I really should get out of the habit of checking e-mail when I first wake up. I'm really not in the best of moods then, I'm afraid.
Here's what I have planned for this blog. The archives from early October on back--i.e. everything before the database crash--will be taken down. I will periodically re-upload and backdate selected entries that I found humourous, informative or otherwise valuable. The ones that are just me verbally puking all over the screen will no longer be available online.
During the week the site was down, I had some time to do some thinking about what I want the direction of this blog to be, and I decided that some of the past entries, while cathartic, are old news and are just more negativity cluttering up the Net. I see so much goddamn negativity online, and I've become so aware of its effects, that not contributing to it unnecessarily has become a moral issue with me. I think of it as psychic pollution. And sometimes your soul is so polluted with the crap you're going through that you just have to fling some of it out the window. But it doesn't have to stay there. Eventually, it's more helpful to everybody if you go out, pick some of it up and put it in the recycle bin where it belongs, because it's outlived any therapeutic or instructive merit it might've had.
So I was glad for the chance to vent, and may do so more in the future. At this point I have this blog, a LiveJournal, and a DeadJournal, so I'm not hurting for places to blow off steam. Hopefully I'll get the issue with the image files hammered out soon, so I'll be able to return to happily imaging away. In addition, I'm hoping that soon, when you click on an entry in "Previously," you will be directed to that entry and not to the ill-fated pre-crash archives.
I just don't have the patience to deal with it today.
same bitch time, same bitch channel...
lyric for the day:
why should I feel sad
for what I never had
nothin' equals nothin'
--Madge, "Gone" [Music]
Posted by Frida Peeple at October 27, 2003 09:00 AM