This and that - oh yeah, and that too

[oneiriad]

Clickety-clickety-clickety - and somehow we managed to type in every last questionnaire in the statisitical program we are using. Now we can get around to playing with it and finding out who and what and where - and afterwards we can guess at the why of it all... It is irritating, though, a thing I have observed - people don´t answer the questionnaire that is written, they answer the questionnaire that they imagine has been written. They read maybe half a question before answering it, if they do not simply look at the possible answers and brilliantly (and usually wrongly) guessing what the question might be, like some flawed Sherlock Holmes. Sometimes you can tell that people have simply been too lazy - I mean, what do you think when there is a question, and it says that if you answer no to this question, then you are to skip the next * number of questions and go straight to * question - and then the idiot proceeds to answer all the questions he or she should have skipped?! Can´t people read anymore? It´s not even like the questions were hard, and me and my projectpartner was around to be asked stupid questions the whole time - so why is it apparently too much to ask that people fill in the real questionnaire and not the one they have inside their own little heads?

On a much more cheerful note, my story "Falling into Heaven, falling into Hell" just got its 100th review over at fanfiction.net. Now, I know that fanfiction.net is the great evil and all that, but it is also great for small, uplifting reviews - and it is nice to get one when one is being frustrated by evil questionnaires. Brightens the mood a lot :-)

And then there is my father - now, I love the man, but dear God, he irritates me. You see, his birthday is in December, which means that within a single month I have to think up both a birthday present and a Christmas present for him - and he is one of those horrible people who practically never have any wishes, so it is terribly frustrating at times. Why couldn´t he have the decency to have been born in the midst of summer? That way I would have half a year between each present instead of half a month... And despite all that, somehow it seems like his gifts are now acquired, making him the first person I have found the Christmas present for this year. Now all I have to do is figure out what I want to give the rest (oh, and buy it too, of course)...

Comments

[drbillbongo.livejournal.com]

I usually have the same problems with finding a christmas present for my dad. He doesn't want anything. But it's even worse with my mom because she always requests immaterial things like me being good and that's actually very hard to give to her... *grins* No, seriously - I think you'll manage! I've always managed to find them some presents, how ever stupid they were. And because it was christmas, they didn't complain. ;)

And a little question: I usually don't go to fanfiction.net because the quality in the livejournal communities is much better (as I found out because black_claw has given me some of the fanfics at fanfiction.net and they weren't as good as the fics I found here. But why is it great evil?

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

Fanfiction.net looks lovely on the surface, and it used to be a huge open forum for all sorts of fanfic. This sadly includes all sorts of badfic and Mary Sue stories, as you can see if you care to take a brief look at PotC section, potentially drowning the good stuff, but hey, live and let live. But then a while ago the person running the site deciding to forbid NC-17 stories on it, and rpf, and then later second-person (claiming they were interactive) and script-form, and so on. Fanfiction.net is evil because they keep limiting what people can put up, and furthermore there does not seem to be much investigation going on when abuse is reported - accounts have been mysteriously shut down and stories vanished, even if they obeyed the rules. A lot of people go elsewhere, to livejournal communities and new archives and so on, but it still is one of the hughest places for fanfiction on the net, and one of the best places if you want lots of reviews (and I do, so...).

[drbillbongo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I heard about the quality there. It's really not fair what they're doing. I mean, people work hard before they finally post their fiction. And then they get shut down without any explanation. *grmbls*
And they forbid NC-17 stuff??? Okay, one more reason for me not to look there...