state of the blog

Some time back, LJ restructured the scrapbook feature, and, basically, it stinks… I have 12 pages of galleries which I cannot rearrange or structure orview all at once. They seem to be order by the date made, so I have no means to group similar galleries together. Worse than that, when they migrated my galleries, […]

Protected: birthday suit no.45

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the long pauses in-between and another lost friend

So, these long-ass pauses… I am moved into the new place, the unpacking will be slow, since each room needs work and my budgets are tight as ever. I do not yet have wifi in the house, so internet activity is only when I can bare the packing up and trip to a coffeehouse or […]

Protected: the comment whores of 2009

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to sum up…

Livejournal allows me to feel I fit without changing the core of how I function or who I am. Facebook leaves me with the reminder that I do not fit in ‘as is’… without editing or sacrificing. Or pretending. Of course I find it frustrating that a source that allowed me such a feeling is […]

Protected: “it turned inside out… and then it exploded!”

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whoops

Sunday Style was posted in the most timely sense in months. Except I forget to open the post. I have my journal set to default to private posts, so I won’t post filtered entries incorrectly. Now, to just remember to change the privacy setting afterward. Here’s the entry. Whoops.

as the year closes…

I got nothing. Each thing I write – or begin to write – turns down a path I do not with to make public, or pseudo-public. I am nowhere as open as I was when I first joined here. If not by words, then by actions, I am learning to close off myself, to not […]

ganked from ogam

My journal is called _____ because _____.My subtitle is _____ because _____.My friends page is called _____ because _____.My username is ____ because _____.My default userpic is _____ because_____. My journal name is becoming real. It is a reference to the Velveteen Rabbit. I can thank gearjock for returning the story to my life. It is […]

starting round four

I blinked. I missed it. October 2 was the end of my third year on LiveJournal.I don’t need to rehash the entire time, but decided I wanted to post about this year just finished. Things I learned in year number three: