Okay . . . ignore that last post.

Yes, I knew I was being stupid and frustrated when I did that last post. It's the equivalent of hitting your thumb with a hammer. If you were careful, it probably wouldn't have happened, but it still hurts, and you still feel stupid.

But you know what, they changed the log-in page today. How weird is that? If I had been a day later in my stupidity, I would have known that it was a scam because the scammer would have had to imitate the new page, and have known my active pet. Funny how different everything could have turned out had only one of several things (my stupidity for example) had change.

I have another account now, under the name sphekiko. Two new Neopets, and Akujunkan's name is spelled right in this one. But I want the dagasisa one back, not just because I was pretty rich (and I bet the majority of my NPs are gone as well as any items I had hidden away), but because the pets that I had were on their way to being good, I had a good sized shop, a fairly-nice neohome, and a reasonably old account. And then there's the fact that one of the primary ways I get in contact with Inu-chan.

But enough about that. The dagasisa account has already been frozen, and I'll either get it back or not.

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In other news, I've been reading a bit. I believe the author is Amelia Atwater-Rhodes or something similar to that. Anyway, she's my age, and had her first novel published around the age of 13. Some of her characters kinda bother me on sight. Both Jessica and Sarah, the main characters the two novels I read reminded of Mary Sues. Jessica was beautiful even though there was something about her that scared people, and Sarah was both beautiful and charismatic. Jessica seemed like something of a self-insert, she wrote about vampires and had the novels published when she was in high-school, which would line up with the author herself. But all that aside, they were entertaining reads, if only because there was more than just the main-character=good, vampire=evil that is prevalent. The vampires were real characters, and the conclusions were actually kind of surprising, even though I feel like there was some sort of fantasy play. I don't know what it was about the story, but after a while the story absorbed me to the point where I forgot about the other flaws.

It makes me wonder if I could believe in Shadows the way that Jessica believed in her vampires. *would give left arm to meet Kage, Kozan, or Sekhen in person*

Another thing on the reading front was The Reader's Manifesto by B.R. Myers. Think of this as literary criticism that makes sense. He calls modern literature that tries to be Literature boring and overworked, catering to those not intelligent enough to know that it's the author's fault for not writing lucidly, but who desperately want to believe that they are intelligent. What amazes me most about his argument is that he publishes the response to his essay, both the negative and the positive, and explains why he believes each of the opinions were valid or not valid when taken into context. It wasn't as much what he said (I don't believe in reading boring books, or pretending to have read boring books unless I'm getting tested on them ^_^), but that he said it clearly and intelligently, concerned more with getting his point across than with trying to impress people with academic posing. Trust me, after two term papers requiring me to skim literary criticism, anyone who can make a good point without having it get lost in streams of academic jargon is a blessing to hold onto.

So that's the news for now.
Over and out.