A little bit of reinvention

1. To let everyone know, I've finally gotten around to changing my username.  Say what you want about it, it's definitely a step up from the old one.  ;-)

mecteol ----> quadruplify

FYI, I'm not changing any other usernames I might go by online -- my AIM, Twitter, Dreamwidth, etc. will be unchanged (for now).

I've also changed my default icon, as well as my layout and profile -- thanks to thrashmetal and fruitstyle!  The profile still needs a bit of tweaking, but feel free to check them out!  :D

2. Welcome new friends!  *waves*

3. Some more Iran news:

( TONS of good stuff under the cut... )

4. And now back to boring IRL stuff.  XD

I finally started driving again this week; it's only been two days, but I definitely feel comfortable behind the wheel again.  Just got to put in a few weeks' more practice, and focus more on parking, and I should definitely have my license by summer's end.  If I accomplish nothing else between now and September, it'll be that -- which is good, considering how important it is.  ^_^;

5. My sister has been working on a social studies project on Liberia -- each student/group had to do an African country (I remember doing the same thing in my geography class in middle school, only we could do any country [I ended up doing Switzerland, which was worth it because I got to tell everyone LSD was invented there 8D]).  Part of the project apparently involved having to cook a dish from that country, and my sister decided to do these.  I'm not entirely certain if it's authentic (and I'm much less certain about whether or not such authenticity matters), but I decided to help make them tonight.  And I definitely enjoyed myself!  It took a bit getting used to, but I can see myself cooking and enjoying it in the future.  And they came out great too!  :D

6. __wilderness__ , I got that Robot Heroes Sideways you sent me earlier this week!  Thank you so much!!  :3  (Now I have to find a place to put it....)

7. I want this poster badly.  The katakana kinda pisses me off, but I'll live.  (Yeah, it also comes in a T-shirt, but I'm way too self-conscious to want to wear something like that out of the house.  I'm not that nerdy -- at least, not yet.  :PPP)

8. Lately I've been watching Persons Unknown, and I've really been liking it.  I haven't been completely sucked in like Durarara!! -- it didn't grab me right away, and I completely forgot about it until the next episode aired last Monday -- but despite the fact that it's absolute crazy and has a ton of suspended-disbelief-challenging moments, I think it's growing on me.  Uh oh.  O_o;

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