Head games...

[alexpgp]

Looking at the calendar that LJ conveniently plops onto the page next to my posts, I note that to date, December has accumulated an an usually large number of non-posting days. This tickled my curiosity, since if I had to make an off-the-top-of-my-head guess, I'd say the last time something like this happened was back in 2000, when I first started my LJ.

Of course, with curiosity tickled, I had to go check, and it turns out I am wrong. Without looking too hard, I find that July 2000—the first full month after creating my LJ—did, indeed, have 13 non-posting days, but January 2001, was even worse, with 16 non-posting days.

I recall it was near the end of July 2000 that I decided it was important to systematically apply myself to journal-writing, otherwise I'd lapse into never really doing it, and so I managed to write at least one post per day for the rest of that year.

I took a moment to look at those January 2001 posts, to understand what had been keeping me from posting, and I found that I had been wondering about the same thing at the time. My words, from my post of January 13, 2001:

So, why don't I LJ every day, as before? I'd say that about 50% of the time, it's because I'm doing something else (building a cash analysis spreadsheet, designing a box occupancy database), and the other 50% of the time, it's because I don't feel like it.

And that's okay by me.

I guess it still is.

Cheers...

Comments

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Before LJ, did you have paper journals?

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Yes, but nothing organized. I maintained a journal when I was at Borland, but it only lasted a few months. The rest of the time, my journals were "event based," i.e., notes that I would take in a pocket notebook, mostly during trips.

You?

Cheers...

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

I played at having one three or four times, but grew disinterested in less than 3 months on each occasion. Apparently, I do not need to express myself that way if it's not part of getting to know others.