I just discovered the replacing a chapter on FP doesn't count as updating it, and therefore doesn't change the date of the last update. MIND BLOWN.

I also just discovered that aaaaaaaalllllll the early chapters of The Eiffel Tower have lost their formatting. There are no scene breaks. None. Not until Twenty-Two. How are people still reading it? Je ne comprends pas! No, seriously, I commend anyone who has read that recently, because that could NOT have been fun. Wow. It's really annoying for me, because, hello, I pride myself on not being hard to read formatting/spelling/grammar-wise, and this development does not exactly put me in that category. But it's got to be so much more annoying for anyone who actually read it like this - God knows I would've given up. Fuck me, I would've been one, maaaaaaayyyyybe two chapters in, and then "I'M OUT." So, kudos, readers. That really sucks.

What these two discoveries mean is that I will probably edit that soon. Hopefully this week soon. At least as a preliminary, minor edit session so that the story is, you know, readable. That'd be just swell. Of course, before I really do this, I'm going to make sure my test actually works. (If you must know, I replaced the first chapter of After Hours with, like, one word changed just so I could see. The chapter is replaced, the date isn't changed, but I did this about twenty minutes ago, and I do not trust FP. So we'll wait until tomorrow or so, and see what happens. Otherwise, editing! My OCD will allow me to! Wonderful!)

In other good news, my free copy of the special edition Blu-ray of Star Trek came two weeks before it's release date. Let's recap, shall we? Okay, so we have a great movie. That I got for free. In high definition. And it came two weeks early. Boom.

ETA: Ahahaha, the "ecstatic" mood theme picture is hilarious in that it's not very ecstatic. Sexually aroused, perhaps, but ecstatic? Haha!

ETA two: . . . I am ecstatic to see Chris Pine looking sexually aroused. Well-played, mood theme, well-played indeed.

ETA three: I may be changing journals, and starting over as I actually post on FP. If I can edit, then it will be my new era. More info to follow.

Tags: star trek, the eiffel tower, writing
Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Happy Hour; Cheryl Cole

1. I lovelovelove the new Swell Season CD. This really isn't a surprise at all, but you know. I just kinda had it playing in the background as I was working on something, and would kind of pause, and be all, "Huh. This song is wonderful." So, there's that.

2. Remember when I posted about hating it when an author just disappears from FP with no warning? Well, I randomly, bored out of my mind, Googled the story name of one such case, and boom! I found it, on the author's own (rather abandoned) LJ community, no less. I still don't know why the author disappeared in the first place (see: abandoned community), but I'm not so sure I care, as callous as that sounds, because I can read this story again. Win, self. WIN.

3. I had a pretty fun Halloween costume, if I do say so myself. See, I was working last night, so my only requirements for a Halloween costume were that it was cheap and comfy. I found one. It was meant for boy children. Let's recap very quickly: I am a fully-grown adult female. I fit into this jumpsuit. Oh, yes, it was a jumpsuit. I amused myself every time I saw a reflection, and that would be sad if I wasn't so entertained by it all.

Oh, oh, I thought of a number four. It's not anything too important, but still. *clears throat*
4. As much as I love my Star Trek themed mood icons, and I do love them, I'm thinking about creating my own. Dr. Horrible or Sunny, that is the only question . . . (this is more a reminder to myself than anything, really.)

Tags: music, serving
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: High Horses; The Swell Season

GODDAMNIT. I was looking back at some stuff, and realized that I had been kinda partially intending to revise/edit The Eiffel Tower. Nothing huge, because as much as I may not like some parts, or be embarrassed by others, I'm still immensely proud of the story as a whole, like the rawness, appreciate it as my first finished work, etc., etc., all that good stuff. Just . . . tighten. Fix some little errors, some stupid things that I regret ever putting in there and served no purpose. (Snowboarder Seb? Fuck me. And why do I keep bringing up that thing, which I'd really rather forget? Damn it.) But I know I've said this somewhere, once upon a time, that I'm kiiiiinnnnnda OCD. And that The Eiffel Tower started and ended on the same date on FP. So if I were to ever edit it, it would have to be on that same date, as to not mess up how pretty and symmetrical it looks. (No, seriously.) Which was October 8. Which I missed.

Oh, well, I'm unsure that I would've actually done it anyway. I mean, it sounds swell, and fixing the minor, easily fixable things that drive me crazy should be easy enough, but. Well.

If I do it next year, it'll look like it took me six years to complete the story. I'm bad, but not to that extent. And on that note, I finished that story over three years ago?! How the fuck did that happen? Wow. That seems so weirdly unreal.

