The etcetera of life
Tue, Apr. 13th, 2004 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterYou know you're reading too much LJ when, on the drive to work, you see a raven and immediately think, "Yoon!"
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I bought all four books of Nausicaa (translated into English) from the bookstore today, plus Schodt's Dreamland Japan, and Initial D 4 for the boy. The list price of the Nausicaa books is 17.95 a book. The entire set is priced for 9.95 at the store. I have an employee discount. Five bucks!! Whoo! /gloat
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Kind of thinking about LJs and identity because of Jonquil's post and a few people have changed user names lately or are pondering it. Generally I think I try not to do meta-LJ posts just because it makes me feel all self-conscious. And I try not to be self-conscious when writing in this, although it's kind of hard not to when I am quoting other people's posts or referring to them, or doing book review-y things and etc. Anyway. I do feel a bit schizophrenic on LJ, but I guess not so much that it's abnormal. Princeton had this little list of short questions for fun on their application, and one of them was to describe yourself in three words. I couldn't think of anything, so I wrote "unique and undescribable" or something stupid like that.
It's a bit strange as well because some of my friends know I keep this and read it, and other don't, and I keep forgetting who does and doesn't. I don't think my family knows, but you can never tell. I may have told my sister. The boy knows. And I wanted to keep it a secret in the beginning, but it started spilling out, so now it's in a sort of limbo land of RL and internet life. I think it helps that I am not that fannish -- I mean, I fannishly watch shows, but I'm not very participatory. I read fic and watch vids, but that's it. And I'm not good at keeping secrets, so a fair number of people in RL know I have written fic before, etc. But I still sound different on my LJ.
I would like to pretend that I sound very intelligent ;). But everytime I start thinking of myself as intelligent, I end up writing silly posts. And then I write angry posts, or just random posts.
I started reading Michael Dirda's Readings today, got through about two essays and was grinning like mad. I wish I could write like that. He makes my little book posts feel very silly and random.
I'm not quite sure how the book posts sort of overtook my LJ. There's not that much fannish to write about (but new Angel tomorrow, ohboyohboyohboy!!), and my life in general is not that exciting. And books seem to be so alive somehow... I don't know how I can already be completely in love with Readings when I was quite passionately in love with Shadowheart yesterday. I think I'm on a good string of books -- sometimes I hit a string and it's so hard because they're just sort of blase and there in my head.
But it's not really a book LJ either, because I write about all sorts of random things. I like it that way. And I like being able to write long posts just to organize my thoughts, because when I don't, I tend to just agree with whatever someone just said/wrote.
It's kind of hard to avoid the thought that there is a sort of LJ status -- some people are read more and linked to more -- and to want to be a part of that, but in general, I don't want to think about that because then I get too self-conscious about posting. Half the time I think I am too pretentious anyhow ;).
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And I read What We Buy, a look at how people shop. It was interesting, but I have nothing really to say about it. I will just remark on it here because I am doing an experiment and seeing if I can keep track of all the books I read in a year.
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Back to FFXI, the dastardly game of doom!
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I bought all four books of Nausicaa (translated into English) from the bookstore today, plus Schodt's Dreamland Japan, and Initial D 4 for the boy. The list price of the Nausicaa books is 17.95 a book. The entire set is priced for 9.95 at the store. I have an employee discount. Five bucks!! Whoo! /gloat
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Kind of thinking about LJs and identity because of Jonquil's post and a few people have changed user names lately or are pondering it. Generally I think I try not to do meta-LJ posts just because it makes me feel all self-conscious. And I try not to be self-conscious when writing in this, although it's kind of hard not to when I am quoting other people's posts or referring to them, or doing book review-y things and etc. Anyway. I do feel a bit schizophrenic on LJ, but I guess not so much that it's abnormal. Princeton had this little list of short questions for fun on their application, and one of them was to describe yourself in three words. I couldn't think of anything, so I wrote "unique and undescribable" or something stupid like that.
It's a bit strange as well because some of my friends know I keep this and read it, and other don't, and I keep forgetting who does and doesn't. I don't think my family knows, but you can never tell. I may have told my sister. The boy knows. And I wanted to keep it a secret in the beginning, but it started spilling out, so now it's in a sort of limbo land of RL and internet life. I think it helps that I am not that fannish -- I mean, I fannishly watch shows, but I'm not very participatory. I read fic and watch vids, but that's it. And I'm not good at keeping secrets, so a fair number of people in RL know I have written fic before, etc. But I still sound different on my LJ.
I would like to pretend that I sound very intelligent ;). But everytime I start thinking of myself as intelligent, I end up writing silly posts. And then I write angry posts, or just random posts.
I started reading Michael Dirda's Readings today, got through about two essays and was grinning like mad. I wish I could write like that. He makes my little book posts feel very silly and random.
I'm not quite sure how the book posts sort of overtook my LJ. There's not that much fannish to write about (but new Angel tomorrow, ohboyohboyohboy!!), and my life in general is not that exciting. And books seem to be so alive somehow... I don't know how I can already be completely in love with Readings when I was quite passionately in love with Shadowheart yesterday. I think I'm on a good string of books -- sometimes I hit a string and it's so hard because they're just sort of blase and there in my head.
But it's not really a book LJ either, because I write about all sorts of random things. I like it that way. And I like being able to write long posts just to organize my thoughts, because when I don't, I tend to just agree with whatever someone just said/wrote.
It's kind of hard to avoid the thought that there is a sort of LJ status -- some people are read more and linked to more -- and to want to be a part of that, but in general, I don't want to think about that because then I get too self-conscious about posting. Half the time I think I am too pretentious anyhow ;).
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And I read What We Buy, a look at how people shop. It was interesting, but I have nothing really to say about it. I will just remark on it here because I am doing an experiment and seeing if I can keep track of all the books I read in a year.
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Back to FFXI, the dastardly game of doom!
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