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LJ anniversary - I have it, too
My info page tells that I created this journal on October 20. But date doesn’t tell anything, because my first entry was written on November 11, and this is day I consider a true one-year anniversary in this Universe for me.
Of course, it is couple of days past that date, but I am this slow.
Anyway, I am afraid now to look at my first entry, though I remember what it was about. Writing it was a strange thing for me on several levels:
- it was a first real foray in the Internet communications with people whom I don’t know in real life.
- I was pathetically shy
- I was pretty sure my written English sucked, and everyone would point and laugh. To write it Russian didn’t occur to me, because I wanted to be a part of this community, which in the most part don’t speak Russian.
I lurked for a long time – back then to get a LJ one needed a code – or a paid account, and I didn’t know anyone and was too shy to ask.
In summer 2003 the major change came – we moved from Richmond, BC to Toronto, from the comfort of cable Internet at home to the Internet-less existence.
It turned my lurking into a surreal experience. Good thing that I have a library branch two minutes from home. I got braver in the hardship, and when I happened across a codes’ giveaway, I asked for one. And I had a live journal.
Looking back at this year now, I feel that I could have done better: I could have updated several times a day with something witty, I could have created something brilliant, or I could have finished more of things I actually started over this year. I still plan to finish them, of course, but you know...
I did, however, one thing I am genuinely happy about: I created a brilliant friends’ list. Some of you I met in my first lurking days, some of you just recently, and some of you found me first, for what I am grateful.
Some part of my flist became my good friends, and with some I still don’t have much contact. It matters, of course, but I love my flist as it is: people I love to read and talk on a daily basis (sometimes at he expense of things I really should be doing instead).
So my plan for the next year would be pretty much finishing everything I started in the last year, and some more. How’s that?
Of course, it is couple of days past that date, but I am this slow.
Anyway, I am afraid now to look at my first entry, though I remember what it was about. Writing it was a strange thing for me on several levels:
- it was a first real foray in the Internet communications with people whom I don’t know in real life.
- I was pathetically shy
- I was pretty sure my written English sucked, and everyone would point and laugh. To write it Russian didn’t occur to me, because I wanted to be a part of this community, which in the most part don’t speak Russian.
I lurked for a long time – back then to get a LJ one needed a code – or a paid account, and I didn’t know anyone and was too shy to ask.
In summer 2003 the major change came – we moved from Richmond, BC to Toronto, from the comfort of cable Internet at home to the Internet-less existence.
It turned my lurking into a surreal experience. Good thing that I have a library branch two minutes from home. I got braver in the hardship, and when I happened across a codes’ giveaway, I asked for one. And I had a live journal.
Looking back at this year now, I feel that I could have done better: I could have updated several times a day with something witty, I could have created something brilliant, or I could have finished more of things I actually started over this year. I still plan to finish them, of course, but you know...
I did, however, one thing I am genuinely happy about: I created a brilliant friends’ list. Some of you I met in my first lurking days, some of you just recently, and some of you found me first, for what I am grateful.
Some part of my flist became my good friends, and with some I still don’t have much contact. It matters, of course, but I love my flist as it is: people I love to read and talk on a daily basis (sometimes at he expense of things I really should be doing instead).
So my plan for the next year would be pretty much finishing everything I started in the last year, and some more. How’s that?