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Name: Alexandra
Location: Kansas, United States
Birthday: 9/15/1965
Gender: Female
Interests: My grand passion is English country houses--visiting them, photographing them, reading about them, learning every little thing I can about them. I also love to read, watch tv, go to movies, and write.
Expertise: Although I seriously doubt I'm anywhere near an expert, I have degrees in English History, Classics, and Information Science. I use them to play.
Occupation: Administrative
Industry: Legal
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
12/21/2000
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| Hi all...
I hope no one was too concerned over my latest disappearance. I got behind and just more behind and...really, it's quite pathetic.
After much soul-searching I've decided that I just don't have the time to give to Xanga right now. I don't feel like I'm doing it or my subscribers or those I'm subscribed to justice. Visiting the Xanga sites I want to, keeping up with the community, takes too much of my time.
Since I joined in December, my fanfic writing has dropped to about a story a month whereas I used to write a couple stories a week. Since I stopped visiting Xanga about three weeks ago, I've written about half a dozen stories. I don't know if there's a correlation there or not, but fanfic is very important to me. I have several series in the works and I really want to finish them sometime before the next millenium.
So, I'm going to take a break from Xanga for a while, see if I can get some of those series finished and figure out a way to manage my time better. I'll leave the site up and try to check in every so often. I'll understand if my subscribers unsub. I really wish I had the time to visit the ones I'm subbed to.
I've met a lot of great people here at Xanga and had a lot of fun.
In the meantime, you might as well know who I really am. My real name is Laura Wilson and I write under the name Laure Alexander. My site, if anyone would care to read any of my fanfic, is http://www.grapevine.net/lwilson/index.html
I'll be back... | | |
| Faith in humanity slightly restored...
I'm a huge cynic and I'm not a fan of organized religion, but a local church is going to spend part of tomorrow at a gas station, paying the difference in a gallon of gas to bring the price down to $1.29 a gallon. No limit on how much gas you buy, but you'll save about 50 cents per gallon. They've raised $1000 to cover the costs.
All because it's a nice thing to do.
Random acts of kindness, whether motivated by religion, morality, a desire to feel good...whatever the reason, they're worth doing.
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| New Obsession!
This has been growing on me for a while, a spin off of my interest in Ewan McGregor. Mostly, I've been interested in Obi-Wan; I've never actually seen Ewan in anything else, which makes all my Ewan obsessed friends just fall over in shock.
But, I'm usually a lover of a character rather than an actor, and I love Obi-Wan.
Now, though, I've fallen for Christian, and Moulin Rouge isn't even out yet.
The soundtrack is, though. I've never been much of a fan of modern music for period pieces, but I'm so intrigued by everything I've read about this movie, that I can't wait for June 1. And the soundtrack rocks.
Even if I do now own something on which Christina Aguilera sings. :-P
So, for a while, Spike is being replaced by Christian. Maybe I'll rotate them.
Quote from Ewan: "I don't know if I'd ever had more fun in my work. Singing and dancing in a movie, I've been wanting to do all my life. I drove everyone nuts because I was too excited, but I just felt hell, nobody's done this for years and years. Not like this."
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| Been slacking off on visiting other Xanga sites this week, so I'll be doing some drive-bys today. :-D
I should be reading depositions on personal injury cases, but they're so dull and depressing! I swear, the people doing these things are the most dysfunctional I've ever read about. No one had anything remotely happy happen in their lives.
I've also got to think of some ideas for articles for the webzine and get them roughed out by Sunday. I'm totally blanking.
Might write on the relatively new weblog craze. | | |
| Y'know, virus warnings that turn out to be hoaxes are becoming almost as prevalent as viruses.
And they're so easy to prove as hoaxes! They often refer to McAfee and Microsoft and give just the homepages of those sites, ditto with news organizations like CNN. You'd think a real warning would have links to actual stories about the virus.
And McAfee has a great hoax site that debunks the things, even translates them into the original language.
Virus hoaxes--the new urban legend. | | |
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