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Feeling better...
Jun. 18th, 2003 04:36 pmAlthough I had a somewhat restless night, I nonetheless managed to sleep until 6:30 am. Unlike yesterday, when I really, really didn't feel up to doing the report, I managed to remember how to do it today and continued to work at the store until about noon.
It's been raining in just about every place I've been over the past several weeks. It rained a few times in Pagosa before I left for Kazakhstan, it rained in Russia, in Kazakhstan, and in New York. (Yes, I know rain in these places is not unusual, and it's not as if the rain has been torrential, but having all that rain fall feels unusual, and may - if it continues, and changing the subject - lead to a fairly good mushroom season here in Colorado.)
One of our customers upgraded his computer monitors in his home office, and sold us one of his old 17-inch monitors for fairly cheap, and we're using it at the store. When I got back, his other monitor, a 20-inch Magnavox, was waiting for me. I've since installed it on my main machine at home, and am getting used to it (the picture feels like it's tilted to the right, which it isn't - physically - as far as I can see).
I may get down to processing some of the photos from the trip and am wondering what the best way would be to do that. Should I go back and edit old posts? create new backdated posts? or simply create new posts dated whatever day I write them? I suppose it really doesn't much matter, in the final analysis
One could wax philosophical about something like this, and some people have. I recall reading something a while back (I'm not sure it was on LJ... maybe it was on someone's non-LJ blog) about the poor form of going back to edit journal entries made in the past, as this changes some essential aspect of the entry, robbing it of whatever it was that made it the right post to make at the time. At the extreme, one might even create entirely new entries and write them in such a way as to convince the reader that they were made in medias res, so to speak, but by the same line of argument, such entries would be largely bogus, as there is a huge mismatch between the writer's state of mind at the time the entry was written and the time the entry claims it was written.
Personally, I don't see any problem going back to edit an entry slightly, to correct spelling or grammar errors, or to eliminate awkward passages or ambiguities. I've even gone back to add paragraphs, occasionally, to entries in the recent past. If I ever do write a backdated entry, I don't think I'll try to make it sound as if it had been written "then," either, simply because I don't think I can pull it off (or, to be more exact, I don't want to have to try to mold my thoughts to try to match my state of mind "then"); I'm not writing fiction.
But I've gone off on a tangent, as usual. Time to get to work.
Cheers...
It's been raining in just about every place I've been over the past several weeks. It rained a few times in Pagosa before I left for Kazakhstan, it rained in Russia, in Kazakhstan, and in New York. (Yes, I know rain in these places is not unusual, and it's not as if the rain has been torrential, but having all that rain fall feels unusual, and may - if it continues, and changing the subject - lead to a fairly good mushroom season here in Colorado.)
One of our customers upgraded his computer monitors in his home office, and sold us one of his old 17-inch monitors for fairly cheap, and we're using it at the store. When I got back, his other monitor, a 20-inch Magnavox, was waiting for me. I've since installed it on my main machine at home, and am getting used to it (the picture feels like it's tilted to the right, which it isn't - physically - as far as I can see).
I may get down to processing some of the photos from the trip and am wondering what the best way would be to do that. Should I go back and edit old posts? create new backdated posts? or simply create new posts dated whatever day I write them? I suppose it really doesn't much matter, in the final analysis
One could wax philosophical about something like this, and some people have. I recall reading something a while back (I'm not sure it was on LJ... maybe it was on someone's non-LJ blog) about the poor form of going back to edit journal entries made in the past, as this changes some essential aspect of the entry, robbing it of whatever it was that made it the right post to make at the time. At the extreme, one might even create entirely new entries and write them in such a way as to convince the reader that they were made in medias res, so to speak, but by the same line of argument, such entries would be largely bogus, as there is a huge mismatch between the writer's state of mind at the time the entry was written and the time the entry claims it was written.
Personally, I don't see any problem going back to edit an entry slightly, to correct spelling or grammar errors, or to eliminate awkward passages or ambiguities. I've even gone back to add paragraphs, occasionally, to entries in the recent past. If I ever do write a backdated entry, I don't think I'll try to make it sound as if it had been written "then," either, simply because I don't think I can pull it off (or, to be more exact, I don't want to have to try to mold my thoughts to try to match my state of mind "then"); I'm not writing fiction.
But I've gone off on a tangent, as usual. Time to get to work.
Cheers...
