The Journaling Fool: One Year Later
Aug. 24th, 2007 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerI'm sure there has to be something inelegant about someone posting to his online journal about the process of posting to his journal, and yet the temptation to do just that crept up on me as I realised I was approaching one full year of managing to keep up the habit. Once I had started commenting on the journals of a few other people, I had thought for a while about sharing whatever thoughts I could manage to put down, and yet never found the motivation to get started... until the unexpected surprise of just how the reclassification of the solar system had wound up, and I found myself lamenting it. I've tried since then to reconcile myself to it, wondering if not liking it is somehow akin to being an evolution denier or something equally reprehensible, and in some ways I do understand the hard logic... I suppose the problem is one of perception, of a sense of mean-spiritedness and exclusion so as to not to have to count too high.
Of course, once I had done that, I couldn't just leave one complaint on my journal, and so I tried to keep posting to it. Putting together a few thoughts on just-viewed Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes is an easy way to generate content, and I can usually think of something else to provide around two posts a week. At times, I can look back at what I've written with quiet interest; at other times, I worry that I'm one of those lowest-common-denominator assemblages of incoherent, uncritical ramblings that serve at best to make the weblogs of others look good. I would like to make more comments on the books that I read, but it seems harder to bestir myself to that. I suppose it's also tempting to think that it would be nice to tag my posts and fill out my interest lists, reach out more and start commenting on the journals of people I knew from MSTing days who still touch on other topics, perhaps start posting to a community or two... and then I wonder if those new readers (and there's a little surprise like that every now and then anyway) would just run into the positive comments about Star Wars that the friends list I do have seems to help encourage (and sometimes I work them into posts on other topics in the faint hope that this will make them more "acceptable" to that list), and freak out.
Of course, once I had done that, I couldn't just leave one complaint on my journal, and so I tried to keep posting to it. Putting together a few thoughts on just-viewed Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes is an easy way to generate content, and I can usually think of something else to provide around two posts a week. At times, I can look back at what I've written with quiet interest; at other times, I worry that I'm one of those lowest-common-denominator assemblages of incoherent, uncritical ramblings that serve at best to make the weblogs of others look good. I would like to make more comments on the books that I read, but it seems harder to bestir myself to that. I suppose it's also tempting to think that it would be nice to tag my posts and fill out my interest lists, reach out more and start commenting on the journals of people I knew from MSTing days who still touch on other topics, perhaps start posting to a community or two... and then I wonder if those new readers (and there's a little surprise like that every now and then anyway) would just run into the positive comments about Star Wars that the friends list I do have seems to help encourage (and sometimes I work them into posts on other topics in the faint hope that this will make them more "acceptable" to that list), and freak out.