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The awards are out and the waiting is over! Here are my (albeit, first) top livejournal picks for 2008!
Most inspirational blog: Becky
Becky's one of my few friends who has a lot of obstacles in her way, and her decision to share three happy things in her day, every day (and back-logging missed days) for months, was both practical, brave and a joy to read. I know she did it for herself, but everything's a ripple in the pond, right? She inspires me to formulate some way of blogging which constructively and consistently helps me in my day to day life.
Quickest friend and de-friend: picturingfoods community
Putting that blog on my friends list was the single most distracting thing I could have done. Every time I went to my friends page, I looked at all the copious amounts of food pictures, which pushed all of my REAL friends' journals farther and farther out into the archives. It made reading everyone's posts, much less replying to any, an impossibility. I'm just not cut out for this 1,000,000,000 friend social networking thing. I'll just stick to a select few, if that's all right with the rest of you. =)
Craziest livejournal updating time EVAR: Donna
WOMAN. YOU ARE IN A HOSPITAL. YOU ARE BLOGGING YOUR CONTRACTIONS. PUT THE LAPTOP DOWN! But seriously, thanks for sharing the moment and the day and the whole experience with us out here in cyberland. One of the things I've really like about your writing is your ability to write just as you speak, inflections, humour, mid-thoughts intact. It's very whimsical and real and wonderful. While you were trying to push out a watermelon, I was reading your livejournal posts over and over to S and awaiting the big news with great excitement and anticipation.
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My yoga teacher suggested that to set goals for 2009, one can visualize yourself at the end of 2009 having completed something, then work backwards what you need to do to get there. We did some meditation and I decided that what really makes me happy and what I would really like to reflect on in the past year would be a year of dance. All I really have to do for that is just keep on signing up for dance classes, but it also means I can't flake on my yoga and tai chi (which I've been doing for the last two quarters) because I believe they can help correct the alignment and balance that I'll need for dancing.
So, yoga. Ow.
As a secondary goal, I'm going to get myself together for applying to grad schools. I need to select a program and start gunning for it. It's a bad time (bad economy = increased applicant pool), but hopefully things will start looking better in time for the 09-10 admissions.
Most inspirational blog: Becky
Becky's one of my few friends who has a lot of obstacles in her way, and her decision to share three happy things in her day, every day (and back-logging missed days) for months, was both practical, brave and a joy to read. I know she did it for herself, but everything's a ripple in the pond, right? She inspires me to formulate some way of blogging which constructively and consistently helps me in my day to day life.
Quickest friend and de-friend: picturingfoods community
Putting that blog on my friends list was the single most distracting thing I could have done. Every time I went to my friends page, I looked at all the copious amounts of food pictures, which pushed all of my REAL friends' journals farther and farther out into the archives. It made reading everyone's posts, much less replying to any, an impossibility. I'm just not cut out for this 1,000,000,000 friend social networking thing. I'll just stick to a select few, if that's all right with the rest of you. =)
Craziest livejournal updating time EVAR: Donna
WOMAN. YOU ARE IN A HOSPITAL. YOU ARE BLOGGING YOUR CONTRACTIONS. PUT THE LAPTOP DOWN! But seriously, thanks for sharing the moment and the day and the whole experience with us out here in cyberland. One of the things I've really like about your writing is your ability to write just as you speak, inflections, humour, mid-thoughts intact. It's very whimsical and real and wonderful. While you were trying to push out a watermelon, I was reading your livejournal posts over and over to S and awaiting the big news with great excitement and anticipation.
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My yoga teacher suggested that to set goals for 2009, one can visualize yourself at the end of 2009 having completed something, then work backwards what you need to do to get there. We did some meditation and I decided that what really makes me happy and what I would really like to reflect on in the past year would be a year of dance. All I really have to do for that is just keep on signing up for dance classes, but it also means I can't flake on my yoga and tai chi (which I've been doing for the last two quarters) because I believe they can help correct the alignment and balance that I'll need for dancing.
So, yoga. Ow.
As a secondary goal, I'm going to get myself together for applying to grad schools. I need to select a program and start gunning for it. It's a bad time (bad economy = increased applicant pool), but hopefully things will start looking better in time for the 09-10 admissions.