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Things that hurt my feelings:
My football team losing a game that they should have won.
My computer's hard drive going bad
NO SIMS

Things that I am excited about:
Going to SF to find housing
Three day work week next week!
Friends I haven't seen in way too long being back in town.
New glasses

So it's coming up on December and the days are flying by. I'm moving to San Fransisco in six weeks or so. It's funny, the past year I've known that this was happening; I mean, not for sure, not as solidly as I do now, but  I've known that this is important to me, the next step and now, here I am, hurtling towards it.

Which isn't to say I'm not enjoying the time I have in the BCO. I'm hanging out with my sisters and my friends. I'm watching my football team suck it up. I'm loving my work. I"m eager for the next step.

In less squishy news, my computer has been at the computer doctor's for a week now with a bad hard drive, which means that for a week now, I have been without my favorite pass-time, the soul sucking so fun computer game, The Sims. I guess it's good. I'm reading more. Blah blah blah. I WANT MY COMPUTER BACK!    

First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!

The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.

TypePad Micro

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A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.

Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.

On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.

And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!

~ daisy

Just a quick update: my hard drive has crashed. Now, not only do I not have internet at my house, but I don't have access to my sims. Which, just so you know, is breaking my heart.

And speaking of that heart, it feels very very broken and tender right now. I feel like I'm an exposed nerve, walking around, hissing at anything that could touch me wrong.

As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.

The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.

When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.

It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.

Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.

As always, thanks for your patience.

~daisy

This is what I am thinking about today: everything changes, everything. I am remembering times when I was so miserable and heartbroken that it was difficult to take the next breath. I am remembering gratitude that today, I can move and I am moving moving moving so fast that I think it would probably be difficult to separate each movement. And the amazing thing is that I'm not running from anything or to anything and I'm not sure that I'm actually running. What I am sure of is that sometimes I remember how to connect with joy, sometimes I can exist in a world where a soldier shoots up an army base and my football team wins a game and babies are born and I am missing a lover and waiting for a friend.

I am remembering watching a kid learn to ride a bike and when she realized I wasn't holding on anymore, she yelled, "I'M DOING IT, I'M DOING IT!"

I'm doing it. Riding a bike, falling asleep, going rollerskating, figuring out how to move across the country, working hard, living with my boss, finding my way out of the crying, into the crying, I'm doing it.

Things I Love:

• Brian announced what he would like to get me for Christmas: ANOTHER KITTY.  You can imagine my excitement.  It is such that I'm beyond even being about to use exclamation points and I have to revert back to using plain ol' periods.  Also, this will be great for Fritz, who we think is getting pretty lonely, especially at night--we don't let him into the bedroom and he's taken to howling at all hours of the night.
• SHOPPING FOR KITTIES ZOMGZ CAN WE HAVE THEM ALL
• How affectionate Fritz has been lately.  As we speak he's sitting in the chair with me, purring away.
• Brian, who despite claiming to have no idea how to get gifts for people has come up with an untoppable gift the second year in a row.
• Threadless, and online shopping in general.  In the last week I have: ordered a Threadless shirt, ordered something from Woot (a WootOff, to be precise), pre-ordered a video game from Amazon, and ordered yet another Threadless shirt.  The first one's already come in:

"The Ultimate Combo"--JUST CALL ME CHUN-LI, YO

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• The PetSmart employee who I suppose didn't want to risk getting off even a few minutes late, so she lied to us and told us they don't do adoptions after 8pm.  (They close at 9--we got there right at 8:30.)  I called another PetSmart to confirm this isn't a company policy.  We were going up to look again at a kitty we'd played with and loved last night (AFTER 8).
• My decreasing ability to control my RED IMPOSSIBLE ANGER!  (That phrase is only going to be funny to me because I am a loser who has inside jokes with herself.  I'm aggravated and will cheer myself up however I please, damn it.)
• Procrastination.  Sigh.  I cannot get myself to stick to a reading/study schedule and as a result, have something like 300 pages of (textbook) reading to do in a week before two tests next Tuesday. 
  

Go forth and fill your libraries with media.

Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.

~daisy

I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.

I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.

Cheers,

daisy

Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.

We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.

I will keep you posted.

Thank you for being so patient.

~daisy