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projectjulie has suffered for quite some time from a lack of attention and a profound incoherence in its purpose and audience. I never much wanted a blog, or even an online journal, and if dipped my toe into such waters it was mostly incidental. what I want is a hub and an archive, a nexus for all the people and things to which I'm connected. so I'm making it official: this LJ is now merely a clearinghouse and a placeholder (akin to a "digital lifestyle aggregator," in web2.0-speak). I'll continue moblogging pix and tweets here (twitter, it turns out, is exactly the microscopic and immediate degree of blogging that engages me). in other words: nothing much has changed vis å vis the dearth of meaningful content, except that comments are turned back ON for mobile posts, since I plan for those to be the only ones (or perhaps I'll still make flocked entries once in a while, we shall see).

what I've loved most about lj, as an interface, is its capacity to foster and nurture intimacy across time and space. but, as in all things, we reap what we sow, and these days I'm not expending the effort to make it fulfilling for this purpose. this is an inevitable side-effect of being a dissertator: in order to finish my PhD, which is monastic and all-consuming, I have to learn to be a worse friend. all I can say is that it's painful, but necessary.

CONTENT
- my diss and other updates about my academic progress and accomplishments remain at cyborganize
- after adamantly resisting for years, I'm suddenly quite taken with Facebook, and am exploring how to make it as comprehensive a nerve center as possible for my personal and professional presence
- and to reiterate the sidebar links (and then some), you can also find me on www, ourchart, friendster, imeem, youtube, bliptv, flickr, delicious (fannish/personal/professional), gcal, plazes, librarything -- or all of these aggregated at profilactic (or jaiku)

FRIENDS
- I've done some defriending -- let me reiterate that I have affection for all of you, and this move is wholly motivated by my regrettable need to pare down my online life
- by the same token, I'm extending unfriending amnesty: if you'd like to remove me now, especially given the devolution this journal, please feel free to do so, with no hard feelings
- I remain committed to reading my flist and everyone on it faithfully, though you'll have to continue to forgive my minimal commenting
- I still have a lot of long-term catch-up reading to do, mostly fic, which may or may not ever happen

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I was trying so hard to hold out -- first until the end of BSG, then at least until the end of the year. but it has become clearer and clearer that catching up on my flist is not feasible for me right now, whether I approach it as work or as play (it was around november 8 that I gave up). ultimately the milestone of my first campus visit is no more arbitrary a date than december 31. the whirlwind of applications-dissertation-moving-job(?!) is picking up speed, and I'm not getting off this carousel in the foreseeable future. my life is changing, and so, sad though it may be, my participation in LJ has been changing. projectjulie is now closed.

• updates on my academic life remain active at cyborganize (if I have you friended there, now's a good time to friend back if you're willing)
• picture posts are moving to facebook
• twitter archiving is also moving, but as always you can get my tweets via facebook status or twitter proper (poke me if I don't follow you back -- twitter doesn't track these things as well as LJ)
• fannish content is moving to the Archive of Our Own (I'm still in the process of uploading past work)
• I will also still be posting at and maintaining bsg_femslash, getyourtoaster, and thearchive2 for the moment
• personal/friendslocked entries are no more

I will no longer be reading this friendslist, but I'm happy to keep anyone and everyone friended here so you retain access to previous flocked posts. you may also, of course, defriend at will.

livejournal -- which means all of YOU -- has changed and enriched my life in so many inexpressible ways. I in no way intend this as a gesture that ends online or offline friendships, but the time has come for me to prioritize other dimensions of those. goodbye + ♥s

pulled pork potato boat from the BBQ takeout place that just opened down the street. OMG MEAT PARTY in my mouth!

