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A few days ago, I went back through some of my older journal posts. The prompt for this was wanting to tag all my "collected comments" posts so I could pull them up more easily. In the course of doing this, I reread a bunch of stuff.
Some of it was utterly unsurprising: lots of posts about going to the gym, and about birds. But I hadn't remembered quite how often I'd posted about the bald eagle reintroduction project.
Some of it was depressing: I spent a lot of 2003 fretting about money and unemployment.
There were also some small, pleasant surprises. A few weeks ago I posted about having seen violets in autumn before a frost, and how novel (I thought) that was. I found a 2003 post about the same thing. I also found a comment from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
adrian_turtle written well before I'd met her at papersky and rysmiel's home. She told me either at the time we met or shortly thereafter that she recognized my name from Usenet, but seeing a comment that she left here before we'd met in person feels different. (There are people I've gotten to know quite well online before meeting in the flesh, as well as some of you who I've not yet met offline, but Adrian and I did most of our getting to know each other after finding ourselves in the same room.)
[This seems to tie in to some of the talking about the past, and about people and patterns, thatroadnotes and I have been doing in the last month or two, though none of the specific examples above came up there.]
Some of it was utterly unsurprising: lots of posts about going to the gym, and about birds. But I hadn't remembered quite how often I'd posted about the bald eagle reintroduction project.
Some of it was depressing: I spent a lot of 2003 fretting about money and unemployment.
There were also some small, pleasant surprises. A few weeks ago I posted about having seen violets in autumn before a frost, and how novel (I thought) that was. I found a 2003 post about the same thing. I also found a comment from
adrian_turtle written well before I'd met her at papersky and rysmiel's home. She told me either at the time we met or shortly thereafter that she recognized my name from Usenet, but seeing a comment that she left here before we'd met in person feels different. (There are people I've gotten to know quite well online before meeting in the flesh, as well as some of you who I've not yet met offline, but Adrian and I did most of our getting to know each other after finding ourselves in the same room.)[This seems to tie in to some of the talking about the past, and about people and patterns, that
roadnotes and I have been doing in the last month or two, though none of the specific examples above came up there.]