hummingwolf | Clarification

One of the disadvantages of having an online journal is that people will see what you've written about them and take offense.

Another of the disadvantages of having an online journal is that people will see what you've written about somebody else who's ticked you off and think it's about them anyway.

So, to a friend who thought my "heartless and mindless" bit in the post yesterday was a reference to her: :-P You really should know better, hon. You're a very sweet person (okay, sometimes you're annoying, but we've known each other for decades and should be used to annoying each other by now) and no, I don't hate you because you're happy, okay? Sheesh. I want you to be happy. You're one of the good guys.

To everybody else: If I call you a friend, I'm not going to insult you here. If you think something in one of my posts is meant as a dig at you and you have any reason to believe I think of you as a friend, then what I wrote in my post was surely not intended as derogatory toward you and probably wasn't about you at all. Yes, I've occasionally sent messages to people via certain journal entries; but no, none of them were meant to be derogatory, defamatory, depreciatory, or depilatory (wait, how did that last one get in there?!).

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wiltinwickwitch posted a link to an article about Why Web Journals Suck, which of course mentions the fact that too many people start an online journal without really thinking about why they're here in the first place. Well, I'm only here because

penguinboi gave me a code, and I figured as long as I'm here I may as well post some quiz results and write a little sometimes. In other words, I don't know what the heck I'm doing or why you people are reading this anyway. Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain.

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I liked that article.
I showed up here at LJ when a friend suggested I try it.
It's been a real journey for me.
Exposing myself, what I think and feel, who I am, is very scary.
I got in a lot of trouble for being me when I was a child and yet,
I was never able to Not be myself, I am compulsively honest.
So I write something real and true, then I agonize that I'll be judged.
And then nothing happens, or I get friendly supportive feedback, and it
helps me to be a little stronger in the real world. It really does.
A great benefit for me is that it overcomes the feeling of isolation
that I have, while living in a small conservative city in the deep south.
I really need to get out of here in order to be happy. I know that, but until
I can its a relief to converse with cultivated people from other places.
Women's writing. Yeah I think it is. But I like women's writing.

Speaking of women's writing, did you follow the link to http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/reply.html ? Fun critique of a critique of web journals. "Todd pulls out all the stops in this paragraph, a paragraph that forces the reader to sit back, take a few Excedrin, and say, Yes, this is why graduate study in the humanities has such a bad name."

I'm glad you didn't think about the ups and downs of journaling in public before you signed up, frankly, because I'm selfish enough to just be glad you are here.

Thank you. I'm glad you're still around, too.

You can defame me anytime, baby!

(gah, that was such a Dom thing to say... hehe)

I don't see why it's such an insult for you not to blatantly envy someone, anyway. If you told me you did want to be me, that'd upset me more than saying you don't want to be me. I know this because once someone said she wanted to be me, and I blew up at her. Or I would have if I'd been around to talk to her at the time. But Dom gave her a good ribbing for me instead. :)

You really don't want to be me. It's even more difficult when you don't have as much practice as I do. :)

Im glad your here. Weve had a few VERY interesting cnversations, and although I may not comment (i feel like such a twit as compared to your thinking sometimes, it blows me away!)
I DO enjoy it.
I came here because I simply cannot write in a paper journal. I wanted to get sme things out, analyze myself a bit, and generally foster the need to blather on and on as I do.
What I figure, and it may be a bit selficsh..is that THIS is my journal. Its my mind, what i think AT THAT MOMENT. Two seconds later i may feel another way...but AT THAT MOMENT...its MINE.
I do worry about saying things people may get offended about, but figure a disclaimer helps...LOL!
God forbid should anyone frm work see this thing tho...o my, the things I write about them...should be edited at one point, but...*shrug* o well.

Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain.

*lol* *grin* Yeah... I thought you might've ben talking about me. No, don't ask me to logically defend that conclusion...

"We read to find that we are not alone."
--the movie Shadowlands

Well, like that article said once you told me not to pay attention to the woman behind the curtain, now it's all I can do.
I am only in LJ for the sex.

There are lots of people I don't want to be. Like you said, it's even more difficult when you don't have practice. But the fact that one of the people I don't want to be is me kinda gets me down.

So, I can defame you anytime, can I? Hmm... wonder how one would go about doing that... ;-)

The key to my seeming intelligent: Most of the time, I say nothing at all. That way people don't know just how much of a flake I really am. :-)

Heh, you do write a few things about your work that it might not be prudent for them to see. At least you've got the posts protected now, so it could be worse!

Heh. I haven't actually referred to you in a post yet. I'll have to think about remedying that one. ;-)

I am only in LJ for the sex.

Man oh man, are you reading the wrong journal.

It might be difficult, considering I don't actually have any fame or reputation to speak of. And what reputation I may have is more sugar-coated than the real me, so by tarnishing it you'd be doing me a favor.

However, if you ever decide to try, Minions and Saga and anything creative-related are distinctly off-limits. :oD

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