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[prismakaos]

is it bad that i've had an "angst" tag for about a year longer than i've had a "happy" tag?

most of my entries are pretty happy, except when i was talking about school, i guess. i'm having fun re-reading some of these old entries.

i also decided that i have an "i ate toast" blog. i'm really okay with that, honestly, since it means that not many people will actually pay that much attention to it. someone asked me for the address to this blog, and then lost interest when i said that i updated generally daily with really really short entries. yes, amusing.

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[onetruedavid.livejournal.com]

http://onetruedavid.livejournal.com/5886.html

wrath! :)

[liberateanimum.livejournal.com]

Wow, jarrod002 replied to this post. I can only surmise he happened to decide to browse my friends page that day. Weird.

[onetruedavid.livejournal.com]

Actually, his comment was posted almost a month after I posted that entry. I can only imagine how bored (or stalker-ish) someone has to be to read the back archives of his friends' friends' livejournals.

[liberateanimum.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, really just the back archives of his friend's livejournal, as he would have reached your post if he went back on my friend's page far enough.

[onetruedavid.livejournal.com]

Nono, the back archives of his friends' livejournal would be your old entries. He was, in fact, reading his friends' livejournal's friends page, which translates into reading the posts written by his friends' friends.

[liberateanimum.livejournal.com]

Ah, right, how silly of me to have missed that. I blame morning. Bring on the night, that my brain might become crisp. CRISP! Sharp. Not edible.

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

Oh, btw: I never got around to commenting on it, but motherfuckin' word to your mama on this one:

5) Extremely vacuous introspective nonsense.
Ex: "I am feeling vagely disconcerted today due to problems I do not feel comfortable discussing on livejournal."

At best you leave your readers hanging, which is just mean - I could watch soap operas if I liked being left in suspense. At worst it's passive aggressive - if you're pissed at someone, don't be a pussy, just say so. If you aren't comfortable with your whole f-list reading it, make a custom group to discuss it. Or maybe it doesn't belong in a public space at all - maybe it's better said/written one-on-one to the object of your ire.

[prismakaos.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it's a surefire way to get someone to pay attention to you. In a sense , it's a "I'm unhappy, you're being a bad friend for not noticing, please come talk to me about stuff..."

For me, it's usually that I just found out someone I wasn't expecting was reading my lj, and since I run a non-friends-only journal, I obfuscate some. Usually, I forget in the next few days that this person is reading and then return to normal levels of censorship

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

I guess I prefer to get someone's attention more directly if I'm unhappy with them. I'd be worried that sending out a generic "I'm unhappy with someone" or "something today made me unhappy" would make my f-list jumpy and paranoid that I'm unhappy with them, and unsure whether they should poke me about it to make sure we're OK or angry that I don't trust them enough to confront them about it in a mature way one-on-one. That's the reaction I have to similar posts. (Possibly part of Geek Social Fallacy #2 - we react funny to perceived criticism, real or imagined.)

(And just in case it wasn't clear, that was a generic "you" in my comment, not a specific "you". It's a pattern of behavior that bugs me across the board, not anything specific to one person.)

[prismakaos.livejournal.com]

I'm still irritated at you.

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

I don't mind "I ate toast" entries. Right now LJ is my only connection to civilization my friends in the Bay Area, except for random trips like the OSE, so how else would I know that they're eating toast? Or to extend the metaphor a little, how else would I know that the price of bread has gone up, or they've bought a shiny new toaster that toasts inspirational quotes onto your bread, or that eating toast is the new fad? (OK, I think I thoroughly ran that metaphor into the ground, but you get the idea - without being present to experience social culture and developments and all those other social science terms, "I ate toast" entries are the next best thing.) Pathetic? Yeah, probably. You try being introverted in a strange city.

[spamchang.livejournal.com]

i agree with maria. i'll read anything that any of my friends wants to post. y'all are my friends, why wouldn't i want to read what you have to say?