Meme: How my journal became

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From rysmiel, cos the questions seem interesting.

My username is livredor because when I started I wanted to use the journal as a kind of commonplace book combined with a livre d'or (visitors' book). The focus was going to be as a booklog, so something mentioning books also seemed apt. I explain all this in more detail on my website; hmw26 expresses a very similar idea much more cogently and with cool links.

My subtitle is száztízezerszáztíz. It's the Hungarian word for 110,110, and I like the pattern of letters rather than it having any particular significance. pthalogreen taught me the word. In theory I change my subtitle, but I've not yet thought of a better one so it's been fixed for a while.

My displayed name is not sheepish, but individ-ewe-al because one can never have too many bad sheep puns. My real name means ewe lamb in Hebrew (honestly, some parents!) And I suppose because individuality is something I value highly.

My friends page is called dyverse absurdytes and abuses because I came across the phrase in the museum in Norwich and it seemed apt. I change my friends page title quite a lot, whenever I come on a short phrase that sounds cool and vaguely relevant to a collection of miscellaneous interesting pieces of writing. Previously it was afflicted with language and ignorance which is a line from Zelazny's Lord of Light. And I can't remember what it was before that.

My default userpic is a caricature of myself, based on the identikit app at Saw You (though they're everywhere now, MSN seem to have licensed the same system). I modified it quite a lot though, adding the plait which I drew by "hand" in Photoshop, and the teapot motif which I stole from Google images, because it wouldn't be me unless tea was involved. Oh, and it's purple because I love that colour, and when I was a kid my ambition was to dress entirely in purple, which I sometimes do, though not all the time because that would be silly. I wanted to give an idea of what I actually look like, and be recognizable to people who already know me, without using a photo (I now do use a photo for another of my icons, in fact; I've since become more relaxed about the whole issue).

lethargic_man is on his way here and should arrive in a couple of hours, yay! I'm off to make us supper for both of us.

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[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, if there is any mail you have sent me to which you have not received a reply, you want to resend it, and cc to my hotmail address. *hug* I'm sorry about this, I have never before seen a mailer so pernickety a value of broken. In the event that you've not sent me anything this past few days, I'm worrying about nothing and no action need be taken.

[liv]

*hug* I haven't sent you any mails recently. The only mail I'm writing to you at the moment is still in my head where no temperamental servers can interfere with it. Also, I've done it enough times to convince myself that, for me at least, one form of your email is consistently working and the other consistently isn't.

If you need reassuring about anything else, I have also turned the virtual thing you sent me into a physical thing.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Have you backed up your head?

*giggle*

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Have you backed up your head?
That's a very you sort of concern! I tend to work on the assumption that if anything happens to mess up my head to that extent, the situation is serious enough that probably reconstructing half-written emails to rysmiel isn't going to be my first priority. Obviously, it would be better to get round to writing and sending all the emails I intend to send, but corresponding in gradual stages is the most efficient I can manage!