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darththalia sent me Copperplate, and i love her!, and i redid the icon, with a better crop, and it is even better than it was before.  yays.

so i was taking a break avoiding my work.  (it's getting dangerous, the avoidance.  i hate myself.)  and pearl_o had screencaps from the vault.  and look at the look on frannie's face!  and i don't have copperplate gothic, and even the similar fonts the 'free' font sites showed me wanted money, so i used the demo and took a screencap instead (or else the text would be clearer).  and i found a workaround for the fact that when you do that you can't get the drop shadow, because after all it's not a text layer (invert, repaste, 60% opacity, w00t!).  and then i was inappropriately influenced by lunulet's abiding hatred of borderless icons; i'd never noticed one way or the other, before she brought it up, and now i'm becoming all touchy on the subject.  (but i do continue to believe there are icons that are better without them.  so there.)

this is me, checking off a box next to another Deadly Sin.

i've got already Envy (green) and Wrath (red); and this is (obviously) Pride (violet).  this here site tells me that the remaining sins' colors are light blue (Sloth), orange (Gluttony), blue (Lust), and yellow (Greed).  aside from the fact that (a) none of these seems familiar to me in a green-with-envy sort of way (even purple for Pride is kind of a reach, innit?) and (b) i already have an icon where i've photoshopped my left eye blue (i could use the same art with a different caption if i decided to do a Lust one with a blue eye), i've never really been clear on the difference between Greed and Gluttony.  anyone?

so i met the choir lady and sang a bit, and she was glad i had contacted her! if i'd asked to join her alto section, she said, she'd have had to turn me away, or if i'd said i wanted to sing soprano, but i'd never really sung much in a choir before, she'd have suggested i wait until next term -- but with the christmas carol services and whatnot coming up, the fact that i chose to phrase my initial e-mail "i hear through the musical grapevine that you might have room for a high soprano with some training and experience" was a good thing. :-)

warm-ups, she said it sounded like where she stopped the warmup was just getting into the middle of my voice. i could certainly hear a difference -- chapel acoustics are good for that -- between the beginning of the warmup, maybe around middle C, and the end, probably about F sharp or so, in the actual quality of the sound. there's a place around treble C-ish that things suddenly open up and sound much clearer, and choir lady is delighted to have a soprano who's not afraid to sing "so high" as the G above that. (note: i have never actually considered this note high.)

[bounce]

i continue to be in need of a music or a singing icon. anyone have nifty ones to offer?

i have been carrying this in my wallet since september 30. was saying to cmshaw how i wished i could icon it -- and then i remembered i have a digital camera. who needs a scanner?

not that you all need encouraging or reminding, i'm sure. but, you know.

icon from lysrouge. it seemed to fit my sense of civic responsibility from far away, if you know what i mean. (i did vote, five days ago. there is no chance the receipt of my ballot by the county board of elections will not be timely.)

i retired the lego icon, because i seem to remember nobody was a big fan of it and a couple of you said it was so unlike me (despite the coffee and cigarette) that you didn't know why i kept it at all. have rotated this one in, instead. i like it better than the cartoon avatar, though i did manage to flip the ears on that one so the earrings go in the right places. :-)

i, too, am campaigning. icon is shareable.

isn't this better?

because -- well, of course he does.

two things:

1. darthrami, i'd still be eternally grateful if you managed to get me a grab of blair threatening kincaid with that flare gun or whatever the hell it was.

2. to be fair, i think blair and hermione are really more nerds than geeks. but this may be a hair that only nerds (and geeks) bother to split ...