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[cleolinda]

"You have 96 new email messages!"

*hides under bed*

I am so buying a new computer, by the way. I love my new keyboard, but... everything else is shit. The speakers are shit (they don't even work half the time), the mouse is shit, the computer itself is slow, five years old, and only has 10 gig of storage... yeah. I'm a Dell girl, so I'm going to be pricing things for a couple of weeks until I get paid... I may have to go ahead and buy a new monitor, though, because my current one keeps turning off by itself at random times. Yeah. Not good. Or maybe I just want an excuse to buy a flat screen. Hmm.

Speaking of storage, I was worrying about running out of room on yet another email account, and then yesterday morning I got up and magically Yahoo had increased its storage from six mb to 100. Bless.

(No, you don't understand. I am actually excited about this.)

Random ramblings: Bad storm on the way; am backing up the My Documents folder on a CD, because poor Vladimir's computer died and he lost everything. All his scripts, his writing, his translation work, everything. He's going to see if he can get this data retrieval service to revive it, but... doesn't look like it. Oh, and you know how my computer's name is Betsy? His new one is now Veronica. It's not quite Archie and Friends, but it's close.

Apparently my journal is the #1 LJ-hosted journal on diarist.net's Clix page. Well, the top five sites have about 30 incoming hits among them, so this is not necessarily saying much. I'm sure once we spread this around--Clix: the newest meme!--that'll change. Yeah. I know some big-name LJers who could break this list, man. I think I was #4 on the overall list the other day, and then I fell off the chart. Oh, there I am--I'm at #20. Hmm. I need to make myself a cute banner in case I get back on the front page.

Feeling very weird lately. Like, emotionally very happy and content, but physically... I feel physically depressed. Like, can't get out of bed, not motivated, slogging around the house, nervous, upset stomach, etc. Which is bad, because I need to strike now while I have not one but several irons hot, and I can't even bestir myself long enough to recap Days. It's bad. Sick? Bad weather? Hormones? I don't know. But it's ridiculous, because great things are happening, and my body needs to get with the program.

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[phanatic.livejournal.com]

Speaking of storage, I was worrying about running out of room on yet another email account, and then yesterday morning I got up and magically Yahoo had increased its storage from six mb to 100. Bless.

Would a 1 gigabyte Gmail account help matters?

you beat me to the punch (:

[shoukinkasegi.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking the same thing.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have one--the reason I don't use it much is because it doesn't have one of those nifty IM "you have mail"-type alerts, the way Hotmail and Yahoo do.

[lissybrand.livejournal.com]

yay for yahoo and their 100mb emails !! im very excited about that too :D oh and i hope you feel better !! try to rest up - you seem to be very busy pushing yourself too hard. take it easy girly and take care of yourself !

[chelkitty.livejournal.com]

Duuude, and for people who have SBC Yahoo dialup (for a frickin $9.99 a month), they get -2 GIGS-...o_o That's a lotta email.

Congratulario on the thingythingthing that I don't know what it is...o_O

[fanofall.livejournal.com]

Yeah--I have SBC Yahoo!DSL, and I have no earthly idea what I'm going to do with TWO GIGS of space. Especially since I have my computer's e-mail as the POP server for SBC.

What do you do with TWO GIGS of e-mail space?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I have the Google Gmail thing, which also has some unholy amount of storage--a gig?--and I use it for file backups (email term papers to myself, etc.).

[fanofall.livejournal.com]

Smart AND funny. Now all you need is a song, and you're a triple threat! :-D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee, yeah. Don't blame me for the rocks that I got. I'm still Cleo, Cleo from the block.

[chelkitty.livejournal.com]

I think it's for porn storage. o_o

[fanofall.livejournal.com]

*sporfle* HEE!

[computermaniac.livejournal.com]

some people just need all the space they can get and actually willing to PAY to get more. some people send and receive lots of pics (or other large files) via email. other people, like myself, write and test various programs that are distributed via email (easier to keep track of who has a copy rather than posting it somewhere where just about anyone can download it). of course, i'll prefer uploading/downloading such programs via FTP rather than have them clogging up my Yahoo account, but its not up to me. *grumble grumble*

[fanofall.livejournal.com]

Now, that makes total sense, but for those of us who are computer literate but not fluent, and who just use the internet really to gossip about stupid movie scenes :-), that's a LOT of space. :-D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks. I promise all will be revealed once the papers are signed. :)

[fanofall.livejournal.com]

When your body's all "I wanna sleep!" and your mind is all "But we got stuff to do!" that's your body saying "Dude. We're good. Take a fricking DAY, all right? JEEBUS!"