• 15:57 hasn't left the house in days. doing laundry, dying hair, cooking, cleaning. #
• 15:58 watching @lizlet + @feliciaday on stage & other videos from NewTeeVee live! events.newteevee.com/live/08/Watch #
• 16:00 reading interview with @raquelita on sarahpalinerotica.com - icanhaz.com/friskysarah #
• 16:06 researching internal mysteries of + writing questions for Early Liberal Arts College. #
• 18:22 new iPhone app crush: Files lite (transfer files of many types from your computer to view on your iPhone/Touch) #
• 18:25 still looking for recs for free apps that are worthwhile (not games or music). I use CheckPlease but haven't taken to others. #
• 18:26 WHY ISN'T THERE A WARCRAFT APP?!dbp came home with Wrath of the Lich King today, btw. NOOOOOOOOOOOO. #
• 18:28 trying again to edit this video that I have been inexplicably putting off. #
• 19:40 @jeangenie but which is better, twittelator or twitterfon?? not crazy about either twitteriffic or twinklete #
• 19:42 @jeangenie I mean twitterrific or twinkle. just got iTalk + prefer Now Playing to Showtimes. replaced Stanza with aforementioned Files lite. #
• 22:28 do you know that according to NASA, @marsrovers Spirit + Oppy are twin sisters? I want that twincest slash so bad! tinyurl.com/57hmyv #
• 23:15 today's piéce de resistance: SEKRIT IDENTITY of @Laura_Roslin REVEALED! icanhaz.com/horsewhip #
• 02:57 kind of hated that Grey's. their moment of perfect synergy is frakked. I don't know if I can get over the Hahn snafu, even for Mary. #
• 02:58 even if she is one of my most frequent words (the cloud is very telling) tinyurl.com/68dcgs #
• 02:59 feel feeling fic finally finish finished finishing flist food... LJ LOL long lost love lunch... word words work working write writing #

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still playing WoW rather obsessively (although not, I hope, unhealthily) over here, mostly tag-teaming separate objectives with _plasticity_ and slowmend (the Blood Elves) and beerbad whose big furry cow man is still leveling up. I'm running Tiziana the Troll with alice, and Tiz is SO CLOSE to lvl 30 and a pink dinosaur to ride! but meanwhile Kristeva just reached lvl 40 and OMG I CAN WEAR MAIL NOW. I had no idea that would happen so soon, and I'd just finished assembling my kickass matching leather ensemble, including special feather headdress. but OH WELL, I blew about 15g at auction replacing every single item (except the cape) with a new METAL one for a total of almost double the armor points!

BEFORE:


AFTER:


not as coordinated as I would like, but I was bargain shopping! I have a headpiece but it's covered up by my bangs. the red part is a shirt, so I guess if I took it off I could be sexily midriff-exposed. and I think the salmon pink part is supposed to be my skin.

OMG OUTFITS.

• 10:36 OMG that extra hour of sleep was divine. I got to watch the phone-clock turn back at 2am. magic! #
• 14:03 brunch with my beloved freak + the future Mr. Freak, recently engaged! #
• 16:17 racing against the clock to record videos during daylight. #
• 20:31 twitter epitaphs for @marsphoenix brought tears to my eyes. tinyurl.com/6ycx82 #
• 20:32 video #1 recorded (due tonight). video #2 (for the journal) will have to wait until tomorrow. #
• 20:33 family dinner, conducting the business of inheriting my brother's car. as he's unhooking his stuff, the electrical system goes out. #
• 20:34 no GPS, radio, climate control, power locks. will have to take it straight to the shop. so I'm staying over again tonight. #
• 20:34 will try to finish knitting his hat, begun yesterday. he's guilt-tripping me about how his head is cold! #
• 20:40 my vote goes to: "Every robotic lander dies. Not every robotic lander truly lives." by T.V.L. #
• 22:51 latest ep of Terminator:SCC where everyone goes to family therapy to be better robot mommies indeed as CRACKTACULARLY AMAZING as alice said! #
• 22:58 has no clean underpants for tomorrow, nor clothes different from past two days. #
• 02:11 & via @raquelita, I leave you with sarahpalinerotica.com !!! #

