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Oct 08, 2006 18:22

Lest anyone say I didn't warn enough in advance, I'm pretty sure I'm deleting my journal for Lent next year. A few of my friends did it last year, and I'm curious what effect the absence of LJ from my life would have on my writing, my enjoyment of fandoms, my relationships with friends, and the way I experienced events in real life ( Read more... )

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darkseaglass October 9 2006, 00:27:33 UTC

Sounds like a great idea. Good luck.

xoverau October 9 2006, 00:32:11 UTC

Of course I'm now filled with trepidation centered on "OMG I WILL RETURN AND ALL MY FRIENDS WILL HAVE LEFT MEEEEE!"

*grin*

Seriously, though, I'm sort of excited.

darkseaglass October 9 2006, 00:40:34 UTC

Yeah but then they weren't your friends. Better to know than not. I did that "idiot puts counter on post" thing and then had to go lick my wounds in a corner for a fortnight but you know what, I don't regret it, after the fact. And I really don't think you need to worry about it, honestly. You're pretty well loved around these here parts.

xoverau October 9 2006, 00:45:01 UTC

Counter on post? Like, to see how many people were really reading? Hee! Dude, I suspect fifty or fewer people have me on a "view every day" filter, and of those, twenty skim or skip. I wouldn't blame 'em a bit.

*clings to your leg* AWW I LOVE YOU ALL TOO. I'll have to resist just asking everyone to email me the whole time, because I do really dig my friends and LJ is how I talk to many of them. :(

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wrenlet October 9 2006, 01:18:45 UTC

*hrms* You might want to doublecheck your window of undeletion, because I can't recall offhand whether it's 30 days or 60 days, and Lent? Is 40 days.

It would suck to come back from your freeing sabbatical to journal-disappearance angst. Purpose-defeating, I would think :D

xoverau October 9 2006, 01:28:49 UTC

...okay, weird. It was 6 months when I joined LJ, I'm almost sure. Maybe their servers are fuller now. I will have to check, because WOES OMG. *clings to entries*

wrenlet October 9 2006, 01:44:35 UTC

30 days, and then it's subject to the whims of the "purging cycle." :/

xoverau October 9 2006, 01:47:19 UTC

ACK! So, thirty days it is, then. Maybe I could come back on for a day, then delete again for the rest of the time.

Also, it kind of blows that I might be losing paid time that people bought me. :-/

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autumnyte October 9 2006, 02:41:15 UTC

Just as long as you come back to us!

If you want to take an LJ break but the deleting doesn't work, another thought would be to have someone you trust change the password to something you don't know, and not give it to you until Lent is over. (Then, you could change it again when you regain your LJ, for security or whatever.)

ninjetti75 October 9 2006, 03:34:10 UTC

Hey, that's not a bad idea. Possibly better than the deleting thing, because we all know that just causes (unnecessary?) angst, and I shudder to imagine the angst if the 30 day plan thing got messed up (Frank? In error? Fee, what're the odds? *shudder*) and you wound up ACTUALLY deleted. That would cause stress. Lots.

xoverau October 10 2006, 19:22:37 UTC

Of course I'd come back. Hello, addicted. *sticks to*

The only reason I want to go all the way and delete is because I am addicted. If my journal exists, a big part of me will be thinking, "OMG, what if I'm being friended and not friending back? What if I'm being defriended and people are getting pissed that I'm not taking them off the list? What if people want to join my comms or are asking me important questions about challenges and are thinking I'm just ignoring them? What if bad things are happening to my friends? What if people are feedbacking my stories and thinking I'm some horrible too-good-for-them snob because I'm not responding? Oh, crap, someone just replied with a really thoughtful, long comment and I can't answer! Maybe I could just respond anonymously with my name in the subject line. I'm really bored at work, it's no big deal if I just skim the friendsfriends." and so on. Deleting would force me to spend my time doing something else, and make it much easier to stick to the resolution ( ... )

marigolde October 9 2006, 04:05:08 UTC

Unsolicted advice on Lent! Don't give up one vice just to gain another. I had a roommate who gave up shopping at Walmart and watching television for Lent. The Walmart part went fine, but instead of TV she just started listening to talk radio obsessively. She didn't use the time she wasn't watching tv to reflect upon the sacrifices of Christ (um, not applicable to you perhaps), she just did something else. So, I would advise to have a plan as to what your non-lj time will be used for.

xoverau October 10 2006, 19:36:06 UTC

Hee! Good thought. It's already freaking me out, because this is the only way I keep up with many of my friends. I figure I have to make the time productive doing something I enjoy--like writing, reading, working on home improvement, whatever.

I have a feeling that I may find a lot more time on my hands than I expect. I get most of my entertainment from LJ--including fic links, book and movie recs, political causes, story challenges, and television. Whoops!

quiet000001 October 9 2006, 05:18:25 UTC

Oooh, I like this idea of giving someone else your password. Like, say, me.

Of course, I wouldn't do anything bad with it. At all. *polishes halo* ;)

And there was something else I was going to say but my brain has just gone splut and I can't think what it was. Foo. *pokes brain*

(Ohyes. I have recovered a bunch more logfiles. *pets them like the creepy pretty things they are*)

xoverau October 10 2006, 19:27:27 UTC

The only reason I want to go all the way and delete is because I am addicted. If my journal exists, a big part of me will be thinking, "OMG, what if I'm being friended and not friending back? What if I'm being defriended and people are getting pissed that I'm not taking them off the list? What if people want to join my comms or are asking me important questions about challenges and are thinking I'm just ignoring them? What if bad things are happening to my friends? What if people are feedbacking my stories and thinking I'm some horrible too-good-for-them snob because I'm not responding? Oh, crap, someone just replied with a really thoughtful, long comment and I can't answer! Maybe I could just respond anonymously with my name in the subject line. I'm really bored at work, it's no big deal if I just skim the friendsfriends." and so on. Deleting would force me to spend my time doing something else, and make it much easier to stick to the resolution ( ... )

quiet000001 October 10 2006, 19:31:03 UTC

I've been trying not to read them. THere was one where AJ was a stripper and Brian was a bartender and thought that AJ was getting it on with Kevin that was pretty cute, though.

I know what logs are like. I'll start reading and be sucked in for HOURS. :)

Speaking of, I've got a couple of AJs here who are Very Annoyed we haven't talked since the other night.

xoverau October 10 2006, 19:36:46 UTC

I KNOW. Tell me about it. I have annoyed Brians.

Also, one of my teeth is killing me.

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