It's just your body's way of making sure you don't overtax yourself and get seriously ill. If you're not actually depressed, and if it's only for the day, then listen to your body and take a break. You've worked hard, and you deserve it; let yourself bask for 24 hours, FOR THE LOVE OF PETE!!!!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, that's the thing--right after I finished the Harry Potter thing, I was like, "I'm'a take a damn vacation, yo. Even if it means just lolling around at home." Yeah. That was... what, nine days ago? I think the Getting Out of Bed and Moving On should commence.

[fanofall.livejournal.com]

*grumblegrumble* Stoopid LJ ate my reply, which was witty and full of banter and said something along the lines of "Okay, I see your point, but you've kinda been in the middle of a thing lately too, and that's kinda stressful as well..."

And stuff.

GRRRRRRR.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awww. It's the thought that counts. :)

Not really "magically" ... they're trying to compete with Google's GMail.

[chenpion.livejournal.com]

Here's the link to an article on Information Week: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=21800484

If you've the opportunity, though, I'd suggest you to take the offer to get a GMail account. I don't have it, but I -hear- that it rocks...

[pjammer.livejournal.com]

HAHA ... just you wait until you get a Diarist Award (http://pjammer.livejournal.com/2001/06/26/) for one of your entries ... the traffic spike is truely something to behold! :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oooo... *goes off to read*

[edda.livejournal.com]

Apparently my journal is the #1 LJ-hosted journal on diarist.net's Clix page.

*is very proud of you*

Feeling very weird lately. Like, emotionally very happy and content, but physically... I feel physically depressed.

Even happy stuff causes stress. Just set a small goal and do it. Then see how you feel.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

*is very proud of you*

Aww. Don't get too excited--I'm #1 (and I *am* back at #1 on the main chart, probably because of this entry) because I had 50 clicks going into diarist.net. Girl, please. I get that many hits at the Digest from people trying to see if I'm ever going to update again. Let's get half of Livejournal signed up for Clix accounts and then get this party started for real. ;)

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Like many creative people perhaps part of your mind is anti-success. Usually it gets you to procrastinate by taking advantage of moods. But when you start to feel good and productive, it manifests with physical exhaustion. This is a theory based on nothing but personal experience.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

But I could totally believe it. I do have a big, irrational fear of success, if that makes any sense--like the way I keep saying, "Things are going well, now I'm scared." My mother thinks I'm insane.

[katesti.livejournal.com]

yesterday morning I got up and magically Yahoo had increased its storage from six mb to 100. Bless.

(No, you don't understand. I am actually excited about this.)

I was totally excited, too, since I was damn near running out of space on Yahoo. Yay Yahoo!!

[rosiegalbasi.livejournal.com]

I never comment because I think you won't see it anyhow. lol

But I get about 50 emails a day on average. I used to get 100-200 after Mardi Gras. And so lots of my emails would bounce because my Hotmail and Cox accounts couldn't handle the load. The only thing that helps is going through and reading/deleting as fast as possible. Or maybe you could turn off the email notification thing if you can remember to check. I never can. ><

What is this Clix thing? O.o

And as for the sluggishness, probably just a bit of bad weather and mild depression. You'll probably pull out of it soon. ^^

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I see all the comments! And yeah, I've pretty much had to go through and read/delete as fast as possible.

The Clix thing is like--it's a directory of journals, basically. All you have to do is sign up, and it'll start tracking how many people visit your journal from the listing and how many people you send in through your affiliate link.

[rosiegalbasi.livejournal.com]

Huh. I might have to do that.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

The best part is that the counter resets every Thursday night, so you have as much chance as anyone at cracking the charts. :)

[rosiegalbasi.livejournal.com]

That's really awesome. I wonder if you get more people friending you that way.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Probably--I know I started looking at the other journals on the chart.

[rosiegalbasi.livejournal.com]

*joins* *makes banner*