I think I'm going to start keeping a journal, for the first time in many years. You know, a personal, private journal, so I can get some of my thoughts about the day, etc, out... without having to find someone to talk to first. (and harder -- without having to find someone appropriately trustworthy, and appropriately interested ( Read more... )

Why does the YMCA need to know my name before they'll tell me how much membership costs? That totally creeps me out.

(Of course I could lie, but that's kind of beside the point.)

I've been missing old-style LJ, so here, from aroraborealis some questions and my answers:

What was your proudest achievement?

Either (1) submitting my first real grant application or (2) getting my son out of a living situation that was making him crazy. Both have since turned out to be filled with unintended consequences.

Your biggest ( Read more... )

Do I know anyone who develops social software?

Do I know anyone who would develop social software, if it were easier/different ( Read more... )

I just wrote a nice post about something really important to me that I accomplished this week. And somehow between emacs and firefox and lj, it got lost ( Read more... )

(Please take the time to answer this. It's important to me ( Read more... )

It's tempting to join the stream and post a (true and heartbreaking) ididnotreport (from the 70s), but I just use twitter for professional contacts, so that really doesn't seem like a good idea. I dunno. I'm not great at the whole "out" thing any more.

Anyone have an recommendations or advice about refinancing? I've never done it before, and there are a few complications in this case.

I suppose lj is passe now.

ETA: and the UI is confusing. I thought I was posting this in a different place, one that had been unused since 2005.

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