so i guess it's time to confess that i've been cheating on you all.
i've been journalling somewhere else.  i mean, my output has been nowhere near as bad as it looks like it has been from this page.

i've been running my journal over here.

i'm still not entirely sure why.  at first it had something to do with getting an account just so i could read the private entries of some of my friends.  then i discovered that i could just go to my friends' page and there i could see all of their recent posts nicely gathered together on the same pages.

then i threw a post up there for a lark and i was delighted by one little thing.  people talk back to you. sometimes almost right away.  it is a rare thing for someone to talk to me about an entry in this journal but lj practically calls out to people to talk to you about your entries.  it is thrilling.   there's also less need to have a reason to write an entry.  most of the time here i have a reason. a concrete-ish reason.  something to write about. there i can jot down a note about my day and it fits right in.

so yeah. i've been there for a bit.
i don't know how much longer it will hold the same thrill.
maybe soon it will fade away and i will come back to this site as loyalty would require.
one is not sure.

all things are always uncertain.