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[omnia_mutantur]

pretty dress from coldwater creek: achieved.
3 1/2 inch round toed black heels: achieved.
cut velvet scarf dense enough to cover my shoulder tats: achieved.
parents: strangely pleasant, still very bad drivers.

it's been a successful day of acquiring.
now we just need the animal removal people to call us back about the skunk under the front porch/concrete slab.

tomorrow will include seeing Algonquin and Tulip for breakfast/brunch, then grocery shopping and a haircut.
we're almost tempted to drive up to the latchis to see goodnight and goodluck. (not tomorrow, i imagine, but soon).

i wonder if anyone manages to assume that all their livejournal entries get read. i'm not saying this as a plea for assurance, i'm more curious if anyone's mind works that way. i can't tell what it would be like.

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[gargirl.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure someone reads all of them... not one someone, but I think at least one of my friends reads each entry. I figure sometimes the few who read a specific one just don't have anything they feel they must say in response. :)

*HUGS*

Awww, I LOVE skunks! They are so cool.

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

skunks are supercute.
just not under my front step.

and you're right. i imagine someone reads each one. which is kind of neat.
speaking of which, i need an address to mail you a holiday card. email me?

[gargirl.livejournal.com]

Ooooo, I need yours too!

[sabine791110.livejournal.com]

I don't think that way. I don't know anyone who does, I don't think.

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

see, i imagine the people who assume that they get read, don't actually actively think about it. so they wouldn't ever be thinking that they get read or not read.

i can't imagine the mindset, but i think it might exists.

want a holiday card?

[greylady.livejournal.com]

It exists... I don't ever really wonder about getting read unless I've asked for a specific input (like the vampire movies request)... so it's not about getting read, it's about getting read by the right people.

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

so...do you assume everyone reads all of your posts? 'cause i think that's the mindset i'm asking about, and if i'm understanding correctly, it's just that you don't particularly care if you do.

[greylady.livejournal.com]

I don't assume everyone reads all my posts because there are posts that I don't expect to appeal to everyone. I sometimes wonder if a specific person has read a specific post, and I'm sometimes surprised at the people who've responded to a post because I didn't expect them to be interested.

I think it's probably fairly accurate to say I don't particularly care, unless it's something I want someone specific to read... and then I normally ask them about it if I don't hear back.

Having said that, I have a very curious and interactive friend-group, and they generally read things among them.

[sabine791110.livejournal.com]

Ooh, please!

[morgan-jane.livejournal.com]

what do you have tattoos of, and what at what ages did you get them?


i was wondering, what have you been reading? what would you say your top 5 favourite books you've read this year are?

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

i have six tattoos, gotten between the ages of 20 and 27.

at 21ish, i got my first tat, which is a celtic-knotty thing on my left back shoulder. then at 22 and 23, i got some decorative work on my upperass/lower back area. then 24 i got the greek word ananke, which means necessity, on the side of my left shoulder and 25 the greek word dunamis, which means strength/force on the same place on my right shoulder. somewhere in there i also got a crescent moon, waning, on my left side, right under my rib cage. lastly, to celebrate (among other things) one year of not smoking, last year i got an open, blank book tattooed on my right thigh, and the spine of the book covers the scar on my thigh from one of my most serious selfmutiliation moments in college, the night i tried to kill myself.


so, yeah. somehow simultaneously, it feels like lots of tats and not very many. and if i'm wearing jeans and short sleeves, none of them are visible.

top five books, let me think about it. i'm not actually reading anything i like very much now and am stuck in that horribly dull "must finish" place.

[morgan-jane.livejournal.com]

what "genre" would you say you like to read the most?
how many books have you read so far this year?

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

fiction, ideally about women.
i've read 94 books that "counted" and a lot more if you count my obsession with young adult fantasy novels.

[shebear.livejournal.com]

I agree with gargirl, I'm under the impression that someone probably reads each of them. I'm not so sure about any single person reading them all, though.

I read most entries by most people, but I'm still sure I miss some.

[greylady.livejournal.com]

Congrats on your shopping trip; be careful on those heels. :)

I'm not sure on my feelings about skunks, even if I am one of the few genetic abnormalities that cannot smell them properly... they smell like super-strong kiwi fruit to me. (It does have the effect of making it hard to keep a straight face when someone is wearing a kiwi-based perfume/scent, though.)

It seems like everyone is getting haircuts this weekend. Perhaps I should give in and get a trim myself... it's rather time.

[starrfade.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty certain that I have a few that no one has read (not referring to small/no viewing list ones), but that's not neccecarily all that supprising (ignore all spelling mistakes pls)

[grackles.livejournal.com]

I don't think all my livejournal entries get read.

[58hrs.livejournal.com]

[cihuateteo.livejournal.com]

I know that at least one very darling person reads all my entries. Although, beyond this I assume that either they are glanced at and not responded to (sometimes making me a feel a little bereft), that they may be buried in an extensive friends list, or that time prevents consistent responses...

In my case, I don't always respond to the entries I read, but I like keeping abreast of what the people I know and care about, or simply find intersting are up to and thinking about.

[wandelrust.livejournal.com]

I read all of your entries, though for most everyone else there's at least a few entries I skim. It depends on how long winded people are, some folks just don't type that much, and are easy to read all of them.

[wandelrust.livejournal.com]

Oops. Not yours, hers. If you know what I mean.

[millari.livejournal.com]

I'm always intrigued at how people manage to get these comprehensive friends lists with dozens of people reading their posts and commenting on them regularly. I've almost never had any random strangers friend me, so I don't think anyone much is looking at my journal. I never assume that.

In fact, I assume that even a lot of people on my friends list routinely skip over or at the most, skim over my posts, doublechecking to make sure I've not mentioned some tragedy or invite that they ought to respond to, in order to avoid looking like an utter heel.

Is that self-deprecating? Or realistic? I'm not really sure.