourself laptop repair' is an interest not found?! I'M HAVING A CRISIS HERE"). I needed something the other day--I think it was how to reset an iPod--and I spent a few minutes whimpering and staring at the powerloss page instead of, y'know, checking the freaking manual or something. If Google and Livejournal both went down at the same time, I would be screwed.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_waterlilies/]

Oh, duuuuh. In case you're all "WTF? Who is that?", this is a post-rename token _philo_sofia.

[bibliotech.livejournal.com]

HAVE MY BABIES. OMG I AM LOGGED IN LOOK AT MY LOGGED-IN-NESS.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

ARE YOU ON CHEF, TOO? I HATE CHEF CLUSTER BUT NOW I AM LOGGED IN AND WILL KEEP LOGGING IN UNTIL THE BREAK OF DAWN UNH UNH UNH.

[pjrampolla.livejournal.com]

Thank you for explaining the whole daddy loves you thing to me. I felt really dumb, and was going to post a long, involved response about how I was terrified of the opera since I was three and how I've never really been exposed to it before and then livejournal broke. And I feel exactly the same way you do about your lj. :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee! It's okay. I'd never seen the show myself (and between you and me? It ain't opera, which is part of what makes stuff like "Start from the beginning of the aria!" or "This is my masterpiece 'Don Juan'!" so funny). Really, if you don't know anything about Phantom (book/show/movie) at all, it's very understandable that you'd go, "Say what?"

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

I really want to see Napolean Dynamite because it looks like the sort of stupid humor that would have me rolling on the floor laughing. No joke.

Yeah, my journal wasn't up until this morning, probably; I'm on the madcow cluster, which was the only one they didn't get up with all the others.

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

YAH MADCOW.

Which to be honest, I rather like usually, just not now when it was down.

Really annoying thing was that all of my main comms were up, but I couldn't post to them since we turned off anonymous posting.

[cinnamontwist.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard boo about the Golden Globes this year. Granted I'm in Australia, but hey our press fairly closely mirrors yours in terms of celebrity matters.

And then there's the joy of stereotypes. I know teenagers make up the majority of Livejournal, but
1) There is a significant population of over 1 million that are over the age of 20.
2) I have teenagers on my flist and not one of them tALks lieK DIs. They have intelligent opinions and can articulate themselves properly.

I'm so squeeful LJ is back! *hugs flist* :P

[pjrampolla.livejournal.com]

You are the crusader of all of the non-emo teens out there. Including me. I think I love you. :)

[steel-lace.livejournal.com]

Totally with you there.

I'm on chef cluster too, and oh, the agony of not having a friend's page!

You know you're addicted to Livejournal when it goes down and it starts to feel like part of you is missing and you don't quite know what to do with your time...

By the way, any developments on the whole Cleolinda Cafepress tsunami relief store thing?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I actually have a professional designer who's offered to pitch in--we need to get on that. I could probably go ahead with "woe." and "OH NOES" on my own, though...

[oya-yansa.livejournal.com]

Personally I am convinced that LJ crashing was the universe calling my bluff about how the SixApart whiners are so silly, who really cares if LJ disappears... and then without it I was like, AAAAA!

So I will mock no more.

I'm also with you in that it wasn't needing to post, it was needing to read.

[koritsimou.livejournal.com]

if you think Livejournal is nothing but a bunch of middle-schoolers posting bad poetry about their latest experiments in cutting, maybe that's because you don't know anyone cool.

PREACH, baby. Mind if I link back to this or quote? You just said it much more succinctly than I ever could.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, go for it--I think it's already at metaquotes. : )

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

I really, really hope no more of my RL friends get LJs. The ones that do tlak l1ek diS oMg l0l and it makes me weep for my age group.

And WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME IT'S A HOGSMEADE WEEKEND? *runs over to community*

[kaytethinks.livejournal.com]

if you think Livejournal is nothing but a bunch of middle-schoolers posting bad poetry about their latest experiments in cutting, maybe that's because you don't know anyone cool.

Amen, sista.

[evilphoenix.livejournal.com]

Your icons interesting, and im being too lazy to try and look up stuff to possibly explain it (yet)...are you saying that character is an archetype or something? :-)

[alexthedevil.livejournal.com]

Well, damn. Finally my journal is back up--I'm on the chef cluster,

Join the club >______< *slaps LJ*

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

You kick ass.

[meinnim.livejournal.com]

if you think Livejournal is nothing but a bunch of middle-schoolers posting bad poetry about their latest experiments in cutting, maybe that's because you don't know anyone cool.

Maybe they just don't know anyone cool or funny. I've seen some wailing on my flist but it's the funny, tongue-in-cheek kind.

[gniko.livejournal.com]

I use lj mostly for the communities that post the pictures, the news, and rss-feeds. And to see how many of my friends are still breathing.

I've moved from Chef to Filetmignon.

[evilphoenix.livejournal.com]

You've made the right decision. Welcome to the meatpile.