I’ve been pondering lately whether the quality of my Live Journal has suffered lately. Quantity has measurably fallen off, that is obvious, but has the shift in my lifestyle affected my ability to write?
To answer my own question, no I don’t believe the ability is affected at all, but my motivations are different and that has to come through in my writing or lack thereof. On the other hand the principles around which I base my life haven’t changed at all and so any changes in me are surface changes therefore not affecting my writing.
Gah. I can’t be my own observer. Sometimes I wish I could. Mostly I think what a bad idea it would be if I could observe myself objectively. I’d spend all my time observing and studying. I’d never get anything actually done.
Those are just idle, tired thoughts anyway.
The Day of Vomit failed to materialize. Apparently it was upset tummy rather than stomach flu. This qualifies as really good news. I already have more stomach flu stories than anyone could want to hear.
Much of today was frittered away at popcap.com where they have addictive little games to get hooked on. Insaniaquarium caught me in it’s clutches and now when I close my eyes I see fish and coins and stars. I need to go to bed. Tomorrow is the Day of the Halloween Parties because the kids have the rest of the week off and the church party is scheduled for the same day. Sugar highs and crankies incoming. Possibly more vomit too. Whee?
Any poopie-butt?
it could just be the novelty has worn off, and you don’t need an outlet such as lj to expose your thoughts (or you can’t use it effectively because it’s public).
oooooh, popcap….
I remember playing insaniquarium before popcap picked it up… I didn’t realize it had a pause ability, and I swear I sat there for hours working on my aquarium before I realized I could pause it to go to the bathroom!! Lately I’m addicted to Bookworm…
I think maybe you’re right. When I first started LJ it was like I’d found an outlet for a huge accumulated reservoir of thoughts. Now my thoughts only flow into LJ as fast as they accumulate.
I don’t think I’ll be running out of thoughts anytime soon. They may only end up interesting me, but I’ll always have thoughts.
Hmm. I’ll have to go try Bookworm. But not today. I have to get some stuff done today.
Yes actually. But I wasn’t going to mention it.
Typershark is also really fun (I got Chalain hooked) and educational (I can see my typing skills are improving). Chalain wants to put it on my computer so my nephews have access to it.
Ah. Now I see the chain of causality. Howard visits with Chalaqin then comes home and plays typer shark. Then the kids want to play it. Then all of us were playing games from Popcap. It’s all your fault! 😉
Aieeee!
Insaniaquarium! I remember that game. Eek. Don’t ever try Puzzle Pirates, I’m warnin’ ya. 🙂 When I close my eyes at night, I see blended versions of different puzzle games. >.<
One of my co-workers, when he first became a father, was good at giving a play by play of his kids life. When he mentioned poopie-butt for the first time, I was a non-functioning pile of flesh from the laughter. If I need to pick up my mood, I just say “poopie-butt” in a schmoo voice, and my troubles just flow away. Whatever works, eh.