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Tweaks and enhancements

1. In order to improve site security, we've temporarily suspended the ability to change passwords for old email addresses that haven't been used for over six months. For further information and support, please visit our customer care page.
2. We've launched a new mobile site with an enhanced UI at m.livejournal.com. View spotlights, post to your journal, read and post to friends pages, and more, no matter where you roam! Please let us know what you think, since this will eventually replace our existing mobile interface. You can update your mobile preferences on your account page.
3. We've upgraded from Beacon to Facebook Connect to improve dual posting. If you've already signed up for Facebook Beacon, you're good to go. If you wish to update your Facebook Connect setting, visit Account Privacy settings and scroll down to the option labeled: "Send information about my updates to Facebook." You can choose Always or Ask each time. Remember to save (on the bottom left corner of the page). To learn more, check out FAQ 249. While we're on the subject, if you happen to be visiting that side of town, please join our Facebook fan page for a touch of home away from home.
4. You'll now receive the Writer's Block Question of the Day in the body of email notifications. To sign up for Writer's Block notifications, visit writersblock and choose the Watch Community option. Next, update your Writer's Block notification settings by checking the box to the right of "Someone posts a new entry to writersblock."
5. Paid and permanent users can now view, add, and edit Notes of commenters. Notes will appear beside the username of comment posters (instead of stars) on S1-themed comment pages.

Send some lovin' thanks to your friends with our holiday vgifts!

Photos of the week

We're so delighted with the immense talent of our growing, global lj_photophile community that we've decided to introduce a poll. Each week, we'll choose a half-dozen photos (based on user comments and staff feedback) and ask you to select a photo of the week. The winning photo will be announced in the next newsletter. If possible, please limit photo size to 350x350 to ensure that images display properly on friends pages. We want to thank you again (and again!) for sharing your passion.

Check out this week's photo poll and more fantastic user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks for joining us. To our American friends, have a fantastic Thanksgiving. To all of our international neighbors, we'll eat a little extra for you!

It's almost go home time!!!

P.S. The live action "Blood: The Last Vampire" movie is AWFUL. Thankfully, it only cost my cousin and I $1 in the redbox to watch. Would not recommend that. Not at all.

P.P.S. The detect feature knows I'm in Whitewater!! CREEPY!!!!!!!

65redroses
Eva is a vibrant young woman with Cystic Fibrosis who survived a double lung transplant. Read about her difficult recovery and personal triumphs over pain, isolation, and fear. Back in school, Eva now works part-time in a children's center and enjoys running and cross-country skiing. A documentary on her story, entitled 65 Red Roses, won three awards at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

meet_other_moms
A warm and welcoming "Add me" community for moms of all ages and backgrounds from around the world. If you're a mom, just post a little about yourself and start connecting with other mothers based on similar hobbies, musical interests, book/TV/movie preferences, or taste in humor! A great way for busy moms to socialize online.

kitchenfaq
Want to share a fabulous home recipe for coconut bread? Suddenly run out of confectioner's sugar with company on the way and need to find out a quick in-house substitute? Searching for tips on what to charge for a custom-designed wedding cake? Whether you're a professional chef, an aspiring culinary wizard, or a happy home-baker, you'll get delicious guidance from fellow and sister foodies.

I saw "Where the wild things are" yesterday and it almost made me throw up. True story.

Because, as Newton tells us,

the force of gravity is not only directly proportional to the product of our masses,
but inversely proportional to the square of the distance
between you and me.

And though an object may seem large, and thus you would assume it's gravity greater,
less density is less mass. So the distance between the center and the surface
negates the effect of the size.

So greater distance means less pull.
And the orbit of fluff and air
cannot compare to the pull of rock, and soul.

So please, stay close,
and true to what you said.

This is what I told Cat:

Right now, my life is awkward on so many levels.

That basically covers it.
I also said that right now, I'm just trying to forget it. I'm trying to drown my anxiety and obsessive thoughts about where and when and what is happening there and then with coffee and cigarettes. It isn't working, really. I should've tried alcohol. That seems like a really bad idea, though.

Have you ever felt so many conflicting things that you wanted to explode? I have, because I do.

naturesbeauty
Always on the lookout for compelling images, we were delighted to discover this flourishing community of artists who share a love of nature. Honoring the subject with photographs, paintings, sketches, prose, poetry, and
other creative works, you'll be simultaneously riveted to your monitor and inspired to run helter skelter towards the nearest wooded dale.

Postcard winners!

