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Jan. 25th, 2015 03:39 amWell, I've survived my first week on the job, and even though it was a short week (Monday was a court holiday in the US), it felt as long as such things always do. It's definitely good to be working, and I think I was doing better at the end of the week than the beginning - it's just a stressful thing, not only to lose but also to start a new job. More, not-exactly-Pollyannaish, details below the cut.
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On that note, I really am trying to spend more time back on LJ. One of the things I'm realizing is that if something can be imported into an RSS reader because it lets me get caught up and filter by what I'm actually interested in. Also, I get to take advantage of periods when I'm offline, like on the bus. Tumblr has always been set up through RSS, whereas LJ, I needed to come and log in to the website and that just never happened as I got more stressed (before) and more busy (now). But I miss you guys and do want to spend more time keeping up with you.
So I took some time today to set up my RSS to grab from LJ pages. Trouble is, so far as I can tell it only picks up public messages. That's better than nothing, and I'll try to pop over and skim for friends-only messages every now and then. Likely with the same (non-)success I have to read all LJ messages at the website now, I'm afraid, but I'll try. It's not up to me to tell you guys how to post, but I did want to let you know, if there's something you want me to see, the odds go way up that I'll read it if you use public posts rather than friends-only posts. I mean, if there's a reason you're more comfortable making it friends-locked, that's you're choice of course, but if it's just out of habit, I thought I'd point out that there is a cost there, and that I'm more likely to read and comment if you make it public. Then again I'm just one person, so that's completely up to you.
Another way you can help me if you don't want to make posts public: use a certain tag for friends-only posts, and let me know what that tag is. I can set up LJ to send me an email whenever you make a post with that tag, and that will hopefully "nudge" me to check it out. If you're willing to do that, just comment below with what tag you'll be using. I really am trying to be more involved or at least aware with what's going on in peoples' lives, now that my own is (finally, *crosses fingers*) settling down to something more manageable.
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On that note, I really am trying to spend more time back on LJ. One of the things I'm realizing is that if something can be imported into an RSS reader because it lets me get caught up and filter by what I'm actually interested in. Also, I get to take advantage of periods when I'm offline, like on the bus. Tumblr has always been set up through RSS, whereas LJ, I needed to come and log in to the website and that just never happened as I got more stressed (before) and more busy (now). But I miss you guys and do want to spend more time keeping up with you.
So I took some time today to set up my RSS to grab from LJ pages. Trouble is, so far as I can tell it only picks up public messages. That's better than nothing, and I'll try to pop over and skim for friends-only messages every now and then. Likely with the same (non-)success I have to read all LJ messages at the website now, I'm afraid, but I'll try. It's not up to me to tell you guys how to post, but I did want to let you know, if there's something you want me to see, the odds go way up that I'll read it if you use public posts rather than friends-only posts. I mean, if there's a reason you're more comfortable making it friends-locked, that's you're choice of course, but if it's just out of habit, I thought I'd point out that there is a cost there, and that I'm more likely to read and comment if you make it public. Then again I'm just one person, so that's completely up to you.
Another way you can help me if you don't want to make posts public: use a certain tag for friends-only posts, and let me know what that tag is. I can set up LJ to send me an email whenever you make a post with that tag, and that will hopefully "nudge" me to check it out. If you're willing to do that, just comment below with what tag you'll be using. I really am trying to be more involved or at least aware with what's going on in peoples' lives, now that my own is (finally, *crosses fingers*) settling down to something more manageable.