Two years??!!
Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted here. I had almost completely forgotten about LiveJournal for a while, and then started to think of it again a little more. This is a pretty typical pattern for me - I'm really involved in something for a while, but then I'll drop it and forget about it for quite a while.
One of my old LJ friends - I think it was trinity_gal - actually sent a message a few months ago checking if I was still around. Even this did not actually get me to go back to LJ, however. The only thing that could draw me back to LJ was the most powerful single emotional force in my mental universe - PROCRASTINATION. Yup - the end of the semester is coming up, I have a project and two papers due in the next 5 days, so naturally I am struck by a powerful impulse to find anything possible to waste time. I'm afraid it's not one of my most positive traits, but hey, it got me to post again.
I'm actually a little surprised that my account still exists! It's also interesting that most of the people who I had as friends never deleted me off their list in spite of the, uh, somewhat lengthy interlude between my last post and this one. I'd like to think that it was because of my scintillating personality, but I suspect that most of my old LJ friends are like me in that they didn't bother deleting someone from their friends list unless that person had done something much more offensive than simply ceasing to post.
Well, what has changed for me? Well, I lost my old job about 1 year and 1 month ago, which turned out to be more of a positive than a negative thing, because I had been liking my job less and less for the previous, oh, 3 years or so. After spending a little while looking for other jobs in financial services, I began to appreciate that I did not, in fact, like financial services, and I did not have the skills or temperament to be really good at a higher paying job in financial services. Well, what was I good at? In my more depressed moods, I told myself that the answer was "nothing, really", but I didn't spend much time brooding.
To make a long story short, I ended up going back to school for another degree - this time in Library and Information Science, concentrating in archives. It makes sense to a lot of people who know me - I've always liked books and history and helping people find information. So, that's where I am now, near the end of my 2nd semester. The up side is that I like it a lot more than my work in financial services, and I saved quite a lot of money up in my old job so that I can afford to go to school full time (with some help from standard process of academic indebtedness known as student loans). The down side is that spending rather than earning money, so I'll be starting a part time job in a week. The other downside about schoolwork is that it has reawakened my bad old inclinations toward chonic procrastination and bursts of frantic activity, which is a major reason why I'm posting here now even as I try to tackle a cataloging project ...
One of my old LJ friends - I think it was trinity_gal - actually sent a message a few months ago checking if I was still around. Even this did not actually get me to go back to LJ, however. The only thing that could draw me back to LJ was the most powerful single emotional force in my mental universe - PROCRASTINATION. Yup - the end of the semester is coming up, I have a project and two papers due in the next 5 days, so naturally I am struck by a powerful impulse to find anything possible to waste time. I'm afraid it's not one of my most positive traits, but hey, it got me to post again.
I'm actually a little surprised that my account still exists! It's also interesting that most of the people who I had as friends never deleted me off their list in spite of the, uh, somewhat lengthy interlude between my last post and this one. I'd like to think that it was because of my scintillating personality, but I suspect that most of my old LJ friends are like me in that they didn't bother deleting someone from their friends list unless that person had done something much more offensive than simply ceasing to post.
Well, what has changed for me? Well, I lost my old job about 1 year and 1 month ago, which turned out to be more of a positive than a negative thing, because I had been liking my job less and less for the previous, oh, 3 years or so. After spending a little while looking for other jobs in financial services, I began to appreciate that I did not, in fact, like financial services, and I did not have the skills or temperament to be really good at a higher paying job in financial services. Well, what was I good at? In my more depressed moods, I told myself that the answer was "nothing, really", but I didn't spend much time brooding.
To make a long story short, I ended up going back to school for another degree - this time in Library and Information Science, concentrating in archives. It makes sense to a lot of people who know me - I've always liked books and history and helping people find information. So, that's where I am now, near the end of my 2nd semester. The up side is that I like it a lot more than my work in financial services, and I saved quite a lot of money up in my old job so that I can afford to go to school full time (with some help from standard process of academic indebtedness known as student loans). The down side is that spending rather than earning money, so I'll be starting a part time job in a week. The other downside about schoolwork is that it has reawakened my bad old inclinations toward chonic procrastination and bursts of frantic activity, which is a major reason why I'm posting here now even as I try to tackle a cataloging project ...