Welcome to my perfumed garden

I just uploaded Foreign Exchange to the website. 208 MB (so it must have ads and trailers - apologies).

And I'll be doing a little more unfriending (Gods, I hate that word) later today. I have less and less time to spend on LJ these days and I'm doing an awful lot of skimming - there are a host of peeps and comms I rarely read now.

ETA: All done. If you're gone but want to stay, please say and I'll immediately re-friend you. It's nothing personal, honestly!

I have to say, far from feeling net-deprived over the past week or so, I've been having a rather enjoyable time, reading actual books (remember those, children?) and working on two novels with a pen using actual paper.

Being back online is already starting to look like work; the number of emails awaiting my attention is daunting and as for LJ...

I think it might take me a while to catch up. Please to bear with me.

::waves at everyone:: My, haven't you all grown since I last saw you! (o:

Purloined from the shameless miwahni

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

LJs new Masters are censoring our interests, and what they're choosing to censor is most worrying of all.

Really, it's getting awfully crowded and there are a lot of people here who don't ever post or probably even read or with whom I no longer have much in common, or share much in the way of opinions and attitudes, or else I friended a long time ago but they never friended me back so... I'm guessing they want to leave as much as I need to reduce the size of m'flist but are much too nice and polite to say so.

Anyway, it's almost spring and it's time. I'm not pruning much, just a little...

If you've found yourself removed and care,, I'm more than happy to have you stay - just leave a comment and I'll re-friend you.

I'm just doing a litle spring cleaning, both in RL and LJ-life. It's nothing personal.

ETA: Remaining flist (*g*) - where do you stand on people who don't friend you back? There are quite a few on my flist. I've ditched some but there are others that are friends of friends, that I see regularly around the place - mostve been on my flist a good long while and haven't returned the compliment so, presumably, don't care to have me around...? I'm not sure I want to stay friended to someone who clearly doesn't want the same from me,  but I don't want to offend or seem like I'm flouncing...? Man... This is getting complicated. *g*

It's been days since I got any emails telling me about messages received -or rather,  I am getting them, but days late.

If you've responded to me and I haven't posted back, then - you have my apologies. It's a bit of a bastard. I wonder what the problem is now,  then? ::sigh::

On changing my name.

I became Gillyp because my fic-writer name, Panik, was already taken, but now I'm musing on whether I could be Panik + a number or sommat? I'm always having to direct people here and 'explain' to those who only know me through my fic; it would be easier, I think, if I just used my ficly name..

I dunno.

What do you think my lovelies? Is it worth the bother?

...That I welcome kashe07 to LJ.

A poor innocent that I unwittingly accused of sockpuppetry yesterday. She's an LJ virgin, be gentle with her. (o:

In the past twelve hours, two people I don't know with brand shiny new, empty LJs have friended me.

Has this happened to anyone else?

If I press the friends link at the top of the page, the latest post from my friend's list is from last night (and checking just one of my communities, I can see there've been a ton of posts since last night). If I press the link on my sidebar, the latest post is Snailbones pumpkin post from Oct 30th.

I often have this updating problem from one of the 2 links, never had it from both before. Anyone got any advice on how to fix this?