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[noahgibbs]

Haven't written for awhile. I'm getting that "writing to anonymous other random people about my day-to-day life is silly" malaise. It's what usually keeps me from keeping a journal. My new job continues apace. I'm way late on tax stuff, but it's happening. Filing an extension, getting stuff done, and it looks like other than writing checks my part is finished nicely. A tax preparer is doing the sticky bits with my investments. I can deal with that.

Been going to the Starry Plough. I think I will again tonight.

Got more done on my MUDLib. It's nice to have a new feature or two after the long hiatus. It's probably time for another release number. Yawn. Some time. Whenever.

I need to free up more spare time. At the moment my Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights are all quite full, and of course Fridays and weekends fill quick. And on Sunday my Figure in Clay class starts, which is most of the day.

I should take a bartending class. I live near a bartending school, and I have a little money I could use for it. I'd have to skip two weeks of the Plough and kickboxing, but it'd be worth it. Or I could wait 'til the current session of kickboxing is over, but that's something like two months from now.

I'm going to see Janet Hardy (who writes as Catherine Lizst -- or Dossie Easton? I forget) talk about Ethical Sluthood on Thursday. Win.

Comments

[lusty.livejournal.com]

That's because you're doing it wrong. It should be "writing for myself", not "writing to anonymous other random people". If you're not doing it for yourself, don't do it. Of course I do like this small window into your thoughts that I don't get otherwise :-)

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

All right. Writing to myself about my day-to-day activities is pretty silly, too.

[lusty.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Who said you have to write about your day-to-day activities? Who said it had to be to yourself? It can be about anything and everything, and it can be to anybody you want it to be to. The point is to write because the act of writing is in some way satisfying to you. Or because it helps you understand yourself. Or because it gives you satisfaction to rant about some absurdity. If you never find any urge to write about anything, maybe a journal is just not for you. But you've written poetry. You've written notes about language parsing. I know you've written a lot of stuff. Maybe you don't want to put it in a journal. Maybe you especially don't want to put it in a journal other people read. Maybe friends-only or private (LJ settings) isn't right for you. May be you prefer pen and paper.

Only you can know what this is to you. If you can't see any useful purpose, if it's only silly, then you probably don't want to do it.