sensible, not staid

After I told mishalak that he's sensible, he wrote "I hope sensible and fun. No one wants to be just plain sensible.<grin>"

And I wrote: "I think we both manage that combination. It means I'll skip across the street--but I wear shoes I can skip in. Making sure to leave room for dessert, rather than overstuffing myself. That sort of thing."

sensible, not staid

After I told mishalak that he's sensible, he wrote "I hope sensible and fun. No one wants to be just plain sensible.<grin>"

And I wrote: "I think we both manage that combination. It means I'll skip across the street--but I wear shoes I can skip in. Making sure to leave room for dessert, rather than overstuffing myself. That sort of thing."

Random holiday card note

Several people on my friends list have posted in their journals about card exchanges and such.

I don't send winter holiday cards (solstice, new year's, christmas, hanukkah, newtonmas, saturnalia, kwanzaa, et cetera), or for that matter non-winter holiday cards. This isn't for any deep reason beyond that I realized after a while that I wasn't doing it, and wasn't into the activity, and nothing horrible would happen if I didn't. I do send birthday cards--though not as reliably as I would like--and some random other cards, but not holiday cards, not even to the people I love most.

Realistically, I therefore don't expect to receive holiday cards. I don't object to them (as long as they don't hurt my brain), and am often pleased to receive them, as long as the sender doesn't expect reciprocation. If we're friends and you like sending cards, that's cool, but if you'd mind not getting one from me in return, it'd be better not to add me to your list.

Random holiday card note

Several people on my friends list have posted in their journals about card exchanges and such.

I don't send winter holiday cards (solstice, new year's, christmas, hanukkah, newtonmas, saturnalia, kwanzaa, et cetera), or for that matter non-winter holiday cards. This isn't for any deep reason beyond that I realized after a while that I wasn't doing it, and wasn't into the activity, and nothing horrible would happen if I didn't. I do send birthday cards--though not as reliably as I would like--and some random other cards, but not holiday cards, not even to the people I love most.

Realistically, I therefore don't expect to receive holiday cards. I don't object to them (as long as they don't hurt my brain), and am often pleased to receive them, as long as the sender doesn't expect reciprocation. If we're friends and you like sending cards, that's cool, but if you'd mind not getting one from me in return, it'd be better not to add me to your list.

One of the nice things about LiveJournal

I was reading my friends list, and got to ladysisyphus's recent entry about Greek, and after posting a reply about enjoying her post and adding an etymological point she might not have thought of, realized that I wouldn't recognize her if she rang the doorbell right now: I know her through rahaeli, who I know from doing Support.

And a lot of the people here who I would recognize are people I met first through sf fandom, in many cases either in fanzines or apas or the net, so I knew their words before I'd been physically in the same place with them.

One of the nice things about LiveJournal

I was reading my friends list, and got to ladysisyphus's recent entry about Greek, and after posting a reply about enjoying her post and adding an etymological point she might not have thought of, realized that I wouldn't recognize her if she rang the doorbell right now: I know her through rahaeli, who I know from doing Support.

And a lot of the people here who I would recognize are people I met first through sf fandom, in many cases either in fanzines or apas or the net, so I knew their words before I'd been physically in the same place with them.