losing my virginity
Jan. 10th, 2005 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonLJ, that is. And much like many folks' first-time experiences, I'm not entirely sure I want to do this right now, and it's more than a bit awkward.
I've had this account, unused, since 2002, and never posted a blessed thing other than comments on friend's LJs (and even that only recently). Some of the origin of the persistently pristine state of my LJ has to do with my personal ambivalence about public journals, and the fact that I'm a fairly private person by nature. The 'net is a wide open book, and the space between things I might want to tell my friends, and things I want the whole entire world to see is rather large. And I'm a writer, I make pretty much my entire living by writing and editing, and I get paid, among other things, to blog, so do I really want to do more of that in my free time? And I also know very well that one of the most clever ways my brain procastinates and avoids the writing I get paid to do is by tempting me to write more of the stuff I don't get paid for. I become very prolific when I'm on deadline...just not about the stuff I'm supposed to be doing. Seems that writing *something* fools superego into not being so self-critical about puting off the "real" work. So another writing-related distraction I probably do not need. And my life is perpetually over-committed with tasks, obligations and avocations, so how on earth does it make sense to add one more?
Yet, still, however, but. I'm an email packrat, and I've got megabytes of archives of all my outgoing email going back at least ten years or so. For whatever reason, I've never been able to keep an actual regular journal or diary, and I've often wished that I had. The closest thing to it that I've got is my email archives, and I do like being able to go back to a particular time and circumstance and read what I was writing to my close friends, remember what was going on in my life, rediscover old insights, pains, joys and sorrows. I've found some real gems in there, too, that I've used in further writing, and some lessons, bits of wisdom that I'd forgotten I learned. This may serve some of the same purpose for me.
So here goes. I'll be posting things here occasionally, a slice-of-life, or maybe an older post that I enjoyed writing or think I might want to recycle. This is primarily for me, but if anyone else finds some kind of value, or prurient interest in anything I rant and rave about, so be it. It's yer brain, you have a right to fill it with whatever weird trivia, rambling claptrap or dubious musings you so choose. In a world of utter and complete information overload, what's one more source of noise among the din?
Okay, I'm not giddy or transported by bliss or anything, but that didn't make me as sore as I thought it might.
I've had this account, unused, since 2002, and never posted a blessed thing other than comments on friend's LJs (and even that only recently). Some of the origin of the persistently pristine state of my LJ has to do with my personal ambivalence about public journals, and the fact that I'm a fairly private person by nature. The 'net is a wide open book, and the space between things I might want to tell my friends, and things I want the whole entire world to see is rather large. And I'm a writer, I make pretty much my entire living by writing and editing, and I get paid, among other things, to blog, so do I really want to do more of that in my free time? And I also know very well that one of the most clever ways my brain procastinates and avoids the writing I get paid to do is by tempting me to write more of the stuff I don't get paid for. I become very prolific when I'm on deadline...just not about the stuff I'm supposed to be doing. Seems that writing *something* fools superego into not being so self-critical about puting off the "real" work. So another writing-related distraction I probably do not need. And my life is perpetually over-committed with tasks, obligations and avocations, so how on earth does it make sense to add one more?
Yet, still, however, but. I'm an email packrat, and I've got megabytes of archives of all my outgoing email going back at least ten years or so. For whatever reason, I've never been able to keep an actual regular journal or diary, and I've often wished that I had. The closest thing to it that I've got is my email archives, and I do like being able to go back to a particular time and circumstance and read what I was writing to my close friends, remember what was going on in my life, rediscover old insights, pains, joys and sorrows. I've found some real gems in there, too, that I've used in further writing, and some lessons, bits of wisdom that I'd forgotten I learned. This may serve some of the same purpose for me.
So here goes. I'll be posting things here occasionally, a slice-of-life, or maybe an older post that I enjoyed writing or think I might want to recycle. This is primarily for me, but if anyone else finds some kind of value, or prurient interest in anything I rant and rave about, so be it. It's yer brain, you have a right to fill it with whatever weird trivia, rambling claptrap or dubious musings you so choose. In a world of utter and complete information overload, what's one more source of noise among the din?
Okay, I'm not giddy or transported by bliss or anything, but that didn't make me as sore as I thought it might.
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Date: 2005-01-10 04:03 pm (UTC)Friends filters=a goodness.
Welcome!!
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Date: 2005-01-10 04:30 pm (UTC)And yup, those friends filters are good, you can set some posts public, some posts friends only, some private, etc. I usually leave all my art posts public and keep all of my personal waffle friends only.
