A (hopefully more permanent) return
Because it's summer, maybe, or because I'm back to spending some much-needed time alone, or because I miss the however small and fleeting sense of community I once got here, or maybe because I just really miss it all - I think I'd like to start writing here again
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I started writing on here again in fits and starts last year; I've mostly re-abandoned and re-privatized everything, but I'm glad I decided to check in one last time. It's something like half a decade since I've read your writing, and it's honestly so nice to see it again - I've missed your particular flavor of introspection. How have you been? How is life?
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Life is... ah... maybe I'll write about it some time. I hope you keep writing, too. I remember so loving what you had to say.
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I don't really have any plans to continue on LJ; I started again last year and mostly wound up just reposting short films and silly local articles, so I dropped it. Although I kind of feel like that old joke about how the English leave without saying goodbye and the Jews say goodbye without leaving. Still here!
Not much with the writing, though. I think there was more of an urgency attached to it for me when it was on the perceived cusp of adulthood, when it was all crazy frantic desperate grasping at life that was all vitally important because if you commit something to text then It Is So and leaving a paper trail of the things you've figured out is important because at some point you'll be able to papier-mache all that into the shape of an actual life. (Because a life is something you have; not "living," which is something you do, inconsistently.) For me, it kind of felt like once the memo came through that you're already living it, it's already started, you already got yours, away went ( ... )
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I tried a cooking blog. Then I moved somewhere with bad lighting for a few months and lost all motivation. I am just the worst at finishing projects.
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I'm terrible at follow-through too; pretty much the main reason I wanted to start a cooking blog was to give myself some incentive to try new recipes on a regular basis. Also to try to force myself to document the recipes themselves; a lot of the time I'll make changes while cooking that I don't write down, and then there's no chance in hell of recreating the recipe later. I'm still trying to figure out how I managed to make brilliant zucchini pancakes once in May.
As far as bad lighting goes, I actually wound up cooking by flashlight / candlelight last week when we had the hurricane. It was... interesting.
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