Oct 23, 2006 23:51
Most recent thoughts on this whole comment-storm can be found in the comments to 10/20. Although I can never quite tell from one moment to the next whether 180-degree change might be forthcoming, at this moment it feels like a good idea to lay off the LJ for a little. It is clear that I've been neglecting my responsibility as a friend to remember (hello!) that I am NOT the only person in the universe. I've been using other people-- not everyone, interestingly, but people I've known a long time-- as sounding boards for myself rather than acting like a friend. And since my LJ world is mostly full of the very people to whom I have been unfriendly in this way, I post to LJ without regard to what it will make people feel, as if I am showing off for a brainless and sympathetic audience in my own head. I can do this any time by the simple expedient of dreaming, day or otherwise, and it's not making the world go round any faster. This persona is pretty unpleasant and becoming altogether too three-dimensionally tangled. I think I'll can it for a bit.
Here I remind you, by the way, that David James Duncan will be speaking at the UO tomorrow, Tuesday, at 7:30 somewhere in PLC.