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Apr. 7th, 2008 03:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Taking a page out of
astrogirl2's book...
I've actually wanted to do this for a while, but now that
astrogirl2 has done it, I can be a lemming instead :)
While my flist is not ginormous, it's pretty big and I don't get to talk to half as many people as I would like. Most of the time it's because I'm really bogged down with RL stuff, but sometimes it's because I don't know you very well and I'm a little too shy to just start posting whatever all over your space.
I also wonder, like
astrogirl2 whether people are just here for fic or basic fandom and don't want to move into a "friendship" or if there are people on my flist that really would like to chat? If you're just here for fic, that's cool. I have no problem with that, though I don't write as much as I used to. But if you're looking for more and I haven't been talking to you much, I'd love to know. Actually, I enjoy meeting new people and talking about a range of things, so if I know you're open to various discussions, then I'll be more inclined to do so if I know that I'm not bugging you.
Also, the nature of fandoms are ever changing. We move onto to new stuff, we hold onto the old, and we develop new opinions and interests. Maybe some of you are here because you feel bad about defriending. Maybe some of you don't know me very well and are too shy. Maybe some of you are new and we haven't really had a chance to talk yet.
I ask because I go through the same thing. Sometimes I wonder if I should comment or not. And there are some people I've drifted away from fannishly. I wonder if people would feel weird if I started engaging them in a more personal or friendly manner or if people would rather keep it "strictly professional." And if I feel that way, I'm sure others do as well.
So in this post, please feel free to reintroduce yourself. Feel free to tell me to please go away or to talk more or to post on your LJs. Really. Or if you feel the need to take me off your flist, no hard feelings. (Unless I've like known you for a long time and we've talked alot, then *sniff* but I know people change.)
Or just go about your own business.
I just like to talk is all ;)
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I've actually wanted to do this for a while, but now that
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
While my flist is not ginormous, it's pretty big and I don't get to talk to half as many people as I would like. Most of the time it's because I'm really bogged down with RL stuff, but sometimes it's because I don't know you very well and I'm a little too shy to just start posting whatever all over your space.
I also wonder, like
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
Also, the nature of fandoms are ever changing. We move onto to new stuff, we hold onto the old, and we develop new opinions and interests. Maybe some of you are here because you feel bad about defriending. Maybe some of you don't know me very well and are too shy. Maybe some of you are new and we haven't really had a chance to talk yet.
I ask because I go through the same thing. Sometimes I wonder if I should comment or not. And there are some people I've drifted away from fannishly. I wonder if people would feel weird if I started engaging them in a more personal or friendly manner or if people would rather keep it "strictly professional." And if I feel that way, I'm sure others do as well.
So in this post, please feel free to reintroduce yourself. Feel free to tell me to please go away or to talk more or to post on your LJs. Really. Or if you feel the need to take me off your flist, no hard feelings. (Unless I've like known you for a long time and we've talked alot, then *sniff* but I know people change.)
Or just go about your own business.
I just like to talk is all ;)
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Date: 2008-04-09 02:26 am (UTC)Since I'm pretty new to fandom, and hadn't done any blogging before joining LJ about 6 months ago, I'm still feeling my way around. My original interest was fan fiction, but I must guiltily admit I'm not reading much of it, and I haven't even been writing much of it (though I keep trying to get back into the swing of things). What I seem to do most on LJ is read Stargate meta and collect Stargate icons. But I'm starting to feel a more personal connection to some people.
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Date: 2008-04-10 05:44 pm (UTC)I think it takes a while to get used to blogging and LJ. Even now, after a few years here, I make posts like this one because I'm not 100% comfortable and want to reach out to people I know or what to get to know. It can be weird and awkward sometimes and it's good to know what people consider netiquette on their journals.
You're not alone in the guilt dept. I too find that I haven't been reading very much, if at all, and I barely write it. RL has been crazy. I'm mostly focused on people's thoughts, meta, and opnions right now, ans of course writing as a topic is aomething I can never deny. That topic transcends everything for me :)
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Date: 2008-04-09 03:08 pm (UTC)So I just have fun dipping into this fandom world--I doubt you'll ever find anything interesting at my lj--I'm a reader, not a writer.
Melissa M.
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Date: 2008-04-10 05:47 pm (UTC)You are free to jump into any discussion here that you like, whether it is with me or someone else. I never mind.