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my aunt made me this fabulous necklace yesterday after I oohed over her stash of yarn scraps! the project took her about 2 hours.

crafty stranger at The Edge just GAVE me one of her rings because it matched me! I couldn't find her online but she'll be at craftland (http://craftlandshow.com)

• 11:27 Internet shut off again -- I REALLY have to stop torrenting at home. will be forced to leave the house for the 1st time since returning. #
• 11:33 luckily I still have lots of tabs open to entertain me through the morning. #
• 12:43 workmen on scaffolding outside my window, fixing the chimney. listening to them gab. #
• 14:14 actually ejected from the house by desperate need for food, coffee, Internet. to the edge... #
• 18:18 amends made, home internet sorted. forced break from Warcrack was probably just as well. mobilizing 4 direct downloads of TV instead of P2P #
• 18:19 should hurry up + fill out my absentee ballot. may have to research MI candidates + ballot measures. #
• 18:36 I think the fact that Rs do better when less ppl vote + Ds do better when more people vote says it all who has democratic values. #
• 18:37 once again feeling uncomfortably overwhelmed by pile of niggling tasks. overwhelmed = WoW #
• 21:08 off to a Halloween party! me, dbp and lynne are costumed as the electoral map, with me playing the middle of the country. #
• 21:10 I just wanted an excuse to wear my red suit (nothing I own is blue). dbp is the west coast & L is in red pants and blue shirt for east. #
• 00:45 I owe GET WELL SOON to @surblimity for scary health times + CONGRATULATIONS to @zephoria for diss defense! #

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blurry sarah palin (notice the price tag on her jacket)! there will be at least one at every Halloween party (#2 came with pageant sash, secret service agent, and life size cardboard McCain). both Buffy and Sookie also attended -- I told them they should have a smackdown.

chimney repair at my house.

• 17:02 dreamed last night that I was Hillary Clinton and had to give a speech accepting VP nomination. awesome but very stressful. #
• 17:04 had my toybag searched at airport security for the first time, but apparently only because of the duct tape. #
• 17:04 hates leaving california. :( #
• 18:47 changing planes in vegas. got in 5 minutes before my connection, but luckily it's running slightly late. grabbing a smidgen of free wireless #
• 18:53 no time to grab food, and all I ate for brunch was wendy's chicken nuggets. hope I don't starve. #
• 18:55 115 unread emails for the plane, if I have battery left after finishing overdue essay. I have scifi from wayback machine. #
• 23:55 landed! loves cities from the sky at night, twinkling orange and whitegreen like advanced capitalism's Xmas tree. #
• 00:03 brrrrrrrrr I hate fall. #
• 00:06 brrrrrrrrr I hate fall. but both david and pooja came to pick me up, awwwwww they love me. #
• 01:17 rt KC: McCain may look like Tigh, but holds the position of Admiral Cain. so Palin=Gina? Obama=Leland Adama still, with Papadama as Biden. #
• 01:18 REUNITING WITH WARCRACK. dbp's character got a haircut! #
• 02:07 literally 10 days behind on LJ in the aftermath of trip. will split flist for reading; comms + feeds not so bad but journals will be a while #
• 02:13 most of the heaters in the house are broken. trying out the old-fashioned hot water bottle that lynne talked me into. #
• 02:15 Time Capsule, oh how I have missed you! #
• 02:42 thinking, while falling asleep, that maybe I should do nanowrimo.org for my dissertation chapter. #

