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Not going to go on at length about the recent shenanigans with LJ. You can probably see thoughts analogous to mine on the matter in any of a kajillion posts that've gone up recently, or any of the comments (which must be approaching 20,000 in total by now) put up on the various news and release posts related to r88. Some of the comments on the latter actually are mine, as are the three feedback submissions, one technical support request, and one suggestion submission that have been sent in to LJ.

I'm just going to contribute two things if there's anyone on my flist that hasn't seen them:
This post regarding what [livejournal.com profile] igrick thinks of all of us English-speaking users (because we're all Americans, of course)
and this one about why everyone's complaining the new layout gives them headaches.

That said, I'm leaving. Not as much because of the changes themselves as because of LJ's handling of them and its position as the end a downward spiral regarding its treatment of its users. Any continued presence I have on LJ is going to be for the benefit of RPs I'm in that don't move; my personal journal, as little as it gets used, will be moving over to Dreamwidth. I'm matthias_wave there, too, so anyone else hopping over there, feel free to add me! All the old stuff here's getting imported over there if there's anything you can't bear to lose for some reason (not that I'm deleting this; it's not as if anyone else is likely to want this journal name).

... That's more length than I'd planned on, but oh well. Thanks for putting up with me, friends! Hope to see you again later!
matthias_wave: Just what it says - Drow are not good eating (Look it's the magical glowy light fairy!)
I'm... not really sure how to feel right now.

I've just given my mother permission to donate my cello to the high school in Joplin - the town that got hit really badly with a tornado last spring. They lost all their instruments in the storm.

On the one hand, I'm not really likely to ever play it again. I don't have the time management skills to arrange to play it now in college, and I honestly don't really think I have the motivation to do so after I graduate. The kids in Joplin will definitely get more use out of it than I do.

On the other, well... I've played the cello since fifth grade, and I've had that cello since... god, I think since eighth or ninth grade. All through high school, definitely - ever since I got tall enough to play a full-sized cello. We rented it pretty much until we'd paid enough to buy it outright, and it's gotten fixed up a lot over time, to the point that I think half the parts of the instrument were ones we got replaced - new bridge, new endpin, new fingerboard, bunch of cracks closed up. I think we may even have replaced the soundpost at one point. It's gone from a crappy rental cello to a really good instrument. And, well, I've had it for a long time.

I only really started to enjoy music once I got the chance to make it; I know I enjoyed it a lot better than I ever really did any sort of visual art. A lot of my friends in high school were ones I knew through orchestra.

I think it started out as a school cello, so I guess it's really only fitting that it ends up as one again. So long, Woody. Hopefully you'll make the kids in Joplin as happy as you've made me.

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