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Date: 2005-01-10 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-10 05:10 pm (UTC)That pic was a happy accident -- I needed a quick self-portrait and grabbed the digital camera, took a quickie blind shot, and the light at that moment was angling through the sliding glass doors and then one of the ironwork doors into the dining room and dropped shadows from the door on my face. Of course, once I saw it, I had to wiggle around a bit and take a few more to see how the shadows could line up ;>
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Date: 2005-01-10 05:22 pm (UTC)Bardic circle in March would rock my world. March 23rd is Dave's birthday so maybe it can be a joint birthday bardic. Can we bring my sister if she's free? She lives in Hartford now and I've been telling her all about the joys of Casa Chaos for a long time. Oh she's on LJ, too -
Hooray for happy accidents, I always did love your eyes. I had a browse through the casachaos photo site (hadn't seen that one before!) and I laughed quite loudly at the "snowflake that ate daddy's head" pic. ;)
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Date: 2005-01-10 06:04 pm (UTC)Sounds like we've got a bardic! I'm embarassed to admit I'd forgotten Dave's natal day was the 23rd (good date, BTW ;>), another brilliant excuse to have a shindig. Would love to meet your sister, and just from you three and usn's that's, hmm, 10. Guess I'll have to start sending out invites. It's been a while, this could be a large one... Ah well, we should be all done tearing apart the house by then, there'll be plenty of room for all, the more the merrier. How's the 26th-27th look (the weekend before that is closest to equinox, not sure yet what's planned)?
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Date: 2005-01-10 07:53 pm (UTC)Whoa!
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Date: 2005-01-10 08:30 pm (UTC)Hmm, okay, will have to work on that ;>
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Date: 2005-01-10 09:19 pm (UTC)I swear, that's *always* happening to me...
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Date: 2005-01-10 05:34 pm (UTC)I was recently sending a friend one of the photos you took at Starwood a few years back, when we did Trol Kamp. Many good memories... and those pictures you took of the bonfire still blow me away.
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Date: 2005-01-10 06:44 pm (UTC)I don't recall taking many (if any) photos at starwood, actually.
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Date: 2005-01-10 06:32 pm (UTC)In lieu: lunch.
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Date: 2005-01-10 07:38 pm (UTC)And well, yes, lunch would be in Lleu, once he ate it, no?
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Date: 2005-01-10 07:43 pm (UTC)One would hope. Caveat a bad lunch.
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Date: 2005-01-10 08:40 pm (UTC)Pot. Kettle. Black. *grin*
And if caveat a bad lunch, you might just hear the sound of a Calleach.
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"It was the salmon mousse.'
--Monty Python, "Meaning Of Life"
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Date: 2005-01-10 07:46 pm (UTC)Nice erotica, BTW (hmm, not "nice" ;>) You have quite a gift.
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Date: 2005-01-10 10:03 pm (UTC)i'm in new york now; every once in a while i make a flying trip to boston; maybe one of these days will fly as far north as you are. i did see some online pics of the house. lervley.
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Date: 2005-01-10 10:46 pm (UTC)Heh. Believe me, I am sympathetic to having diverse nomes-de-plume. And I am genuinely fascinated in what my friends write. And you do seem to have a flair for it.
So we're a 2 hour drive from Boston (well, when it's not rush hour), and an hour from Manchester, NH. If you ever get to Manchester and don't have a car, I can pick you up and bring you up here, or at least meet you down there for lunch or dinner. My weekday schedule is pretty flexible (meaning, I can always make a little time by not doing something I'm supposed to be doing ;>), and I know some really good eating places in and around Manchester from the year I had to fly in and out of there twice a week (eaugggh).
Yeah, it is really beautiful here -- a pretty unique combination of wilderness, clean environment, progressive attitudes and plenty of live music, arts, education, culture, etc. Since we moved, both of my parents separately moved out here (I have no illusions, #1 Grandson is entirely to blame for that), and several other friends have either already come out or are on their way. It's a nice hermitage -- yer welcome to come visit anytime.
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Date: 2005-01-11 02:33 am (UTC)And I swear to god I will make it up there one of these weekends. (Possibly not for the bardic; I think I'm away on a trip then. Must check.)
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Date: 2005-01-11 04:46 am (UTC)And we are something like two hours away. Two. Hours. if ya don't make it out here some time soon, we'll just have to come out when you least expect it and perform a brazen kidnapping (will combine it with a trip to pick up some lobstah). And ya know we will, too. How's my kid going to learn these things if I don't show him how?
I strongly suspect we'll do another bardic in May or June sometime.
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:04 am (UTC)I, too, started by swearing I'd never post "here's what I did today" crap... and soon found that silly posts like those and the various "memes" got more response from friends than my rants.
Anyway, great to "see" you again! Love to C and F -- and yourself, of course! -- from K and me.
WILL / LOVE
- V -
PS: Did you get that email I sent with a submission for your bardic, with the lyrics to The Humours of Whisky?
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Date: 2005-01-11 02:04 pm (UTC)Thanks for the tip about the Humours of Whisky song, I just went back and found your email. Looks like it came in while I was out of town in Texas for a couple of weeks and got buried under huge mountains of unread email. Whoops, sorry! I love that song, BTW. Scottish performer/songwriter Andy Stewart (ex-Silly Wizard) used to sing it brilliantly (probably still does ;>) I remember doing it once at a bardic, maybe, oh, 15 years ago...thanks very much for the reminder, I may well trot it out for this coming bardic, and will of course let everyone know that it comes via you. Y'all will be thought of, and I'm sure you'll be there in spirit. Perhaps I'll sacrifice a Peep for ya both. How are Paul and Kathy doing?
Warm hearth, 93 93/93,
--*C