First, let me apologize...

for posting so much, and mostly so much useless stuff recently. I don't know why I do it. Maybe it relieves the stress; or maybe I'm just making up for the Lost Year or something. Anyway, I'm sorry I'm sort of spamming your flists at the moment. I'm sure it's only a phase. I hope you haven't all moved me to the 'too many posts, don't read' filter by now. ;-)

Secondly, I have a question about LJ that's been bothering me for a while: is it just me, or is LJ very, very slow, and completely unreachable a lot of the times you're trying to post/read your flist/access your memories? I'm wondering if there's some sort of weird Hmpf-LJ-incompatibility thing going on here because I never see anyone else complaining about it. But for me, LJ is a major time waster, not so much because I spend so much time on here but rather because I seem to spend at least half of that time just waiting for pages to load, and getting error messages again and again and again. It drives me crazy! (ETA: And this is not a recent problem; it's been that way at least since I took up regular posting again earlier this year.)

My first ever serious LJ meta from 2002...

is up at my greatestjournal now: http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/hmpf/853.html. The subject was fan intellectuals and fandom midlife crisis. (Farscape fandom was going through one at the time. Little did we know that just a couple of months later the show would be cancelled.)

I'm not sure what I think now about the stuff I posted there.

Anyway... it's kind of interesting to be able to look at your own thoughts from way back. This is the first time in my life that I've kept a journal long enough to be able to do this.

Spam Day, ctd. - some Mohiro Kitoh praise

I should have mentioned this earlier, but sort of forgot because I was so tired: My copy of Mohiro Kitoh's Wings of Vendemiaire arrived today. A thousand thanks to nager whose gift to me this is. :-)

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