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[gogmagog]

Hmmm, the doctor called, and apparently all that's wrong with me is that I'm majorly anemic...an iron supplement twice a day and I should be right as rain. It's nice to know that I'm not going to go into liver failure, and I guess it also explains why I feel so tired all the time.

In not really related news, Elizabeth Berkley's career high (from jantalaimon). Funnily, this is the one scene everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) who is anywhere around my age has seen.

Actually I have kind of been there, during finals week of my first semester in grad school, and needless to say it was not fun.

Also, LJ has made a public apology for the mass deletion. What amuses me most about this is the whole "mistakes were made, journals were suspended, things were not communicated" passive voice used for nearly every description of the problem aside from one or two instances of "we made a mistake." Classic responsibility-denying bureaucreatese - the great thing about passive voice is that it means you don't have to assign responsibility/blame for anything! Things can just happen all by themselves, fancy that! (Note that I'm not actually complaining about this, just observing it, since I'm much more conscious about style than usual thanks to my current class on critical style.)

...Speaking of said summer class, only two more days of it (today is the last day with assigned reading) and then I am free! And I will be leaving for Rome in almost exactly two weeks. :D

Comments

[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

What amuses me most about this is the whole "mistakes were made, journals were suspended, things were not communicated" passive voice used for nearly every description of the problem aside from one or two instances of "we made a mistake."

Yeah, that's called the 'past exonerative' tense. :-)

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah...who was it who came up with that for Ronald Reagan's "mistakes were made" speech? Some columnist, I think?

[gedrean.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can answer this:

There's strikethru's in the apology, and everyone is referencing Strikethrough.
Why?

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Because deleted/suspended accounts show up with strikethru when you use the "lj user" tag. (Example: yaoi_slut)

[brandchan.livejournal.com]

I was in the hospital for something else when they were like you know you are anemic? And I was like uh... no. But like you said it did explain a few things, being tired all the time, my heart beating really fast sometimes, and a few other things. The iron pills help a lot. Though the initial side effects of taking them are not all that hot.

Also this is a cover for a upcoming issues of Heroes for Hire from Marvel. Perhaps it will give you Maryjane statue flash backs, or make you think someone has been watching way to much anime pr0n.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/laurae55/hfh13bd1-1.jpg

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Oh haha, the tentacles cover...yeah, I saw that. Did you see the response someone drew that was a parody of that with superhero guys (I think Power Man and Iron Fist, I want to say)?

[brandchan.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't share it with me.

And OMG I just finished Gilgamesh and I think my brain is going to hurts for days after that.