A) As some of y’all have figured out, Janet is my RL first name. The downsides to this are 2 and related: 1) that stupid song in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and 2) when someone swears with a d**nit at home, I think I’m being addressed sometimes, especially if I have headphones on and don’t hear it totally clearly. (Yes this just happened half a minute ago, thus why I mention it. =-p )
B) If you have a Twitter and see JesusFreak84 following you, that’d be me. I’m not ambitious enough to manage dual Twitter accounts. (Besides, TweetDeck is the only Windows Twitter app I’ve found that supports it anyway.)
Ran around SL a bit last night with Foxx, Enz, and a friend of Enz’s, but I’ll blog on that later.
Ja ne! (Roughly, that means “see you later” in Japanese.)
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Before I created this avatar, Linden Labs released what I thought was a long-overdue “supplement” to Second Life, the SLim messenger. (Yes, I know calling it the “SLim messenger” is redundant. Tough.) Read the rest of this entry »
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But before that, I’m just going to toss out there that I think the volume dial on my laptop is possessed. =-p And being the ADD woman that I am, mini-story: last night/this morning was Insomnia Party at South Point Academy in Undercity. I finally logged after 2AM SLT, but at one point, Katsumi/Yaoi, Enz, Kyuui, and myself were in the basement of the Academy talking about demon possession of all things, though we hit other random topics.
Anyway, back to the subject line. RP in UC’s really slowed down for me, personally, as of late. Sunday evening, the story moved into “chapter 1,” and I was selected to be part of that, but I can only do so much RP-wise when no one else is there. =-\ To make things even funner, one of the people I RP with the most is thinking of RPing his character out, due to OOC stuff that I won’t get into here because I doubt he or anyone else involved would want me to. Grrr… I get that summer’s always slower for sims—I’ve been told that plenty, and when I was an RL kid, my family traveled plenty during the summer, and I’ve no doubt UC folks travel, too, but still… Doesn’t make it any easier for folks like me who don’t really have any first lives at the moment. I had a good “groove” going in RP, times where I was really getting “in character,” like totally forgetting that the woman behind the keyboard exists and I AM that character, and I’m worried I’m losing that. The little RP I have gotten to do has been feeling more and more strained, at least for me personally. (If that’s not coming across to anyone I’ve RP’d with…go me? I dunno…) And now someone who was vital at the beginning of UC, but then left, is back again, and I have no idea how that’s going to affect anything, if at all. *Sigh* If this were an RL RP, like DnD or something, schedules are easier to coordinate—at the very least, we’re all in the same bleeding time zone. You can actually say, “OK, we’ll all meet at Joe’s or Starschmucks or whatever at 7PM this Wednesday,” and reasonably expect people to show and be ready to RP. Not so in SL. Rai’s in Europe, and everyone else is scattered throughout the US, most people have “RL” that has to be satiated before SL can be indulged in, etc.
Still looking for a job, but that’s going no where fast. (Thank you, Mr. President, for all your anti-business rhetoric; that’ll drive the economy forward, really. (And before anyone whines, I had my criticisms of President Bush, but I try to avoid waxing politics on here; religion, I’m confident in speaking on, politics not so much.))
I’m due to guest host MnK this weekend, and as I told Koffee, I am somewhat nervous, but I likened it to the nerves I had like in 5th grade before my first band concert. Koffee showed me the MnK studio in K-Grid, and that was pretty neat, though I look funky in K-Grid. I’m not sure how, but I had the K-Grid viewer and SL running at once and my laptop DIDN’T blow up. I’m pretty sure it only held up bandwidth-wise because Dad wasn’t home yet; when he’s home, he streams video like there’s no tomorrow, because silly me introduced him to podcasting, so now he just downloads all his boring politics podcasts, and what he can’t podcast, he streams, which isn’t great for me, either. My ex was in a state 7 hours away from me, and we used to use Skype a lot, and if Dad was video streaming, good luck with us getting Skype to work. Video gets disconnected, voice gets disconnected 5 min. later, text is the only thing reliable at that point. However, this Friday it looks like Dad’ll be working late, (long story; he usually doesn’t on Fridays,) so I should have zero problems with MnK guest-hostage. Host-age….blah English. I remember one time I was talking to someone, my ex, I think, and I meant busy-ness, but I spelled it business, because that’s how English is “supposed” to “work,” and he was rather confused on what I was talking about. Anyway, there I go rambling on again…Friday evening’s going to be, ahem, interesting, so everyone better be in-world at noon SLT on Saturday to hear it. =-p
Almost 2AM SLT, so I should REALLY be getting to sleep. Nini! o.o/
Thinking of putting a playlist together of whatever’s on my compy (since I can’t afford any new musics =-( ) to make a “soundtrack” for my Undercity RP. It’d basically be something for me to listen to as I begin RP for the day, some songs to put my mind “in character,” others to remind me of how she was feeling, what was happening, etc., when I last left UC, etc. Some might even just make sense to the whole of the city itself in my brain. File this post under “Janet thinking aloud.” =-p
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