#pivitor

Thank you!  Yeah, my back was so bad that I couldn't lie down or sleep, which wasn't much fun.  It isn't nearly so bad now, but I've been taking pain meds (just Aleve, nothing risky) and muscle relaxants and am kind of terrified of how things are going to be once those are finished.  One day I felt really good and decided to stop taking them, and soon regretted it :P

Lenny goes up and down.  Today things were good for a while, and they’ve just taken a turn for the worse tonight.  I really don’t know what to do.

pivitor replied to your text post: I'm so sorry things have been chaotic and rough with Lenny. Sending good vibes your way!

LJ still has image hosting, I believe (or at least my photos are still up from the old days), but they're shrunk down quite significantly and probably not much use for posting art or scans.  And sadly Photobucket has all but imploded unless you pay for the service.  I'll experiment with posting via Imgur, but will admit that the sole reason I migrated to Tumblr back in 2010 was because I could just upload images directly to the site and didn't have to muddle with Photobucket code.  Imgur should be less of a hassle than Photobucket though, so maybe it won't be so bad.

And yeah, I think it's a good idea to hash ideas back and forth so we can figure out the best solutions to the problem.  Pillowfort does sound like a good idea, though admittedly I don't know a lot about it.  And @jenniferrpovey has a good point about LJ, which I'll reblog shortly.

pivitor replied to your text post: Sorry you havent been doing well, but glad to hear you're feeling a little better now!

Thank you very much :D

peppersandcats replied to your text post: Huh! I didn't realize you were Canadian, or if I did I forgot (am very low on sleep right now).

Yes indeed, and I'm now living in southwestern Ontario :)

And I hope you can catch up on sleep soon!  I haven't slept well in a while either, and it really does impact one's daily functioning :\

peppersandcats replied to your text post: Someone had a link for how to get a Tumblr feed in DW - I'll try and grab up a link.

Really!  That's interesting, I hadn't heard that.  I tried to import my blog into Wordpress the other night but it doesn't seem to have worked and then the site acted difficult about it; maybe there's just too much demand going on for that right now.  I'll try again in a bit, but DW could be a good option too.  Please do send it along if you find it :)

dullscythe replied to your text post: I'm glad you're feeling better! Although if you haven't check your posts, so much SFW stuff has been flagged

I'm not leaving, but if something does happen to the site, you already have my twitter, and can feel free to hit me up for a phone number on either platform, though idk how exactly international texting works lol

one time i was uber pooling from my friend’s dorm to my dorm--honestly a stupidly short distance to uber, literally 15 minutes walking distance--but it was pouring rain and i didn’t have a coat or anything and i did have my laptop on me, and i was like “$4 is a reasonable price to pay so that my laptop does not accrue water damage”.

anyways.  i get in the car.  there’s another girl there already.  the uber driver, wanting to make small talk, asks us if either of us watch netflix shows.  “not really”, says the other girl.

“i don’t have a netflix subscription,” i said, because i don’t.  “but do you watch any netflix shows?”

“actually, yes”, says my uber driver.  “i watch this thing, but you’ve probably never heard of it.  it’s called.... [drumroll] anime.”

“oh haha,” i said.  i’m a little shookened by this turn of events.  “i have heard of anime.  what is ... what is your favorite anime?”  my uber driver informs me that his favorite anime is one piece.  “uhh, like the one with the pirates?” i say.

my uber driver is delighted.  “oh my god, you really do know what anime is!”  (i sure do, juan).  he starts getting confessional on me.  “it’s just.... it’s just so filled with emotion.  i think people probably judge me for it, but i can’t help it .... what do you watch?”

[me, a person who honestly doesn’t watch that much television, but what she does watch consists of at least 75% anime, but who is now also unwilling to say that]: uhh... i watch... cartoons.  i’ve watched gravity falls.

“oh, gravity falls!” says my uber driver.  “i’ve watched that too!”  “and so have i”, says the other girl in the car, who has been witnessing our conversation in silence.   anyways, then juan asks what my major is, and i tell him i’m double majoring in statistics and creative writing.

“what’s creative writing”, juan asks.  “they’re separate majors” i say, assuming he got confused b/c of the double major.  “no, like, what is it?” ... “umm”, i say, not having foreseen this development.  “i write, like, stories.”

juan has an epiphany.  “that’s why you don’t watch TV!!!  you’re the one writing TV!!!!”  i tell him i guess so.  at this point, he tries to drop off the other girl in the uber, but it turns out that she’s inputted her address wrong and isn’t home yet.  he promises to drop her off after he’s dropped me off, but unforch the app doesn’t have a function to track that so he says he’ll just mark that he’s dropped her off.

he, reasonably, wants to assure the other girl in the uber that he isn’t a creep who’s going to kidnap her or anything, so he’s like, “don’t worry, i’m legit!”...

...”actually, i’m a narcotics officer!” and then.  he whips out his badge.  and flashes it at us.

AJJ - goodbye, oh goodbye

If I stay in bed long enoughThey'll go to church without meIf I move away enoughThey won't outrun me

sean bonnette has a way of writing extremely narratively specific (and often surreal/nonsenseical) lyrics that are still massively personally resonant for me. the result is that even the most negative songs they end up with are weirdly comforting. on the scale of depressing to uplifting, though, this track’s firmly in the middle. it feels like a mirror held up to the saddest, most adrift version of me when i was a kid, though - but instead of being like ‘oh, i’m sad thinking about what that was like for me’ i’m just like ‘wow, so it wasn’t just me.’

oso oso - out of the blue

aint it nice to fuck up, and not be in it alone?

it was hard to pick a line for this song because i honestly think jade lilitri is one of this generation’s greatest underrated emo songwriters. if you’ve never listened to this record, spencer, i’d really recommend it.