Tags: the eiffel tower, writing
Current Mood: pissed off
Current Music: La Amoureux; Park

It just figures that when I actually feel like writing hardcore, like I often sometimes seemingly never do, is when I legit do not have time. Like, ugh. Whatever. Life. Maybe tonight? I don't know. Maybe I'll try NaNo because we all saw that that idea worked out wonderfully last year. I think it would have worked splendidly if NaNo took place in December. You know, the month when I had finals. I wrote a LOT that month. You know how long my chapters normally are? I had a good, oh, probably eight completed chapters. And a bunch of incomplete parts too. Not ordered chapters, mind you, but (mostly) all for the same story. Sooooo . . . . Progress? That's progress, right? Maybe?

Side note: My computer shuffled to "Motha'uckas." My dog promptly looked up from his state of relaxation, all "The fuck is this?", and moved away a little bit. I wasn't aware that it would be possible for me to be more amused by him, but surprise! I love my dog. Also? I'm a huge nerd. Not as though that's a newsflash or anything, really . . .

Anyway, I'm determined to post something soon. Ish. Hopefully without much "ish." I might even do some one-shots. Well, "one-shots." I'm not sure it would be possible for me to leave them as one-shots, and not develop the characters more at a later point. Well, "later point." So, on my hard drive, in some random chapters set at a later time, and that will probably never be posted because the early chapters may never be written. That sounds about right, to be honest. Good God, I suck. (This is not a new revelation, don't worry.)

On the Sims front - okay, sidetracked. Let's be perfectly honest. I'm not really much for actual journal writing. I once was, really really, but, for various reasons, I'm not completely up for it anymore. I'll start writing an entry about actual life stuff, and then be partway done it, and become "meh." Completely meh. So that's why I'm resigning myself to the fact that this journal will probably be all Sims and writing. Alternate realities. That's almost deep, isn't it? I could make that deep. I'm not going to, but I want it to be known that I could.

Now that I got that out of the way, back to what I was about to say. That is that operation re-install 2 is coming along, I want to say "swimmingly." Perhaps that is the word I shall use. I'm done with a lot of sites, and pretty much just have to go through some MTS, and some of the booty. Those are big ones, yes, but a lot of the booty doesn't have images of what you're going to download, and since I am determined not to fall into the trap of downloading stuff I won't use (okay, not to fall into it so much), it'll be quick work to go through that part.

It's not going to be quick work. I am not deluding myself. (Well, maybe a bit.) Whatever makes myself feel better, I suppose! But no, I'm almost done that part, and then have to transfer it to the Windows side of the iMac. What, you thought I'd download everything on the Windows side? The side that's going to run the game? The side that I don't know how to use? That side? Yeah, no. I started that because, let's face it, yay, no transferring, but that lasted . . . one site? It's a fact, I am Windows-incompetent. I'm almost proud of this, Mac-snob that I am (at least I'm self-aware of the truth of this?), but I'm just too pathetic to be proud. Seriously, I stuck out downloading there for a few hours, but was just raging the whole time. I'm sure there's an easier way of organizing than what I was doing, but I'll be damned if I know what it is. (I'm sure I'm damned anyway, whatever.) So I went back to downloading on a Mac, and I'll transfer it, because the downloading part is so much easier, so much more understandable. I know, I know, it's just downloading, not very hard. But so much more time-consuming on the Windows side! I don't know, maybe I'm a moron. That's probably very accurate, for this subject at least.

Oh, oh, there is one thing I am competent at on the Windows side: illegally downloading Sunny episodes, and then putting them on a jump drive to watch on . . . a Mac. My bootlegged copy of whatever Windows OS my boyfriend put on that doesn't have a movie player for, like, the good four types of media that come with the downloads. But yay me, competency! (I accidentally typed a question mark at the end of that sentence. Jesus, that's probably accurate. Damn it.)

Tags: sims, writing
Current Mood: ditzy
Current Music: Nine Crimes; Damien Rice

I'm not sure there's anything I hate more than Fictionpress authors who just disappear. I'm not talking about people who stop updating (it would be kiiiiinnnnda hypocritical for me to hate that, wouldn't it now?) or those who have expressed why they're no longer updating/their stories are gone. I mean, not my favorite thing, those, but there's nothing worse than when somebody's whole profile is suddenly gone, not a trace, and you have no idea what has happened, and you're just kicking yourself for not reading that story, that amazing story, one last time. (I'm kinda drunk, yes. A drink after work, fine. Two shots following this drink for no reason, not great, but okay. Wine upon arriving home, not my best idea. Over it.)

Anyway. While I "work" on Electric Feel, I think I'm going to convert a couple of things to one-shots. Actually, one already was, and will never get past that, but the other, it'll probably be expanded on at some point. We'll see. I'm actually going to work on Electric Feel now. I'm taking a break from completely reworking my Sims 2 downloads, which is a daunting task to be sure, and am going to write. This is made easier by the fact that I have now watched every episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia in chronological order. This doesn't sound like much of a task, no, but let's keep this in mind: I live in Canada. We are about to start the fourth season next week, I believe. Maybe? From what Showcase's press release (Googled. And limited) is telling me, this sounds about right.

