Death Trap for Careless Intruders

Last week's nostalgic crisis--which really did turn into a sort of crisis on the third or fourth day in--made me reevaluate some of my internet habits, and made me realize belatedly that they've been kind of problematic for a pretty long time. Specifically, my habit of looking backward (at old entries, at AIM chat logs, at LJ comment relays) inevitably tends to make me depressed--and I never realize that when I start to do it, which is the problem, but by the time I've gotten a few months into the past and have begun to really wallow in the mood it's usually hard to extricate myself.

So! In an attempt to combat this destructive urge, I'm trying to reorganize my space. This will entail

a) transferring all my chat logs and journal archives off this computer

b) friendslocking this journal

c) starting a new journal

d) not adding the new journal to this journal's friendslist, thereby putting my archives out of my own reach. Kind of.

What this effectively means is that I'm going to stop updating missitar or checking it for comments; I will accept friend requests in the case that anyone, by some small chance, wants to see these archives*, but I'm going to try to stop maintaining the journal, or looking back at it any more than I have to.

Instead, new content will go up at another journal! I don't know if [that journal's name] is the right name to have chosen, but I chose it, and I'll be trying to stick to it.

I've friended back the main contingent of my friendslist on that journal (if I missed you, please comment?); I'm not expecting that I will be friended back in all instances, but if you feel inclined, please add me, since I'm going to be trying to use that friendslist from now on.

See you on the other side!



* With reservations; namely, I don't really feel comfortable adding people from school or work, although if you're from either of these places and want to debate this with me, please do.