quand Mercutio nous chantait la vie est belle, moi j'y croyais

[arisha]

So if I had posted last Tuesday you would have seen how unusually happy I was, but serves me right because since then my grandfather has died and I have caught a heinous cold and all in all it has been a less than fantastic week. (Also I ruined my perfect JET school attendance record.) I still intend to write a long and fangirly entry but now it will have to wait until after the Kanken this Saturday. I will be writing Level 6, which covers like 800 kanji all the way through grade five, and I am embarrassingly behind in my studying. I'm almost passing the practice tests though, so hopefully the three days I have left will be enough ...

ANYWAY the main point of this entry is directed towards my LJ friends who are leaving LJ for Dreamwidth! Add me!!! At this point I am not intending to leave LJ, but I don't want to lose contact with the people I like who are leaving, so I guess I will ... cross-post? I mean I am pretty guilty of never posting anymore so it's not like it will be difficult.

I'M TRYING TO POST MORE GUYS I SWEAR. It's really awful how I'm all depressed that awesomely long posts like used to be more frequently found on LJ seem to be fading in favour of super short posts like on Facebook or Twitter or Tumblr but meanwhile I am also guilty of posting on Facebook these days way more than I do on LJ. SARAH! FIX THIS!!!

Comments

[aurora-lime.livejournal.com]

I think it's about audience too. I know a lot more people that are interested in my daily nothings, and I there's, on facebook.

Also, I think LJ requires a longer entry that I'm just too lazy to do.

[arisha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I definitely get more response when I post on Facebook ... though lately I've been a little tiny bit annoyed by that response. Maybe I set myself up for this by never being serious about anything before in my life, but now that I have tried to post a couple serious things, it seems people always purposefully misinterpret them, or leave joking comments when I'm not in the mood for them and aaaaaahhhh I dunno. I like Facebook well enough but I would like to have some long and thoughtful posts to read too, I guess!

[xifeng.livejournal.com]

Well, that all completely sucks. But good luck with the Kanken!

I mainly just use Facebook to mock my co-workers and poke a few friends in more condensed form. I can't get into Tumblr at all, and Twitter would be more convenient for me if I had a better phone. I AM FOND OF THE AWESOMELY LONG POSTS AND HOPE TO SOMEDAY WRITE A FEW MYSELF~

[arisha.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the luck! I shall need it D:

I had Twitter for about a day but I couldn't figure out the point of it. I was like, this is essentially like status updates on Facebook ... which I already have ... and I am arbritrarily limited to a certain number of characters???? I mean it seems to be a useful tool if you're famous but if you're not I am confused by what you do with it.

There are a couple Tumblr accounts I check on occasionally but I don't understand it either. Maybe just because I haven't explored it in any depth, but it seems to be like one big Oh No They Didn't party post all day every day. Like people just posting pictures all the time? I don't know, I am confused by it. Party posts are awesome but all day every day is too much!!

FINALLY CONFESSING THAT I UNDERSTAND NEITHER TWITTER NOR TUMBLR MAKES ME FEEL REALLY OLD

[frauleinfrog.livejournal.com]

I knoooowwww, it makes me sad that everyone's leaving lj. I'm trying to come back, I swear!

Also, I'm terribly sorry to hear about your grandfather.

[arisha.livejournal.com]

Thank you. We were never super close and to be honest I was completely expecting that he would pass while I was on JET, but it still made for a rough week.

[arisha.livejournal.com]

ALSO I APPRECIATE YOUR ATTEMPTS TO RETURN :D

[frauleinfrog.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, so failed. >.>