Internet watching is really not my favorite thing. It's a good thing my lovely boyfriend is a computer nerd (yes, beyond me), and I have faith that he will be able to find all of season five online in decent, if not good, quality. If not, well, let's be honest: I'll watch it in any quality I can find. I'm really not very patient with waiting for shows. Unless they're dramas (Friday Night Lights, True Blood), because I have a rule that I can only marathon my way through one comedy and one drama at a time, and dramas take a lot longer to go through. So not having DirecTV? That's okay, I'll occupy myself with something else while I wait for NBC to catch up. Comedies are a lot worse for me, because I don't have many of those. I have (and this is accurate, from me checking me DVD shelf over my shoulder): Arrested Development (MOVIE! moviemoviemoviemovie), Friends (which I have seen a lot, and am starting to go through again, because I can never see it too much), How I Met Your Mother (fifth season is easily accessible on television, thank you very much), Summer Heights High (one season of brilliance), Entourage (we're always a season behind in this household, that's not new), It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (. . . hence rant), and some Scrubs. I lead a pretty sad existence, yes.

Maybe a normal one, that may be more accurate. I mean, I work a day job, and a night job (serving, as has already been established), and so it's okay if I come home really tired, all set to just curl up on the couch with my dog. I think so, anyway. Obviously, I'm not completely lame (HELLO KINDA DRUNK), but I am mostly. And that's okay.

Whatever. Writing. Oh, side note? I'm going to post a gif. Because I got my parents hooked on this show (I shouldn't have to tell you which one, really, not after this post), and they we watched the entire first season in one sitting. I thought my dad was actually going to die from laughter at this point. You know, laugh so hard, you forget to breathe. Something like that. (My dad laughs a lot. He is very laid-back, very good sense of humor. He doesn't always laugh so hard that I wonder if he'll die.) So.

Tags: television, writing
Current Mood: drunk
Current Music: El Tango De Roxanne; Moulin Rouge! OST

P.S. My music on here looks like the most random selection of music ever. Let's take a look back over the public entries, shall we?

• "A Message" by Park
• "Dance Off" by We Are Scientists
• "Lovely Allen" by Holy Fuck
• "Proposition 61" by The Most Serene Republic
• "Without You I'm Nothing" by Placebo
• "Clingwrap" by Sam Sparro
• "Sally" by Sam Sparro
• "Retour A Vega" by The Stills
• "Boom Boom Ba" by Metisse
• "Limousine" by Brand New
• "Revelate" by The Frames
• "Windsurfing Nation" by Broken Social Scene
• "Breaking (acoustic)" by Anberlin
• "Dig Dug" by We Are Scientists
• "Bits & Pieces" by Junior Boys
• "Kids" by MGMT
• "Fuck You" by Lily Allen
• "Sexy! . . . No No No" by Girls Aloud (I should be embarrassed, shouldn't I?)
• "Wolf Like Me" by TV On The Radio
• "Gauntlet" by We Are Scientists
• "Fidelity" by Regina Spektor
• "A Man's Gotta Do" by Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day (this is actually the exact opposite of being embarrassing, tbh)
• "True Believer" by Dragonette
• "All The Way Down" by Glen Hansard
• "Let's Make This Moment A Crime" by the Format
• "Staring At The Sun" by TV On The Radio
• "Cry Me A River" by Glen Hansard
• "Primitive" by Roisin Murphy
• "Oedipus" by Regina Spektor
• "English Summer Rain" by Placebo
• "Umbrella" by Mandy Moore (!?)

Add to that illustrious list "At The Bottom" by Brand New and "Mr Pitiful" by Matt Costa, which is the current music, and I don't even know what you can make out of the mumble-jumble. I look like I generally like dancey kind of stuff, don't I? I mean, I do, obviously, but wow, this list isn't too well-rounded. Aside from the Girls Aloud, Mandy Moore, and excellent Dr. Horrible, of course. Hmm. Well. Whatever, I suppose. It's all accurate, obviously, as I was listening to it at some point.

. . . Apparently I like many b-sides from We Are Scientists. This isn't a deep secret, but I didn't realize it was so blatantly obvious. Life goes on.

