You'd think I'd forgotten about this or something!

[axver]

Well, come June this year I'll have been on LiveJournal for a decade. That's pretty scary. Not that I've updated much over the last couple of years (nothing for 2012?!), but still, that's a damn long Internet presence. I'd disown most of the teenage shit now, but you get that

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[evilmissbecky]

Well hello stranger!

*hugs*

It's good to hear from you again. I'm glad to hear things are going well with you. I'll keep my fingers crossed that you get the PhD done in time.

I'm hardly ever on LJ anymore either. I've pretty much migrated to Tumblr as well. It's harder to hold a real conversation there, but it's a great place for fandom.

[axver]

Great to speak to you again! I was wondering how you're getting on. Hope all is well in your part of the world. You still in Florida?

I find Tumblr a funny website. Much as I'm maintaining one now, I still don't really get the point. Charlotte loves it and has a number of good friends because of it, she's even talking to somebody from there on the phone right now, but I find it a very non-communal place where it's hard to get to know anybody. I guess that's partly because its primary purpose seems to be posting random pictures of things I don't recognise, and for all my enjoyment of photography, I'm not a visual person (and I've come to be put off by fandoms, a hilarious evolution in attitude from my U2 fanlad days). The only reason I even started mine was because I thought other people might like to see my gig pictures rather than letting them sit around gathering e-dust on my hard drive. Maybe in the future I'll end up using it for more, but for now I'm just sticking to posting gig pictures with short reviews.

[evilmissbecky]

I'm still in Florida. If you'd asked me six weeks ago I would have told you life is great and all is well. Unfortunately about a month ago I lost my job, so now all is not well. The economy here still really really sucks, and I'm having a hard time finding a new job. Which blows. But I'm surviving, so I guess....go me?

I post fic on my Tumblr, along with other fandom-related stuff. The real conversations with people I tend to have through the Fan Mail feature. The only downside to that is it doesn't save the letters you write, only the ones you receive, so all you see is a one-sided conversation. Still, it's better than nothing.

[axver]

Oh shit, that's pretty terrible! I suppose I'll be in the same job-searching boat soon... the Aussie economy may be pretty awesome right now if you're in sectors such as mining, but History is another matter entirely. If we have a change of government in September things will probably get even worse, since our university sector is largely state-funded and the Humanities aren't exactly the favourite of any conservative government. Funnily enough I'm probably the only person in the world with better job prospects in New Zealand than Australia (the Kiwi economy has been rooted for the last few years), but I don't want to move home. It's great to visit but I've turned into a complete wanky Melbourne hipster who needs gigs of a certain frequency and cafes of a certain quality to survive.

[chariadeone]

Nice to read an update. All the best for your year. :)

[axver]

Thank you!

[vikusias]

You walked past me the other day near Elizabeth Murdoch? and I wondered if it was you and how you were going. Good luck with your PhD! I hope it all goes well :)

[axver]

Haha, no way! I guess I'm pretty distinctive - my hair's blonde and long at the moment and I'm always in band t-shirts, so if that sounds right, it would've been me. I'm often around there, either for a Castro's fix (essential to writing a thesis) or to give tutorials in the physics building (god I hate those rooms).

You should've said hi! I'm so used to people coming up to me and saying "yeah I know you from seeing you at shitloads of gigs" that "yeah I know you from LJ" would be a refreshing change.