I'm surprised sometimes just how often people point out to me how long it's been since I've written. It's the good kind of surprised though, it's nice to think that anyone checks this regularly and likes reading it. And it's true that I have trouble keeping up with it sometimes. Part of the problem is that I find that, compared to when I was in school and working for the government, there are more aspects of my life that it would be irresponsible for me to write about on the internet.

I can write about my job, but only in an indirect sense. And I wouldn't want to say anything (good or bad) about people I work with because there's a very good probability that could work its way back to me in some way. Besides that, I feel that whenever someone talks about their job, it's almost always incredibly boring to any other person.

The fact that I'm not traveling around the country anymore also limits some of my usual writing subjects. Don't get me wrong, I'm perfectly happy about that though.

So that leaves me with general thoughts, or things I do on weekends, because on weekdays I don't really do that much besides get up, go to work, and come home. There are exceptions of course, but generally on weeknights I just want to take advantage of the time I have. So if I have to choose between, say, going over to Mark's, having dinner with Gregg, or playing Final Fantasy Tactics A2, well, those usually beat out "sit down at the computer to write something".

I am going to try and make more of an effort though. I think I may be letting my Livejournal slip away a bit from being an actual journal and instead being just a place for me to put up videos and internet links. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I know I'll still be doing a lot of that.

But actually, maybe the thing that makes it the hardest is that I don't have anything to read on LiveJournal anymore. I may be told that I don't write enough, but if I go to a friend's Livejournal, I'm likely to just see an entire page spammed full of my entries.

For me though, if I go to my friends page, there's almost nothing to read anymore. There are only two posts on my friends page right now. The most recent is from Carol, and it's a week old. The other is some Livejournal news crap.

Dave last wrote a month ago. Marcie's one of my more prolific friends and she generally writes once a month. Carol and Beth are probably the two people I read the most, and it's been over a month since Beth wrote.

As much as I write here, I actually like reading far more. I remember at one point I was reading so much on Livejournal that I would watch for my flashing indicator in the system tray whenever someone posted. Not that I'm demanding people write more or anything, but I really truly like hearing about people. I guess to some extent sites like Facebook have kind of taken that on, and of course I'm in pretty regular contact with the people around me already.

Oh well, I guess that was very 2003. Nonetheless, I'm going to try and keep writing, even if it means more friends-only entries or something. If nothing else I think this is a good method of keeping my parents up-to-date about things going on in my life that aren't important enough to warrant phone call!

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