Several reasons, really. A lot of my friends have Livejournals, and some of them don't even suck, and more power to them. But this is me we're talking about here. 1.) I'm more private than average. On this site, the only evidence of my name is that the posts are signed off by me. I don't, as a rule, talk much about my life. This is purposeful. There also aren't a lot of photos of me on the net, which I like. (Not least of which because those that do exist tend to be less than flattering. I don't really photograph well.) I genuinely like the fact that not everybody knows my movements. I like that by reading this page, you will have no idea what I did last night. (I am boring, mind you. "I read a book and went to go see "Undercover Brother" with some mates" is hardly Hemingway in its level of electricity.) Maybe you figure out I'm something of a dork, but I never disguise the fact. 2.) It'd only be another page I'm not updating. I have this page to sporadically update on a very, very low-intensity basis! 3.) There is no need for another boring goddamn Livejournal in this world. Not to name names or accuse friends, but good goddamn, have you actually bothered to read some of these things? June 1st, 2002
"I walked around a lot today. Saw some flowers. Then I came home, made macaroni, and sat down to watch "the Simpsons". It was the one where Apu becomes an American citizen. One of the better ones. I should really go clean out the dog's dish."
Feeling: loosey-goosey [here, imagine a stupid little cartoon character miming that emotion]
listening to: Tori Amos There's a very good bit Bill Bryson once wrote about how he suddenly discovered why his grandfather kept a journal of every dull and mundane thing that happened in his life - it was a way to chart the hours of nothing and make the days go by. Me, I have trouble with the idea of days going by and making note of that fact. I'm not going to jump into a speech from Dead Poets Society and say "life is to be LIVED! Sieze the day!" because sometimes, goddamnit, I like to sit on my ass and eat macaroni, we all do. But does this boring crap really merit, in any way, a recital? A journal doesn't have to be focused or full of bootyful poetry or truly deep thoughts. The point of a journal, I've always thought, is to preserve memories of good times, to keep alive a record of how you felt and what you felt. That's fine. (Me, I don't keep a journal. This site is hardly a journal. But that's me.) But that means actually writing something down beyond the most mundane. And if you don't want to do that in public (which is understandable), get a daybook or something. 4.) I just like conversations better than polemics. Ask those who I bebother on ICQ on a regular basis for proof of this fact. They will shake their heads at the message-box plague that is me.
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Christopher Bird at 11:19 PM
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