etakyma | navel gazing

But briefly, as today it seems I am fight off a cold that is trying to take hold.

This week marks (roughly) my anniversary with this journal. Five years of ranting, navel gazing, funny-story-relating, travelogue-ing, and just plain being here. I recently tried to tell a friend (after she'd asked) why I kept a blog. The reasons are many a varied. And I am sure that is true for lots of us. Why an online blog, instead of a paper journal? I've tried the paper journal many many times. And after a few entries, the journals always end up blank. What keeps me coming back to LJ so consistently after five years? Is it because I have the possibility of an audience? Someone is actually reading along, and sometimes, remarks on something I've written? Maybe. I am after all, whatever else, a performer. Maybe it is the community - since I also comment on other people's journals and sometimes that opens a dialogue, and sometimes it doesn't. Either way, I don't really care - but it is a connection.

Maybe it is because my people (my family) are a fairly reclusive bunch - and of that reclusive bunch, I am the most extroverted and social of the lot.

gwendolyngrace will tell you that I am not that extroverted, or that social. Whatever it is about LJ or just online blogging in general, it seems to have worked for me so far. I do like going back and rereading the dorktastic things I think about and share, so I don't see that changing. Although, I don't know what keeps y'all coming back - that's your business.

Happy LJ anniversary to me.

Now, since I am feeling kind of yicky, I think it is naptime.