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([personal profile] redbird Sep. 4th, 2013 08:44 am)
Hi. This is an online substitute for a paper journal, as well as a place to talk to people, so a lot of what's here is quotidian stuff about my life and place. These days, that's more exploring the Seattle area than what's in bloom right now in my corner of the world. As of March 2016, "place" is the Boston area: we moved to Arlington, Mass., in March 2016, then Somerville a year and a half later. I'm now living in Boston with @cattitude and @adrian_turtle, still figuring out my way around Brighton and other parts of Boston, and how long it actually takes to get to my various medical and other appointments on the other side of the Charles. Some of the basics about me are in my userinfo; the userpic with this sticky post is a photo of me, taken in 2007, in case you're wondering whether I'm the redbird you know from elsewhere.

Long ago when the net was flat, I spent a bunch of time on Usenet, mostly rassef and alt.polyamory; I did some of my growing up in science fiction fandom, which in my case meant writing in/for a lot of apas. If you don't know why I subscribed to your journal, we probably have friends in common, and either one of them said "this person is cool" or you posted interesting comments, and I looked at your journal and found it interesting.

Anyone is welcome to read and comment on my journal (though I screen comments on some posts). I do post some things locked and/or filtered. I am more likely to give access to people I know, either previously (online or off) or from interactions here. If we know each other but I might not recognize your username, please leave a note here so I can make the connection.

If we don't already know each other, welcome, and please introduce yourself. I'm screening all comments to this post, so you can tell me "Hi, it's $old_friend" without other people seeing the connection between your username here and other names or handles you use. Or comment on other posts, and I'll get some feeling for what you're like.

There are a half-dozen access-locked posts in here, none recent, with nude photos of me (all tagged "nudes"). I grant access to most people who ask (and many who don't), and those aren't the posts I consider private.

I generally use a cut tag for details of exercise or (rarer) body size/shape posts, and I tend to avoid other people's discussion of weight and dieting. By request, I'll be cut-tagging discussions of covid masks. If there are other things you would like similar warnings about, let me know. (I am assuming the current level of cut-tagging on exercise is okay for everyone reading this journal; if not, let me know and I'll see what I can do to address that.) I also use cut tags for things that even I don't find very interesting, but may need to look up later: Dreamwidth as external memory.

I'm (still) posting about politics. I'm not cut-tagging those posts, but I am going to try to label the entries that are entirely or mostly about politics, rather than drop a paragraph about calling my senators in between discussions of out-of-town visitors and cucumbers, in case your self-care means you need to rake a break from reading about politics.

I'm also still posting about the coronavirus pandemic, how I'm dealing with the situation, etc. Most of those posts are tagged with "COVID-19," "life during covid-19," or "the new normal" (or "the new normal?") and some are also tagged "coronavirus"

[last updated July 17, 2024]
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From: [personal profile] ofearthandstars


Hi! I found you through the network yesterday morning, and you seemed interesting, so I wanted to say hello.
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From: [personal profile] forestofglory


Hello, I'm not new around here, but I've been lurking. I'm a friend of Liv's and I started following you because you said interesting things over at her journal.
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From: [personal profile] umadoshi


Hello! I've seen you around in a few people's comments, and thought I'd add you after [personal profile] kaberett's introductions post. ^_^

From: [personal profile] tallblue


I ran across your journal using the search word "tea" I read a few entries and through I would add you.

From: [personal profile] tallblue


Oh I like Assam tea, but unfortunately I have not had it in two years due to the caffeine. Right now I drink white tea or rooibos tea until I can handle caffeine again. I do miss it.
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From: [personal profile] lone_lilly


Hi! We don't really know each other but I used to be subscribed to your journal years ago (I was particularly fond of your trying out new apple posts :) and now that I'm trying to use DW more after a long absence, I thought I would subscribe again. Thanks! :)
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From: [personal profile] gina_wbg


Good morning! I found your journal through the "gardening" tag. I'm an LJ refugee, having come to DW after 12 years. I'm looking forward to becoming acquainted with DW and its interesting people.
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From: [personal profile] nekhbet_love


Books, cats, gardening and reading are our common interests and I would love to follow your posts about gardening. I am normally at Livejournal but wanted to give a try here as well. Have a nice day.
nekhbet_love: Mary Vickers, Pink Rose, Lithograph (Default)

From: [personal profile] nekhbet_love


Ok :) Thanks for replying. I have subscribed and will read your posts, even if they don´t speak about gardening. Cheers xx
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From: [personal profile] pinesandmaples


We probably have a mutual FB friend in Danni Green. You just seem like the kind of person Danni would know in the Boston/Quincy area.
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From: [personal profile] coyotegoth


Happy (slightly early) birthday!
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From: [personal profile] elbren


hi. i found you via [personal profile] ambyr, and am adding because i used to live in camberville & am familiar with your area, and because we like similar authors.

welcome to the new (CoV19) world order
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From: [personal profile] cmcmck


Hi!

We seem to keep bumping into one another and have various friends in common.

Mind if I subscribe?

From: [personal profile] grumpyoldsnake

Hello!


Hello!

We have no prior connection, but I‘m trying to start actually using Dreamwidth and as such have been looking for people to subscribe to. I searched Dreamwidth for the xenobiology interest, and you seem like an interesting person! Hope you don’t mind that I’ve dropped in.
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From: [personal profile] dynamytebunz

finding your journal page


Hi. Dynymytebunz here. No I do not believe we know each other. I hit random journal. *smiles* I'm glad I did though. I've enjoyed perusing your entries. My journal is in the sad beginnings here but I am working on uploading some of my content soon.
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