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Tue, Apr. 5th, 2005 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterI would just like to say that despite being completely, irrationally, primevally afraid of spiders, I have adopted a policy of "live and let live," due to the fact that they supposedly eat bugs, the other thing I am completely, irrationally, primevally afraid of. However, spiders who just sit in front of my sink while I am brushing my teeth and make it impossible to ignore their gross jointed legs and arachnoid bodies are really just asking for it.
I squished it with a soap box, and it crunched. Neener. Stay in your stupid ceiling corner and I won't bother you!
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ann1962, not only have I gotten your cookies, I have eaten them all already! They were really, really good. Um. Would you be willing to share the recipe?
And now I have many topics shifting around in my head that want to be written down, thanks to people's suggestions! It feels like it's been so long since I've had actual content on this LJ, aside from book blogging, that I've almost forgotten how it used to work for me. Standard operating procedure being me going on and on about anything that interests me, of course ;). I know a lot of people look at LJ as a drain on their time and such, which is true, but I really do like having it. It makes me more conscious of what I think, of the theories I have and develop. It makes me more aware of how I'm thinking and by what lens I'm looking at things, and I do enjoy that. Plus, it makes me write. Ok, it is not the most polished of writing, to say the least, and I think I will never be a writer of fiction (nor have I ever wanted to be), but words are a part of my life.
I've been writing papers so long for school and assorted non-fiction in that sense, analyzing books for English class, that the shift to book blogging and writing about whatever catches my fancy really isn't that large. Um. Well. I don't write with nearly the same amount of effort or consideration that I would for anything that I'd submit for people's review, but I rather like this stream-of-consciousness method.fannishly has mentioned that she takes forever in writing posts because she wants the words to be perfect, the sentiment to be clear. I generally just pick up whatever's in my head and run with it (which explains the typos, the grammatical errors and the excessive parentheticals! I think I just think with a lot of parentheses because my thoughts are so scattered).
It's rather strange and probably not all together unsuprising, now that I think about it, but it makes writing LJ more of a fun thing that I do for myself than a chore. Writing for assignments is always so painful because I'm self conscious about every single word I put down (imagine this times a billion and you get the utter pain and agony of The Thesis *dum dum dum*). Here I can play around with words if I want to to entertain myself, but if I don't want to, I can just ramble! How fun! Poor everyone else who has to read my run-ons and excessive parentheticals and extreme use of exclamation points!
Anyhow, I think this is why I tend to ask people if they want to hear about a certain topic or not -- not that I restrict what I write about here to what people will find interesting (sorry people), but for some posts that would feel more preachy or teachery in nature, I feel incredibly inadequate to write them. Plus, then I feel like I am quite stuck-up, imagining that I actually know something about the topic in question, and that furthermore, I can actually teach other people about it! So those I figure I write only if other people find them useful, because usually if it's stuff I know shallowly but don't really think about, I don't tend to write about it in LJ.
Um. This was actually going to be a post on smell and perfume and BPAL (yhlee, you are an evil, evil person. First FMA, now BPAL!), but obviously it ran away from me.
I squished it with a soap box, and it crunched. Neener. Stay in your stupid ceiling corner and I won't bother you!
Oh, I forgot!
ann1962, not only have I gotten your cookies, I have eaten them all already! They were really, really good. Um. Would you be willing to share the recipe?And now I have many topics shifting around in my head that want to be written down, thanks to people's suggestions! It feels like it's been so long since I've had actual content on this LJ, aside from book blogging, that I've almost forgotten how it used to work for me. Standard operating procedure being me going on and on about anything that interests me, of course ;). I know a lot of people look at LJ as a drain on their time and such, which is true, but I really do like having it. It makes me more conscious of what I think, of the theories I have and develop. It makes me more aware of how I'm thinking and by what lens I'm looking at things, and I do enjoy that. Plus, it makes me write. Ok, it is not the most polished of writing, to say the least, and I think I will never be a writer of fiction (nor have I ever wanted to be), but words are a part of my life.
I've been writing papers so long for school and assorted non-fiction in that sense, analyzing books for English class, that the shift to book blogging and writing about whatever catches my fancy really isn't that large. Um. Well. I don't write with nearly the same amount of effort or consideration that I would for anything that I'd submit for people's review, but I rather like this stream-of-consciousness method.
fannishly has mentioned that she takes forever in writing posts because she wants the words to be perfect, the sentiment to be clear. I generally just pick up whatever's in my head and run with it (which explains the typos, the grammatical errors and the excessive parentheticals! I think I just think with a lot of parentheses because my thoughts are so scattered). It's rather strange and probably not all together unsuprising, now that I think about it, but it makes writing LJ more of a fun thing that I do for myself than a chore. Writing for assignments is always so painful because I'm self conscious about every single word I put down (imagine this times a billion and you get the utter pain and agony of The Thesis *dum dum dum*). Here I can play around with words if I want to to entertain myself, but if I don't want to, I can just ramble! How fun! Poor everyone else who has to read my run-ons and excessive parentheticals and extreme use of exclamation points!
Anyhow, I think this is why I tend to ask people if they want to hear about a certain topic or not -- not that I restrict what I write about here to what people will find interesting (sorry people), but for some posts that would feel more preachy or teachery in nature, I feel incredibly inadequate to write them. Plus, then I feel like I am quite stuck-up, imagining that I actually know something about the topic in question, and that furthermore, I can actually teach other people about it! So those I figure I write only if other people find them useful, because usually if it's stuff I know shallowly but don't really think about, I don't tend to write about it in LJ.
Um. This was actually going to be a post on smell and perfume and BPAL (
yhlee, you are an evil, evil person. First FMA, now BPAL!), but obviously it ran away from me.
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Tue, Apr. 5th, 2005 12:53 am (UTC)Hey, don't sweat it. Feeling completely inadequately knowledgable about stuff has never stopped me, obviously.
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Tue, Apr. 5th, 2005 04:58 am (UTC)Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies from the Joy of Cooking cookbook
½ c butter (1 stick)
½ c brown sugar
½ c sugar
1 egg
1 t vanilla
1 T milk
1 cup flour
½ t baking soda
½ t baking powder
½ t salt
1 c uncooked oatmeal
¾ c chocolate chips
Cream butter and sugar and brown sugar. Add egg, milk and vanilla. Beat. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add to butter mixture. Beat until smooth. Add oatmeal. Mix. Add chocolate chips. Beat. Drop cookies using ice cream scoop 2 inches apart onto greased baking sheet. Use parchment paper for best results. Bake 10-12 minutes or until light brown. Cool on rack. Enjoy
Please write about whatever you choose. Even if you feel inadequately knowledgable about a topic, it is still your view and I have found lj helps me sort all kinds of stuff. You have never been preachy.
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Tue, Apr. 5th, 2005 07:56 am (UTC)Y'know, I'm just never gonna be able to embrace Buddhism when it comes to *squick* spiders.
;o)
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Tue, Apr. 5th, 2005 12:28 pm (UTC)I squished it with a soap box, and it crunched. Neener. Stay in your stupid ceiling corner and I won't bother you!
Hehehehe. I consider I have nearly crushed my arachnophobia, cause now I can SMASH one of those little suckers if they are near me, instead of screaming and running out of the room. I have a Rule re spiders: if they are In My House, they are fair game. If I see one on the sidewalk, I leave it alone. This of course runs crossgrained to the spousal overunit's Rescue Me nature -- he wraps the spiders up in Kleenex and lets them go outside the front door. I made him once flush a wolf spider and never heard the end of the guilt because "Its little eyes looked up at me as it was going round and round in the water...." Sshhhhhhyeah right.
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