From eric_mathgeek…
From Eric’s post:
There’s usually a meme going around just after Dec 1 in which you post the first sentence of the first post of each month.
This is not that meme.
I’m doing it differently — I’m looking at the subjects in my monthly archives and choosing one that sounds interesting, or that I think will be representative of the month, and then picking the sentence (or two) that’s the most revealing of what the post is about. Each month has the subject and then the sentence. (Hm, in doing this I had a thought for another way to cut the meme — the subject and most revealing sentence of the post with the most comments. I might do that after the new year, so December has it’s full chance…)
It’s my meme and I’ll cheat if I want to.
I’ve added links to the original entry, because, well, it’s my meme and I’ll cheat if I want to…
JANUARY – this morning’s dream – too real
At one point, my partner’s fingers were down the instructor’s throat. The way she swallowed them and worked to breathe around them was so erotic…
FEBRUARY – the encroaching edges
My eyes are becoming over-sensitive, not just to light, but color, too. And sound. Yes, my eyes. Sensitive to sound…
MARCH – apologies
It made no sense to me to apologize for something that will happen again. My thought was, “If you are sorry, stop doing it.” But that is an unfair request, I suppose.
APRIL – out… and in
But sometimes I get scrambled. Then I am standing strong against the world and falling over from my own power. Those are the flaws.
MAY – my secret math life
First… I hated that. Yeah, put a hyperactive sugar-binge child in a room with 22 other students and then tell him to focus on a book… Second. Do not ever tell my mother that one of her children is dumb in math.
JUNE – metamorphosis
As a result, I do not approach as often as I have in the past. I wait for them. I want to see that they might be able to handle the all of me...
JULY – day twenty-seven – the gory one
I still get sad whenever someone in my life gets diagnosed with cancer. I still sob uncontrollably when someone dies… But something new is showing up. This year I decided to show the anger…
AUGUST – the unspoken topic
To start, I have arrived at a point where the specifics of my spiritual view act as much as metaphor than anything else…
SEPTEMBER – um… er, yeah…
In the grand scheme of things, I do not consider myself to be unusual much at all. I think only one thing sets me off from the norm…
OCTOBER – salty tears
May 8, 1999 was the day I received positive test results for HIV. That was the first and only day I ever cried about being positive. Until today.
NOVEMBER – another one gone and another one gone…
I suppose my mirrored profile would read: I have a thing for individuals and free-ballin’ Please have class.
DECEMBER – a day without me
I told my lead he owed me a cookie. I like cookies.
I also like Eric’s idea to consider this for posts with the highest comments. I imagine I will wait for January as well, to give December a fair chance. I will also consider separate lists for photo posts… As I went through all this on the list, i realized that mostly the more compelling titles belonged to the more involved posts. Not surprising. Some of them were either made to a small filter or turned private back when I shut my blog down a fair amount. SO some of you may never have seen them. They have been re-opened to friends-only. I have been meaning to do that for some time, but – eh – that takes time, you know…? I post. A lot.
Anyway, enjoy!
EDIT: I shoudl say that the new LJ feature – at least for paid accounts – lets me see a lsit of entries for the month by title, including level of privacy and number of comments, instead of just the monthly canlendar view. Just add the date to the end of your URL, in this case 2008/(whichever month you wish to view)…
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