Fixing of pic links, birthdays, and more disgruntlement

Fixed the pictures from the Renfaire--there are six of guys in kilts...and one of me. Me in my peasant gear and holding my wakizashi (never mind that it's a Japanese sword and therefore probably doesn't belong at a Renaissance faire...

Anyway. Ye who love men in kilts, check out the pictures here.

Also, I've been missing out on birthdays due to me being tired like whoa and possibly getting sick. So...

Happy birthday, byronyraven, and happy belated birthdays, pockettheroach and nassima!

Also, an update on National Merit--my English teacher last year wrote my letter of recommendation, and gave it to me today to see if there's anything I wanted to change. You know what? She spelled my name wrong. What the fuck is up with so many people spelling my name wrong, especially when the correct spelling is right in front of them? My name is Corinne. Not Corrinne, which is what she put, or Corine and Corrine, which various others have put. Corinne. It's on my damn resume, for crying out loud, and she had it right in front of her to write the letter! Not to mention my RL nickname Corie, which I have seen spelled Cory, Corey, and Corrie, and far more often than how it's really spelled. And then Corinne is nearly always pronounced wrong--my mother said that she gave it one r and two ns so that people would pronounce it like it's meant to be, Cor-in, and not Cor-een, and not, inexplicably, Corina, which is how my principal pronounced it when he made the announcement of who all the National Merit semifinalists are at my school. Not to mention how my last name is mangled, both spelling-wise and pronunciation-wise...but my last name is German, so I suppose it's somewhat understandable.... And then for online, there's bloody Rhynne, and I still have no idea where the h came from...

Also, I had an opthomologist appointment yesterday (which I have instead of an optometrist because of the cataract I had as a baby which resulted in me being half-blind) where I learned that I lack much of the depth perception that most people have because I'm half-blind and that's probably why I had that accident a couple weeks ago, I have a dentist appointment on Thursday, I'm getting sick, I still don't know what's wrong with my laptop, my extra userpics are running out in a couple days and I don't have enough money to both pay for more and buy a commission from ponderosa121, which I want, and I still have to get up at six every day, and will until June, excepting weekends and holidays.

Nope. Not having the best week.

*FRUSTRATION*

A side effect of being a FA coder that I never expected is that people send me owls notifying me of updates to their stories when all I've done is create a review thread for them.

This is happening with one person in particular. I coded the first chapter of her Schnoogle story, reading nothing but the summary and a cursory check to make sure it was fine, and noticed with distaste that it was a Sirius/OFC story, which, although I've read Interwoven and various other very good Sirius/OFC stories, I am not a fan of.

But now she sends me owls every time she updates. And I keep trying to owl her back and ask her to take me off her update list because oi, I've never even read the story and I have no intention of doing so, I just created the damn review thread (which people should bloody do themselves as it's not bloody hard!), but every time I try, her owl box is full. So tonight I get another update notice and try to owl her back, but again, the owl box is full. And then I try to email her from her profile, but she's unplottable. Finally I take her email address from her fic page, and by this time I'm frustrated enough that I'm not as polite as I'd like to be. *sigh*

It's inordinately annoying--almost as much as yellow font that I have to remove manually. Or people who create their own review threads and then don't link to them in the submissions form (neatly defeating the purpose of creating your own review thread at all, as we coders still have to go in and code your fic that way). And people who seem to think that we're a beta-reading service, telling us to just fix all their errors for them when that's not the point at all.

Geez, I've been having a bad day. And I haven't even mentioned how annoyed school has made me--it's Homecoming Week, today's theme was "Battle of the sexes" where girls have to wear pink and boys blue, and completely aside from the fact that I don't even like pink and so own nothing of that color to wear (I wore complete blue), there's just something about that theme that I find offensive. I can't quite pinpoint it (my brain is so not working properly), but I just...urgh. (Okay, guess I've mentioned it now. :p)

Which means that Anonymous Person Who Bought Me More Userpic Time, you are an angel of mercy and I love you desperately. Tell me who you are?