Energetically bloggering
May. 8th, 2009 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shinytoasterI'm feeling energised about my blogging here in a way that I never really caught on Blogger, and had been missing for a very long time on LJ. This is a good thing, I feel.
Why so?
I think it's because while Blogger is very good for certain things, I always used to blog because of the community feel that grew up around our corner of LJ, back when it was all Harry Potter all the time, and that community feels like it's being replicated here, maybe not yet to the same degree but I hope that might come in time.
My next mission is to figure out some of the interoperability features with LJ.
What have I been doing this week? Not a great deal, but it has been very relaxing. Lowell has been cooking chilli and cornbread and just did a batch of brownies and I just spent the best part of an hour cleaning the bathroom from top to bottom and plan to spend tomorrow doing the kitchen. I've also been playing a lot of Warcraft, mostly reputation grinding at the Argent Tournament and preparing for some raiding this weekend.
I've also been reading through my old LJ entries and smiling inwardly at how much of an idiot I could be, and at what a good time I was actually having despite effecting an air of depression and misery a lot of the time.
I'd actually love to re-run that period between the start of 2002 and the summer of 2003 again. It was a fantastic time in many ways. Not being constrained by the nine-to-five grind and having a lot of free time it feels like I was more creative, I went out more and got involved in things, I was more politically thoughtful and active.
The fruit of all this was mostly witless juvenilia but, what the hell, it was fun.
Is there much I'd do differently from that time? Maybe I'd try and be a little more self-confident and spend time with my friends at university - so many of them I'm out of touch with, which is a sad thing.
I also blew several potential pre-Lowell boyfriendages out of the water, mostly by being 20 and a fool, and while there isn't anything about this relationship I wouldn't change there's a lot about what went before that I would.
Obviously, everything would still have to lead to Cassie's basement in Brooklyn on a hot July day, but I think that could still be engineered without too much difficulty and, obviously, as I'd be a time traveller I'd have to have some kind of white-haired mentor telling me not to mess with the time-lines or squash any bugs. He would sort out any temporal hiccups and also help me finish my fanfics.
Incidentally I bought this compilation in the spring of 2002 and I have been playing it fairly consistently ever since. Not a dud track among them, I wrote at the time, a sentiment I still stand by.
Why so?
I think it's because while Blogger is very good for certain things, I always used to blog because of the community feel that grew up around our corner of LJ, back when it was all Harry Potter all the time, and that community feels like it's being replicated here, maybe not yet to the same degree but I hope that might come in time.
My next mission is to figure out some of the interoperability features with LJ.
What have I been doing this week? Not a great deal, but it has been very relaxing. Lowell has been cooking chilli and cornbread and just did a batch of brownies and I just spent the best part of an hour cleaning the bathroom from top to bottom and plan to spend tomorrow doing the kitchen. I've also been playing a lot of Warcraft, mostly reputation grinding at the Argent Tournament and preparing for some raiding this weekend.
I've also been reading through my old LJ entries and smiling inwardly at how much of an idiot I could be, and at what a good time I was actually having despite effecting an air of depression and misery a lot of the time.
I'd actually love to re-run that period between the start of 2002 and the summer of 2003 again. It was a fantastic time in many ways. Not being constrained by the nine-to-five grind and having a lot of free time it feels like I was more creative, I went out more and got involved in things, I was more politically thoughtful and active.
The fruit of all this was mostly witless juvenilia but, what the hell, it was fun.
Is there much I'd do differently from that time? Maybe I'd try and be a little more self-confident and spend time with my friends at university - so many of them I'm out of touch with, which is a sad thing.
I also blew several potential pre-Lowell boyfriendages out of the water, mostly by being 20 and a fool, and while there isn't anything about this relationship I wouldn't change there's a lot about what went before that I would.
Obviously, everything would still have to lead to Cassie's basement in Brooklyn on a hot July day, but I think that could still be engineered without too much difficulty and, obviously, as I'd be a time traveller I'd have to have some kind of white-haired mentor telling me not to mess with the time-lines or squash any bugs. He would sort out any temporal hiccups and also help me finish my fanfics.
Incidentally I bought this compilation in the spring of 2002 and I have been playing it fairly consistently ever since. Not a dud track among them, I wrote at the time, a sentiment I still stand by.
(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-08 07:02 pm (UTC)I'm jealous of your cooking and baking boy. Then again, you've done your living apart time, as well, so I'm sure you appreciate it more than most!
(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-08 10:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-08 10:30 pm (UTC)Yes, this exactly. :) I'm feeling all 'just moved in to the new place' happy and pleasantly comfortable and excited to watch things grow and thicken and settle in a bit.
I read your earlier post (well, posts, really) and saw that you started fresh here, without importing your LJ. I did import mine--I had two, and was feeling splinched (to borrow an HP term), but I have had the same experience that you have described of reading old posts and doing a lot of eyerolling at how stupid I was. I'm hoping I've gotten better (or at least a little smarter) since then. In any event, it is lovely to be here.
I am feeling all nostalgic at the moment about the one time I met up with you and a few other HP fen in Boston all those years ago. If Lowell remembers me, please pass along my 'hello' and happy greetings. :)
Also. Eighties tunes? Heaven. :D
(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-09 12:57 am (UTC)For what it's worth now, I never thought you came across as stupid on your LJ and have my suspicions that to many people neither did I (at least some of the time). For me there's a certain amount of embarrassment reading back over my old writings and seeing how different my voice was to how it's developed after four years of reporting; writers are cursed in a similar way to some actors, who can't bear to look at the shows and movies they've been in. I don't want to come across as presumptuous but I suspect that might be the case for a lot of people.
Part of my unease about my old diaries probably also has a lot to do with being a rather immature post-adolescent at the time who was finding his feet in matters of university, friends, money, sexuality, impending adulthood and so on. My LJ exposes that, besides a very camp, self-centred streak at times and is, like I said, mostly witless juvenilia. The times were still a hell of a lot of fun though, I stand by that :D
Whatever, forgive me for rambling at you. It's nice to be back in touch :)
(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-09 09:35 am (UTC)I haven't dared go back to read my entries from 2002 though. I can't even blame my youth because I was definitely old enough to know better. :) But there are things about that weird, depressed time that I miss. Like, through the darkness and confusion of depression, the ability to think.
(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-10 02:35 am (UTC)Now I have to go and figure out how to replicate my mum's chili -g-