Weird random LJ things about me

[valis2]

Because everybody wants to know weird random LJ things about me.

• I never use the Current Mood thing. I tried, when I first started LJ, but what would happen is I'd write an entry, and then spend a half hour trying to find the exact mood I was feeling, and I realized it was just feeding the OCD, so I stopped.


• I never use the Current Music thing because I am rarely listening to music while online.


• I never use the Location thing because I only ever access LJ from my home computer. I do get on the internet at other places, so if I'm gone and you'd like to reach me you can always try to email me, but I never logon to LJ. It's partially paranoia, and partially a desire to keep LJ sacred and special and homey.


• Ratio of actual LJ entries to entries that I've thought of but forgotten/decided against: 1:3.


• Meme: Not really, unless it's a short, fascinating, text-based meme that I can modify somehow.


• I like reading anecdotes. I love hearing about someone going to the store and noticing the person in front of them is buying frisbees, cat food, and a power tool. I also like musings about where people are in life, and where they're going. I like LJ in general, I've noticed. heh. Big surprise there.


• When I read the fpage, I use Firefox's awesome tab feature to open everything I'm interested in commenting on/reading further into tabs. I can end up with five to twenty tabs during a half-day's read. Generally I see about sixty to one hundred entries a day.


• I really try very hard to read everything. I skip over memes, generally, and fic with pairings I'm not interested in or summaries that leave me cold. Sometimes when I'm super behind, I power-read, which means that I don't click on any cuts unless the subject matter interests me, and I skim some entries.


• Longish fics generally have to wait. I just don't have that much time anymore, honestly, and I have to put them in my bookmark Limbo folder. I still have fics from 2005 Smutmas waiting to be read. And I will, I know it. I don't like the idea of a good fic getting away from me.


• I can't remember the names of fics, and sometimes the authors. What I usually will remember is the theme, and whether I liked it or not. When I worked at Waldenhell, I used to be able to link books with authors, and I could tell you if a book you were looking for was in stock in the store or not among the 14,000 titles we stocked. My memory is burnt out, now, from three years of reading fanfic. I've read hundreds, if not thousands, of fanfics, long, short, everything. When I first started HP fandom, I went through fanfiction.net and looked at the summary/read the first page/read every single Snape-centric story there. OCD, remember? It took me a few months, but I didn't really know about the other archives at first, and I was determined to find stories I liked. Eventually I found Fiction Alley, but by that point I was choosier, and I found their interface challenging, so I didn't do such an exhaustive search there, though I did check out many fics. Anyway, this is why I find it difficult to remember anything. Even my own name.


• I just can't seem to friend myself.


• Yes, I obsessively refresh my fpage, and squee whenever there's something interesting and new.

My name is valis, and I am a LJ addict.

Comments

[tudorpot.livejournal.com]

we share many Lj indiocyncrisies, I can't seem to listen to music and do other things like reading or writing. I too scoured the net looking for fic after I had been introduced to fic -first read AJ Hall's Lust over Pendle series. I'm not sure when I post if I'm just boring people and thus become selfconcious and my entries are rather stilted or just don't get posted. I suppose with time and more people commenting I will feel more comfortable.

I use Firefox's awesome tab feature to open everything I'm interested in commenting on/reading further into tabs I'd like to know how you do that, can you share?

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I find it too distracting to listen to music, or TV, in the background while I'm online. It just bugs me. Now, there are certain times (very rare moments) where I listen to music while I write a really big, over-the-top scene, but normally, nothing.

As far as Firefox tabs work, you have to have Mozilla's Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/) installed as a browser. You can then right-click on a link and select "Open in new tab".

Internet Explorer is now capable of using tabs, but I haven't messed with it and I don't know how it works, though I assume it's similar.

[tudorpot.livejournal.com]

I can't right click, I use mac and I have a trackpad. I seem to be using tabs, but they don't open new ones for making comments, then I get lost trying to get back to where I started. Thanks anyways.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Ah, sorry, I am worse than clueless about Macs. ;)

[ldybastet.livejournal.com]

Hold down the ctrl key while clicking and you get a menu. Choose 'open in new tab' from there. :-)

[tudorpot.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's super.