Reaching a limit

[clevermanka]

This event on our brains and eating habits sounds intriguing, but I'll be attending this instead. I haven't seen any university-affiliated lectures or presentations that interested me for months...of course one comes along on that exact date.

Last night I came home early from Hippie Drumming Circle, but didn't fall asleep until nearly 11:00. Tonight is a friend's wedding, tomorrow is the Smoker cast party, Sunday is my last day dancing at Smoker (possibly for good), and I have to open up the office at 7:30am every day next week since the secretary who usually opens is on vacation. Oh, and then the show on Tuesday night in KC. I'm going to be a tired girl come next weekend.

This really isn't news, but I want to gripe some more about Facebook. I made my personal page, and then I found out about making an entertainer page so I made one of those. Then I realized that I can't comment or indicate my intent to attend an event from my entertainer page. I can only do that while operating under my personal account. And of course there's the issue of not being able to see some photos and videos of people if I haven't friended them, and I can't friend people via the entertainer page, only the personal one. So frustrating. It looks like I'm going to have to go around friending people from my personal page, just so I can invite them to events from my performer page. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I hate the Facebook environment and all I can say is it had damn well better bring me some business. Once I get around to actually putting some time into it, of course. Which I'm not terribly motivated to do because I despise everything about it and it makes me irritable more irritable than usual when I have to spend more than five minutes fucking around with it. Hate.

Dear Facebook:


*cough*

Anyway.

I made mention to some people earlier this week that I was going to do something Brave and Daring. I was going to make a costume using the color...blue. I scrapped that plan, though, when I went to the fabric store to purchase the blue silk and found that I couldn't bring myself to take the stuff to the cutting table for purchase. I just...I couldn't do it. So I opted for a maroon instead. It won't be quite the dramatic contrast to the copper beads and orange lace, but it will be something I'm comfortable wearing. Maybe I'll make some blue and copper jewelry to go with it. I'll wear blue beads. I just couldn't make myself buy blue fabric. We all have our limits, and apparently buying blue fabric is one of mine.

Comments

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

Facebook is Evil and horrible to use. The most recent set of "fixes" have made it almost impossible to find anything.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I'm so glad I decided now to see if I could use it to help me get dance gigs.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

Draco uses it all the time for his photo shoots (I'm not sure how) so it still has some level of functionality, but it still annoys the fuck out of him.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

It really is the most efficient way to organize events, so hang in there!

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Is anyone else planning on attending the tues show? I'd love to go as well, and maybe might could steal the Exploiter from Jbird if it looks rainy.
You know I probably have tons of blue doohickies in my stash, maybe even trim.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if anyone else from Lawrence plans to go. I'll ask Mitti!

Edit: She probably won't be able to get back with me until Monday, though...

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

And I'll check Fuckbook.

[sherwood21.livejournal.com]

It's so difficult to find really good blue at the fabric store. We keep the facebook going for the restaurant, but for personal use, I'm almost exclusively on google+.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Sarah's had two gorgeous blues--dupioni silk. One a royal blue, and one more of a teal. But I just...couldn't. =b

"Personal use" is exactly what I want to avoid on Facebook. BLEH.

[nottygypsy.livejournal.com]

I HATE facebook, for all these reasons.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

A-yup. Everybody seems to hate it, but it's the only way to keep up with things. People are stupid.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I don't hate it, once it's under control. I control mine with Better FaceBook, which removes all the shit I don't want to see, and makes everything neat and tidy.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Ooooo. Tell me more about this Better Facebook, please.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Here you go: http://betterfacebook.net/

You can customize it and put in filters to get rid of all the shit you don't want to see (like games, quizzes, and that annoying scrolly thing on the top right side).

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll give that a look this week.

[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

oh! i would love to go to the food event!! too bad it's a bit of a drive, huh?

FB: no.
no and more no. over the summer i tried to be more present there because i have this idea i need to pimp my shit better than i do. you know what? NO. then they added this rolling feed at the upper right hand corner of my page. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKK!!! NONONO!!! so, here i am on LJ, with a happily locked journal. i wouldn't even try the stuff you're doing.

i clicked on all your links.
lookie! your first name. my mother was considering 2 names for me that i didn't get, one was YOUR first name. the other one was "april".

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Very much too bad of a drive.

I'm going to give Facebook six months of really trying to use it, and if I don't make enough profit from it, forget it.

What "all links" were you clicking? *looks up at post* I'm only seeing two...

[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

actually, one link leads to another. so your 2 links turned into my experience of about 6.

[shrijani.livejournal.com]

What shade of blue did you have your near-miss with?

I am trying to see you in ultramarine, and failing.

Facebook SUCKS. I am sorry it's being so dreadfully annoying, particularly since you have only a very limited use for it. I think they have engineered it this way on purpose, to force everyone to have and use personal accounts. Bleh.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

It was a royal blue. Very bright, and (if I think about it objectively) very pretty. Just...I don't like wearing blue.

Thank you for the Facebook solidarity. Misery doesn't necessarily love company, but hate sure does.