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Oh man. I don't deal well with small, trivial changes.

Big, horrifying, scary changes I'm okay with, except for some eleventh-hour dithering when it's too late to do anything so I know that dithering is safe, but with little stuff I just suck. I still use Semagic 1.2 for posting and have my Windows XP set to "classic" because I think XP's design is hideous. The only reason I don't still use File Manager is that Windows Explorer looks just like it.

LJ's pretty clearly phasing out Style 1, which is annoying me a little because there are things I used to be able to change that I actually can't change now without either swapping over to S2 or diving into the custom-design code, which always messes up my comments. I used to be able to change my journal title and subtitle from the "manage info" page, but not so much anymore.

Don't get me wrong. I like S2. I just don't want to sacrifice my journal to it.

In three years I've never had the heart to change my default icon, because it's the first icon I ever had for LJ and because now it's, well, iconic. I've never changed my LJ layout, either: aside from some minor colour and sidebar modifications (which, it has been pointed out, make my journal look like that of an octogenarian solicitor), it's always been Refried Paper.

Some of you are going to offer to do me a custom layout, which is very sweet of you, but please don't -- I'm not comfortable giving anyone my password, even for a short duration, and I'd never be able to implement it myself. Besides, I like my journal as it is. It's light and clear, and there's not much wasted space.

I feel rather like an octogenarian solicitor anyway. We must all give up aesthetics for convenience. Grumble, grumble.

*sighs* A Sturdy Gesture might not be so bad. Or I could strip down Component....

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French compound verbs, by the way, can BITE ME.

I learn language in a very specific fashion, which is to say "difficult", though two years of Latin has made any other language seem easier, so I'm willing to put out more effort. What? You mean the noun endings don't change? You're kidding! But that's so simple! Que is que is que? Awesome!

But I will sometimes take an irrational dislike to words for no reason, or for stupid reasons. I loved esse in Latin, for example, even though it was irregular, because it was fun to say in all its conjugations. I'm deliberately not using the red or orange index cards in the multi-colour pack mum dug out for me, because I know that I will subconsciously begin to dislike any word on a red flashcard as I don't like the colour red.

I can already tell that avoir and I are going to be deadly, deadly enemies. I will tolerate être for esse's sake but avoir just pisses me off. :D

I've charted out all the simple verb tenses and I think I've finally drawn a diagram that will remind me how compound tenses work, but I used the various conjugations of être with mangé, which is not so kosher, as that means "I was eat!"

Fuckin' avoir.