Sunday, Sunday

[meirwen_1988]

(*cue Mamas and Papas Tribute Band filking "Monday, Monday"*)

I should be grading placement tests. But I console myself that I have been virtuous and graded film papers, and EN 101 in-class assignments, and did laundry. I should also be organizing my room, packing for the New England trip, balancing my budget, and working on the solution to the national debt problem.

At the very least I should be reading one of the books I have on loan, or the TV show I taped, or clipping the cat's claws.

Instead I've been tooling around on Facebook, Goodreads, and Amazon.

I have lots of thinky-thoughts going on right now--about friends having babies, and friends having cancer, about the thinning of my skin (both the actual [related to the passing years] and the metaphorical), about absent red-headed men, and the spaniel I miss, and the grey cat I long to hold again. About mommy food cooked by Momma, and Daddy's dry humor. About the extremely fertile womb, with no endurance, I was born with. About the sisters and daughters of my heart, and chosen family. And how I miss the time not so long ago when here was a community of many voices, with real things to say, instead of a place where the voices moved to the shallow end of the pool (yes, Mark Zucherberg, I'm talking about you).

But I'm tired, and my eyes hurt right now, so I think I'll just get out the eye drops the ophthalmologist gave me, and head to bed. Tomorrow is time enough to save the world.

Comments

[meirwen.livejournal.com]

I've decided that FB has its place, as it is. I just wish there was more signal here. You, unique, and ado are the only still-frequent posters on my list. Makes me sad. BTW, the baby owl made Duchezz squeek at the overpowering cute.

[dicea.livejournal.com]

I've been pleased about the number of silly fandoms and lol-things that I've cultivated here in LJ because I tend to get at least a few of those each day which make it worth checking in here. I've got about a dozen people whose stuff I read here, only about half of them are people that I've ever met in person.

I _like_ that a lot of the stuff I get on LJ comes from strangers. I feel like I have to care about the people on FB, here I just have to care about what they write about or how well they write it.

Wow, that sounds cold when I reread it, but it's true.

Recently I'm getting in touch with my 'unsubscribe' button on FB and it has improved the tone of my page significantly.

Until then, I'm gonna just post some cute freakin' critters whenever I want to force choke someone.

[unique_name_123]

I too have been unsubscribing and even unfriending on fb. I believe it should take as much or more thought to post as it does to read a post but that is not the case on fb. When one hits the "share" button, perhaps a box should op up that asks "are you sure?"