livejournal resolutions
Jan. 2nd, 2003 07:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdonarkI think that livejournal is a kind of constructed universe. We all live here in a kind of stylized dialogue, which is "real" and "not real" all at once. I have no desire to make "real life" resolutions, because I know what I am supposed to do, and I need to just darn well do it, rather than go on about it.
But maybe Livejournal presents an opportunity to make resolutions, as resistant as I am to New Year's resolutions this year.
Therefore, here are my LiveJournal resolutions:
1. I want to make more observations and fewer pronouncements in my posts this year. At the same time, I want my posts to range wild and free, across a world of topics and opinions. I want to break the chains of recurrent themes, and seek out new topics.
2. I want to make my comments more resonant with the posts, and less debating or cheerleading. I want to be as postive as I can, without being saccharine. I want to remember that other people have radically different views of the purpose of comments in their journals than I have of the purpose of commments in mine.
3. When I read something nice, I want to comment to show I read it, even if I don't have something cool to say.
4. I want to hit the random key more often, the way I did when I was first on LiveJournal. I found the most fascinating journals this way.
5. I want to recognize that so often the written word without the nuance of facial expressions can give rise to misunderstandings, and I want to avoid getting too disappointed when this occurs.
6. I want to begin a side journal in which I write something more consciously "literary".
7. I want to continue to use LiveJournal as a means of expanding my knowledge of the real world, and avoid any tendency to use LiveJournal as a basis for avoiding confronting the real world.
8. I want to write more things about fossils.
9. I want to catalog for myself here the things I wish to remember. I may even catalog here some things I wish to forget.
10. I want to post pictures and graphics I create in my journal, and to put together a better personal website page.
11. Once in a long while, I want to check the spelling on a comment.
12. More frequently, I want to edit before I first hit post.
The trend for people I know has been to leave LJ and just put up their own personal weblog websites. I think I'll stay here, as it is less trouble. I like these resolutions, because all but 10. seem easily achievable.
But maybe Livejournal presents an opportunity to make resolutions, as resistant as I am to New Year's resolutions this year.
Therefore, here are my LiveJournal resolutions:
1. I want to make more observations and fewer pronouncements in my posts this year. At the same time, I want my posts to range wild and free, across a world of topics and opinions. I want to break the chains of recurrent themes, and seek out new topics.
2. I want to make my comments more resonant with the posts, and less debating or cheerleading. I want to be as postive as I can, without being saccharine. I want to remember that other people have radically different views of the purpose of comments in their journals than I have of the purpose of commments in mine.
3. When I read something nice, I want to comment to show I read it, even if I don't have something cool to say.
4. I want to hit the random key more often, the way I did when I was first on LiveJournal. I found the most fascinating journals this way.
5. I want to recognize that so often the written word without the nuance of facial expressions can give rise to misunderstandings, and I want to avoid getting too disappointed when this occurs.
6. I want to begin a side journal in which I write something more consciously "literary".
7. I want to continue to use LiveJournal as a means of expanding my knowledge of the real world, and avoid any tendency to use LiveJournal as a basis for avoiding confronting the real world.
8. I want to write more things about fossils.
9. I want to catalog for myself here the things I wish to remember. I may even catalog here some things I wish to forget.
10. I want to post pictures and graphics I create in my journal, and to put together a better personal website page.
11. Once in a long while, I want to check the spelling on a comment.
12. More frequently, I want to edit before I first hit post.
The trend for people I know has been to leave LJ and just put up their own personal weblog websites. I think I'll stay here, as it is less trouble. I like these resolutions, because all but 10. seem easily achievable.
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Date: 2003-01-02 05:59 am (UTC)The line that will accompany me to my repose (but will I make good on it come the dawn?)
Date: 2003-01-02 06:37 am (UTC)The resolutions I will endeavour to read tomorrow when lyrics about rollerskating in parakeet cages and echoes of Ladysmith Black Mambazo subside.
'Night.
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Date: 2003-01-02 07:09 am (UTC)Re: The line that will accompany me to my repose (but will I make good on it come the dawn?)
Date: 2003-01-02 07:09 am (UTC)no subject
Fossils! Yes!
Date: 2003-01-02 11:02 am (UTC)fossils are cool.
S.
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Date: 2003-01-02 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-02 10:06 pm (UTC)I like ammonites. :)
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Date: 2003-01-03 02:27 am (UTC)Looking forward to your observations...
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Date: 2003-01-03 07:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-03 07:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-03 07:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-03 07:43 am (UTC)Re: Fossils! Yes!
Date: 2003-01-03 07:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-04 08:05 am (UTC)there are people writing on LJ things i'd never hear in meatspace, and i love the tone of their voices and what they say. i once went on a trip to cuba with a bunch of college kids. as it was a class, led by a professor, and the kids were rich and spoiled, we were required to meet every night as a class and read our journals. i've never had a better trip -- the three old people (including me) and the 14 or 15 cute kids, each experiencing 18 cubas a day. and of course they got into trouble and places we did not, and we, speaking spanish, did the same.
i love what other people do and think. and would considerably be less without the peculiar, spiky, guarded and yet open intimacy this new forum affords.
have i linked you to this (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=reive&itemid=715046) conversation? i've printed it out, am pondering an essay on this netiquette and Being issues.
bon voyage and thank you.
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Date: 2003-01-04 04:06 pm (UTC)We all want to be understood, and it's so hard to be understood.
But I find most fascinating those times when even with perfect understanding, profound disagreements would exist. So many political debates don't involve different outlooks, only different assumptions under analysis. But a real difference in people--very odd, very novel.
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Date: 2003-01-04 06:44 pm (UTC)