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• 13:17 been living without Internet all week, which makes things like LJ difficult. twitter also hard to keep up with. #
• 13:18 I unfollowed all the mad men and other fictional characters, plus a few others. apologies. #
• 13:19 if you know any iPhone client that will import more than a few hours of tweets, please let me know. I think the issue is on twitter's end. #
• 13:21 @girlboymusic I'm not sure even doppelcest can convince me to watch HIMYM, but em probably has it so I'll see what I can do. #
• 18:32 if you're wondering what I've been up to: these hours spent sitting on a couch that smells of cat pee, editing this month's hastac vlog. #
• 18:32 time to shower and leave the house, since I need a few things from the Internet before I can finish. #
• 20:07 I txtd alexis that I would wait forlornly outside her house until she got home! em off trying to cash a check. #
• 20:09 since I left the house without my wallet and had to go back, I was obviously meant to come here instead. #
• 20:31 OMG INTERNET I MISSED YOU. check out my friend's essay on political ceramics fundraising project, Obamaware: icanhaz.com/obamaware #
• 22:41 determined to get this Warcraft patch downloaded so alexis + I can play some later. over 1GB is a lot on limited internet. #
• 23:05 catching up on last night's debate via twitter... #
• 23:16 never ate dinner. oops. I will throw myself on the mercy of alexis when she gets back from yoga. #
• 23:35 OMG VIDEO UP. www.hastac.org/node/1725 #
• 23:52 stealing hummus + crackers. #
• 00:30 skip=380. tabbing open a bunch of stuff for later. too much for alexis's treacly internet. #
• 00:50 has an overdue article to revise tomorrow. #
• 02:34 it was slash + burn over here trying to make room on HD for Warcraft update. #

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very possibly my favorite street ever

grabbing dinner at the neighborhood taco stand, where we've been eating almost every day

alice has chickens living right outside her dorm!

• 11:11 riding the bus. this would be punishingly early even on east coast time. no coffee yet. #
• 11:15 riding the bus. this would be punishingly early even on east coast time. #
• 11:18 I do have a conference presentation, but I haven't gone over it. this is gonna be interesting. #
• 12:54 hey, I think my presentation went really well! of course I forgot to tape record myself, but I think most of why I said was in my notes. #
• 14:58 is gonna need a nap. and band aids. I wore big girl shoes and of course they ripped up my heels. #
• 16:27 found the perfect padded bench on which to zzzzzzz (skipping sociology panel) #
• 19:55 watching 'queer black new wave cinema' with Cheryl Dunye #

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that's the building this queer studies conference is in.

• 10:56 final countdown. think I will just barely make it out of here having accomplished most things on the list. #
• 10:57 next 4 hours = laundry, toilette, packing, 2 or 3 crucial emails. last night the internet went down, inconveniently. #
• 15:52 might have overpacked. I hope I didn't forget anything important. red suit, check. #
• 15:54 think i'll continue email mop-up on the plane, then pray after battery dies. I'm flying through kol nidre. #
• 15:56 I can start and finish a conference presentation on thursday & Friday evenings, right? #
• 22:06 changing planes in phoenix. I can't believe I did this trip every month or so for a year. #
• 22:09 trying to fast, at least till after services tomorrow. #
• 22:13 haven't watched tv in so long that I actually forgot it's an airplane activity. #
• 22:43 FREE WIRELESS! #
• 22:44 aaaaaaand apparently "adult" content is blocked. which means I can't read Tristan's Babeland interview. because she's an adult. #
• 00:54 landed in LA! that's for @furies #
• 00:55 SO EXCITED TO SEE THE GIRLS AND CATS #

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• 10:49 waking up is so luxurious until the panic descends. #
• 10:50 my usual method of dealing with stress is changing my expectations of what I need to accomplish. so: vlog will have to be edited in LA. #
• 10:50 now I feel I can get out of bed. #
• 11:14 Tina Fey SNL VP debate spoof on hulu nom nom nom! #
• 16:39 going to campus to turn in forms + mail apps. then coffeeshop + email. still panicked -- mom wants me to process emotions. #
• 19:43 accrued pooja + dbp, ended up at meeting street for sandwiches and then the sci li. unplanned but soothing. #
• 20:15 HASTAC/Interrupt emails, more job letters, vid beta is the agenda for this evening. #
• 22:02 nibbling on a hunk of blue cheese. #
• 23:23 I am, I think, slightly calmer? still 6 letters + many other things to do tomorrow. but the worst (pre-conference panic) is over? #

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