all the derien are belong to me!

There, I'm now on MySpace as derien.  Is there any other 'community building' site I should corner my name on? 

ETA: I don't find it very navigable. It's always difficult getting used to a new interface, but I'm too old and set in my ways to want to bother. (Of course LJ isn't as easy as it once was, what with pages not always loading completely.)

layout options?

As I mentioned, possibly cryptically, in my last post, I've been having problems with my LJ where quite often I'll click through to view one of my own posts and I can see the things around the edges of the page, but the text of the post is completely invisible until I highlight it.  Or I'll go to the friends page and there'll be huge blank spaces in the text areas until I scroll down and then back up again.  Does anyone else experience such problems when interacting with my LJ?  Or is this all on my end?  Because I don't care so much for myself, but I'd hate to be inconveniencing other people.  It seemed to work okay when I first chose it, so I think it could have to do with changes LJ made, but for all I know it could have to do with my computer not wanting to refresh properly.  Only I don't notice such problems when hitting most other people's journals.  Just wondering if I should go style-shopping again.  It's probably something one has to do every now and then, as LJ changes code. 

In other news, yesterday morning, half awake, I grabbed a blunt pair of scissors and hacked off my bangs and ... fringe? Is that what you call the hair in front of your ears? (see comments) sideburns, I guess  Having curly hair is good for something - it hides a multitude of evils as far as haircuts are concerned.  A co-worker said it was probably better to do that when I was half asleep, because then my subconscious was doing the cutting, and my subconscious knows exactly how I want it. 

Also, I had to close the windows because I was too cold.  Too cold.  I think I need a hot shower.  But now the air feels too still.  I may just have to open one a little.  You know there are a lot of people in Maine who will sleep with the window in their bedroom open at least a crack all winter because they just feel they need the fresh air. 

How odd

Do me a favor.  Go to Digital Pulp and tell me if a story by Derien Demarais comes up in the top five for YOU.  I logged in, of course, so I don't trust them to not stick my story onto a top five specific for me.  It just doesn't make sense to me that my story would still be in the top five after all these months, and the ratings it's getting don't look all that strong.  Of course the story right above it doesn't look at all promising from it's first paragraph, so it may just be a not very competitive field.