Previous Levels of Cool

[judecorp]

Strangeland article is up, finally. I think most people on the site tend to post their articles in the morningish. Imagine if I had copious amounts of computer time - how productive I could be!

Part of me thinks I would go completely batshit crazy if I had an office job, but there's a teeny part of me that wouldn't mind tooling around the internet all day keeping tabs on all of you. I could IM people and make plans and keep up on world events and read TWoP and find fun events to go to and all of that. Instead, I run around town like a loon all day and evening, come home and try to play "screen time catch-up" when I don't even particularly like screen time.

To think I used to be an Internet Maven, now I can barely answer my e-mail in any sort of timely fashion. I /need/ an office job so I can resume my life as Queen of LiveJournal. In my spare time, I can take artsy photos and amass a bigger Fan Club.

I don't know if I had any real goals in 2005 other than to finally go to the dentist and to get legally married, but in 2006 I vow to get back to Previous Levels of Cool.

Comments

[dch4.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I've been horribly slack lately about posting stuff. I missed one week due to vacation and then most of my stuff has been going up in the afternoon/evening rather than first thing in the morning mainly because I'm no longer writing them two or three days before and then saving them as drafts.

Bad me.

I really need to get out of this sloth cycle I'm in and actually start accomplishing something.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Viva la slack!

unrelated...

[00solstice.livejournal.com]

( pssst (http://instapundit.com/archives/027199.php). )

Re: unrelated...

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's pretty cool!

(You know, when the country that brought apartheid into mainstream media is ahead of us socially...)

[(Anonymous)]

I /need/ an office job so I can resume my life as Queen of LiveJournal

really?? this is your internet twin wondering if this is satire... granted, internet relationships are fun to keep up on (as i have clearly demonstrated by reading journals such as yours and anitsirks:)) but honestly, you are thinking your day/life would be more fulfilled reading your friends list more often? i may very well have missed the point, and more importantly it doesn't matter... but please correct me if i am wrong! from an essential outsider, are these forums all that life sustaining? (it's a real question, not satire!)

[(Anonymous)]

edit: i think the correct grammar is "essentially an outsider"... oh, the Brothers would be sad, me thinks.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

It's /definitely/ tongue-in-cheek. I certainly would never change my career to feed an internet habit, though the part about enjoying a slower paced job is certainly tempting at times. I don't talk about work all that much except for the occasional rant about productivity or the weather, but the fact is I'm running around all. the. time. I drive from house to house to house doing home-based therapy and sometime in between all of that I'm supposed to open new cases, complete assessments, do boatloads of paperwork, and make/return phone calls. The part of me that wishes for an office job reacts to that.

The other truth is that a good number of the people I keep up with on LiveJournal are actual, real-life friends of mine, and because we have busy lives, we tend to use LJ to keep track of each other. Not the best strategy, but ahh, such is technology.

In some ways, yes, my life would be more fulfilled if I could read my FL more often, because I would have a better idea of what my friends were up to and could stay in touch with them more easily. Right now I hardly have time to answer my e-mail, and I think I miss out on a lot of key "friend moments" because I often don't know if I'm coming or going.

Some people's friends lists might be full of strangers with similar views or hobbies, but mine is chock full of people I have come to love over the years, and yes, I do find keeping up with their lives fulfilling.