This is a meme.
Blah blah something about the fickleness of social media, how so many people have moved on to other blogging places (ha ha >_>), etc.
10 things that have changed about me since I started my LJ. This one is kind of weird for me, since I started my LJ back when I was a... really embarrassing teenager. It's rare for me to stick with something for as long as I've had my livejournal account, which is a reason why I'm reluctant to let it go. Journaling for me has often been a bit compulsive. I dunno. Anyway, a LOT has changed for me, mainly because I'm no longer like sixteen. So I am focusing mainly on things that have changed in the more recent past, like the last three or four years or so. Even in that relatively short period of time, "change" seems like too small a word to describe the ways in which my life has become different from what it used to be. I think this is pretty much entirely for the better.
These aren't in chronological order, but:
1. I moved several times, most significantly across the country to Montreal, where I seem to have mostly settled.
2. I started learning French.
3. I applied to university and went back to school, which it turns out I'm pretty good at. (Learned and learning tons of new skills, focusing a lot lately on printmaking and ceramics.)
4. I had some relationships, and one in particular seems to have stuck. WHO KNEW. (Except for all those people that knew.)
5. I have gotten a lot more political (and more radical, from slightly cynical socialist to die-hard social anarchist), even going so far as to do public speaking and activism and a lot of organizing.
6. I've been published.
7. I've done an artist residency.
8. I've become more grounded about a lot of things, which has served to make me a lot more radical in general.
9. I got a cat, and liked having a cat so much I got another one.
10. I've learned to (more or less) embrace the fact that my life is generally in a fairly consistent state of evolution and flux. I used to long for stability more than anything, and now I think I've found a pretty good balance of reasonable stability and still allowing for circumstances to change the way they will.
10 things that have changed about me since I started my LJ. This one is kind of weird for me, since I started my LJ back when I was a... really embarrassing teenager. It's rare for me to stick with something for as long as I've had my livejournal account, which is a reason why I'm reluctant to let it go. Journaling for me has often been a bit compulsive. I dunno. Anyway, a LOT has changed for me, mainly because I'm no longer like sixteen. So I am focusing mainly on things that have changed in the more recent past, like the last three or four years or so. Even in that relatively short period of time, "change" seems like too small a word to describe the ways in which my life has become different from what it used to be. I think this is pretty much entirely for the better.
These aren't in chronological order, but:
1. I moved several times, most significantly across the country to Montreal, where I seem to have mostly settled.
2. I started learning French.
3. I applied to university and went back to school, which it turns out I'm pretty good at. (Learned and learning tons of new skills, focusing a lot lately on printmaking and ceramics.)
4. I had some relationships, and one in particular seems to have stuck. WHO KNEW. (Except for all those people that knew.)
5. I have gotten a lot more political (and more radical, from slightly cynical socialist to die-hard social anarchist), even going so far as to do public speaking and activism and a lot of organizing.
6. I've been published.
7. I've done an artist residency.
8. I've become more grounded about a lot of things, which has served to make me a lot more radical in general.
9. I got a cat, and liked having a cat so much I got another one.
10. I've learned to (more or less) embrace the fact that my life is generally in a fairly consistent state of evolution and flux. I used to long for stability more than anything, and now I think I've found a pretty good balance of reasonable stability and still allowing for circumstances to change the way they will.