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[sophiaserpentia]

Several of you have recently said that you'd like to keep up with me, but may not share views or interests about which I am very vocal here.

Because I would rather keep up with you than drop out of contact with you, I have set up a new journal this morning solely for personal updates and events:
sabrinaqedesha.

I haven't set up the format or user icons yet. Will do that later...

Comments

[ulyart.livejournal.com]

will you cross-post all entries to sophiaserpentia? Or do I need to add the new journal to know what's up in your life from now on?

cheers!

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

I thought about cross-posting, but that would involve copying, logging out, logging back in, pasting, posting... I do not see that it would be useful to cross-post personal updates.

sharing

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

I do not understand the idea of wanting
to keep up with a person but not with their
views or interests...
perhaps in someone one knows intimately it
can be somewhat separable, a wife may not
read her husband's books and privately consider
them not as fine as he thinks and him a bit of
a blowhard when he holds forth but she knows him
otherwise well enough for that to be ok.
I am wondering if we in livejournal know each
other well enough to allow ourselves that sort
of separation...if we have no use for the
views and interests of a friend at all(or at least
of the person who can be extrapolated from these
things, which may be a slight but real distinction),
then with whom are wa a friend etc?
I should prefer, if you approve, to remain on that
journal which more fully reflects your life.
By the way I have not been responding to various
news of yours and may have missed one or two, but
when are you coming up to Boston? Perhaps we might
meet, without urgency, in New York sometime?
+Seraphim.

Re: sharing

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

I do not understand the idea of wanting
to keep up with a person but not with their
views or interests...

That was my initial response, but then again, I don't discuss all of my views with everyone I'm friendly with. People who know me from one sphere may not need to or want to know about my involvement in other spheres.


I should prefer, if you approve, to remain on that
journal which more fully reflects your life.

I doubt I will be duplicating entries, but OTOH this journal would suffer without a personal touch. I'll find a balance somehow.


By the way I have not been responding to various
news of yours and may have missed one or two, but
when are you coming up to Boston? Perhaps we might
meet, without urgency, in New York sometime?

I would like that. The plan at this point is to leave for Boston at the end of next week, but friends have threatened to absconded me so I remain in New Orleans through that weekend, in which case I will travel sometime early in the following week.

[apeiron-gaia.livejournal.com]

Can I be on it?

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

I mentioned it here to extend the invitation to everyone who reads my journal.

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

Heya...
You know... I have some other journals and I was wondering if - that's going to be a personal journal... I could add those to your list? It all depends on how much you REALLY want to know about the minefield that is my mind :o :o :o

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

It's going to be a personal journal but not a secret one. So, bear that in mind if you wish discretion. But I do want to know anything you are willing to share with me about you.

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

No matter... most of those journals are locked to be friends only for reasons you will see...

[gentlemaitresse.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be easier to do this with filters?

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

I thought of that. The problem with filters, is that it would exclude anyone who isn't on my friends list from reading my specialized rants.

[threeandnine.livejournal.com]

I love reading your journal, in any way, shape, or form.

[alobar.livejournal.com]

If you use two journals, this journal is (I fear) going to get too dry & abstract, therefore boring. The other journal, delaing with just your personal life, will (I fear) be superficial, therefore boring.

So I strongly urge for you to keep all in a single journal. Put the more technical topics behind LJ cuts so those who want to skip them can do so easily. Or not. To be honest with you, I have no idea why you would pander to those who do not have an interest in all of you. They sure seem superficial & worthless to me.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Actually, that was the reason I hesitated doing something like this for so long.

But I don't see any reason why I can't separate my posts between two journals and have it work seamlessly.

And I had another thought. I feel strongly that participation in my life to any extent should be entirely voluntary -- IOW I am not going to demand that people be interested in every aspect of my intellectual life in order to be my friend or associate.

I'll give it a few weeks, and we'll see if either journal becomes shallow or dry; in which case I'll re-assess this solution.

[alobar.livejournal.com]

hehe -- I skip over posts I find boring all the time in many of the journals on my friends list. But I do like being readily exposed to aspects of people I would not normally look at. I find I am far more open to an idea if find boring or squicky if that idea comes from someone I otherwise find interesting & whom I respect. I do not believe *forcing* anyone to real all my writings, but I do want to expose them to all facets of me.

[yud.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's the way I see it too.