My 11 years on Livejournal
I was originally going to write this on June 8, 2015 - the 10-year anniversary of this account's creation. But then, I was busy. And then, I got fired/blacklisted from Pioneer Press/Tribune, and I didn't really feel like doing much of anything except trying to find a way to make money. By the time things got a bit more stable, a few months passed,
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And I'll echo andrewducker - it's amazing how much life a person can pack into 11 years! (I've been on LJ around 9.5-10 years, and even though I now post from Dreamwidth, this is a very, very special place for me.)
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Is there a pun I'm not getting?
But that aside - it really is amazing bit of serendipity. To be able to find an active Chicagoan on LJ (well, dreamwidth. Details, details) is amazing. To find a fellow journalist is more amazing still.
And to be able to enjoy fandom as well as the wonderful world of reporting? That's fantastic!
Absolutely.
it's amazing how much life a person can pack into 11 years!
And that's just the highlights. There are so many things I glossed over and skipped past because narrative flow.
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Not really; I just put snicker quotes around journalism, because it seems as if, in this town, too much of the so-called journalism (whether live media or print) tends to generate snickers rather than respect *coughferrocough*
And I agree, when you try to write about more than a decade of life in an urban setting, you're going to be forced to leave things out.
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