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[wispfox]

Y'know... I'm really damn lucky.

I have the world's bestest roommate (really, any other roommate(s) have one hell of a set of shoes to fill), who I barely knew when she came to live with me. And yet, it worked out well, even when my wrists got stupid at me and she suddenly had a bunch of extra things to do because I could no longer do them.

World's purryest cat. And sufficiently _unlike_ Ash that I rarely have attacks of 'but you're not _my_ cat!'.

I have a job that, while it is part of the problem with my wrists, also understands the problem (possibly better than most medical professionals. Sigh) and works with me around it. And I'm improving. And I make enough money that I can _afford_ the various things that allow me to keep working and also improving.

I have many, many wonderful people in my life, even though some of them are far away and I don't see them often. I am loved, and understood far better than I'd ever have expected to be possible.

I am living in a time when it's _possible_ for me to have met all these people (all? of them I met through the internet, one way or another), to not be completely debilitated by my brain brokennesses, and indeed to have some of those brokennesses actively useful for my job. Where my difficulty with spoken communication can be worked around, and improved upon. Where being born 12 weeks early was not a death sentence. Where I could figure out various of the ways in which I am unusual by finding others similarly unusual online in email lists and newsgroups and such, and discussing things with them. Where I could get my first degree-related job while still _in_ school, because I was involved with a linux users group and friends from there happened to work at a place that was hiring.

Yeah. I? Am damn lucky. And sometimes it's nice to point that out. Perhaps especially when I'm underslept and stressed from work and the insufficiency of direct light.

Comments

[jedi-diplomat.livejournal.com]

YAY! *hugs* That's super awesome and to borrow from starandrea much sparkly.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*grins* Sparkly!

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Aww, *I* wanted "in". I guess I'll have to settle for "wonderful".

(also, HUG.)

[jasra]

Yer cute. Just sayin'.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

:P!

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

Aww, *I* wanted "in".

[firmly sits on hands]

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

So to speak.

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

8-)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

You two are _charming the hell out of me_.

Just saying.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Code purple-sparkly! Code purple-sparkly! The fox is in the henhouse! Repeat, the fox is in the henhouse! Operation 54, move to alternate charming paradigms! Fallback!

[jasra]

*falls over laughing*

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

Roger that. Activating protocol 5. Rooftop raven cornbread.

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

Oh, forgot the most important bit: This is not a drill.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*snort* Yes. Yes, I'm sure you are. ;)

[jasra]

It's definitely a good time to be alive. :)

You should print this and put it on the wall somewhere.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

But a printout won't show who all the links _are_!

(good point, though)

Did you like how you had your very own paragraph? ;)

[jasra]

Lemme see if I can figure out how to get it to print links.

I was very impressed! *grin*

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

For each link, make the thing <a title="PERSONTHING" href="THINGLINK">word</a>, then do a screenshot of each time you mouse over a link.  Then mash 'em together in your image editor of choice.

Too many Paint fumes, I suppose.

[jasra]

Or use IE and tell it to print a table of links. ;)

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

You could append ?nohtml=1 to the thing, but you could also not, because damn.

[jasra]

Scary

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Buh! Ew. No. Bad Xtina.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

or, since most of them are lj:user links, simply get a tube of superglue and paste buttplugs to the chart at the appropriate locations

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*snort* Maaaaaaybe?

[jasra]

I can has links. You'll want to use scissors though and make it tidier.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*grins* Ok.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

I must argue with the word "people" being used for australian_joe - it's common knowledge that he's not human.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Well, 'people' is not necessarily 'human', you know. :)

Which word should he have? :)

(and which word did you want for yourself? :)

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Clearly this needs to be a poll.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*blinks* I... can't quite... figure out how to formulate that poll.

Because it's not just 'what word do you want?' but 'what word when looking at sentences that give this information and with this number of people needing to be links do you want?'.

Ow.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

It has to fit in the sentence??

No Mad Libs?

Humph.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

It could be less complicated, with lower fidelity.

"Which word are you?" (with a limited set of words, given as a sentence)

...actually, kind of similar to my most recent poll.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

I am the exact perfect word. ;)

("Chai" means "life" in Hebrew.)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Cool! Go me!

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

After all my efforts to suppress those medical reports, dammit.

(Once a doctor wanted to try a new fast automated blood sugar monitor on me. 18 attempts later it still wasn't working. I finally asked in perfect deadpan if it only worked on humans. They glanced up at me so quickly I was worried I'd have to persuade them I was not certifiable.)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*amused*

[jostajam.livejournal.com]

I just want you to know that you, all of you, add up to one extremely NOT BROKEN, and totally amazing person.

[jedi-diplomat.livejournal.com]

I second that!

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*grin* Thank you!

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I'm not broken, but bits of my brain most definitely are. :)

(nonetheless, thank you. I am charmed. :)

[deyo.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

No one isn't broken. We're broken differently, sometimes in compatible ways, and some not, and our brokenness doesn't affect each of us in the same way. But it doesn't make any of us less than anyone else.

I'm glad you have so many compatibly broken people. :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Broken brain bits != broken _me_. But yes. Point still valid. :)

And so am I! Yay compatibly broken people!

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

[gnawing lovingly]

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*snort* *laughing* *gnaws on you in return*