Tags: music
Current Mood: peaceful
Current Music: Mr. Pitiful; Matt Costa

So. We're here. "Here" would be, well. Basically my computer decided that it no longer likes anything Sims. Well, two out of three computers decided that. And the one computer that I'm sure would give it a go, my old, wonderful iBook G4, would not be up for what I'd be putting it through with these games. The pretty, pretty, extra-powerful MacBook Pro had been running The Sims 3 like, well, a pro, excuse me for saying so. For some reason, literally overnight, it decided that running a game I liked to play wasn't that much fun, and it was done with that. No, seriously. I had been installing such content, all through the game launcher, mind you, and then it decided not to install it, but to instead freeze up whenever it began to open anything. Yeah. That was fun. Oh, and when I gave up on installing stuff, the game wouldn't load. I can't remember what point I got to, but it would not load. Nor would it when I took out all mods. And then the new patch, whatever it is, came out. But my launcher, brilliant thing that it is, told me it was up to date. I could not download the fucking thing. So, bye-bye, The Sims 3.

I still have some stuff from all the Sophie/Sam game, but nothing from the Peter/Kendra/Molly/Zachary, though I do believe I have the households saved somewhere, and maybe even the games? I don't know, I haven't gone through everything yet, but I've uninstalled it for now, not deleting anything, and will eventually re-install it onto my not-so-suped-up iMac. I wanted to play on a desktop over a laptop anyway, and I honestly don't think the difference of graphics card(s) will make a huge, life-changing difference. I'll wait for some EPs, some more custom content, and whatnot, so not a big deal. Super, super, you-wouldn't-believe-how-annoying at the time, but not a pressing matter right now.

As for The Sims 2, well, I partitioned my iMac so I could play it on the Windows side, because it'll be a lot cheaper and easier to get all the EPs and Stuff packs for Windows. Oh, and Mac doesn't have Apartment Life or FreeTime, and probably never will. BOO, Aspyr, BOO. I have never used a Windows computer in my life. No, really. There was a Mac in my house around the time I was born, and there have been about a dozen Macs since. I currently own three. I honestly don't know how to use Windows. It's sad, really, but even the simplest tasks, I've never done. Take note, everyone: You can get through life without ever using Windows.

Anyway, point: The Sims 2 went onto the Windows side. And I finally sorted out all the cc I had for that game. Except . . . when I was downloading it, I wasn't very careful with it, you see. I didn't really pay much attention to some of it. There were some things missing meshes, some things that may clash, blah blah, all that fun stuff. And no really easy way to find certain things, because I am a complete moron. And then there was the transfer over. Ugh, I'm not going to go into all that except to say that transferring was a no go. Or a really hard go, at the very least. So! I've decided to re-download all custom content for The Sims 2. Which is going to be an enormous pain in the ass, especially since each file is going to be renamed to something I can recognize once I download it, but it will save me time in the end. And I'll only be downloading stuff I know I absolutely want, and will know what will clash with what. Because I will pay attention to that. It's not going to be fun, but whatever. It'll be fine. In the end.

In happier news, I've been writing! Not necessarily the things I should be writing (aka Electric Feel and After Hours - okay, that's a lie, I have been writing Electric Feel, just not the chapters I should be writing), but writing nonetheless! I may post a preview. Sometime. It may be soon. We'll see. But yep. That's news.

Tags: sims, the sims 2, the sims 3, writing
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Umbrella; Mandy Moore

Quick, gratuitous (sex!) Sims entry. ( CLICK )

Tags: morgan, sims, the sims 3
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: English Summer Rain; Placebo

More Sims, blah blah. You know how it is. ( CUT )

Tags: morgan, sims, the sims 3
Current Mood: dorky
Current Music: Oedipus; Regina Spektor

You lucky bitches! My internet was down (new computer, holla), but I had started a couple of updates, so there should be some for a few days straight. Oh, they're Sims updates, because I'm still being lame, but that's okay. I'm at peace with that. Also, the new computer I mentioned is a brand new iMac which I partitioned to have some space for Windows. This is because it is much, much easier and cheaper to gets expansion and stuff packs for The Sims 2 when using a Windows system. I'm just going to disregard the fact that I have no clue how to use Windows. No, seriously, I use a Windows computer at one of my jobs but for very job-specific tasks. Restarting the frozen computer is beyond me. Seriously. This is because I have had Macs in my family since, if not before I was born, right around when I was born. And only Macs. This is my third personal Mac, my first desktop - I am twenty-one. My family has probably gone through about a dozen Macs, not including mine, and still has probably about half of those. It's kinda insane, and I'm aware it sounds very, hmm, snobby. But I honestly don't know how to use Windows beyond very, very basic primitive stuff. So once I finally finish installing everything, fucking custom content and all, we'll see how long it takes for me to actually play that one. It'll be pretty though!

That was a bit of a long introductory rant, wasn't it? And since this is a public entry, all you really want to do is either a) find out that I'm writing, or b) see my batshit Sims. Well, you're in for option b today because I'm of the mindset of finishing novels before posting! I know, the fuck, right? It'll work out better in the long run. ANYWAY.

( Sims )

Tags: morgan, sims, the sims 3
Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Primitive; Roisin Murphy