Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

Well, it's March 13. Anyone have any updates on how likely it is that LJ will actually go down? Or whether or not it's true what my sister told me that even if LJ does have a blackout for a while, it'll be temporary?

I figured I should give those of you who didn't meet me until after the first apocalypse some context on how I reacted to that and what I ended up doing as a result. (Including freaking out and stressing about it.) So I'm linking to some of the entries about that. I'm including links to both the LJ and DW versions of the relevant entries to save time / future-proof in case I end up having to backup my journal again or something. Not all of these are about LJ specifically because it wasn't the only major change causing me anxiety in 2017 - other things happened that certainly didn't help matters for me either.

https://matt1993.livejournal.com/296994.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/292561.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/297441.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/292836.html (Incidentally, I've heard that if LJ goes down, I could backup my journal to WordPress in addition to having DreamWidth as a backup. Does WordPress have the features listed here? [minus the creating two accounts thing because I think I've more or less decided against making a separate dream journal on LJ, DW, or any other site; my entries are dumb enough WITHOUT all the stuff that happens in my dreams that makes no sense when written out!])
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/297642.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/292874.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/297800.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/293263.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/298671.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/294033.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/299247.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/294591.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/299991.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/295305.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/300277.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/295574.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/300384.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/295844.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/301042.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/296398.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/301114.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/296503.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/301662.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/297176.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/302500.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/297788.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/302604.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/298065.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/302877.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/298491.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/303545.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/298958.html
https://matt1993.livejournal.com/304920.html / https://matt1993.dreamwidth.org/300392.html

There's other relevant entries - several times I've posted about my anxiety about LJ or specific journals/communities or other websites/images/videos going down, and several times I've posted updates on how far I've gotten with fixing my own entries or how bad I felt about still being behind on my friends page, but most of them are similar to these.

I've had a rough few weeks but am too lazy to post a full entry about it right now, so I'll at least let you guys now I'm still here.

Guess who just got Super Mario Odyssey today???? :D



Also, guess who got hired on this week and has an apartment picked out, if I didn't mention that already?

And guess who has had so much paperwork to do over the past week or two because of it that their head is full of mush that was apparently a brain at some point if the rumors are true? :(

(music tag should be: Snippets of Mario, Kid Icarus, SSB, BtVS, Enya, Dido, Céline Dion, Sarah McLachlan, Moya Brennan, Matchbox 20, Rascal Flatts, & Savage Garden music thrown together randomly in Audacity)

This has been kind of a disappointing April Fools' Day because:

1) Homestar Runner didn't update at all today, even though they did for April Fools' Day 2014, 2015, and 2016, and April Fools and Halloween are almost the only times they ever update nowadays.
2) I don't think many people noticed my April Fools prank at all.

For reference, my April Fools prank was this entry; however, when I first posted it (on March 31 in my time zone, but late enough that it was April 1 already for some of you), it was an exact copy of my first entry. Then I waited a few minutes or so and changed it to a copy of a different past entry in the same way... then changed it to another after a few more minutes, and so on - basically, if I was at my computer, I'd change the entry anywhere from once an hour to once every few minutes. (At first. I gradually updated it less and less often because it seemed like no one was noticing...)

By "exact copy", that means including the subject line, repost button, userpic, tags, mood, music, location... basically, everything except the timestamp, the comments, and friends-only status [though, of course, the only friends-only entries I used were ones that probably would've been fine being public]. And anything that I intended to change each time but accidentally forgot sometimes. Though if I used an entry I'd posted in _dreams_, autism, or asperger, I added a notice saying that it was cross-posted (even though I don't think copying a community entry to my own journal years later for April Fools' Day actually counts as cross-posting).

I chose the entries semi-randomly, sometimes by going to my Calendar for random years and months and picking a random entry I'd feel comfortable posting again, and sometimes by just putting in notable entries that I remember and wanted to include in this prank at some point. Some entries were used more than once.

And just to mess with your heads even more, I thought it might be fun to come up with a hypothetical FUTURE entry and add it into the mix! That's what the 2023 year in review is for. It ended up being my favorite thing about this prank, so I left that one up significantly longer than any other single entry.


Now that April Fools' Day is over, all the entries I ended up using are listed below for posterity. (Don't expect the repost buttons to work correctly, though...)


( The entries that you could've sworn that you'd seen already and/or that they said something completely different a few minutes ago, in order of their first use in this prank )

I start work in (probably) 36 days... I'm so nervous! :O


Also, yes, I'm still retaking quizzes I took years ago to see how things have changed, and I'm still taking new quizzes. I just haven't posted the results of either in a couple of weeks.

When I retook "How Evil Are You?" I got "not evil", which is what I got over seven years ago, so I'll just link to the entry where I posted the original result instead of reposting it.

But the next one I retook, I did get a different result.

Old result from over seven years ago:

Originally posted by matt1993 at What is WRONG with me?!

(Since the people I just added as friends are probably wondering: Yes, my writing style seven years ago was full of inside jokes, mostly inspired by backwards lyrics. That's why I have a glossary. :) )

Since I'm not into every single thing that's stereotypically geeky, I think my old result makes more sense than either of my new results. Yes, I actually retook it twice - the first time, I got "not a geek", but I took it again since there were a few answers that I wanted to change as soon as I clicked on them, so then I got:

You are a Super Geek!
You are into everything that is geeky – which is hard because there are so many types of geeks. You are very smart and have a great imagination. People who call you a geek are just jealous, right?

