The LJennaisance -- kind of like The McConnaisance, although probably less handsome and wacky.
I'm trying to institute The LJennaisance on my LJ and I'm going to try my best to post on a weekly basis at least. I've been missing LJ tremendously in the past year (maybe even longer than that) and I really wish to find out what's going on with old LJ friends and reconnect. I don't know if that's possible, but I guess I have to do my part and post regularly instead of just reading the flist (fairly barren, unfortunately) regularly.
Uncharitable person that I am, I can't help but resent the mass exodus to Facebook (too much overlap with real life, no thank you -- deleted mine ages ago), Twitter (boring and often useless info/TMI overload), and Tumblr (love reading for pics and gifs, but seems devoid of real content and intimacy, too distant for me and no idea how people make friends on it). I wish that as people had left LJ for other platforms, they would've linked their tumblrs or twitters so I could keep following them instead of being left to wonder how they're doing, what's going on in their lives, what are they interested in and fannish about now? But maybe people don't because that's the whole point? They want to shed some of their old LJ friendships so completely and leave no way for some of us to follow them? If so, that makes me really sad. I disappeared from LJ not because I left for other platforms, but because it seemed to have become a ghost town in a span of a couple of weeks -- that's how fast it seemed to have happened. So I guess this is a call out into the abyss to any old LJ friends who see this and who have left (or even those who still post on LJ) -- please comment and link me your tumblrs and twitters if you are more active on those platforms and don't mind letting me follow you there (comments are screened), or anyone who is out there please point me to some LJ friending memes/recommend me some interesting LJ-ers you enjoy reading. I'm very grateful for those LJ friends who have remained, and I'd also like to add some new people who are still active on LJ.
The note LJ sent out recently encouraging people to come back and this article that buffyx recently linked really hit me hard and made me realize: LJ, I'm not ready to quit you and I still miss you every day.
Other than my moaning about the death of LJ, I woke up this morning with a full-blown cold so I canceled my Chinese lesson. Slept in all day and ended up not going window shopping which is much better for me because let's face it -- window shopping always seems to turn into real shopping, at least with me it does, and I need to stick to my resolution of living lighter this year. I ended up sending my tutor a rambling email apologizing for being a bad student and canceling at the last minute. Dinner was hot and sour soup and crackers. /sad Two classes tomorrow and the students are doing their 1-2 minute speeches so I'll be able to save my voice. My throat is pretty sore and I'm quite hoarse so if I can save my voice as much as possible, that'll be better for me. Last time I was sick, I had to cancel classes because I ended up losing my voice completely -- this has happened twice in the past year in China! It only happened to me once in all the years I lived in the U.S.*shakes head*
Uncharitable person that I am, I can't help but resent the mass exodus to Facebook (too much overlap with real life, no thank you -- deleted mine ages ago), Twitter (boring and often useless info/TMI overload), and Tumblr (love reading for pics and gifs, but seems devoid of real content and intimacy, too distant for me and no idea how people make friends on it). I wish that as people had left LJ for other platforms, they would've linked their tumblrs or twitters so I could keep following them instead of being left to wonder how they're doing, what's going on in their lives, what are they interested in and fannish about now? But maybe people don't because that's the whole point? They want to shed some of their old LJ friendships so completely and leave no way for some of us to follow them? If so, that makes me really sad. I disappeared from LJ not because I left for other platforms, but because it seemed to have become a ghost town in a span of a couple of weeks -- that's how fast it seemed to have happened. So I guess this is a call out into the abyss to any old LJ friends who see this and who have left (or even those who still post on LJ) -- please comment and link me your tumblrs and twitters if you are more active on those platforms and don't mind letting me follow you there (comments are screened), or anyone who is out there please point me to some LJ friending memes/recommend me some interesting LJ-ers you enjoy reading. I'm very grateful for those LJ friends who have remained, and I'd also like to add some new people who are still active on LJ.
The note LJ sent out recently encouraging people to come back and this article that buffyx recently linked really hit me hard and made me realize: LJ, I'm not ready to quit you and I still miss you every day.
Other than my moaning about the death of LJ, I woke up this morning with a full-blown cold so I canceled my Chinese lesson. Slept in all day and ended up not going window shopping which is much better for me because let's face it -- window shopping always seems to turn into real shopping, at least with me it does, and I need to stick to my resolution of living lighter this year. I ended up sending my tutor a rambling email apologizing for being a bad student and canceling at the last minute. Dinner was hot and sour soup and crackers. /sad Two classes tomorrow and the students are doing their 1-2 minute speeches so I'll be able to save my voice. My throat is pretty sore and I'm quite hoarse so if I can save my voice as much as possible, that'll be better for me. Last time I was sick, I had to cancel classes because I ended up losing my voice completely -- this has happened twice in the past year in China! It only happened to me once in all the years I lived in the U.S.*shakes head*