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Gafilk was wonderful (more on which anon), but the last two days back to work have been absolutely dreadful. Various minor disasters coupled with being very shorthanded this week have left me feeling very overstressed and overextended. Hopefully things will start to calm down by the weekend.

I’ve got a lot to catch up on, but we’ll start with the “First sentence from each month Year in Review” meme, because it’s cute and I enjoy it.

2004, In Review

Happy New Year! Thus we come to the fourth law of success and happiness …for I gave you one more power, a power so great that not even my angels possess it. Our cat Dayna has always been a bit high strung and neurotic, but she had been getting increasingly clingy and needy with her requests for attention. Almost entirely fiction this week, although I have been dipping in and out of Harlan Ellison’s Watching, a collection of film essays. So, I haven’t posted any quizzy stuff in a long, long time. The reason for this is rather idiosyncratic. Something that a lot of people don’t know about me is that when I first went to college in 1988, I was a journalism major. Heard on NPR this morning, in a discussion about notions of beauty in fairy tales (slightly paraphrased from memory): First of all, happy birthday wishes to my partner-in-crime, fleetfootmike! Terry Pratchett appeared on a BBC talk show promoting his new book, Going Postal. Total time at the polls, about 25 minutes. Wow, I really did disappear.

Yep, that looks like the year, alright.

Last year, a meme went around to post your LJ stats on new Years day, to keep progress on what you did over the course of the year. Here’s what I posted then:

Account type: Paid Account
Date created: 2001-06-22 11:31:42
Date updated: 2004-01-01 08:54:14, 2 minutes ago
Journal entries: 307
Comments: Posted: 1,863 – Received: 1,337

And here’s what the stats are today:

Account type: Paid Account, expiring 2005-11-02
Date created: 2001-06-22 11:31:42
Date updated: 2004-12-31 10:22:14, 3 days ago
Journal entries: 516
Comments: Posted: 3,851 – Received: 2,983
Friends: 296 Friend of: 253

So, that means I made 209 posts last year, 1,988 comments, and received 1646 comments. More active than in the past, but I’d like to write more here, so that gives me a base to improve from. 🙂

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In other memage, I scored an 86 on the Nerd Quiz, though I was annoyed with at least one question. The “Do you telnet?” question really should have included an option that said ‘No, telnet is inherently insecure. I use SSH.’ 🙂

…found in bardling‘s journal, by way of guyelfkin.

1. Tell me one thing you love about me.
2. Tell me two things you love about yourself.
3. Look through the comments–when you see someone you know, tell them three things you love about them.
4. Do this in your journal so I can tell you what I love about YOU.

Comment to this entry with a post you think would be totally out of character for me – something I’d never talk about, never discuss, never say, anything. It has to be completely out of character.

Body Positive
You scored 98 for Positive Physicality!

Wow! You are probably a nudist, certainly sexually liberated, and you think the physical universe is a wonderful place to live! Learning about living things and where human beings came from is exciting. Chances are you’d agree that the fashion and diet industries are a blight on our society. You probably think the prudish fundamentalist complaints about “lewdness” are part of the very problem they say they’re fighting against, too: that the hypocrisy of hiding everything sexual behind a veneer of respectability is precisely what creates the obsession with fake, processed sex that drives the porn industry. But I’m preaching to the converted here, aren’t I? Keep pushing those boundaries!

If you want to tell friends about The Positive Physicality Test, here’s the url:
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=1513919932029819966

Meme going around, taken from cadhla, among many others:

“If you and I were alone in a room right now, what would we be doing?”

Once you’ve answered, you can post this in your journal, and see what folks want to do with you. 🙂

I normally eschew this type of meme, but I couldn’t help but admire the sentence:

If there is someone on your friends list you would love to have an epic, sweaty, damn near legendary, 12 hour, nitrous infused, wake up the neighbors, loud, hair-pulling, squirting, soul wrenching, exploratory, tongue up the ass, pile o boobies, pounding, body slappin’, oh My God, explosive, cuddliscious, I’ll even make you breakfast, fuckathon with, post this same exact sentence in your journal.

(In deference to my friends list, I will only post this once, and not once for every person on my list for which this is true. I think the people for whom this applies know who they are.<g> )

I haven’t posted that much quizzage lately (for which I’m sure you’re all grateful), but I couldn’t resist this one, since I came out with my very favourite Doctor ever. (I wonder if “Which Doctor?” conveys the same sort of psychological insight to a person as “Which Beatle?” does?)

You are the Third Doctor: Charming, commanding,
physically competent and more than a little bit
vain. You share the Second Doctor’s amiability
and the First Doctor’s lack of patience with
small-minded idiots. Your urge to take care of
the entire universe often leads you to
arrogance, but you’re dashing,
self-sacrificing, and brilliant when a crisis
erupts.

Which Incarnation of the Doctor Are You?
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From Go-Quiz.com

I note for the record that if you’re a cute female, Authorization isn’t necessarily difficult to acquire. 🙂