This is the first time I've checked this account for about two years now ... so what's new?

Compared with other social networking sites ... livejournal feels kind of claustrophobic. The user base seems to be constantly shrinking, and there's a noticable shortage of folks who have anything interesting/original to say (except for you, reader, of course.)

Pay no attention to global suffering, starvation and injustice ( Read more... )

Wow. I haven't even looked at this page for about 3 months now ... but that's obvious, right?

Sometimes, we're thrown out of paradise; other times, we leave of our own volition ( Read more... )

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I'd rather bring a sack lunch to work and eat in the lunch room while I read a book, but the lunch room has been taken over by a rather outspoken supervisor who talks constantly and makes it very difficult to read, so now, instead of just nuking a burrito in the lunchroom microwave, I've been eating lunch out, constantly searching for a spot that ( Read more... )

I've always wished that I knew somebody named "Alice," so I could ask her when she's ten feet tall.

I figure that a ten foot tall woman named Alice would be pretty darned interesting, but first you'd have to know exactly when she was ten feet tall, so you could time your questions just right.

Q: What kind of person spends $200 Million of their own money, to try and win election to the California Governor's seat; a position that pays about $200 Thousand a year?

A: A MEG-lo-maniac.

Translation:

"At this point you can either:

a) Stay at Live Journal and wait for this annoying ad to download and run, or

b) Go to another social media site that doesn't try to force you to watch video ads."

... I'm choosing option "b" more and more these days.