In which I am older but less mature? Or more. Or somewhere in-between.
I'm really curious about the guy who first discovered honey.
This is a real thing.
I don't know who it was.
Or if it even was a guy.
But I was looking at a book on bee-keeping earlier today, and I just started thinking: What kind of person was the first guy who looked at a beehive and thought "You know what? I want to get in there".
Seems like poor decision-making skills to me. But everything has a beginning. At some point in time, there totally had to be a guy who decided he just had to know what was going on inside of a bee hive. And, truly, bless his soul. Because his fortitude increased the delectability of graham crackers exponentially. But still...masochism. That's all I'm saying.
My LiveJournal is going to auto-renew in, like, 3 days for another year of subscription, and...I'm not entirely sure I want it to. I'm sure I can find a way to put a stop to this, but even that is vaguely sad. I'll really, deeply miss my Phoenix icons if I let my subscription lapse, but that's no matter because I still have all the links to where I got them.
But, I think, what I'd miss most is the significance of the act. Everyone knows I have LJ'ed substantially less for the past few months; no great mystery there. But letting my subscription lapse just puts this solid, meaningful stamp on how much less attention I pay to it.
It's not even like a....real thing. I have had LiveJournal since 2002, but I only REALLY paid huge amounts of attention to it from about the end of 2007 to the beginning of 2009. That's a small percent of the time that I owned it, but damn if I didn't absolutely adore LJ in that window. I was writing a jillion times a week. Why don't I anymore? Have I really lost the ability to spout inane shit like I always did? I dunno.
I am still waffling on whether or not to put a stop to the auto-renew. DILEMMA. I have some ideas. WHO KNOWS?
I have been re-reading Trinity's LJ a lot the past few days. Seems odd to me that she and I have been friends again for FOUR YEARS NOW. That is an incredibly long time, given what our relationship as two human beings had been up until that point. I read her LJ; I can't really read old entries of mine (except for ones written during the aforementioned 2007-2009 time frame when, really, my LiveJournal was one of the best unknown things on the web. I'M JUST SAYING). I'm really proud of Trinity, and that feels really gay to declare aloud, but...she's a terribly wonderful person. She has a kid and functioning life and everything; it's pretty wild.
My LiveJournal, though, does have a lot of history. A lot of DRAMA. Drama llama. I used to be such a magnet for that kind of stuff; so odd now when I am much more passive. Drama here. Drama on other journals. Drama on communities. Drama used to abound. I'm so much less of a jerk now. Or I'm not. You know, whichever.
Hm. Hmmmmmm. Seriously, though. That bee hive thing. Damn.
This is a real thing.
I don't know who it was.
Or if it even was a guy.
But I was looking at a book on bee-keeping earlier today, and I just started thinking: What kind of person was the first guy who looked at a beehive and thought "You know what? I want to get in there".
Seems like poor decision-making skills to me. But everything has a beginning. At some point in time, there totally had to be a guy who decided he just had to know what was going on inside of a bee hive. And, truly, bless his soul. Because his fortitude increased the delectability of graham crackers exponentially. But still...masochism. That's all I'm saying.
My LiveJournal is going to auto-renew in, like, 3 days for another year of subscription, and...I'm not entirely sure I want it to. I'm sure I can find a way to put a stop to this, but even that is vaguely sad. I'll really, deeply miss my Phoenix icons if I let my subscription lapse, but that's no matter because I still have all the links to where I got them.
But, I think, what I'd miss most is the significance of the act. Everyone knows I have LJ'ed substantially less for the past few months; no great mystery there. But letting my subscription lapse just puts this solid, meaningful stamp on how much less attention I pay to it.
It's not even like a....real thing. I have had LiveJournal since 2002, but I only REALLY paid huge amounts of attention to it from about the end of 2007 to the beginning of 2009. That's a small percent of the time that I owned it, but damn if I didn't absolutely adore LJ in that window. I was writing a jillion times a week. Why don't I anymore? Have I really lost the ability to spout inane shit like I always did? I dunno.
I am still waffling on whether or not to put a stop to the auto-renew. DILEMMA. I have some ideas. WHO KNOWS?
I have been re-reading Trinity's LJ a lot the past few days. Seems odd to me that she and I have been friends again for FOUR YEARS NOW. That is an incredibly long time, given what our relationship as two human beings had been up until that point. I read her LJ; I can't really read old entries of mine (except for ones written during the aforementioned 2007-2009 time frame when, really, my LiveJournal was one of the best unknown things on the web. I'M JUST SAYING). I'm really proud of Trinity, and that feels really gay to declare aloud, but...she's a terribly wonderful person. She has a kid and functioning life and everything; it's pretty wild.
My LiveJournal, though, does have a lot of history. A lot of DRAMA. Drama llama. I used to be such a magnet for that kind of stuff; so odd now when I am much more passive. Drama here. Drama on other journals. Drama on communities. Drama used to abound. I'm so much less of a jerk now. Or I'm not. You know, whichever.
Hm. Hmmmmmm. Seriously, though. That bee hive thing. Damn.