Kat, I've used the web site LJ Book to make a pdf of an LJ for archival purposes.

I was just going to recommend that one.

Anyone know of Mac based decent LJ archiving tools?

I use XJournal. I haven't tried to restore a journal from it, though. The data's just sitting on my harddrive. Somewhere.

Thanks guys for the car suggestions. I'm less panicky than I was yesterday, which is a great improvement. My default is to have it towed to the dealership because that's where I get all my work done (don't really have the know how to choose what's probably a cheaper place to go). Getting the battery to an auto parts place involves cabbing and complication.

I'm cranky.

Dunno why. I'm sitting here with my word doc open, staring at it and wondering why I bother.

People on email loops are making me nuts One email loop I have to turn off—they're extolling the virtues of that stupid Caitlin Flanagan article about Twilight and I just want to strangle things.

I may be PMSing.

the virtues of that stupid Caitlin Flanagan article about Twilight

Except for "stupid," these are words that do not belong together.

Abandoned HBO Soundstage for "The Wire"

A whole bunch of cool photos....

The Best and Worst Jobs in America

Damn. I used to be #7.

It annoys me that my wife thinks I would like the Twilight books because "I'm into that vampire stuff". I've never really gotten across that I liked BtVS because I'm into that Joss stuff not the vampire stuff. I don't read any vampire related books. I don't watch vampire related movies. Yet, the idea sticks somehow.

Well, what's making me crazy is that it's a writer's loop and it's not so much that they're going on about Twilight, but they're going on about this one paragraph:

"The salient fact of an adolescent girl's existence is her need for asecret emotional life—one that she slips into during her sulks and silences, during her endless hours alone in her room, or even just when she's gazing out the classroom window while all of Modern European History, or the niceties of the passé composé, sluice past her. This means that she is a creature designed for reading in a way no boy or man, or even grown woman, could ever be so exactly designed, because she is a creature whose most elemental psychological needs—to be undisturbed while she works out the big questions of her life, to be hidden from view while still in plain sight, to enter profoundly into the emotional lives of others—are met precisely by the act of reading."

The utter generalization of this paragraph made my head explode the first time because I'm sorry, not all readers are built alike and certainly, not all adolescent female readers are built alike.

And yet here are all of these writers basically saying "Yes! So true! And that's exactly why we want to write YA!" which to me does such a tremendous disservice to the very audience they're hoping to reach.

Or, it could just be that I'm cranky.

Look what my boyfriend made for me!

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