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Jan. 6th, 2008 06:38 pmI guess the only way to get myself to post anything is to accidently click on "post entry" and then force myself to keep going.
Um...
Luke and I have pretty much become social hermits. We chicken out or simply bail on most opportunities to see Vanguard people. The party was even at (gasp!) someone else's house last night, and we still didn't go. I'm not making much of an effort to be friends with these people, and it seems to run both ways. Maybe that's just the way it's gonna be.
I've pondered the questions of friendship in my LJ before. What do I need from my friends? What kind of a friend am I? How do I cultivate new friendships? I've never found much in the way of answers. I know I'm sometimes a bit jealous when people talk about getting together and doing things with really close friends. We would love to have those kind of friends to spend holidays with. I did have those types of friends when I lived in California, and I really miss that now. I have a lot of work to do if I'm ever going to be able to build new friendships that meaningful.
I'm not good at keeping dialog going, I don't like calling people on the phone, and I don't think I've written an actual letter on paper since Reagan was in office. E-mail is pretty much it for me, and I've become a total slacker in that regard as well. I guess if you like me, you'll have to accept that I'm just not going to e-mail you very often.
In addition to being a social hermit, I haven't worked since August. It filled me with guilt and worry about finances. Now I have a short, part-time assignment that started just before Christmas, and will last a few more weeks. It's been kinda nice to get back into the downtown swing of things, but it's very hard to reset my "sleep till noon everyday" clock. Tragically, since I've been home during the day, I've also gotten re-hooked on my old soap opera. It's still as stupid as ever...
Right after we moved in here last year, we bought a nice little flat-screen TV, and a very cheap (as in, they were stacked up in piles near the check-out at Fred Myer) VCR/DVD combo. It works, we watch DVD's all the time. I can get it to play a video tape, but I cannot seem to persuade it to record anything off the TV. It's incredibly frustrating.
Most of my time online that isn't spent on LJ is spent trolling YouTube for interesting music videos. I discovered the wonders of YouTube just before the "Great Removening" when pretty much everything from MTV was yanked for copyright issues. I am not without heart, I'm sorry if someone who should be getting paid for their hard work and artistry isn't getting paid, but dammit, I want my MTV! I made a long list of people and bands I'd like to see again, and set it aside when things were yanked. In recent weeks, I've noticed that videos I want to see are slowly starting to reappear. You can also find live performances that are beyond awesome. I spent a recent series of evenings enjoying nearly every performance of Dave Edmunds that YouTube had to offer. Another night, another band, or another genre of music.
It's not like I can sleep anyway, so what the hey?
Um...
Luke and I have pretty much become social hermits. We chicken out or simply bail on most opportunities to see Vanguard people. The party was even at (gasp!) someone else's house last night, and we still didn't go. I'm not making much of an effort to be friends with these people, and it seems to run both ways. Maybe that's just the way it's gonna be.
I've pondered the questions of friendship in my LJ before. What do I need from my friends? What kind of a friend am I? How do I cultivate new friendships? I've never found much in the way of answers. I know I'm sometimes a bit jealous when people talk about getting together and doing things with really close friends. We would love to have those kind of friends to spend holidays with. I did have those types of friends when I lived in California, and I really miss that now. I have a lot of work to do if I'm ever going to be able to build new friendships that meaningful.
I'm not good at keeping dialog going, I don't like calling people on the phone, and I don't think I've written an actual letter on paper since Reagan was in office. E-mail is pretty much it for me, and I've become a total slacker in that regard as well. I guess if you like me, you'll have to accept that I'm just not going to e-mail you very often.
In addition to being a social hermit, I haven't worked since August. It filled me with guilt and worry about finances. Now I have a short, part-time assignment that started just before Christmas, and will last a few more weeks. It's been kinda nice to get back into the downtown swing of things, but it's very hard to reset my "sleep till noon everyday" clock. Tragically, since I've been home during the day, I've also gotten re-hooked on my old soap opera. It's still as stupid as ever...
Right after we moved in here last year, we bought a nice little flat-screen TV, and a very cheap (as in, they were stacked up in piles near the check-out at Fred Myer) VCR/DVD combo. It works, we watch DVD's all the time. I can get it to play a video tape, but I cannot seem to persuade it to record anything off the TV. It's incredibly frustrating.
Most of my time online that isn't spent on LJ is spent trolling YouTube for interesting music videos. I discovered the wonders of YouTube just before the "Great Removening" when pretty much everything from MTV was yanked for copyright issues. I am not without heart, I'm sorry if someone who should be getting paid for their hard work and artistry isn't getting paid, but dammit, I want my MTV! I made a long list of people and bands I'd like to see again, and set it aside when things were yanked. In recent weeks, I've noticed that videos I want to see are slowly starting to reappear. You can also find live performances that are beyond awesome. I spent a recent series of evenings enjoying nearly every performance of Dave Edmunds that YouTube had to offer. Another night, another band, or another genre of music.
It's not like I can sleep anyway, so what the hey?
