Calling all New Year's Resolutionaries!

[ouise]

I’m hoping to find someone (or several someones) to be a kind of study partner - I’m trying to do an online course (one of the actuarial exams) and I hate it and it's kicking my ass

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[mosquito_larva]

Hey there. I'm trying to exercise more and would LOVE to have a 'encouragement buddy'. So if you're willing to bug me, I'm willing to bug you :)

Hope all is going well and the eye thing is getting resolved! Hugs from central Canada

[ouise]

Yay! Thanks for responding. I was thinking of either an email group or a livejournal community. It wouldn't be much of a time commitment - I was thinking of having a regular check-in once or twice a week, plus a member would email/post when she needed encouragement/was frustrated or stuck/was proud of an achievement and the others would respond with support and encouragement (or cheerleading for the achievement sort of post).

How does that sound? Would email or a livejournal community work better for you?

I haven't had my surgery scheduled yet - I'd like to know what sort of schedule I've got here. I have a contact lens fitting tomorrow, so I'll bug them about when I'll hear back.

[ouise]

I (personally) would prefer it if it was one that only members could access/read

My god, yes! I assure you that self-conscious is a large understatement for my feelings about how this course is going. There is a reason I'm not looking for help from the discussion board provided for the course!

I think a private LJ community would work well. Do either of you already know how to set one up? If not, I'll figure it out - let's try to get it set up in the next couple of days.

[ouise]

Ok, I've set up a community: call_it_shirley (do you remember your Sesame Street?). Membership is moderated, so I'll have to approve you joining. I think then we make a custom friends list for community members and friends-lock the entries with it.

The community is totally bare-bones because I barely know anything about livejournal. If either of you has an icon you think would be good, or ideas about fancying it up, let me know!

[ouise]

Argh! I just tried to post to the community and I got this:

Error updating journal: Can't use custom/private security on shared/community journals.

I'll look around to see if there's a solution.