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Tsuga
23:25 / 08.05.07
Everybody changing their names makes me smile, it's like spring cleaning. And spring. Holy fuck, it was a beautiful day today. Clear crisp air and deep blue skies with bright little puff clouds, and the mountains are turning green, all of the different shades of early leaf and flower green, and the black cherries are loaded with dangling white flowers along the roads.
 
 
Princess
23:27 / 08.05.07
CHange your name! Let's make this the moth where all the posters change their name and everyone is a teeny bit confused (but works it out in less than a second because of the box on the right).
 
 
Triplets
23:58 / 08.05.07
The fact that there's a real city called SeaTac makes me feel like I'm a little closer to living in a (somewhat optimistic) cyberpunk fiction. Happy.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
03:45 / 09.05.07
I'm also quite pleased with Lula taking over the goodly Mooncat heritage. Ol' Grampa Beauregard Mooncat -- Bast Rest His Merry Soul -- he woulda done cried at the very notion. The honour! The privilege! The basking glory! The book deals, cereal ads, Saturday Morning cartoons!

Sadly, I've got three days before I can change my name and I have no ideas just yet. But - oh yes - it's very much time. Am Bizarro Papers not much more yes no.
 
 
This Sunday
03:50 / 09.05.07
I'm astonishingly happy with the namechange, really. Didn't think I'd like to do it, but someone suggested I change my e-mail, and I marinated two suggestions into decadentnightfalling, and I thought that was a bit much, but for here? It's certainly more fun to be decadent than decrescent.

Unfortunately, my nameshift isn't quite as cutely intriguing as some of the others. Some of y'all get on a roll with these things.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
03:58 / 09.05.07
Hrm. Names, names.

Right now, I'm very happy because I wrote very many pages for the story I'm working on, and I know something about what's going on. There are characters. There's crap going on in my meatspace life which is irritating me but can be channelled into writing!

It was actually quite ridiculous: as I wasn't working until this evening, most of today was spent at the keyboard, working successfully on the story without anything bothered me or interrupting. It was perfect, and I leaned back at one point said myself, "Yes. This is what I want to be doing with my life." And I felt productive.

...and then later work called about something and of course I had a shift, so as usual work asserted dominance, but for a few hours today I was thoroughly in my own life with other priorities.
 
 
Quantum
04:02 / 09.05.07
Am Catweazle. Happy.
 
 
Mono
06:01 / 09.05.07
Our Lady's new name made me chuckle this morning.
 
 
Olulabelle
07:35 / 09.05.07
We are all cats! Catweazle rocks.

whoever posted baby badgers of the BBC ages ago? I did I think. They began the Lovely Pics for Haus thread. I am happy they made people happy.
 
 
This Sunday
07:50 / 09.05.07
Let's make this the moth where all the posters change their name

I know this wasn't intentional, but I've seen it at least three times or so tonight and every time I get a little silly happy swoosh, because those of us who changed our names? We're on a moth. A moth called Barbelith.

I'm so easily entertained.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
08:21 / 09.05.07
Papers should start watching Doctor Who if he isn't already, so he will be inspired to change his screen name to 'Psychic Papers'.

I'm annoyed because I just changed my name last night, then had a better idea for a name, and now can't remember what the better idea was. Something for younger posters to look forward to: after age thirty your brain starts resetting at random. So if you think of something cool, write it down straight away.
 
 
Lea-side
08:51 / 09.05.07
Thirty?! i have a way to go before that milestone and my lobes have been re-setting at random for sometime now!

Anyway, all this happy has made me happy. I think we need to seriously redress the balance of happy/sad, as there what? three miserable/ticked-off/angry threads? and only one happy? come on guys! try harder!
 
 
This Sunday
09:02 / 09.05.07
It's a little known fact I may've been born before the age of thirty-four. Even I didn't know.

Maybe, Joe, you're in the same boat?
 
 
Whisky Priestess
09:56 / 09.05.07
Transfer - was it File Transfer Protocol?

Because if it wasn't, it should have been.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
10:04 / 09.05.07
Yeah, let's keep the happy quotient riding high above the misery and ticked off threads. For various reasons I'm struggling with happiness, but since I really do need to lighten up somewhat, I'm going to make an extra effort to be cheerful. Oh, and to post more, especially constructive stuff, on here.

As for the name change; not sure. I quite like my current suit name, which is now almost entirely different to the one I originally had. Then again, it could be about time for a rebirth. What the heck, it's reverse-barbarian-stylee time!
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
10:15 / 09.05.07
was it File Transfer Protocol?

It could have been Alexis de Tocqueville for all I can remember. Not that yours isn't a pretty good suggestion.

