things what I should post

[valentinite]

From now until I have two spoons to click together, there's unlikely to be anything of substance posted to any of my journals. But I'm tempted to use this one (i.e. dreamwidth) for essayish type things and reviews, and then link to it. So this entry is a note-to-self on things I should write/do, whether here or there, before I forget them.

• Finish the locked version of my about-me post.
• Something on synaesthesia because why the heck not.
• fifteen kabillion things for gyaku_meta and gyaku_twins.
• reviews: buffalo trace whiskey, russell's rye, transmetropolitan, administration books, anathem once I finish it
• the thing on tone and midwestern passive-aggressive politeness re: racefail.
• do a custom mood theme, possibly with mel bush from Doctor Who or just women-of-Who in general.

But even if this is mostly to me I'm making public because saying I'll do something publicly is one of the few ways of kicking myself in the ass that I do have that seems to work.

Comments

[angelina]

Man... why does this sound so familiar? XD *Has a huge, honking backlog of things she's been planning to post herself* But the crossposting feature is very nice and will facilitate things greatly.

[valentinite]

I'm not sure I'll crosspost the day-to-day -- tracking comment conversations (from a mental standpoint -- the technology works just fine both places) on the same post in two places is unappealing. But I feel like I should use this for something. Just not sure yet.

[angelina]

*Nodnod* That's a good point... and of course, there's the good possibility that folks will see the same post twice (although, that's true for when I post the exact same poll object to my journal and to "polloftheday" on LJ, LOL).

*Shrug* I haven't used mine for very much either yet. But then again, when I first got a LiveJournal account a few years ago, I rarely posted on that, too. It wasn't until a few months later, when I started volunteering for LiveJournal Support, that I really started using my journal more often. So yeah... give it some time. :3

[luciente]

*waves at you*

I like your idea for what to do with this journal (and I would be very interested in reading an awful lot of those things :D). I was talking with sparkles about maybe using mine as an informal academic blog, a kind of no-pressure outlet for essays &c. that are more rigorous and lit/media researcher-y than fandom meta. Or I might just sit on it and use it to poke you and others with, who knows.

[valentinite]

I'd love to read those essays -- as I think I've said, fandom is the way I surround myself with fascinating lit-theory folks like I knew in college and get to listen to them be interesting. Because what I'm good at is engineering but I am promiscuous in my academic interests.