Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
I guess I'm the only one who updates anymore/even has a vox anymore. Oh well.
I think all those years that my mom would just give me money or take me out shopping when I went through breakups or when I'm depressed has really caused a problem.
When I'm not happy, all I want to do is spend all my money on trivial things. Things that don't really mean anything, but make me feel good because they're mine. It really sucks working in retail because I sit there and plan the things that I want to buy when I'm upset or stressed.
Right now I'm shopping for clothes online. Haven't bought anything yet, probably won't, but the fact that I always go back to this bothers me at this moment...
"I live my life on 28k a year. I pay my parents $400 a month to do my laundry, have cable and internet, and keep the kitchen semi-stocked. The rest of my money goes to gas for the car, movies, and food. I totally understand how my poster of non-success could be considered lame... but my life is about my friends, instead of about me. And even if it is a safety net and way to avoid deeper issues, I'm happy and comforted here. And the more I think about it, knowledge is painful and life is short. Fuck making a difference or changing the world. I wanna be fat, fed, and occasionally fucked. No lie. And at least I'm self-aware and intelligent enough to know that I should give up hope and keep going just how I am."
From Writesomething.net
http://www.writesomething.net/post/928881/
~K.o.R.~
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
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Really, not the kind of story that bears telling via the film medium. Skip it and spend the money on the book instead.
This is a book with many characters, and I love it for how crowded it is. I love how characters are differentiated, how they react to events and situations unpredictably. Byatt has succeeded in creating several interesting roles, which inspire a variety of emotions in the reader: Olive Wellwood, an author of children's tales, beautiful, unrealistic, somewhat weak, inspires a fair amount of irritation; her philandering husband Humphrey, father to many women's children, is alternately disgusting and charming; Herbert Methley, advocate of free love, is sly and frightening; Elsie Warren, a young woman who falls prey to Methley, generates empathy for her innocence and admiration for her subsequent independence -- and so on.
The Children's Book follows the life and times of several creative, talented, offbeat adults in the late 19th century, and studies the impact of their choices on their children and the paths the new generation chooses for itself. In terms of plot, it is a success, though I personally feel it extends too far into the 20th century and there was not much need to include a wartime dimension. But it is so heavy and ponderous in the telling that the pleasure in reading seems to leach out about halfway through, especially after a painfully detailed and uninteresting description of the "Grand Exposition Universelle" at Paris, where Byatt insists on painting a verbal picture of every statue, every tent, every puppet and other conceivable artistic work displayed there.
But if you can manage to tolerate/skip the boring bits, the 600-page read is worth it for the richness of the characters. Anselm Stern, the German puppetteer; Julian Cain, intelligent, weak, confused about his sexuality; Dorothy Wellwood, who fights the prejudices of her times to become a doctor; Benedict Fludd, a wild, deranged artistic genius -- and many, many more. Be warned that it will take time and effort to make it through the whole book, though, and that the prose is patchy and sometimes even yucky (a young boy masturbating is described as "working himself into... a soaring wet ecstasy") but Byatt manages to achieve a compelling study of human nature, even if the free history lesson is quite unwanted.
So, a bunch has happened.
My 21st birthday came and went, and I got traaaashed at Foxwoods. Had Billy pretend to be my boyfriend because I didn't want to deal with dudes that night. My dress ended up being wayyy shorter than I remembered, sooo I think I showed a little bit too much that night and got too much attention. In the wrong way. Haha, oh well. Puked my brains out, apparently, but I was too drunk to remember. What an awwwwful next day I had. But Liss took care of me and got me awesome presents! She's the bestest.
My sister ran away with her boyfriend almost 2 weeks ago now, and who knows what the hell they're up to. My sister called the cops and almost had my mom arrested and now she's on the loose somewhere. I don't know when she'll grow up and mature but hopefully it's soon because she's hurting everyone's feelings on a daily basis. Not gonna lie, as much as I miss my sister, the house has been so much calmer. It's nice. Boring, but nice I guess. My mom has actually been out of her room. And not just for food or the bathroom. I still hope my estranged sister will come back because it kind of sucks not talking to someone who you should be best friends with. But I'm so glad my parents finally see how icky her boyfriend is.
Um, school has me uber stressed out. I have no days off and I work 3 days on the weekend. So I basically never get a day to myself. Stefano, a guy I work with has been so nice about it though, and is offering to cover some of my hours so I can de-stress myself. I'm so glad there are nice people out there. I EFFING HATE MY CHEM CLASS. I have the dumbest lab partner and my teacher is older than dinosaurs. :C
Lyn got me XBL so Left 4 Dead has basically been my life for the past few days. Yayyy.
