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[katiefoolery]

I’m happy to announce that my journal is now tagged from start to finish.  Indeed it is.  Nearly three years of entries are classified and catalogued and can be easily accessed via the tag function... and now my brain is officially dead.  It turns out there’s only so much of re-reading one’s old entries a brain can take and I must have breached that barrier at some stage last night.

The scariest thing is, I really don't like the person who was writing in this journal in 2004.  Wait, that sounds nasty and uncharitable... yet I can’t think of any other way to express it.  I mean, the me who wrote in 2004 wasn’t awful.  She had, after all, written an entire first draft of Black Fiddle and was working on various short stories.  Alas for her, she was also catless and stuck in a tiny unit with a kitchen designed for stick-figures.

Luckily, she had a Timothy to cook for her and execute sundry chauffering duties.

But I don’t think I’d want to drop by and visit.

On the other hand, I wonder if the old me would want a visit in the first place?

Old me: So, how’s Black Fiddle going?  Have you started submitting that?
Current me: Oh.  Um.  You mean that first draft you wrote two years ago that I still haven’t actually done anything with?
Old me: *gapes*
Current me: *looks embarrassed (mostly at the shocking grammatical structure of what I’ve just said...)*
Old me: Well, have you at least moved out of this box?
Current me: Oh yes.  Of course, our air conditioner doesn’t work so we boil in Summer.  But we have a cat!
Old me: Ooh, a cat!
Current me: Yeah, she likes to stop us from sleeping-in by scratching at the wardrobe doors around four thirty in the morning.  Isn’t that nice?
Old me: Err...

All things considered, that would be a perilously boring conversation.  And I could potentially jeapordise my own future existence, so I’d better not risk it, really.

Instead, I shall wave goodbye to my former self and make a vow to get my current month’s word-count over one thousand today.  Since that will entail writing a mere one hundred and sixty-two words, I need to get started on some solid procrastinating right now.

Comments

[cat-eyes-el.livejournal.com]

Why don't you use this month to write all the words that didn't bring your previous month's up to 1000? :P

[cat-eyes-el.livejournal.com]

*bashes apostrophe that shouldn't be in months*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

*joins in*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

*tries to sort through the threads of what Cat has said*

But that would imply I keep records, good Cat. :P

[cat-eyes-el.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it didn't make that much sense, did it?

Anyway, what I was saying, was write all the words you didn't write in the other months, this month. So if you onlt wrote 500 words in February, write the other 500 this month to bring February up to 1000 and mean you write more than the 162 words :P

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It's OK, Cat, I worked it out.

*pats brain*

It still doesn't help that I haven't kept any records of my writing for the past ten or eleven months, though. :P

[cat-eyes-el.livejournal.com]

That just means you have to write even more for all the words you mightn't have wrriten! :P

[nikkidynamo.livejournal.com]

There is something cringeworthy about seeing something of the old you solidified. I sat down and read my old journal entries a while back as well. Mine go back for six years and although most of them made me cringe at the drama of it all (I was SO angsty!) it also made me a little nostalgic for the carefree days of my youth (and the drunken parties with my girlfriends most of whom live in different states now so we rarely see one another).

It would be worse though, if you read back and DIDN'T see any changes in yourself.. don't you think?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Oh yes - it would definitely be worse if I hadn't changed at all. It was actually quite a relief to discover that I had, even if it was the sort of change that was so subtle I didn't notice it until I was face to face with the fact of its existence.

I wonder how I'll feel about in a few years' time? I can just imagine how odd it must feel to look back on entries that are six years old. :)

[flippyfrog.livejournal.com]

eek! i don't want to meet my past self. What a morose bugger i was. And all the random ideas i had and where i thought i would be. And i'm not there and have a completely different outlook on life.
My god, keep my past self away! Good thing i don't ever wish to tag... then again, it's kinda scary that there's this whole other persona of me, lingering about online... free for anyone to stroll across and meet...


can we run screaming now?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think the time for running about screaming has most definitely arrived. I'm actually thinking of locking away my 2004 entries. Nobody really needs to read them, really. And I was just getting into the swing of LJ, so I hadn't quite sorted everything out yet.

Hee - I hadn't even heard of you in 2004. Lucky Old Me... :P

[mistressmarilyn.livejournal.com]

Wow, you should be proud. I wish I could get myself to use tags even now, and Charlie's constantly encouraging me to, but I still don't. Dammit. Maybe this will inspire me.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

The only problem is, now that I've done it, I'm not sure I want such easy access to my older entries. Ah well. In many ways, it was quite interesting to reprise my life of two years ago and to appreciate how much I've changed. I don't think I'll be re-reading that in a hurry, though.

Tags can definitely be very handy when it comes to organising your LJ. :D

[gravityslave.livejournal.com]

I haven't gone back and tagged anything yet, mainly because the way in which I use tags is more of a game than an organizational tactic. Secondly, I haven't because I'm lazy.
I can't figure out how you find the time to do this stuff!
::jealous face::
Ah well, my bed is calling. I go to sleep now.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Hehe - well, five day weekends do go some way to giving me time to waste on this sort of stuff. :P

[natally.livejournal.com]

I like the old Bunne, just as much as the current Bunne! Though I vaguely remember something about a sledgehammer. Not that you seem to be carrying a sledgehammer around these days. Come to think about it, I don't even think you were ever carrying a sledgehammer. Nevermind.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Damn, there was a sledgehammer and I missed it? That would have come in handy once or twice in 2004.

[rigel-7.livejournal.com]

You know you want to come and do all my tags for me don't you?

*tempts with topdeck*

Just think of the procrastination potential!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Oh gods, did someone just mention the word "tag"?

*runs around screaming*




*snaffles Top Deck*

[poisonheadache.livejournal.com]

I went and locked a lot of my old posts. Reading over them gave me a "thanks heavens I'm not that person anymore" feeling.

I'm not quite sure when we friended one another, but I have been struck by the way you've changed over time. You seem a lot more confident and sure of yourself than you used to be. I'm not sure if you'd see it like that?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

That was exactly the way I was feeling! "Thank goodness this isn't me any more..." I'm glad to know I'm not alone in wanting to lock away old entries.

The one difference between today's entries and those I was tagging was mainly my confidence, so I'm delighted to know that's actually coming across in the way I write now. I'm glad I don't feel as insecure and uncertain as I did back then and I'm very relieved to have grown that way.

[naelany.livejournal.com]

careful, talking with yourself can be dangerous ^_~

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Hehe - yeah, it probably isn't really a sign of sanity, is it?

[naelany.livejournal.com]

no, not really ^_~

[rilla06.livejournal.com]

Tehe, my friend was reading your entry over my shouldar and she said, "She's talking to herself. What the hell?"
Anyway, that's all I have to say :P

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

You mean, other people don't talk to themselves? What empty lives they must lead. :P

[pitkat.livejournal.com]

My entries are all uncatagorized and I'm proud of it! I'm lazy, what can say? :)

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I think you should be proud of it. The only reason mine's tagged is because I was doing some serious procrastinating. And I can now report that tagging three years' worth of LJ entries is not good for one's sanity at all, so I wouldn't recommend it really.