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Sometimes when I'm feeling exceptionally distracted, I like using the "Random" option on the LJ sidebar to browse other journals. It feels voyeuristic, like walking by houses at night and peeking in windows if the lights are on (which I hypocritically admit I enjoy doing, despite really, really hating it when people do it to me). All those people, all those lives. All that talking, and no one really saying much at all (not that I'm so bloody important, but, you know, to myself I am).
The 6 things guaranteed to make me move on faster than someone being caught peeking into a window:
1. Any journal made up entirely of quizzes and meme generators. Really, what's the point?
2. Any journal featuring a preponderance of anime/manga art. Or unicorns and butterflies.
3. Any journal that's "friends only." Especially the ones that challenge you to decide if you want this person as a friend based solely on one picture (although I was impressed when I came across one with a Rushmore banner with one of my favorite scenes in the movie. Although conversely it was fairly easy to dismiss the ones using Jessica Simpson and the Olsen twins as their representation). I personally would prefer some sample posts before I judge you. Another one I found not only violated rule #2, but stated that if you failed to comment on two posts in a row, you were OUT! Harsh. If I had requirements like that, I'd have no friends at all.
4. Any journal with the user name "Azriel Darkrift" (I shit you not). Is this journal yours or your role-playing character's?....OR ARE YOU ONE AND THE SAME?
5. Any journal in a foreign language obviously, because I'm hopelessly ethnocentric.
6. Any journal where most of the entries read like, "OMG, like, we all got totally wasted this weekend and Ozzy and Coolio were soooooooo crazy and..." Ahem. In this category I found a journal by someone who literally began every single post with "Hey..." like they were trying to get my attention because I was walking too far ahead. OMG WTF???
I could write a whole book of criticisms of these journals. I'm probably sounding really judgmental and snobby. The irony is I honestly do think people should use their journal for whatever they want to. I'm just saying these kinds of journals don't entertain me, which is all I care about.*
Now I'm going to break my own rules and post about three things that aren't important to anyone but me. See how I am?
Yesterday after just the wee tiniest bit of rain, we got the most gorgeous rainbow:
Not only was it a full rainbow, but if you look really closely towards the top it was also a double rainbow for a short while. The droplets on the window are because I was too lazy to actually go outside for the pic. I called Tery at work to see if she could see it too. She said brusquely, "No time!" I answered with mock sadness and disbelief, "No time to look at rainbows?!" Trust me, it was funny.
At Tery's insistence I've started taking gingko biloba for my crappy, crappy memory. I hate taking pills of any kind so we shall see how long it lasts. However, I am cautiously optimistic that it is working in that I was idly (and unsuccessfully) trying to remember the chapter from HBP when Harry and Dumbledore see Slughorn's memory and, after about 30 seconds of concentration, it actually came to me! People might have a hard time understanding why this is so exciting to me. We'll talk again when YOUR short-term memory starts letting you down.
Last but not least, my love affair with my cable modem continues, but reality is creeping in. More specifically, I've noticed that towards the end of the day it starts getting increasingly more difficult to get to websites, and more and more I get the hateful "cannot find server" page instead. Any computer geeks out there who can help me? I've tried opening a new browser window, deleting cookies. The only thing that seems to help is rebooting entirely, impractical in the extreme when I need to stay logged in to my work site.
* obviously those of you already on my f-list are exempt from these observations, since you've all worked your way into my cold, black heart.
The 6 things guaranteed to make me move on faster than someone being caught peeking into a window:
1. Any journal made up entirely of quizzes and meme generators. Really, what's the point?
2. Any journal featuring a preponderance of anime/manga art. Or unicorns and butterflies.
3. Any journal that's "friends only." Especially the ones that challenge you to decide if you want this person as a friend based solely on one picture (although I was impressed when I came across one with a Rushmore banner with one of my favorite scenes in the movie. Although conversely it was fairly easy to dismiss the ones using Jessica Simpson and the Olsen twins as their representation). I personally would prefer some sample posts before I judge you. Another one I found not only violated rule #2, but stated that if you failed to comment on two posts in a row, you were OUT! Harsh. If I had requirements like that, I'd have no friends at all.
4. Any journal with the user name "Azriel Darkrift" (I shit you not). Is this journal yours or your role-playing character's?....OR ARE YOU ONE AND THE SAME?
5. Any journal in a foreign language obviously, because I'm hopelessly ethnocentric.
6. Any journal where most of the entries read like, "OMG, like, we all got totally wasted this weekend and Ozzy and Coolio were soooooooo crazy and..." Ahem. In this category I found a journal by someone who literally began every single post with "Hey..." like they were trying to get my attention because I was walking too far ahead. OMG WTF???
I could write a whole book of criticisms of these journals. I'm probably sounding really judgmental and snobby. The irony is I honestly do think people should use their journal for whatever they want to. I'm just saying these kinds of journals don't entertain me, which is all I care about.*
Now I'm going to break my own rules and post about three things that aren't important to anyone but me. See how I am?
Yesterday after just the wee tiniest bit of rain, we got the most gorgeous rainbow:
Not only was it a full rainbow, but if you look really closely towards the top it was also a double rainbow for a short while. The droplets on the window are because I was too lazy to actually go outside for the pic. I called Tery at work to see if she could see it too. She said brusquely, "No time!" I answered with mock sadness and disbelief, "No time to look at rainbows?!" Trust me, it was funny.
At Tery's insistence I've started taking gingko biloba for my crappy, crappy memory. I hate taking pills of any kind so we shall see how long it lasts. However, I am cautiously optimistic that it is working in that I was idly (and unsuccessfully) trying to remember the chapter from HBP when Harry and Dumbledore see Slughorn's memory and, after about 30 seconds of concentration, it actually came to me! People might have a hard time understanding why this is so exciting to me. We'll talk again when YOUR short-term memory starts letting you down.
Last but not least, my love affair with my cable modem continues, but reality is creeping in. More specifically, I've noticed that towards the end of the day it starts getting increasingly more difficult to get to websites, and more and more I get the hateful "cannot find server" page instead. Any computer geeks out there who can help me? I've tried opening a new browser window, deleting cookies. The only thing that seems to help is rebooting entirely, impractical in the extreme when I need to stay logged in to my work site.
* obviously those of you already on my f-list are exempt from these observations, since you've all worked your way into my cold, black heart.
