Improvement!

[algeh]

I was debating making one of those angsty, rambling, cryptic, song-lyric-infested relationship-musings posts and was looking up song lyrics to see if they said what I kind of recalled them saying, but then I got sidetracked by Gordon Lightfoot-related Wikipedia articles instead and have totally lost my train of thought and can't remember what I was going to ramble about in the first place.

I call this a major improvement over the late 90s.

I'm still up past my bedtime noodling on the internets, though. Goddamnit. (Don't wanna teach math. Wanna be a folk musician. Continue to have to deal with cruel reality instead as it has health insurance and causes me to be able to pay rent.)

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(on a totally unrelated note)

[diantha.livejournal.com]

Is your usericon new? I like it!

Way too much detail

[algeh]

It's actually part of a layout I made for a webjournal back in 2000. I was in California and didn't have internet access, but I did have my computer. The journal was going to be called "Assorted Escaping Thoughts" and was to replace "Reflections and Refractions" which I wrote sophomore year until I left for California.

By the time I had internet access again, Sean and I had broken up and I didn't feel like having a cutesty pink journal in which I talked about how nice it was to finally date him, so I didn't bother putting it up and instead started "Bubbles of Pure Angst" when I felt like journalling again.

(Side note: these names all sound pretty ridiculous to me now, but in my defense that's what journal names just were like in those days and I don't think mine were particularly worse than other people's. I guess my current journal name of "Go frolic in the desert where a tortoise belongs, and leave my heart alone!" isn't much of an improvement, but it's not like I actually refer to my journal by that or anything.)

The two entries I wrote for Assorted Escaping Thoughts finally got on the internet when I got my own domain years later and the layout never really got finished. You can look at the rest of it here if you're interested.

Thus, it is both a "pretty flower, yay!" icon and an "old school style journalling" icon for me (I suppose I should really make an icon out of a graphic that I really used for a while for this, but it frankly doesn't come up very often).

[two-star.livejournal.com]

1) I'm sorry if our relationship has inspired angstiness.

2) I'm glad any angstiness was mild enough to be easily dispelled by wikipedia.

3) I'm still a little disappointed that I didn't get to see an old-school angsty, rambling, cryptic, song-lyric-infested relationship-musings post. But I'll live.