Edited: This was originally posted on LJ. Context!

It has always kind of annoyed me when people I LJ-stalk (you know, people who aren’t on my friends list, and yet I know of their live journal and so I read it) would just cease posting (or perhaps they went friends-only and I’m just missing out) and I didn’t quite get how someone could just abandon a space in which they used to write so often.

I think I get it now. I mean, most days it doesn’t even occur to me to come here and write some drivel about my day. I still read my friends page, but I haven’t added anyone new in probably 2 years? 

Anyway, as of this February I have been on livejournal for six years. Six years of my life are on the internet. That’s a little scary, a little weird, etc, etc I’m not going to bore you with yet another one of my long, self-reflective, what-has-changed-since-then posts.

So I guess I’m just checking in. Work is good, even great at time. The Writer is kind of unremarkable. My room is a mess and I’m thinking about how I really should take out all those bags of paper recycling. I broke my laptop. If I continue this list I’ll start to obsess, and get anxiety ridden. And really, I prefer to just not think about these things. Avoidance, perhaps, but it makes the day more pleasant.

And this entry is just what I have previously referred to as “gloss and veneer.” And so I guess that’s why I haven’t been writing much lately. I’ll check back when I have something better to say.