chibichan: → belle (disney » such a p.y.t.)
I went to the doctor today to get my usual prescription. He prescribed me 10mg tablets instead of 20mg, so that I can try and come off the medication slowly. If I still feel sick with 10mg, I'll just double up the dose and try taking less medication another time. He said I'm definitely too young to be on permanent medication and I agree. It would definitely be amazing if I could come off this medication once and for all! Which reminds me, I need to book a session with my physiotherapist soon for my tight muscles. The only problem is that she lives in Edinburgh and usually I go there with Andrew and his dad when they go climbing on Saturdays and I have my appointment... but ever since Andrew's got a job they stopped going there because he works basically every Saturday, so I haven't had a session since the beginning of May, and that's almost four months. Anyway, I also registered with the practice in Andrew's town, since I'm not living in Dundee anymore and there's no point in me having my GP in Dundee if I don't live there.

On a fandom note, I was thinking of opening some fandom communities here on DW. Specifically, I was thinking of a community for CLAMP manga and another one for Disney animated films (plus icon communities for both fandoms). I've already created the communities, at the moment I'm just wondering two things: 1) if anyone would be interested in joining them; and 2) if their names are okay. For the CLAMP community, I created both [community profile] clampesque and [community profile] clamp_manga and I don't know which one I should turn into the actual community. (I also sent a PM to the admin of [personal profile] clamp, which has never been updated to ask if I could help with the community.) As for Disney, there's already a community called [community profile] disney, but it seems it never opened to the public properly. I also sent a PM to the admin, asking if I could help promote it and bring it to life. (I hope that doesn't make me sound rude or anything. It just bothers me to see all these communities being created and never been updated.) I also created [community profile] animated_disney for animated Disney films. So, guys, what do you think of the community names? And would you be interested in joining?

I am going to try and update my journal every day. I've got at least two memes that I started years ago, but never finished. I might finish them in the next days.
chibichan: → ice cream (misc » cute as a button)
Hello, DW! I woke up at 8am this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. I'm kinda irritated by my inability to sleep in, lol. I always wake up either at 7 or 8 every morning and I don't know why. I guess I should be happy that my body is now used to certain rhythms or something, but sometimes I just wish I could sleep until 9 or 10, considering that I've been really lucky with my timetable for this semester and 90% of my lectures start at or after 10am. I've never been a morning person, but now it seems that I've become an early bird. Life is strange sometimes.

Anyway. I'm getting into the habit of posting more frequently now and I really hope I can keep it up. For years I've neglected my journal when I was on LJ, but now that I'm on DW, I somehow want to post more. It's like I've re-discovered how fun LJ was when I first joined that site. So, sorry if I end up spamming your f-lists!

Speaking of LJ... I can't believe how quiet it is these days. Now my f-list on DW is actually more active than my f-list on LJ - and I used to have a very active f-list. These days, only 2-3 people actually manage to update their LJs. It makes me very sad. I wish everyone who still used LJ would move over here. DW is such a nice place to be. I don't know what the owners of LJ plan to do with that site in the future, but I sense it's not going to be pretty. I've seen screenshots on how they would like LJ to look in a few years and I was genuinely scared. I'm very glad I moved over here and a big thank you goes to my LJ friends who still comment on my entries, despite the move. You're amazing, guys. ♥

Onto other matters. According to Amazon, the law books that I ordered should arrive today. Which means I will most likely spend the next days reading the materials for the Equity & Trusts essay that I have to do. It would be great if I could finish it before the deadline, so wouldn't need to worry about it anymore and if I needed to edit something, I could just go back to it without being pressured for time.

Yesterday my dad sent me money! Most of it will go to the university to pay for accommodation, but I'll still have more than £200 to pay for food and anything else. Not that I'm going to spend all that money, but it's nice to know that you're economically safe in case anything should come up.

I also changed my moodtheme yesterday. I will forever love my Leverage animated moodtheme (in fact, I might go back to using it in the future), but I felt like my journal needed a change of moodtheme. Now I have an animated moodtheme of the second season of Gossip Girl, which is my favourite season so far. I really like it! ♥ I think the gifs are perfect for every mood. :D

Anyway. Since I want to post more, but it seems that real life is going to be kind of boring for the next few days (I'm not going to torture you guys with Law of Equity & Trusts, lol), I thought I'd do... exactly, a meme! It's been so long since I've done one. This one might be rather old (I've found it while searching for old posts on a LJ memes community), but I've never done it and it looks interesting. I will actually start it tomorrow, for now I'll post the whole meme so I don't have to include it in every post. Here it is!

30 day meme )

And that's all for now. See you guys in the next post! :D
chibichan: → watanuki kimihiro (xxxholic » loneliness be over)
Well, guys. This might seem sudden, but I've been thinking of moving to Dreamwidth ever since people started moving a year or two ago. But only recently I really started thinking about it and looking into moving to Dreamwidth seriously.

You know, at first I didn't want to - not because I'm lazy or anything, I'd happily move over to keep in contact with my friends, and I don't really see any problem moving per se - but because LJ has been my blogging home for so many years, you know? All my entries are here, all my icons and all of my friends' comments, too. LJ has been my blogging home for almost 7 years I believe, and that's such a long time. I've also recently renamed my account to the username I originally wanted after LJ deleted and purged a massive number of accounts, plus I'm part of some communities on LJ.

But... you know what? I look at my flist and it's so quiet. Maybe people got busier while I was settling in at uni, but I think most of them just moved to DW over time. I look at all the changes LJ has made, despite its users (English users, to be specific) yelling, 'Please don't do it'. And I've come to the conclusion that right now... I really don't like LJ. I don't like what it's doing, I don't like the way its users are being treated and no offence to any Russian speaker in my flist, but I don't like the fact that LJ's homepage once you login is all 95% written in Russian. I understand that lots of Russian people use LJ, but unfortunately I cannot understand Russian (I sound like the bad guy in Iron Man 2, lol). LJ's homepage has no use to me, except to check the last three comments on my entries and possibly checking a birthday or two. Not to mention the changes to the comments, which have possibly killed half (if not all) the roleplaying communities on LJ.

The people at Dreamwidth really care about their users and they have already tweaked the code around (it was originally the same code as LJ) so that is can do more neat things that LJ can't - or, technically, that LJ could do, but doesn't. Which makes me think: why is LJ not making those changes in the first place, instead of redesigning comments pages, which is the last thing we want or need? This question led me to think that maybe LJ isn't doing these things... because the people that now run it couldn't care less.

I've done my research on DW, and after reading other users' reasoning here, I have decided that my next post will probably be there. My username is chibichan, just like here. :) If you guys already have an account there, then comment to this post and I will add you on DW, too!

I will be crossposting entries to LJ, too. I will still check my LJ flist and post in communities I'm a member of. I'm not sure if I will disable comments here or not, though it would be nice to have them all in once place. I'll start importing my journal to DW soon, too, so I won't lose anything. :D (That was the biggest thing that prevented me from moving earlier.)

I hope to find you guys on DW, too. Right now it's in open beta, so you can create a free account without needing an invite code. :D Alternatively, you could still comment on my entries using OpenID (everyone on LJ has one). We'll see next time.

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