Long lie-in, and wibble about journals.

[lnr]

Perhaps I should have got up sooner, I feel kind of dopey in a too-much-sleep way now, if that makes any sense at all. Some mildly disturbing dreams, which seem to have vanished beyond the memory of being disturbed. Lying in bed dozing for hours is a great way to dream lots at least.

I've no idea what to do with the rest of my day.

Perhaps I shall try mobbsy's latest trick of looking at random LJs. I suspect by his classification I come under "nothing interesting to say" too. Of course what's interesting probably varies by audience. I hope I'm slightly more interesting to my friends than I would be to a stranger. And given I write at least partly for myself I hope I'll be interesting to me if I read back over this some time in the future.

I like having a journal that's mostly completely open to all. I make a point of never making posts which are readable to only friends, or to some subset of friends. I have found myself self-censoring sometimes as a result though. I wonder if in the future I'll remember the things I left out from the hints. Or perhaps when it's bitterness and aching (which often it has been) it'll be better to just forget. I've made a few posts which were entirely private over the last few months, as a sort of experiment. It feels kind of odd. As does the odd bit of writing I've done on paper too. Maybe some day I'll go back and make them public too. Along with the entries from 1989 to 1998 which really were my own personal diary as a teenager and at university. I still doubt they're interesting to anyone but me.

Of course some of you read the first couple of paragraphs and then didn't get this far, because it was too dull.

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I shall try mobbsy's latest trick of looking at random LJs. I suspect by his classification I come under "nothing interesting to say" too.

Nonsense. You can write well and come across as interesting, as do all the people in my friends list.
The problem I've found when checking out random LJs, is that most of them appear to be written by 14-year-old girls in Asswipe, Arizona, using a lot of txtspk and much l33t h4><><0r type guff, and many of them are very pink and overly kawaii.

[lnr]

overly kawaii: good choice of word, IKWYM.

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

Nail on the head there. I wouldn't search for LJ users "randomly" any more than I'd search for mushies in the dark.

[lnr]

Well, some people go for a "proper" blog approach which can be interesting, and there are some fairly nice photo-journals out there. But by and large it's an exercise in curiosity and seeing how the other half live.

[nja.livejournal.com]

I quite often look at my friendsfriends page, or the friends pages of friends (which is a subset of that, I suppose, but with mutual friends still included).

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Lying in bed dozing for hours is a great way to dream lots at least.

I've come to value that. I dream so little - or rather, I am unaware and do not recall dreaming, repressed soul that I am - that my weekly sleep-deprivation catch-up is quite valuable. A sort of mental hoovering.

I've no idea what to do with the rest of my day.

I'm going to pick up the dry cleaning! Yay! *Bounces*

I may even go shopping for (gasp) casual clothes. Maybe even black clothes. Although today I really don't have the interest today. Displacement activity may well be the rule of the day: LiveJournal, anyone?

Of course some of you read the first couple of paragraphs and then didn't get this far, because it was too dull.


Sorry, didn't get that far.

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Tssk, pshaw and nonsense. Show me someone who says that you are too dull, and I'll thump them for you. They'll find that interesting, I'll warrant!

[lnr]

Sure they'd probably think I'm interesting enough if I know them (well, some of them :-) but I wouldn't expect a complete stranger to care.