Yay!

[valis2]

I added a few "characterkus" (haikus told from a specific character's point of view) to quirkyhpshorts and the squid poem I had originally put on privatemaladict's journal. Two people have joined! I'm excited about the community.

I am just now finished catching up on the flist. I read everyone's LJ one at a time, and it was really interesting to read several entries like that in a row from the same person. You get a much better feel for their overall tone. It was unusual to see everyone's layouts, as well, because normally I read the flist entries through my friends page. Anyway, I'm done with the people, now it's time to start in on the communities.

I am considering a de-friending. I've never done one before, but this mass reading experience has shown me that there are a few people on the list with whom I have little or nothing in common, and there are people who have never commented on my journal and I've never commented on theirs. I'm going to take a long look at the list. I'll be gone a lot this year, and I can't always spend thirteen hours catching up on the flist. :(

I should be working on the new chapter but all I want to do is write more squid poems.

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I wonder the same thing!

Then there are the LJs where I comment, but never get replied to, and that's disheartening, unless it's an artist's LJ, where a hundred people are shouting "great pic!"

I'm not as worried about de-friending the non-commenters as I am about a handful of people who are really nice but I just don't seem to have anything in common with anymore. I really do like them, but I can only keep track of so many lives, y'know? :)

After reading iibnf's story about de-friending someone who never commented in her journal and then receiving long weepy e-mails from them and seeing it bemoaned in the other's journal for days I'm a little freaked out, though.