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So during the assertiveness course, we had to write down five accomplishments we were proud of, or skills we had. Mine:

1. I've always stood behind what I believe (and put my money where my mouth is), despite sometimes vicious opposition.
A reference, of course, to the decisions I've made in my slash "career", femgeeks, and stuff like that. Because I honestly cannot take credit for RareSlash or RS-X or femgeeks, or any of that shit, but I'm very, very proud of myself for never having age statements on rareSlash, for starting RS-X, for starting femgeeks, for standing up for my beliefs even when I was being equated with a stalker, a child molester, or the Antichrist.

I mean, at the time, it seemed like the most natural thing in the world, but looking back, I'm wondering if I was really young, really brave, really stupid, or any combination thereof. If I had to make that choice again today, I don't know if I'd do it again. I know now what the consequenses were, and I didn't back then, and that makes all the difference. Okay, no, I probably would do it all again, even knowing the consequenses. because that's just the way I am. Blame my dad.

2. I am a good writer.
This is the one I read out loud to the group. That took me a lot of guts. But I do think it's true. I have talent, and I have skills, and I have the will and the discipline to develop those skills. This is my one big talent, my one big skill. I'm good at this.

3. I have a good relationship with my brothers.
Technically maybe not really an accomplishment or a skill, but considering how many people seem to truly hate their siblings, while I absolutely adore mine, I think it deserves to be on here. My brothers and I get along great.

4. I taught myself English
I still feel like my English isn't all that good, a lot of the time, because I misuse expressions and words, and you lot can't hear this, but I mispronounce a lot of words, but all in all, considering the fact that I'm mostly self-taught, this is something I can be proud of.

5. I'm good at webdesign.
Well, moderately good. But I'm good enough for what I need, and that's all that matters.

And now, some quotes.

Melle: Sleep? What is this sleep of which you speak? *drops dead*
Katie: It's what happens when you faceplant into the keyboard.
(LJ comments)
If anyone ever catches me stumbling down a Dublin street after midnight, drunkenly singing the Monkees theme song, they have my permission to shoot me.
(Izzy; LJ)
I swear, I dread going anywhere anytime soon. Because I was talking to Jared a minute ago and broke off mid-sentence to sing along with my head.
(Tri; MSM)

I know I promised a shmoop drabble, but none of you bitches have given me any yet, either! Dammit.

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I've never heard you speak, no, but you write in English remarkably well, and that is impressive.

Thanks. *^_^*

A weird mix of The Cure and Brel, in head. Um.

Hahahaha! Um, yes, sorry, but hee. And to make this comment a little less pointless: hey! I share three of those with you! As in, two, and two halves.

Hum. It's all still completely pointless, isn't? Ah well.

Ooh, which ones?

And don't mock my crack, dammit!

4: I learned all of ten words in school, and all the rest on the Internet, reading fics and lurking on MLs. I think we really deserve to be proud of ourselves for that one; I know people who took English in school and who still need subtitles to understand a movie/show.

3: Because brothers rock, even when they're being annoying little shits. :)

halves of 1 & 5: I know a lot about webdesign, but I never use it. Same goes for standing behind what I believe: I just never had the opportunity to really do something about any of it, but I would if I could, and I never back down.

And hey! I'm not mocking. I'm just, y'know, quietly laughing. :p

4: Yes, we do deserve to be proud of ourselves for that! Although I must say, "Everything I know about English I learned from slash" makes for some interesting vocabulary ...

3: Yes, they do! ^_^

And yeah, I'm fully aware that opportunity has a lot to do with RS and RS-X and femgeeks. :)

Melle, I don't think your English is "good", I think it is exceptional. You express yourself so eloquently on political topics that I often forget that English isn't your first language. The fact that you are self-taught is remarkable!

*blush* Thank you.

You speak really good English. And your webdesign is way better than mine!

*blush* Thanks.

And while I am thinking of it, could you tell me some time how to set up my own 404 page instead of using the y-s one?

Create a document called ".htaccess" (Just the extension, yes.)

In it, you write:

ErrorDocument 404 <full URL to error document>

Of course this works for other errors (403, etc.) as well. Keep in mind, though, that this actually redirects people to your error page. I know there's a way to make it so that people see your 404 while still having the wrong/missing URL in the address bar, but that's beyond me right now.

Dude, you speak better English than many native English speakers I know. The fact that you taught it to yourself is simply mindboggling. (I wish I could do the same with Spanish.)

Well, you're not flooded with Spanish day after day, the way we are with English, so there is that. :)

I agree with everyone, your English is marvellous. (Unlike mine - I had to use Microsoft Word's dictionary to check how to spell "marvellous" - I thought it was "marvolous". I blame Tom.) The only word I've heard you mispronounce is "iron", which is said "eye-ern" not "eye-ron".

Thanks. :) Yeah, see, it's the little things like that that show I'm not a native speaker, and it bugs me a lot. ""

"Vinyl" is the other one.

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