LiveJournal, it seems I've left you behind, but I wanted to let you know that you're 80,000 times better than any of the current social-networking trends.
I remember you well, Kristen, and I quite miss our (too-fleeting) interactions; I have spent an inordinate amount of time in the wastelands, busying myself with World of Warcraft/solipsism (horror of horrors), academia, and my ongoing efforts to rid myself of all that grandiloquence to which my LJ was a monument, such that it is, perhaps, to late to seek you out. Hope, however, really does spring eternal.
I am not entirely sure, in retrospect; the last nine months (or so) have been metamorphic for me - I only wish it had happened sooner.
As for the dictionary, and my quondam tumidity, my word-hoard remains as well-supplied as ever, but I've grown considerably more parsimonious with respect to the employment of its contents, as I've striven to communicate with people, rather than at them. As might be expected, I was thrilled to see the notification of your reply appear in my inbox; we ought to touch base from time to time.
I think that's a good idea, because otherwise we'll keep hiding in the drier, thinking the game is still going, when everyone's a... -stops taking your idiom literally- Yes, sporadic chatting is a swell and very possible idea!
Metamorphic how? -update plz.- Are you offended by online shorthand? I am. But I'm hypocritical for the sake of flippancy.
I think your writing is much more casual than before. You sold out, man. -Kidding.- :) Happy to hear back from you so quickly.
I've necessarily transitioned almost entirely to Facebook and messaging programs, but that is the age in which we reside (farewell to anonymity, all that). Where online shorthand's concerned, I do take slight umbrage - texting, in particular, is ravaging our language - but I've long since left to Achilles battles against onrushing rivers
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For a short, sick moment, I admired Hitler's ambition to erase an entire culture. Nothing short of blind, frothing rage would stand a chance of eliminating all shorthanders, at least all at once. If only we could summon that... Anyway! //hitlersupport.
I plan to be a kid until I die, but an adult at the same time. I don't think it's totally problematic that your adolescent self persisted for so long. It has good parts, they just need maturity. People who become adults by leaving their former selves behind in entirely are boring machine-shells, I think!
It's a tricky balance, though. Half running towards the playground, half grabbing you by the collar, telling you to finish what you're doing... well, that's me, anyway. :)
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Nah, it's not too late. :) Hey! Still using the entire Oxford dictionary?
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As for the dictionary, and my quondam tumidity, my word-hoard remains as well-supplied as ever, but I've grown considerably more parsimonious with respect to the employment of its contents, as I've striven to communicate with people, rather than at them. As might be expected, I was thrilled to see the notification of your reply appear in my inbox; we ought to touch base from time to time.
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Metamorphic how? -update plz.- Are you offended by online shorthand? I am. But I'm hypocritical for the sake of flippancy.
I think your writing is much more casual than before. You sold out, man. -Kidding.- :) Happy to hear back from you so quickly.
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I plan to be a kid until I die, but an adult at the same time. I don't think it's totally problematic that your adolescent self persisted for so long. It has good parts, they just need maturity. People who become adults by leaving their former selves behind in entirely are boring machine-shells, I think!
It's a tricky balance, though. Half running towards the playground, half grabbing you by the collar, telling you to finish what you're doing... well, that's me, anyway. :)
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