Numbered and titled and cut for easy digestion!
1. Livejournal usage and boundaries question
So how much do ya'll think posting to lj can mess things up? IE - If I talk about certain issues here, and that discussion is likely to reach back to the parties involved in those issues, either personally reading the entry via a friends page or by word of mouth, am I being both irresponsible and dumb? By living more openly as such is this a refreshingly honest and frank approach or just a slippery slope toward acute passive-aggression through never actually personally confronting issues and virally getting other people to solve my problems by word of mouth?
The thing is this seems like the exact kind of things blogging and online journaling were made for. These are issues I would come to most of you with for advice and a shoulder anyway. Taking away this aspect seems to stunt the effectiveness and core purposes of this forum. Trying to keep everything vague does little except garner rather empty advice. The only thing comes to mind would be to be rather specific so that those "in the know" would get it or through context clues figure it out, but this again merely creates a buffer from www.strangers and brings us back to the original conflict anyway.
Gyargh, thinking is hard!
2. Hair
Also, my hair is almost as long as it was when I was in Space Ninja, Space Samurai part sequel. That's weird. It has this shapelessness shape to it. I don't know of any decent hair cuttery places out here yet and also never walk away with a hair cut I'm really happy with anyway. I did one time that I can recall ever getting the haircut I wanted. I don't even remember what it consisted of so I can't repeat it. All I remember is being very happy with it and Mark and April agreed. I think this was way back when they were living with Mark's parents. The passage of time is strange.
3. Music Shifts
So I'm going through my music as I prepare the great computer reset and I've purged a few musical movements from my archive altogether. I no longer have any Wesley Willis. Also Roxette. I have very, very little James Kochalka remaining. Rockapella also got a big axe with only a couple fingers making it into the life raft. Cee-lo totally made the cut though. Yeah Cee-lo. I am thoroughly sick of Rapper's Delight. I used to love that song, then I listened to it too much (for those that know how much I can listen to the same thing over and over again, you will understand how much this must have been).
4. Magic Cards
Cleaning up my room, I learned that I have too many Magic cards. Yes, too many. Before this wasn't a problem, I played regularly and the collection was about equal to how much I played (with a bit of excess from bad purchases of some bulk). Now I almost never play because no one I know out here plays at the rate I used to, nor do I keep a schedule that allows me to find people who do (which is probably for the better in the long run). I still love the game and want to play, but seriously, that's a LOT of cards.
5. Laundry Ills
I think I do the laundry wrong. I am finding my clothes being worn away by the machines. Collars are showing fray at the edges and creases. T shirts have moth-eaten-sized holes torn in them (I am certain it is not a bug problem, I have looked into it). This sucks. I like my clothes, I don't want them reduced to shreds. But I also want the clean and dry. CONUNDRUM!
6. Cali Living
So today I went to the zoo. It was pretty neat. There was a new baby giraffe (as opposed to an old baby giraffe). Kookaberras look fake. There was a building dedicated to spiders. I don't consider myself afraid of them; I get right up to the glass and check them out, but thinking about them not behind glass and anywhere near me all I can think of is mortal combat. Not the video game, but combat that will end with one of us dead, because seriously, spiders are villainous. Have you ever known one to have mercy? Ever? Me neither. Anyway, the weather was amazing and I understand all week is supposed to be like that. Amazing. My job keeps me holed up for my favorite part of the day with no windows and constant air conditioning that is not "cold" but at just the right temp so that over time you feel very cold, so I always feel like outside is an overcast, dreary day. Suck. Overall though, I like living here so far. I do miss a lot of stuff from back home (I still call it back home, so I'm obviously not acclimated enough), so there's still lots of adjusting to do. I'm not rich yet, so I can't live in both places as is my wont.
I wonder how many of you actually see this since I post it on the weekend and weekday posts will likely push it way down out of current entries.