Changing my Barbelith name to something 'witty' each month is one of the few joys left to me in my old age. Will there be anything left at the end?

It's probably time for me to start drinking again, since it's unlikely to make any real difference in the long term.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
10:20 / 09.05.07
The avocado tree (non-fruit-bearing, natch) in my living room is growing its all-new 2007 leaves; as is the oak on my front lawn. Note the brown and curling winter leaf that will soon drop off as the fresh green 2007 leaves venture forth into spring. Happy!



Also in desktop flavour if anyone wants to green their workspace.
 
 
nixwilliams
11:33 / 09.05.07
Hedgehog! Hedgehogs never fail to amuse me, partly because (as an Australian) I always assumed they were around the same size as echidnas. BUT NO! THEY ARE TEENY-TINY! Especially ugly baby ones.

Another thing that will make me happy is the NZ zombie sheep movie Black Sheep. . . ZOMBIE SHEEP! How can it not be good?!
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
13:57 / 09.05.07
One day I will own a hedgehog.

One day.

Today's happy is provided by endorphins. The kind you get when you get spend over an hour at the gym, sweating, cursing, and then feeling really really quite super when you're done.
 
 
HCE
14:22 / 09.05.07
Thank you, nixwilliams. Hedgehogs help.
 
 
grant
16:46 / 09.05.07
In German, the word for "hedgehog" is pronounced "eagle."

German hedgehogs do not, to the best of my knowledge, have wings, nor do they appear on the Seal of the United States of America.

But it's nice to imagine they do.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:54 / 09.05.07
YES WINGS HOORAY WINGS
 
 
Papess
16:57 / 09.05.07
I rarely shop for myself, unless I could include the groceries.

Today I bought some workout clothes for yoga and other bodywork funstuff.

Yay!
 
 
Mistoffelees
17:01 / 09.05.07
CHange your name! Let's make this the moth where all the posters change their name and everyone is a teeny bit confused (but works it out in less than a second because of the box on the right).

I approve of this idea.
 
 
Feverfew
17:03 / 09.05.07
As do I.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
17:08 / 09.05.07
so one or more of the other floors in my building is some kind of office that deals in some way with various disabled peoples. this often leads to interesting conversations in our slow, crowded, shitty elevators. today is very bright and warm here in NYC and everyone is in a good mood and the guy in the elevator was no exception, singing loudly:

DOOT!
dat dat dadat datda
OOMPH!
dat dat dadat datda
OOMPH!
dat dat dadat datda...

at first the social worker guy who was with him was trying to quiet him down, but once he realized that everyone in the elevator was actually kind of digging it we all just relaxed and enjoyed the ride. now the song's stuck in my head...it makes me think of sunny weather. good moods are pretty infectious.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
17:10 / 09.05.07
Also, just had the following email conversation:

my friend: I'M GETTING DRUNK FOR LUNCH. WE'LL CALL IT AN EARLY BIRTHDAY PRESENT.

me: I thought your birthday was in february...shows what I know. one way or another.

friend: AT WHAT POINT DO PRESENTS STOP BEING LATE AND START BEING EARLY? THE SIX MONTH MARK? BIRTHDAYS ARE SILLY. WE SHOULDN'T CELEBRATE SOMETHING AS MUNDANE AS AGE. WE SHOULD CELEBRATE THE DAY OF THE MONTH, EVERY MONTH, WHOSE NUMBER COINCIDES WITH HOW MANY BRICKS WE CAN SMASH WITH OUR HEADS. THE FIRST AND SECOND DAYS OF EACH MONTH WOULD BE FULL OF REVELRY WHEREAS THE 30TH WILL LET YOU PARTY WITH SOME REAL JUGGERNAUTS.
 
 
Papess
17:14 / 09.05.07
I agree with your friend, Brigade. Can the bricks be made out of glass? I am very good at breaking glass. I am good in emergencies, I am.

So, are we all supposed to change our name this month?
 
 
Feverfew
17:29 / 09.05.07
 
 
Papess
19:54 / 09.05.07
Thanks, Peppermint. Nice tentacles.
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
20:42 / 09.05.07
Thanks everyone who said nice things yesterday in the miserable thread. Barbelith people are wonderful.
 
 
Triplets
09:41 / 10.05.07
CHange your name!

I really hope mine is annoying enough.
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
12:35 / 10.05.07
Are there rules to this name-changing? What's brought it about?
 
 
Janean Patience
12:37 / 10.05.07
Spring.
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
12:44 / 10.05.07
Ahah

In that case I've busted out one I've been meaning to have for a while.

Splendid.

*takes a deep breath through the nose, sighs happily*

Spring.
 
  

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