LiveJournal is 25: interesting facts about me and my blog

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1. LJ appeared in April 1999, the year when I… was still kicking on AOL with my Mac Classic (System 7) and writing web pages by hand. I even did something like blogging using a news cgi script.

2. As a child, I wanted to become a… no particular idea, just kind of went for it

3. My favorite school subject was… French

4. The tune of my carefree youth is… 👇

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5. A book (or an author) that influenced me…



6. A city (or cities) I truly love… Oslo, Barcelona, and with disdain Paris

7. I started an LJ blog in June 2000 because I wanted… I came across another 24 hour web cammer (we were a thing back then) who had a LJ, thought it was cool and joined.

8. The catch phrase that nearest and dearest recognize me by… mais fuck

9. A movie I’m never tired to watch again…



10. When I was 25, I liked to… tweet and post photos

11. I can’t live a day without… writing bullshit online

12. An LJ post I’d like to recommend to everyone… my first one

13. I’m proud of… I dunno really, suriving many “once in a lifetime” events and not going insane ?

14. If I could give advice to myself from 1999, I’d… tell myself to register a one or two letter .com

15. My favorite LJ blog(s)… are all long gone

16. My favorite LJ community (-ies)… ljdrama, bad_service, antiavril

17. A dish (or a food product) I learned to like only as an adult… kimchi

18. Within these 25 years I’ve visited… Oslo, Brussels, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Toulouse, La Rochelle, London, Glasgow, Newcastle, Montréal (for like 5 panicked minutes), Winnipeg, and Ottawa

19. My favorite cure for sadness is… Burger King

20. If I didn’t have to work, I’d do… something creative with video

21. My superpower is… living with the eternal knowledge that I will never be in a position to own a home because my dumb ass was too busy being born rather than buying up houses in the 80s for three cents

22. A useful skill I’d like to teach younger generations is… revolutionary tendancies

23. If I could spend a day as an animal, that would be… cat, sleep in a box, eat, and sleep in more boxes

24. The way I’d like to grow old is… on the bones of the billionaires

25. I’m grateful to LJ for… all the people I met, the things I learned, and just generally giving me not only an outlet at the time to be myself online but also now be in the position to look back on those posts with a sense of cringe

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