It's been one week now since I started this on-line journal. It's proving to be an interesting and thought-provoking experience.
I've always had a bit of the archivist in my soul. As early as Gr. 2 I used to make scrapbooks of my favorite TV shows with summeries, drawings and magasine articles. As a teen I never kept a daily diary, but I would scribble out short reports on paper about favorite books and movies or special events, fold them up and keep them in a box. When I discovered fandom and I joined my first Star Trek club, I fell naturally into the role of the person who kept an album of history and events the group were involved in. When Urban Tapestry started up in '93 I started keeping archives of all the conventions and concerts we were involved in (though those archives have been rather sadly neglected for the last few years...). Special trips, like my trip to England in 2000, would merit an entire binder of photos and memorabilia. And discovering how to make webpages, well, that just meant that the computer reports I've been writing to ask other people to post for several years moved back into my own hands, which is giving me a lot of satisfaction.
As I said, archiving seems to be in the blood, and yet I have resisted the idea of starting an on-line journal for a long time. As I've said to Debbie in the past, I've just never seen my life as eventful enough to merit daily posting :). I feared far too many of my entries would consist of "Got up, went to school, taught stuff, came home, surfed on the computer, went to bed.". I wasn't convinced anyone needed to read that :).
I took the leap last Monday more because I'm itching to have a place to put some digital photos on-line rather than having any great need to chronicle my life on-line. Still even starting a journal has motivated some interesting changes in my daily perspective. I'm slowly starting to realize that there can be a lot of insights and motivation for writing in-between the lines of a mundane daily schedule, especially when you find yourself looking for daily topics to write about. You find yourself looking about you more, musing more about simple things that might be worth a journal entry or two. I'm finding it an intriguing experiment and I'm learning a lot as I go along.
I find it makes me curious about the motivations of other people here. What caused you to first start an on-line journal? Why did you choose to become part of Livejournal? Have you discovered any unexpected effects, either positive or negative, from expressing your thoughts here? What advice would you give to someone first starting an on-line journal?
I'm glad I took the plunge and I'm very glad to be here.
I've always had a bit of the archivist in my soul. As early as Gr. 2 I used to make scrapbooks of my favorite TV shows with summeries, drawings and magasine articles. As a teen I never kept a daily diary, but I would scribble out short reports on paper about favorite books and movies or special events, fold them up and keep them in a box. When I discovered fandom and I joined my first Star Trek club, I fell naturally into the role of the person who kept an album of history and events the group were involved in. When Urban Tapestry started up in '93 I started keeping archives of all the conventions and concerts we were involved in (though those archives have been rather sadly neglected for the last few years...). Special trips, like my trip to England in 2000, would merit an entire binder of photos and memorabilia. And discovering how to make webpages, well, that just meant that the computer reports I've been writing to ask other people to post for several years moved back into my own hands, which is giving me a lot of satisfaction.
As I said, archiving seems to be in the blood, and yet I have resisted the idea of starting an on-line journal for a long time. As I've said to Debbie in the past, I've just never seen my life as eventful enough to merit daily posting :). I feared far too many of my entries would consist of "Got up, went to school, taught stuff, came home, surfed on the computer, went to bed.". I wasn't convinced anyone needed to read that :).
I took the leap last Monday more because I'm itching to have a place to put some digital photos on-line rather than having any great need to chronicle my life on-line. Still even starting a journal has motivated some interesting changes in my daily perspective. I'm slowly starting to realize that there can be a lot of insights and motivation for writing in-between the lines of a mundane daily schedule, especially when you find yourself looking for daily topics to write about. You find yourself looking about you more, musing more about simple things that might be worth a journal entry or two. I'm finding it an intriguing experiment and I'm learning a lot as I go along.
I find it makes me curious about the motivations of other people here. What caused you to first start an on-line journal? Why did you choose to become part of Livejournal? Have you discovered any unexpected effects, either positive or negative, from expressing your thoughts here? What advice would you give to someone first starting an on-line journal?
I'm glad I took the plunge and I'm very glad to be here.