Of Lists and Rants

Oh, hay bbs. So, I leave for Savannah in a week. A WEEK. WTF HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? ♥ Put cash in the bank! ♥ Sew Starry skirt for Odette ♥ Sew Giraffe shirt for Adee ♥ Sew shirts for Fay and Creven; Pants and vest too, maybe ♥ Repair Penelo for AWA ♥ Make Shojo Phonebook poster ♥ Finish Coloring Leah for EGL ♥ Pack up for Savannah ALL BEFORE FRIDAY! Haha I'm screwed. :| So, today was my last day at work. So now I can do this! :D Please, remember the Mall Girls are people too! We can... read more

In another venue, someone asked about why I'm pushing a group of friends towards using things like LJ, BBSs (forums), and so forth. It's because people have forgotten how to write email well, and those other venues promote better communication. Here's my rant: I am winding down my use of email. Not to zero, but I'm now down to only three personal email lists and am dropping one of them very soon. Why? For many years, there was a well-understood and well-enforced(!) etiquette for email. If you didn't...

I 'm so fucking sick of society's need to make everyone line up and march to the same goddamn tune. So, what's got me all riled up is this article that's quickly ascending the mighty Digg charts: Essay arrest baffles experts . No I'm not shocked that the kid was arrested, who could be shocked by that anymore? I'm annoyed he was arrested to be sure, but certainly not surprised. No what really gets me is this, "Family therapist Michael Gurian, author of The Minds of Boys, said Allen Lee...

I am rather pissed off. The vast majority of you on my F-List understand what I am pissed off about. The rest of you who are still in the pre-dawn light of this, I apologize for bringing you into the light and possibly upending your day so early. So. I hop on my puter to do my routine checking of things: webcomics, Y!Gallery, my LJ F-List, email. Everything is fine until I check my F-List. Lo and behold, a large number of communities and personal journals are being deleted by LiveJournal due to...

This is mainly for all the American women and girls on my f-list who use or ever have used cosmetics (but even those of you who don't live in the US or aren't female might want to take a look); a database ranking most make-up manufacturing companies' and individual products on the risk scale . As most of you probably know, the FDA has practically no regulations on what goes into make-up, nor do any of the ingredients have to be listed on the packaging of the product. This site does a very thorough...

 ABOUT ME: Im gonna admit that Im not that different. I still have my whole life to create myself. I know my flaws and I wont hide them. Im a hypocrite. I lie. I make messes. I gossip. I hate. I do everything I normal human being does. Its odd that I hate people with all those flaws. I guess I just want to meet someone to is the exact opposite to complete me as a person. Hi, my name is Crystal. Its nice to meet you. I tend to look up to lots of people. Whether it be for their personality...