Timetravel

[aliseadae]

I'm reading my circa-2009 posts and wondering at them. Some of them are rather poetic in word and phrase and I seemed to find so much more in my everyday life to write about. I suppose there were more people on here writing snippets of their lives down then. I still do have people on here whose journals I read but it is less essay-like life snippets and more daily processing. I wonder where all the other LJ holdouts are hiding. I tell people I still have an LJ and they are all rather surprised. Looking at all the icons under the youtube video the other day, trying to figure out what sites wanted us to share it on them. "LinkedIn (Who shares videos on LinkedIn?), LJ (That still exists?!)"

Today I sat by a river and watched youtube math videos. I poked around with a stick and found sparkly rocks. I went to a friends house and drank bourbon milkshakes and watched videos about robots. I danced up the path to their house, leaping and tour-jeté-ing. Last night I walked in the rain, looking at the lake and the glow from people's windows. Many months ago I saw the hallways and dermestid beetles of the Field Museum members' night behind-the-scenes.

I still do similar things to 2009-me. Perhaps I should note them down more here (or in paper journals. I kept paper journals every day in 2009.)

This icon is my glowing icon. I haven't had that glowing, amber-trapped feeling in this journal in a while. I'd like to bring it back.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's a beautiful icon.

I was looking back at old LJ entries too--I was looking for when we did our Deathly Hallows readathon, and it was back in 2007!

I think a lot about LJ. On the one hand, I think any thing--whether it's enthusiasm for a book, or an activity, or a style of music--has an arc of interest. If you catch it near its pinnacle, then see it lessening, that's always hard. But it doesn't mean the thing dies entirely (necessarily). Then too, there's where people are and what they do in their own lives. I think it must be the rare person (though I feel lucky to know a few of them) who keep on blogging--or doing any one activity--in the same way year after year. Their own circumstances and interests change. So there's that, too.

I poked around with a stick and found sparkly rocks. I went to a friends house and drank bourbon milkshakes and watched videos about robots. I danced up the path to their house, leaping and tour-jeté-ing.

That sounds wonderful ♥ I love reading about things like that.

But I like other sorts of posts, too--so whatever you post, I'll be a reader. Not always a commenter, and I miss things sometimes, because I too am doing this and that, other things--but I'll be around. (I mean, I'm only one person, but one and one and one make a little community…)

[aliseadae]

Mm. The "future" of LJ doesn't worry/bother me. I was looking to see how I used to write about my life and wanted to go back to that again a bit.

I like reading your posts too!

[othergoose.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that you're still posting :) I too would like to bring back some of the old wonder to my writing here.

I also miss the old LJ—both the community and my writing during its heyday. I really haven't found anything to replace it; I am on tumblr—and it's very fun, for the most part—but it lacks the community that LJ fostered so well. I'm not comfortable writing long, personal posts there.

For me, I think there was something about having an audience here that encouraged and inspired me to write, and write well. But now, most of them have left. I only have three or four people on my friends list who post semi-regularly.

[aliseadae]

What is your tumblr? I'm tellmanystories. I mostly reblog stuff, though. My longer posts are still here - I just have less of them.

Yeah. Tumblr is lacking in the comments as well as the privacy settings and awareness that your stuff could end up reblogged far away. Not so great for personal stuff, fine for sharing somethings. It seems to be more of a content creating site than a communal blogging site.

I try to post once a month at least.

[othergoose.livejournal.com]

I'm oldsampeabody, and I just followed you there :)

[aliseadae]

Also, I bet you'd like asakiyume's posts if you two wouldn't mind meeting new LJ friends/being introduced on LJ.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Hello, and thank you for adding me.

That sounds like a wonderful day. I wish you more amber. Keep writing if you can. :)

[aliseadae]

Hi! I've seen your poetry around but I hadn't connected your LJ and your poetry before shadesong posted. I was pleased to find you're on LJ. It is rare to find a new LJ friend and I'd like to keep up a community of little essays/posts about life.