An Answer to My Own Question
Lifejournal is too quiet an environment for Twitter. Where before I was known for being long-winded and inconsistent, now I look like a hyper kid bringing his new ADHD friends into the house, and wrecking the place. It's a longstanding rule: never mix your new geekery with your old geekery. It's off-putting for all involved. That said, an explanation of sorts:
As long as I've had this journal, I've had a habit of posting long, rambling entries which jumped from place to place, indulging in logical leaps and lapses as my brain fired off a series of seemingly random signals, hoping to read some pattern in the entrails of my daily life. That last sentence illustrates this notion quite effectively, I'm sure. One of my life's greatest ambitions is to attain a state of comprehensibility. I perpetually demand that the world around me make rational sense, yet I so seldom demonstrate that characteristic myself that I wonder how I've escaped lynching thus far.
Twitter is a more suitable place than LJ for the bubbling cauldron of randomnicity that is my mind. The restricted format is perfect for me to express disconnected ideas as they come to me; it is the perfect venue for the non-sequiter, my forte if ever I have had one.
So, I've suspended my twitters from posting to lj, and I will make a concerted effort to write more substantive posts here than I have been. I do this in the interests of avoiding putting off the people who actually read this journal on the assumption that I have ever had anything worth saying. For their good faith that I am actually capable of such a feat, I feel I owe it to them (and to myself), to use this space for contextualized musings, hopefully of some substance worthy of the unaccountably high regard some people seem to have for me. Whether or not I can live up to the expectations of others (much less my own) is debatable, but I do promise to try, and I will try to save this journal from drowning in the disconnected utterances with which I flood my twitter every day.
As long as I've had this journal, I've had a habit of posting long, rambling entries which jumped from place to place, indulging in logical leaps and lapses as my brain fired off a series of seemingly random signals, hoping to read some pattern in the entrails of my daily life. That last sentence illustrates this notion quite effectively, I'm sure. One of my life's greatest ambitions is to attain a state of comprehensibility. I perpetually demand that the world around me make rational sense, yet I so seldom demonstrate that characteristic myself that I wonder how I've escaped lynching thus far.
Twitter is a more suitable place than LJ for the bubbling cauldron of randomnicity that is my mind. The restricted format is perfect for me to express disconnected ideas as they come to me; it is the perfect venue for the non-sequiter, my forte if ever I have had one.
So, I've suspended my twitters from posting to lj, and I will make a concerted effort to write more substantive posts here than I have been. I do this in the interests of avoiding putting off the people who actually read this journal on the assumption that I have ever had anything worth saying. For their good faith that I am actually capable of such a feat, I feel I owe it to them (and to myself), to use this space for contextualized musings, hopefully of some substance worthy of the unaccountably high regard some people seem to have for me. Whether or not I can live up to the expectations of others (much less my own) is debatable, but I do promise to try, and I will try to save this journal from drowning in the disconnected utterances with which I flood my twitter every day.