Random thought

[lnr]

Just noticed how very very few of my friends seem to write the same sort of what-I-did-today type diary entries. I guess perhaps it's a hangover from my teenage habit of writing just for myself. I wonder if it's boring? But I guess it's easy enough to skip.

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think that's all I post. And not very exciting days either. ;-) I like reading yours, FWIW.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Curiosity... I try to balance my LJ between the details of my life, and my opinions. I'm not sure that I succeed, and I have grave doubts that either is of any great interest.

Make any comment you please - about your diary, or mine, or someone else's, inoffendable or otherwise. Or about everyone's.

Er, hang on: you just did.

But diaries are driven by vanity. And the observation - or certainty - that anything in another person's life that they consider interesting enough to record will be interestng enough to read, simply because it's not my own life. And I like reading opinions and perspectives on life that are not my own - actually, the more so, the better.

And I haven't even touched on the quality of writing and depth of expression: yours would be a pleasure to read, for that alone.

keep at it!

[jbmurray.livejournal.com]

All of these journals are, I think, an equal mix of the banal and that fascination that one inevitably finds even in the banal.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Monday: Got up, went to work, came home, watched TV, went to bed.
Tuesday: Got up, went to work, came home, watched TV, went to bed.
Wednesday: Got up, went to work, came home, watched TV, went to bed.
Thursday: Got up, went to work, came home, watched TV, went to bed.
Friday: Got up, went to work, came home, watched TV, went to bed.

A good day is if I don't go to work; "get up, watch TV, went to bed" :-)

Fear my exciting life!

OK, it's not quite that boring, but I've always found telling "what I did today" to be boring.

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

It sometimes worries me that I tend not to write that sort of stuff, I don't think it's particularly uninteresting - I just don't find it inspiring to write about for some reason.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I like it, I'm just not very good at it myself.

[megamole.livejournal.com]

I write about it if I consider it interesting.

My criteria for "interest" are much the same as they would be for Usenet - amuse, inform and/or entertain.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

I write about it if I consider it interesting.

please to be giving the shared brain back now ;-)

-m-

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I like reading them. I don't write them because people don't comment on them/I can't think of what to share etc.

[ottah.livejournal.com]

I think that a lot of what I post tends towards the "what I did today/recently" - mostly coz I'm writing it to keep a journal for myself but also there may be some folks who are reading and are interested. I write in my journal for me, and if the contents is dull for others, they can skip ahead.

I like your posts.

La vie train train quotidienne

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm one of the few, then, as my LJ is pretty much only dull ramblings about what I've done and what's happening in my day-to-day life. I clearly don't have much more to say, I guess; or I don't have the technique, motivation, time or energy to deal with amything more complex of abstract?

[imc.livejournal.com]

A lot of what I write when I can be bothered is what-I-did-today (well, actually what-I-did-last-month); I just don't tend to get round to it very often. I'm up to about the end of October, I think…

[wendym.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with writing about that stuff. Personally I'm just either ranting, link-propogating or asking annoying questions, but that is because my life is either dull, or when it's not dull I end up running out of time to write stuff of more than 2 sentences.

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

I enjoy reading your "what I did today" entries.

[mtbc100.livejournal.com]

A few of my friends seem to do the what-I-did-today type of stuff. I certainly bother to read them: after all, it's one of the few glimpses of your day-to-day life that I get. I aim to make my journal somewhat a mix of what-I-did-today and interesting-thoughts-I-had.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

verlaine once asked his Friends for an account of how they spent a third of their life, that is, what they did all day at work (apart from post to LiveJournal). It was fascinating.

I do skip diary entries by people I don't know particularly well, but that doesn't reflect their quality.