We wish to extend our heartfelt gratitude for sending so much joy our way. Frank is still blushing with excitement over the love notes, proposals, propositions, and occasional intimate photos sent from his admirers around the world (China, Norway, Japan, and Poland just this week)! At his request, we blindfolded Justin, one of Frank's BFFs, spun him around in five dozen counterclockwise circles, and asked him to point to ten random postcards/envelopes pasted to the wall. After a brief trip to the bathroom, he chose the following lucky winners, to whom we will give a six-month paid account token (for paid, basic, and plus users) or, for our permanent account holders, a $15 voucher for the LiveJournal gift shop.

So, without further ado, the winners are:

1. seraphene
2. fotog
3. boykitten
4. seshat_6
5. anti_aol
6. lisalees
7. katrinkacat
8. mistyboston
9. _woody_lein
10. another_slender

Bugs, Tweaks, and Enhancements

1. We fixed a bug from the last release that was causing screened comments to become unscreened if they were edited
2. If you happen to be gaming around the corner, check us out on Facebook and be sure to spread the word!
3. We've added new vgifts to celebrate Thanksgiving! Check out our feathered friend, below!

Give more with charitable vgifts

In honor of national adoption month, we're offering a charitable vgift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that provides healthcare and adoption to orphans suffering from life-threatening diseases. LiveJournal will donate 100% of gross proceeds from the sale (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries vgifts in the Virtual Gift shop. We'll keep you posted on how much we raise!

Photos of the week

We're delighted to showcase yet more incredible photos from some of our brilliant LiveJournal photographers around the world. Keep posting (and tagging). And be sure to show some love by commenting on the awesome view at lj_photophile.

Check out this week's photos and more amazing user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. See you next week!

I need this game now!! I love those lawyer games. They're like a book, only more fun to read because there's lots of colors and moving pictures! Is it February yet?

P.S. Leveling characters in Final Fantasy XII is so much easier when they all have items that give them double experience points. I got my other party from level 20 to level 44 in only 2 days! And I only played for like an hour and a half each day. They'll be level 61 in no time! Then I suppose I have to go to the lighthouse. Boo...

givesushope
It's that glorious time of year when we reunite with loved ones (we neglected all year), stuff our faces to excess, and pass out in front of the TV. Perhaps a recalibration of the thanksometer is in order. A spin-off of the popular GivesMeHope.com site, this community invites you to document moments of kindness, generosity, and pure human love.

veggieslackers
Despite its mainstream appeal, Thanksgiving is not for everyone. There are those struggling with food disorders, for whom this day causes endless conflict. There are the cash-challenged, who can't afford the gluttony we've grown to expect. There are the lonely, who don't have loved ones nearby. And let's not forget the vegetarians, who decry the animal cruelty. But there's one more group we often overlook: the terminally lazy! This community of lazy vegetarians offers easy recipes for an animal-friendly feast.

fashin
Just in time for holiday shopping season, this fashionista community brings you the world of haute couture in the form of sumptuous photos, video clips, and candid commentary. There's also a sugary sprinkle of mainstream movie discussions and debates on such pressing social issues as manicure styles and celebrity colonics. If you need a break from the daily grind to indulge your girlie side, this is twinkly pink on steroids.

And when I'm brave enough and find a clever way to kick him out
And I'm so high, not even you and all your love could bring me down...

Oh, Amanda Palmer, your lyrics still do it for me even after years and years...

I felt I should post something because I'm a bit happier. I vomited my feelings about life and its uncertainties to Nick the other day and it really helped. Still, though, I'm having some nights...

I started Physics on Tuesday. I told Nick that I thought Physics was sort of poetic, but he doesn't really get it as he has never taken Physics. This is what I mean:

"Everything pulls on everything else in a beautifully simple way that involves only mass and distance. According to Newton, every body attracts every other body with a force that, for any two bodies, is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance separating them."

Everything pulls on everything else... Something about that is so very beautiful.

Everyone thought I was insane for taking Physics--especially since, to finish my degree, I can take literally whatever I feel like. What can I say? University of Phoenix was offering it for, like, $800 cheaper than most of their other classes...

Though, at this point, there was almost no use in me taking online classes. LFCC would've been way cheaper. I haven't yet relocated, and probably won't until after January. However, the demands on my time for an online class are far less, so whatever.

I don't care: what's done is done.

For a while, I was wondering and worry about "shoulds" or "shouldn'ts" and trying to point myself towards what needed to be. Sometimes, I caught glimpses of it, but I feel so hopelessly bogged down in the confusion of everything that all I can really do is throw up my hands and look around at where I am. I'm just here. I don't care; I'm just going to live for a while.

You can reach in and pull me up if You think I'm sinking. I lost the precise sound of Your voice a while ago...

It's ok, though. I think it's just temporary disorientation.