and now for something completely random ~

[lookingland]

i've been lurking, but absent from posting for a variety of reasons too dull to go into. while there are yet an intrepid few of you still on my flist, lj looks dead (and i am likewise not doing much to revive it). the departure recently of several long-time flisters as well as the absence of many others (including the recently new proliferation of twittering) have made me decide that lj is in do-or-die mode and mostly dying.

most of you know i have been waffling about leaving or staying, but i'm resolving to make one last push. i'm going to force myself to blog at least three times a week. these posts are likely not going to be very personal. i'm no longer going to be posting about my creative process (which is a zoo in a china shop at the moment) but i will occasionally update with the necessary desk pictures from time to time. i'm mostly going to post about research and books as i get organized to tackle some major projects this spring. so if you are sick of the Civil War, the Lincoln assassination, bad 19th century novels, and/or picture books of various shades, be forewarned. occasionally i will try to post about movies as well.

i'm going to try to do this on a specific schedule. i will likely fail. but if i hope to continue keeping up with you precious few flisters remaining (and i want to!), i have to keep lj relevant for myself and this is the best way i can see to do it. nobody gets a foul for unfriending me. it's not likely that i will be posting anything that won't be totally open access from here on out.

post if you're still alive out there! i will be making a few cuts to trim some non-responsive peepage from my flist.

edit: and i don't mean that if you don't post i'm going to cut you! i really meant post here or to your own journal so we know you're out there and that there's still a community!

Comments

[sparowe]

As always, glad you're staying in some capacity. Most of my FList is still on LJ, and I just don't have the time to check individual blogs--or even multiple blogs on multiple networks. Granted, I've been fairly short recently, myself. Not because of anything LJ has or hasn't done, but there's been a lot going on around our way, especially presently. I'm stressed, but I don't like talking about it all of the time. I feel like I'm whining.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

oh, i know what you mean ~ it's hard when things are kind in the loo in the real world and focusing on other things to blog about is the last thing you want to put energy into!

hope you're feeling better soon, by the by!

[sparowe]

Thankee. :)