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I've gotten some sympathetic comments on my last entry, and I'd like to thank everyone for thinking about me as well as letting you all know that I really am ok. The situation is complicated, but I really think that eventually it's going to open things up for us to a better standard of living. 35k isn't a fortune, but it's more then we were living on before when it was just me who had been able to pull in money, so technically speaking, right at the moment, our prospects are actually brighter then they were before.
So there's that.
The other bit is that I've been thinking of writing up a different blog that's more essay-focused on media material. My thinking behind this stems from a few different aspects, not the least of which is that the formatting on Livejournal doesn't really facilitate regular, searchable essays. When I started my journal here for the second time, I already had a different journal that I used and this one, LJ being the unofficial Cam journal-ling hotspot that it is/was, was where I came to jot down whatever stuff I was thinking in a casual way regarding LARPing, WoD, and whichever. I dropped Xanga when my friends stopped posting over there, but that never happened here, so LJ once again became my default online journal.
I could argue that the journal has facilitated one aspect of what I wanted for quite a while. As a place to talk casually about stuff that's going on in my life and what I'm interested at the moment, it does just fine. For everything else, I'm not as enthusiastic. I mean, sure, it allows text to be posted to it, but I can't say that I don't notice a difference between, say, Eddy Webb's website and when he posts the same stuff to LJ. I'm glad he brings the material here to read, but it's hosted on the main site to begin with, and that makes a difference both in the mindset (to me) when writing and in the reading. It narrows the focus.
There's a certain amount of hubris in the idea that I can start a blog and anyone anywhere will care about what I have to say there. I've read a lot of excellent work on other peoples blogs even as the blog itself very nearly languished for lack of traffic. I wouldn't be surprised at all if that were to happen to me but blogging, like journalling, is an act of love. I write because I care, and for a long time I assumed that the format wouldn't or shouldn't matter to me. That it should or shouldn't is subjective, but that it does is objective. What I'm hoping is that creating a second space to write (and I'll be copying the text of whatever I write to here as well) will help me improve and increase the volume if my writing.
Anyway, I'm not going anywhere and the amount of posting certainly won't decrease (as if it could reasonably decrease any more then it has), so this really didn't need to be as long as it's become. So very melodramatic. I'll see you when I've finished some of the work and I've got something else to say. I just watched Katie finish Mass Effect 3, so if you want to see fish shot in a barrel, I'm sure you'll have your chance.
So there's that.
The other bit is that I've been thinking of writing up a different blog that's more essay-focused on media material. My thinking behind this stems from a few different aspects, not the least of which is that the formatting on Livejournal doesn't really facilitate regular, searchable essays. When I started my journal here for the second time, I already had a different journal that I used and this one, LJ being the unofficial Cam journal-ling hotspot that it is/was, was where I came to jot down whatever stuff I was thinking in a casual way regarding LARPing, WoD, and whichever. I dropped Xanga when my friends stopped posting over there, but that never happened here, so LJ once again became my default online journal.
I could argue that the journal has facilitated one aspect of what I wanted for quite a while. As a place to talk casually about stuff that's going on in my life and what I'm interested at the moment, it does just fine. For everything else, I'm not as enthusiastic. I mean, sure, it allows text to be posted to it, but I can't say that I don't notice a difference between, say, Eddy Webb's website and when he posts the same stuff to LJ. I'm glad he brings the material here to read, but it's hosted on the main site to begin with, and that makes a difference both in the mindset (to me) when writing and in the reading. It narrows the focus.
There's a certain amount of hubris in the idea that I can start a blog and anyone anywhere will care about what I have to say there. I've read a lot of excellent work on other peoples blogs even as the blog itself very nearly languished for lack of traffic. I wouldn't be surprised at all if that were to happen to me but blogging, like journalling, is an act of love. I write because I care, and for a long time I assumed that the format wouldn't or shouldn't matter to me. That it should or shouldn't is subjective, but that it does is objective. What I'm hoping is that creating a second space to write (and I'll be copying the text of whatever I write to here as well) will help me improve and increase the volume if my writing.
Anyway, I'm not going anywhere and the amount of posting certainly won't decrease (as if it could reasonably decrease any more then it has), so this really didn't need to be as long as it's become. So very melodramatic. I'll see you when I've finished some of the work and I've got something else to say. I just watched Katie finish Mass Effect 3, so if you want to see fish shot in a barrel, I'm sure you'll have your chance.
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