Chickenscratch in the sand

[muckefuck]

I've got mixed feelings about ignoring LJ in favour of FB during the last day and a half of winter madness. On the one hand, it was gratifying to get so much immediate feedback, particularly on Friday night when I was getting anxious waiting for monshu to make it back. On the other, if posting here is writing on sand, then posting to Facebook is writing on water. Even as I was updating, I was thinking how impossible it would be for me to look back in a year or so and reread my blatherings. And for better or worse, I do that. LJ has become my external memory, a repository for everything from drink recipes to depressive thoughts; as my retention becomes ever more sieve-like I'm constantly regretting not posting more.

But though I've long since gotten over the idea that every entry needs to be a mini-essay, I still like to bring a bit of polish to my prose. Not a high bar, but as I get more fat and lazy, it gets harder to surmount. For everything that appears here, there are at least two posts composed in my head that never made it to the page. (There are even those which have made it to the page but not to public view.) I'm not sure what to do about that--get over myself and slap up any old thing, since readership is an afterthought? Or get over myself and accept the fact that anything we do is a ripple so fleeting that trying to preserve it even in a modest way is senseless.

(Incidentally, the impetus to complete this came from the fact that I haven't been able to log into FB for a couple hours. How sad is that?)

Comments

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

I, for one, was amazed at the complete lack of midwest Snowpocalypse reporting here on LJ. I have to get my snow vicariously through y'all, so I'd love to hear about your experiences. =)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I will not disappoint you! Though I hardly went out yesterday, so I don't have much to report.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

As another chickenscratcher (?) I just want to say that I enjoy your posts here. Even when they're about a bunch of people I don't know.

And I'm glad you're keeping your current avatar. Not that I'm opposed to the photo you posted, but there's a certain Mongol splendour to the current picture that I think suits you.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

as my retention becomes ever more sieve-like I'm constantly regretting not posting more.

Ditto, exactly.

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

When you post its always interesting, I can't cope with how high maintenance FB is - I am biased but my vote is for sand. Oh, "Not that I'm opposed to the photo you posted, but there's a certain Mongol splendour to the current picture that I think suits you." put another vote down for this