Actually, it was kinda cool to catch up on what you've been up to :-)

Somebody wuvs me! *beam*

Thanks, Avdi.

(Though that's not at all what I'm up to. Maybe I should. Um. Post.)

Just added it, and it still kinda spammed my friends page. At least you're alive. :) I'd been wondering, after your last post on sperari.com disappeared, then reappeared a few weeks later. *insert spooky sound effects*

Actually, I took it down for a couple weeks due to a conflict of interest with a competition some teammates were going to. I didn't want my rant reflecting poorly on the team while they were at Nationals. Doesn't mean I didn't mean it, of course.

It happens, mostly due to LiveJournal's crappy RSS implementation. No worries. :)

PS - hi!

Hi! ^_^

Ultimately, the Livejournal implementation of a blogging community has been broken by trying to wedge "friend" and "subscription" into the same little space. I don't have enough context with you for the stuff you write - which tends toward the highly personal - to resonate; I can't possibly see how you could have enough context with me to care about the more personal things I have to say.

That's the "subscription" level. I don't read your journal, and I treat my LJ friends list as a subscription list.

On the friends level, taking you off my list doesn't mean I'm executing some nefarious and evil plan to permanently exlude you from ever being a friend, or to somehow devalue you. Do you see the difference? I hope so. In any case, the friends-vs.-subscriptions issue is the foundation for the very drama that made me leave LiveJournal (other than the token, now-and-again reading and catching up) in the first place.

Have a good holiday, M. If you see me on sometime, and you find a reason you'd like to talk, shoot me a line. I know you've got the digits.

Ew, I've lost my ability to spell. Exclude, natch.

Hey! *poke*

Yes, dear? ^_^

You're killing me with that avatar photo.

And you really should blog more. I can't gain inspiration to ask too often what's going on with you, but I am curious.