I went from "not a geek" to "super geek" just like that? I think that quiz is broken. :)

Only one day left until I'm a creature trapped in a social setting for about 72 hours straight. :(

Yes, I've been having to dread this for so long, I made two posts complaining about it. (if you missed the first one, it's here)

Well, I graduated yesterday!! (Okay, so it's 1:45 AM right now, so I guess now it's the day before yesterday?... It was December 12. That we know for sure.)

And I was so tired after the ceremony that on the way home, I could remember every new day I kept falling asleep and waking up - despite playing Super Smash Bros. 3DS to try and keep myself awake, so sometimes my character would end up standing there for a while until I woke up again. :)

And then I got home at 5 PM or so and pretty much went straight to bed - and stayed in bed until about 2 PM the next day. Yes, I was THAT tired after all the stress from this semester...


And guess what pathvain_aelien gave to me as a graduation gift that originally would've been a Christmas gift?

Dark Sky Island, the new Enya CD!!!

I'm listening to it for the second time right now :)


It still feels weird that there's a new Enya CD since so much has changed since the last time there was a new Enya CD with new songs... I mean, this is the first Enya CD with new songs since I started becoming active on LJ. It's the first Enya CD with new songs since this dream from 2009 or earlier (notice where I say "I never got to see what was on the other CD. I want it so badly."? I like to pretend that Dark Sky Island was the other CD in the dream, and that after nearly seven years, I'm finally getting to listen to it). It's even the first Enya CD with new songs since I designed Wænya, which was also nearly seven years ago! Which just goes to show how long I've been putting off all sorts of stuff...

And on the road are you and this entry

Four things to mention:

1) I moved into my dorm today... and it was REALLY stressful, as usual. :( And I have so much to do tomorrow... I know I said I'd move into the dorm Monday, but then I found out I'd get to wait later before I moved in.
2) Last Wednesday was the 9th anniversary of the original version of PrtSc Land, and I still don't have a USB floppy drive. So remember how I said I was planning on remaking PSL and putting it up on LiveJournal starting on the 10th or 12th or (some other nice number)th anniversary? It's probably not going to be for the 10th anniversary...
3) Lately I've been working on an Excel spreadsheet with the dates, subject lines, userpic keywords, URLs, etc. of every entry I've posted on LiveJournal - AND notes on what I hope to update in each entry eventually, like adding tags, fixing broken images, etc. so that I can keep track of it all more easily. It's far from being done (even just for entries in my own journal), but I'm hoping to get all that maintenance I've been meaning to do on my old entries finished as soon as I can!
4) Today is the 8th anniversary of my LiveJournal! And, for once, I'm doing the LJ comment stats entry on time!
Although on my computer, bar graphs have lately been looking messed up in entries like this one. Does it do that for anyone else - in this or the other LJ Comment Stats entries?

← 2014 2016 →

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Top Commenters on matt1993's LiveJournal
(Anonymous comments excluded from rankings)

1	matt1993	2210
2	pathvain_aelien	1240
3	glowing_dragon	454
4	rovanda	180
5	irish_ileana	134
6	adawnrae	113
7	awehla	100
8	penelopexxx	96
9	cactus_rs	59
10	eccentricrabbit	46

( 11-85 )
Total Commenters: 85
Total Comments: 5032
Report generated 8/19/2015 10:46:37 PM by scrapdog's LJ Comment Stats Wizard 1.7

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Sorry I haven't been able to post in a while. That semester was so intense, I rarely even had enough free time to complain about it on LiveJournal!

I'm gonna go ahead and assume that a) everything I know on LJ except my journal has dramatically changed in the time that I haven't posted, just like it did the last time I went a month or so without posting, and b) I'm not going to be able to adequately make up for the lack of posts. But I guess I'll try anyway by posting how I generally felt about each class:

( And sorry for forgetting to put a LJ-cut at first :( )

And... that's about all I can do to catch up on posting for now. I'd have posted more quiz/meme reruns if I'd done any quizzes or memes between 5 years before my last entry and 5 years before this entry, but as it is, the next one's still not until the 14th.

Disprove the result "If this entry has
anything you'd want to repost, then
18 is prime"

Sorry I haven't posted or checked my friends page in a while - I once again had so much homework pile up on me at once that a) I didn't have much free time and b) whenever I did, I was so tired of having to work on stuff that I ended up spending it playing video games instead.

Not only that, but the past two weeks in Psychology class, we discussed the chapter that reminded me of the Forbidden Comment Threads the most when I glanced at random pages from my textbook... *shudder* Gender, Sex, and Sexuality.

Luckily, only one argument ever happened throughout all the class sessions about that chapter, I managed to stay out of it, and it wasn't even bad enough that anyone who's even slightly more emotionally stable than I am is likely to also count it as an argument. But there were still a lot of things said in the textbook and the lectures that reminded me of the FCT... *shudder*


At least we're done with that chapter, and it's Spring Break now!!! And I got to see The LEGO Movie yesterday!!


Hopefully, I'll make progress on something this Spring Break...


Are men or women more likely
to repost this entry? (please
don't answer that because it'll
probably turn into the
Forbidden Comment Threads...)