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The weather is playing havoc with my allergies. Brain feels a bit congested as a result. Can barely stand to go outside. It's not exactly pleasant out there anyhow...around 96 degrees, with 80% humidity, so it feels like 110 in the sun, and poor air quality due to smog and global warming - increasing such things as mold spores, dust mites, and pollen - which wreck havoc with allergy sufferers. (Damn people and their selfish need to drive. In a city with cheap public transportation - it is inexcusable. The continual rise in gasoline prices feels a bit like karma in a way. If you walked more, drove less, you'd not only be healthier, so would the rest of us.)

May have to go outside though - since landlord is having a baby shower from 1-5pm downstairs.
I'd sent them a gift already, so that's done. Just need to make an appearance, however brief.
Will probably do it around 3 when I'm off to do something else. Thought about seeing "Sex in the City" today, but after reading three-four lacklustre reviews and having heard Wales response, I'm thinking it'll make a much better rental. I missed the last two seasons of it anyhow, so hardly straining at the bit. "Don't Mess with the Yohan" - oddly enough appeals to me, even though I despise Adam Sandler comedies - too slapsticky. I think the reason is that it's making fun of three items that make me crazy and deserve to be made fun of: Israel, the unending property feud religious war in the Middle East, and Terrorism. Also John Stewart liked it, and he normally doesn't like Adam Sandler films either.

The only political shows I watched all week were The Colbert Report and The Daily Show, which continue to make fun of the whole dog and pony show. Or elephant and donkey show.

Very happy, Obama won. Wish the Hillary Supporters would get over themselves and stop cauterwauling. Also for the record - not all women voted for Hillary. Quite a few of us did not. Thank you very much! It's like saying all women love to go shopping. So not true! Or all women love shoes! Also not true. Or all men love Football. Again, not true. I think one becomes truly wise when one learns to stop generalizing about things.

Also, for ghodsake people, Hillary didn't win *not* because she just happens to be female, but because she proved during the course of her campaign that she would not make a good leader and after suffering through eight years of Bush - the last thing we need is another bad leader. In other words, Hillary would have lost the election if she were male and white. If this election has proved anything it's that most people don't give damn what you look like or who your friends or associates happen to be. They care about what you do and say. Only nitwits care about the other things. I really wish I could ship the nitwits to outerspace along with the religious fanatics. But we can't have everything. ;-)

There was a great line on tv show recently - it was on a soap opera of all places.
"Why do you care what a bunch of people that you don't know on the internet think of you? Or even say? Why would you take advice from them or let them nitpick at your decisions - especially over people who love you, who are present in your life?"

The two things I've learned about the internet? Be careful how much you share with people you don't know. And do not take what someone writes in your livejournal or in a post personally, they don't know you - unless of course it's your best friend, hubby/signific.other, brother or sister, etc.. blogging alongside you and well, that's different.

Date: 2008-06-08 07:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] embers-log.livejournal.com
"Why do you care what a bunch of people that you don't know on the internet think of you? Or even say? Why would you take advice from them or let them nitpick at your decisions - especially over people who love you, who are present in your life?"

It is an interesting quesiton... in most ways I don't think I care deeply if I am criticized on line... but there is definitely a certain intimacy that develops when you sit alone at home (often late at night) reading and writing on your computer. It is often a place where people express personal things they don't necessarily share with their friends and family.

Personally I invite my friends and family to read my lj if they want to know what I'm up to, and to see some of my ceramics, but I know that very few of them care about that stuff. They have zero interest in what TV shows I love or books I'm reading, even though those things matter a lot to me. It is only with my flist, my cyber friends, that I can share a lot of the stuff that I think about a lot.

Of course I've been pretty lucky, I've only been attacked once or twice online (I haven't really 'put myself out there' as much as those who write essays and fan fic have done. And pretty much when I have been attacked I'm simply deleted the comment and blocked the writer because why do I care about them or their opinion? Some total stranger wants to be nasty? Well I can just wipe them off the page!

Date: 2008-06-09 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shadowkat67.livejournal.com
Yeah, it is different for everyone. Can't really generalize.

I came to LJ, because it was another forum in which I could write essays and get reactions.
The problem with that...is you don't always like the reactions. Also you can fall into the trap of forgetting that you don't know the people responding to you *that* well and start *oversharing* stuff. I really haven't done that as much as it may appear...there's some things I'll never about in my lj for example. Other's ...up for grabs. I don't know how many people draw similar lines.

Regarding the "attacks"? I've learned there are a couple of topics I have to be careful about on my lj. I have a *very* diverse group of readers - several who are *conservative* with a capital "C". Topics that are dicey and often get me into trouble:

*racism
*Iraq
*Religion
*Spike (yes, still, go figure! I gave up finally and decided to discuss the character as little as possible and possibly filter)
*Buffy comics
*fandom
*certain tv shows

If I talk about personal stuff or do movie or book reviews, I'm fine. Television Shows, anything with a fandom, religion, politics, and racism...sigh, I get myself into trouble. And being a stubborn and somewhat forthright not to mention highly opinionated individual, this happens quite a bit. I've lost about 30 people since I joined lj, but gained 30 as well, so it more or less evens out in the end.
Have learned not to take the defriendings seriously/personally. Hadn't met any of the people in person anyhow. While there are others who stick with me, and I've no idea why. I wonder sometimes if they just forgot to kick me off the list?

Blogging on lj is also very different than blogging on one's own personal blog. You don't use your own name (or most of us don't) for starters, the people that you friend aren't necessarily people you have met so much as people whose journals you find interesting and want to read. It's weird and I think very personal. As much as we want to generalize the experience, I'm not sure one can. IF that makes sense. Been feeling icky all day and brain feels filled with cotton balls.

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