Hey Guys,

Unfortunately with our last release, and its instability, we were forced to roll back releases. Unfortunately in doing so, it would seem that our notification system has been broken somehow. Our engineers are working on this issue as quickly as possible. We hope to have a patch within the next day, so we can deploy our code and fix the notification system at the same time. Please *bear* with us ;)

Currently all notifications are being queued up so they can be processed as soon as the fix is pushed and verified to be working correctly.

Thank you,

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Hello! I'm Koko, and I am a freshman in college in NC. I love fairy kei, Lolita and decora fashion. This is my first Casual Deco outfit. I wore it to class the other day!
( Decogoodness )

am sitting at home,seating next to Lindzee (the little sister) who is currently dating a girl. Its not a big deal I just worry about her its a hard road. I'm walking down it now. Moving on...
Rihanna is playing in the background but I cant seem to hear the words. Everything is a trigger. Samma is over and it's all I can do not to kill her.
Alcohol count: One shot,one Bitch beer.
my Legs huirt. I cut myself pretty deep the other day. in the worst part. And Came up with another lie to cover it up
"Yup thats right I'm just one giant cover up the government doesn't want you to know about.." Ugh dont ask I have no idea what that was about...


Is is selfish to hate that she gets something I dont... I Feel like Samma is moving in on my Girl. (Again) and I know it works both ways.But Samma makes me feel like I have to compete for MY Girlfriends attention. And really thats just bullshit I know... I keep trying to think past my mom. It's funny how one death can change a person so easily. I mean I never drank myself stupid never cared about thinking about the past. It didnt kill me every time a random childhood memory of how great my mom really was.... And now I can even start to think about it. It just looms over me like some nightmare I cant shake. It kills me everyday.



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**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

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I feel like ripping up my skin. Just letting myself bleed until my body numbs from the pain.

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