Friday Five
OH EMM GEE THE EXCHANGE SERVER IS DOWN. I can't get at a lot of files I need because they were email attachments. :( I guess I'll do the Friday Five while I wait to be productive again.
1. Explain why you started to journal/blog.
Okay, so I've been keeping diaries/journals since I was like, 9 years old. I didn't keep one at all for the years I was an actual college student, and I *really* regret that now. Aside from some archived graffiti.deanna posts, and maybe one or two written entries in a notebook from winter breaks, and a slew of poems from those poetry workshop classes, I really don't have much to reflect WTF I was thinking for 4-5 years of my life there.
Around the summer of 1999, inspired by monzy, who used to keep a hilarious web log of his comings and goings before "blog" was a common word, I started keeping an online diary. I didn't actually link to it from my main page for fear of googling.![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ssaiscps knew about it because he is a freaky stalker. :) I think a few other people found it randomly. I only updated it from time to time, a few times a month.
Around the summer of 2001, afterralphmelton and lorimelton got married, and created their LJ's, it seemed like everyone in my group of friends (well, the Sunday Dinner crowd) had an LJ, and they would talk about it in real life a lot. I felt left out. I was like "doh, I have an online journal, why do I need LJ?" But then they pointed out that hey, then I could see their friends-only entries. Okay, sure. Ralph gave me a code. It was right after September 11th, and right before Eli flew to Cuba on September 16th. A trying time for everyone. I found that I kind of liked updating the LJ and getting comments from people; it kept me actually updating on a regular basis. And I didn't like updating both journals at once. So eventually I just went LJ-only.
And 1.5 years, thousands and thousands of words, and 200-odd LJ friends later, here I am.
2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not?
This is an odd thing. I went through it in Pittsburgh, where only a handful of my friends were on LJ, and slowly lots and lots of people got onto LJ, so I started filling all my entries with <lj user = ""> tags rather than using normal names. Then I moved out here, and basically had two distinct groups of friends: People On LJ, mostly former CMU friends, and People Not On LJ, mostly Bemani friends. The Bemani friends have been slowly finding their way onto LJ or onto my friends list though. It hasn't really changed the way I post, though. I hope it doesn't freak people out to find themselves mentioned in my journal, at least.
3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog?
A theme? Beyond "Deanna's favorite color is blue and she writes too fucking much and doesn't know how to use lj-cut"? Don't think so, no. :)
4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year?
I'd like it to go east of the moon, west of the sun.
Just kidding. I don't know. I really like keeping it daily and including my thoughts and who I saw and all that sort of stuff. I love rereading old entries. I can picture events really clearly in my head from my descriptions, and that makes me happy.
5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs.
Well, let's see.
-stereolabrat is really funny if you like crude humor and stories about rebellious Korean girls growing up.
-luxnightmare is a really interesting character. She's a friend of some friends of mine, and a self-proclaimed porn star, and college student, and... I find her journal interesting, even if I am nothing like her. YMMV.
- My friend Jason keeps a blog and he's pretty insightful. I loved reading about his trip to Japan.
- I guess I still enjoy reading Monzy's site even if he never updates.
- Same for the updates on Aaron in Japan's site - infrequent, but informative.
1. Explain why you started to journal/blog.
Okay, so I've been keeping diaries/journals since I was like, 9 years old. I didn't keep one at all for the years I was an actual college student, and I *really* regret that now. Aside from some archived graffiti.deanna posts, and maybe one or two written entries in a notebook from winter breaks, and a slew of poems from those poetry workshop classes, I really don't have much to reflect WTF I was thinking for 4-5 years of my life there.
Around the summer of 1999, inspired by monzy, who used to keep a hilarious web log of his comings and goings before "blog" was a common word, I started keeping an online diary. I didn't actually link to it from my main page for fear of googling.
ssaiscps knew about it because he is a freaky stalker. :) I think a few other people found it randomly. I only updated it from time to time, a few times a month.Around the summer of 2001, after
ralphmelton and lorimelton got married, and created their LJ's, it seemed like everyone in my group of friends (well, the Sunday Dinner crowd) had an LJ, and they would talk about it in real life a lot. I felt left out. I was like "doh, I have an online journal, why do I need LJ?" But then they pointed out that hey, then I could see their friends-only entries. Okay, sure. Ralph gave me a code. It was right after September 11th, and right before Eli flew to Cuba on September 16th. A trying time for everyone. I found that I kind of liked updating the LJ and getting comments from people; it kept me actually updating on a regular basis. And I didn't like updating both journals at once. So eventually I just went LJ-only.And 1.5 years, thousands and thousands of words, and 200-odd LJ friends later, here I am.
2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not?
This is an odd thing. I went through it in Pittsburgh, where only a handful of my friends were on LJ, and slowly lots and lots of people got onto LJ, so I started filling all my entries with <lj user = ""> tags rather than using normal names. Then I moved out here, and basically had two distinct groups of friends: People On LJ, mostly former CMU friends, and People Not On LJ, mostly Bemani friends. The Bemani friends have been slowly finding their way onto LJ or onto my friends list though. It hasn't really changed the way I post, though. I hope it doesn't freak people out to find themselves mentioned in my journal, at least.
3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog?
A theme? Beyond "Deanna's favorite color is blue and she writes too fucking much and doesn't know how to use lj-cut"? Don't think so, no. :)
4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year?
I'd like it to go east of the moon, west of the sun.
Just kidding. I don't know. I really like keeping it daily and including my thoughts and who I saw and all that sort of stuff. I love rereading old entries. I can picture events really clearly in my head from my descriptions, and that makes me happy.
5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs.
Well, let's see.
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stereolabrat is really funny if you like crude humor and stories about rebellious Korean girls growing up.-
luxnightmare is a really interesting character. She's a friend of some friends of mine, and a self-proclaimed porn star, and college student, and... I find her journal interesting, even if I am nothing like her. YMMV.- My friend Jason keeps a blog and he's pretty insightful. I loved reading about his trip to Japan.
- I guess I still enjoy reading Monzy's site even if he never updates.
- Same for the updates on Aaron in Japan's site - infrequent, but informative.
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