Blogging Frustration

Does anyone here blog on another platform besides LJ? My history blog is on Blogger and it's driving me CRAZY. Like, I actually HATE writing on it--I get very tense, I feel as though I'm fighting it. The problem is the autoformat function--I cannot turn it off. It keeps "adding" tags and code and the interface between the HTML editor and the Rich Text editor is TERRIBLE. It will look one way on Rich Text and then when you go back to HTML, suddenly all this new code has appeared. I try to take it out but it just keeps adding it.

I slave over my entries, trying to get them to look just so and then I post them and they look like garbage. I've tried checking various blogger support boards but no one who actually works for Blogger ever checks in there--just other posters who suggest solutions that doesn't actually work. At this point I'm ready just to move on to another platform--as long as they do not autoformat. I can't go through this again, it's too frustrating.

Soccer, Leg, St. Patrick's Day, French

So my soccer team won our quarterfinal on Sunday--and I actually played! This was moderately thrilling because although my leg seemed to be getting better last week, I twisted it AGAIN on Saturday and thought for sure I would be unfit to play. But one of the girls came out and Alyssa (teammate) urged me "just go in" and I did and I played GREAT. Not for that long, but nothing seemed to be hurting. And we won! So we'll play the semis and hopefully the finals next week.

I went to the orthopedist last week--he said it didn't seem to be an ACL tear but we would get an MRI anyway. STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE APPROVAL FROM MY HEALTHCARE PROVIDER YET. It's been nine days now. I called the doctor's office twice last week, but they have to hear from Cigna. YOU SUCK.

St. Patrick's Day is coming up! YAAAAAAAAYYY! My team is planning some kind of get-together but I will have to tell them hey guys--I *got* a party to go to, it's 19 floors up at the Peninsula, bishes. Sign of spring, yo. I'm trying to learn "Song for Ireland," a *gorgeous* nouveau-folk song:

Talking all the day
With true friends who try to make you stay
Telling jokes and news
And singing songs to pass the time away...

Living on your western shore
Saw summer sunsets, asked for more
I stood by your Atlantic sea
And sang a song for Ireland

My Mom is coming to visit next week and she'll be at the party too. I'm also hosting the No-Name Open Mike next Thursday (3/15) at Indian Road Cafe--come one, come all! You can hang out with my Mom and me.

Aussi, la semaine dernière j'ai visiter avec mon professeur d'histoire, M. Kosto, et il m'ai dit que je suis une candidate très sérieuse pour le programme de master's en les étudies du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance. Nous avons discuter de le proces d'application. Un exigence--une langue médiéval, comme le Latin ou....Francais! Mais je voudrais devenir plus facile, alors aujourd'hui je visite Yahoo! France et je lis les articles de celebrites, et je les traduis. Ces sont plus faciles car le sujet c'est familier.