When LJ is down

So...apparently livejournal is sort of up? For some people?

It was working somewhat ok for me yesterday, but it was hard for me to access other journals on my flist and I can't post. Instead I browsed dreamwidth and found a few more people, though! Not that many people post here. I'm going to have to work on my crossposting, for backup purposes if nothing else.

And I started a twitter! Which I haven't used! For various internship purposes, I'm currently working with four twitters, and logging in and out is a pain. But I spent an hour or so trying to claim the username I wanted (Eldabe) and found out that twitter apparently doesn't care if you want an unused username unless you have a copyright claim, which I most certainly do not. So instead I'm Eldarwannabe over there. I'm still fuzzy on having real conversations on twitter, but it's something to tinker with, at least.

I tend to avoid politics here. I'll probably go back to that policy in a few minutes.

Read this article and decided that yes, I think I'm going to take a train to Dragon*Con. I have to figure out if I can find my International Student ID Card I bought for London to try and get a discount, but this is ridiculous.

And this would make me so much happier if I didn't know anything about our current supreme court. Because if this case makes it too far, it could end badly.

What the hell, America.