I know that I've been very fannish about SG-1 much lately, but it doesn't mean I like it any less. And I still have some Macgyver stuff to get through as well.
Btw, I love that icon. I think it needs a sequel - built to last :)
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Date: 2008-04-11 12:11 am (UTC)I have been putting in comments occasionaly even when I had to do it as "anonymous" (though I always signed them Melissa M.) for some time, but I feel less of an intruder now that I have an lj of my own. It's just never going to have anything interesting there--I dislike typing so I only do it where someone else has written something interesting and I want to respond in some way. (For instance, Pepper had a great many comments from me for her Jack Spam day--I love Jack and kept thinking of a good bit, then another good bit, etc., till her comment number for Jack was over 100. And I thought of another one today, that I'm going to go add, too. I can't help myself where Jack is concerned.
I might add that I enjoy history, too (having read the comments that come after this one). It was my major in college--I graduated 35 years ago, and after I had to quit my job as librarian 5 years ago, I started volunteering at our local county museum, working with the man who was my Missouri History professor way back when. He was pleased to get a former student in to help him out.
Did you ever get all the MacGyvers watched? I was looking thru some of your older posts last night, and looked at the MacGyver tags. I had never seen RDA in anything, ever, until I watched SG1 for the first time 3 years ago. Sometime that summer I started watching MacGyver on Spike and TV Land and had seen all of them by the time they took them off the air. I've since bought all of them on dvd (not counting the movies), so I watch them some, though I usually rewatch a Stargate episode most nights. Sometimes a Mac, though. When I read your thoughts as you were first watching it, I thought, "Yes! He was cool that first season." He's always worth watching, but I have a special fondness for the first season, I think, particularly the pilot. Mind you, I didn't care for Golden Triangle all that much, but I did absolutely love that little bit at the beginning when he's sunning himself on the beach--one of his white socks in the background. Such a cutie! And of course the fact that the actor is right around my age makes me feel an extra bond with him, I think.
Melissa M.
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Date: 2008-04-11 12:23 am (UTC)Meliss M.
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Date: 2008-04-10 02:37 am (UTC)I'm Lea - I'm pretty new to your friends list and you're pretty new to mine. I have a similar problem in that I have a fairly big flist and sometimes don't have the time to keep up ... and I wonder if people feel the same about me or not? Personally I welcome any and all comments - I love discussion so anytime you feel like commenting go for it.
I get what you mean though - sometimes I'll read a great post and think "I need to comment' but am in a hurry and book mark it for later only by the time I get back to it I feel like it's too late to comment so I don't. And sometimes I'll read a really interesting discussion but won't have anything to add and just end up lurking. I always feel weird about that - like I should leave a comment but never know what to say.
Oh, I forgot to add I found you on the Smallville friending meme a while back ... :)
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Date: 2008-04-10 05:51 pm (UTC)It gets hadrer the bigger your flist gets. I enjoy knowing people from a variety of backgrounds and interests. I just don't always express it. :)
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Date: 2008-04-10 01:51 pm (UTC)I'm happy to have you comment on any of my entries you feel like, and obviously I comment whenever I want on yours (if I'm not too terribly out of date, and sometimes even when I am).
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Date: 2008-04-10 05:56 pm (UTC)I attempted to get into some PhD programs last year but I was rejected. I jump in between history and anthropology, so our interests tend to intersect at times. And even though I was rejected and it hurt like hell, I will eventually try again. For now, I'm attemtping middle school education of history. I do know how parts of graduate and academia work, however, from my graduate days to get my MA in Anthropology.
(I love history if you couldn't tell.)
I'm making it my goal to try to comment more and as you know you're always welcome to jump in on any discussion :)
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Date: 2008-04-11 11:25 pm (UTC)I've been on both sides, having recently completed a stint on the grad admissions committee. There are a lot of qualified applicants--far more than spaces. People get eliminated for reasons that may seem weird. Sometimes it's just the year a person applies--when a school has too many applicants leaning towards a certain specialty, someone's going to get turned down. Sometimes, it's a lot of someones.
Yes, by all means, try again! It used to be that if you didn't get in right out of undergrad, you might as well forget it, but that has changed a lot over the past ten or fifteen years.
Of course, we need good teachers in middle school! I admire those who do it. It's a tremendous workload with even less respect, and in some cases less pay, than higher ed.