Odd day.

[valis2]

While having lunch with my boss I heard my name and looked to the booth next to us, where hairboy was sitting. He is a friend of my ex-fiancee and it was surprising to see him. The last time I saw him was, hmmm, three years ago, and before that...six years? five years? Thank goodness my brain didn't decide to suddenly go blank and refuse to retrieve his name, as it is wont to do in some situations.

I've noticed that people sometimes have to trim their f-lists. (I'm still learning the ropes here, forgive me.) I wonder how they manage to do it and not hurt people's feelings. I may be new to LJ, but I used to help run a BBS years ago, and was fairly active in the local BBS scene, and if there's one thing you notice, it's that people can be a bit sensitive in cyberspace. Without the very real physical presence of a person in front of you sometimes it seems as if you have nothing holding you back. And it's so easy to shout at each other in all caps. I still remember the first time I got into an altercation online (and even what it was about!), and that was a crazy experience.

Anyway, this is looking to be a fairly random LJ entry, so I might as well include two more odd high school poems. (The poems are odd, not the high school.)


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FOOTPRINTS

You can't always get what you want, said the footprint moodily. You'd think you'd know that by now, you big walking carbon-nitrogen-oxygen-hydrogen mass. But no, you'd rather drag around in those crazy gymshoes of yours. I may just be the hollowed out imprint of your shoe, but I am very knowledgeable---

A wave suddenly disintegrates the nagging footprint. But many more still lie on the tan beach, complaining.

FURNACE DUCTS

...are the real key to existence. Haven't you noticed how they collect dimes and christmas ornaments and rolled up aluminum foil and flashlights and dustbunnies?

Scream if you want to, but the real future lies in using the resources these shy but prolific vents have to offer.


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Okay, it can't compare to snapesforte's lovely sonnets, but I was only fifteen at the time after all.

I am leaving Saturday for WI, will be back Monday...I have so much to do...WHY AM I ONLINE?!! Oh, avoidance. That's right.

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[gypsyjolie.livejournal.com]

I'll wave at you in passing. I'm headed to my sister's in MI to help drywall and paint this weekend. Damn! Wish I'd known when you were coming to WI for sure. I'd have driven over so we could do dinner...let me know next time, ok?

The way I figure it, most of the people on my flist don't post on my LJ and if they don't want to read it (since it's a personal journal and not fandom-centric), that's ok. As long as they don't mind me lurking on and posting occasionally on theirs, I don't mind. You can "cheat" by making them your friend but then filtering the entries so that you no longer see them on your flist. Which is sneaky and underhanded but avoids conflict.

Have a safe and enjoyable trip! Hey, did you see that they are doubling the cost of the tolls on I94??!!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I'll be certain to wave back!

This trip is pretty hurried...next one will be incredibly unusual, I'll be stopping in WI on my way to MN, and then on the way back again. Let's try to get together then! I think I'll be driving near Madison. I'm certain it will work out, at the very least for dinner.

Oooh...filtering the friends list? Very interesting. The more I see of LJ, the more impressed I am.

And doubling the tolls? Grrr!! I guess I'll just have to save even more pocket change. Or break down and buy the &*%#^ I-pass.

[saruwatari.livejournal.com]

I wonder how they manage to do it and not hurt people's feelings.

I don't know. I've trimmed down mine because a few people I'd had on it were still there for absolutely no reason... we had nothing in common anymore and I was getting to the point where I was skimming their entries.

I'm always worried that people will be offended. Terrified, sometimes, in fact.

[clstal.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna add my .02 here on the f-list thing -- Yep, people _do_ get offended, deeply, in fact.

In my personal case I have a really limited friends list because when I post something I want to be friends-only, I just want to pick the stupid 'friends only' security option, not pick from a complex filter of security lists.

So, if you're on my friends list - you see everything. If you're not, then you only see my occassional public post. Also, I'm taking 23 credits this semester (and probably for the next 2 years) and if I friended everyone who interested me, I'd procrastinate by reading LJ even more than I already do. :-)

Filtering my friends list takes care of the second problem but not the first.

(Happy belated birthday!)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the birthday wishes!

I wish that LJ had a different set of levels...like "friends" and then "LJ acquaintances", but I guess it would get too complicated.

Oh well!

Hey, good luck with school. 23 credits? I would have gone entirely insane.

[clstal.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree more -- there are people I enjoy reading, but don't know them well enough to spew my personal stress and details in their direction. LJ Acq would _very_ much solve that problem!

Yea, I just finished week1 and I'm kinda shaky and scared. :-(

[snapesforte.livejournal.com]

Interesting poems... I like the tone of Footprints. I wrote a poem that was published in my school's yearbook when I was fifteen... If I find it, I shall have to share :-).