Also... I seem to spend far too much time reading political stuff online recently.
I spent several years mostly only writing 'non fiction' political and current events posts on my blog. Getting the LJ was sort of a reaction to that, needing to get back to other interests that I'd had before, so I wasn't focused on just one thing to the exclusion of everything else. I needed some balance, I guess :) I had gotten to the point where I felt angry all the time, and that wasn't necessarily a good place to be 100% of the time. I tend to lean towards being a little too serious personality wise, or so I'm told [g] I've always been fairly political, and blogging tapped into that in a way I hadn't expected. When I was a teenager, and other girls were reading Tigerbeat magazine, I was reading Foreign Affairs quarterly. I was such a nerd. Well, still am for that matter :)
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I spent several years mostly only writing 'non fiction' political and current events posts on my blog. Getting the LJ was sort of a reaction to that, needing to get back to other interests that I'd had before, so I wasn't focused on just one thing to the exclusion of everything else. I needed some balance, I guess :) I had gotten to the point where I felt angry all the time, and that wasn't necessarily a good place to be 100% of the time. I tend to lean towards being a little too serious personality wise, or so I'm told [g] I've always been fairly political, and blogging tapped into that in a way I hadn't expected. When I was a teenager, and other girls were reading Tigerbeat magazine, I was reading Foreign Affairs quarterly. I was such a nerd. Well, still am for that matter :)