Daily Intro Post - November 10th - 30th

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

So, in light that we have been put into the LJ Spotlight for this week, I decided to post one more Daily Intro Post so that all our wonderful new members can have a place to introduce themselves!

So welcome to the community! Reply here and introduce yourself to everyone else. And I hope you have a great time.


also - if this is your first time here, take a moment to look at the following:

2008 Community Rules - read them if you haven't, and please don't post until you have. It makes us all happy, and keeps the ninja squirrels from attacking needlessly.

2008 NaNo LJ'er Regional Friending Thread!

2008 Pimp and Post Thread - talk about your projects here!

Weekly Plot Help Threads - help your fellow community members with their plots!

Daily Word Count Posts - This is where you post your word counts (except your 50K accomplishment, which you get to shout to the world in it's own post for 5 minutes of fame and glory!)

Daily Excerpts - This is where you post snippets from your NaNo to share with everyone. But keep it within the limits!


all these links are available on the profile page as well as the sidebar links in the community in case you ever need to find them.


EDIT: Talking to support now about recovering the Pimp Thread and the Regional Friends thread. Keep your fingers crossed.

Comments

[hireadd.livejournal.com]

That's good, since it's one of the areas I know the most about/have friends living in. XD And no, I wouldn't mind at all! Feel free to hit me up any time.

Not a lot of people call Seattle the Emerald City- generally just tour guides and the like-, I've noticed, but Seattleite is really common. :) And yeah, once I heard of the sparkling vampires, my expectations out of the books sank like a stone... I wasn't surprised that the author didn't do her research about Forks. I think the craziest wildlife we have is the squirrels on the UW campus that leap out at you from trash bins and steal your food. ETA: Out at you, not out of you. XD

XD Luckily, the Space Needle is visible from pretty much everywhere, so it's hard to get too terribly wrong. But I know what you mean. Just remember, you can always go back and fix things/add information once you're done, it doesn't have to be perfect this time. :)

[runa27.livejournal.com]

"That's good, since it's one of the areas I know the most about/have friends living in. XD"

Heh, yeah. I know my mom, who's originally from NYC, is always wincing at movies and books that get details of the city wrong because the writers or whatever have never been there before, especially since it's so utterly famous a city and with such a big population that you'd think it'd be easy to research, yet you constantly see things where her first reaction is "Did they seriously even look at a map of the city? Ever?" Heh. XD

" And no, I wouldn't mind at all! Feel free to hit me up any time."

Awesome! :D

"Not a lot of people call Seattle the Emerald City- generally just tour guides and the like-, I've noticed, but Seattleite is really common. :)"

Very good to know. :)

"And yeah, once I heard of the sparkling vampires, my expectations out of the books sank like a stone... I wasn't surprised that the author didn't do her research about Forks. I think the craziest wildlife we have is the squirrels on the UW campus that leap out at you from trash bins and steal your food. ETA: Out at you, not out of you. XD"

Ahaha. Kind of like that 95% of the time here, too. We're famous for "OMG wildlife", but aside from harmless but pretty birds (including, fun fact: cattle egrets, which will actually cross the street at the cross walk and wait for traffic to stop first no less, and sandhill cranes, which are beautiful but occasionally intimidating as they're like 3 ft tall and some of them are so used to humans that they come up to you expecting food)... it's really so developed that the worst that ever happens is very, very rarely during the dry season, someone will find a gator (often under 3 ft, so, not that big) wandering around looking for a new pool of water, or an obscenely large and fat raccoon getting into their trash. Or maybe a small corn snake on the porch, but unless you have finches out on your porch like we do, that's not really a big deal, since they're not poisonous to humans or anything. Probably the "scariest" I've ever come actually across without having to go to a wildlife sanctuary are wolf spiders... because they're pretty big, and they jump sometimes several feet in the air even, which can scare the bejesus out of you, or at least it does me, because anything with more than four legs automatically kind of creeps me out, let alone when it's freaking out and jumping at me. XD

"XD Luckily, the Space Needle is visible from pretty much everywhere, so it's hard to get too terribly wrong. But I know what you mean. Just remember, you can always go back and fix things/add information once you're done, it doesn't have to be perfect this time. :)"

True, true. :) I sometimes have trouble forgetting that, I'm one of those people that edits as she goes, and obsesses over where to place the commas, ahaha. XD