Any Old Actress

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//April 03, 2004 - fact not fiction :

It’s kinda weird to me, the way I’m still dealing with this in terms of unreality.

It’s something like easy to forget - there are things I need to do and get caught up in. I’ve got this resentful contrary streak that feels like digging my heels in and saying “No. Not moving. So not gonna do this.” Life’s kinda not giving me a choice though, just shuffling me forwards (like that awful Mrs. Austin in 3rd grade, tapping us on the shoulder and counting us through the door into line like so much chattel [hey, I can be melodramatic about hating school, I followed through and actually dropped out, so don’t give me no lip! ]). I wanted to say thanks though. In a strange way being able to say “I’m not coping well ‘cause I just lost one of my best friends” has been helpful. Affirmative even. Yes, this nightmare’s terribly real, but at least I can start to deal with something that is real. And the empathy and understanding you guys (my pals at large) have offered has overwhelmed me. I know you all have been through this multiple times, and I’m amazed at your resilience.

So, I had a birthday. 23 last Monday (the 29th). My dad got me the prettiest flowers - warm pink sweetheart roses, baby’s breath and eucalyptus. Incredibly simple and elegant, and it just feels so “grown up” to get flowers. There was a day I was happy w/ a 4-pack of classic Play-Doh. I love eucalyptus though - it’s a deep swirly blue, leaves all frosted and waxy, sweet slightly spicey fragrance. And it’s so nice to have flowers around right now, vibrant and bright and cheerful. Pictures to come.

I spent last weekend toying with old layouts - I’ve wanted to install a style switcher for a while now, and I had 2 layouts leftover from Villainess that I really hated to not use again. Ever since Villainess went all-soap I’ve been soooo bored web-wise, because there aren’t any sites I can just switch up whenever I feel like it. All the layouts match the sites’ themes and stuff. Style switchers have fascinated me for a loooong time. And once Laura instituted the PHP style-switcher at t-v.org, I thought “Dude, I sooooo could make that happen.” So, over there in the menu under “highly stylised” you’ll find all the optional “skins” for Any Old Actress. They’re not hugely different from the existing layout in terms of structure, but visually they’re “radically compelling”. Heh, or not. More on them here. An actual “new” layout is in the works, featuring Poison Ivy, but there’s really no telling when I’ll have a chance to finish it. This weekend’s project is the Date Headers Plugin for MT, and I’m not altogether certain my style-switcher works right yet. It doesn’t want to reload the style sheets consistently and I don’t know enough Javascript to figure out why!

Posted by supervillainess at April 3, 2004 12:55 AM

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Multiple style sheets?

I can manage one look that’s decent.

Stephen at April 5, 2004 05:10 PM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Hey, that plugin sounds familiar. Lemme know if you have any probls.

Nice Blog and Photo Op BTW.

-=Chris

Chris at April 11, 2004 08:34 PM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

That’s right! You’re DateHeadersGuy! So far I am having a grand time with the plugin. It’s my second time around to use it to sort my archives, and while I finally got it working w/ the ArchiveAnyway plugin, I’m still thinking there should be a way to use one-or-the-other rather than both.

Oh yeah, the useless photo op w/ ubiquitous bathroom-mirror-digi-cam shots!

Brooke at April 12, 2004 10:13 PM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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