They Say What They Say

After spending three days in the old home town and today catching up on all the work that accumulated while I was away, I've come to the realisation that from now on I'm pretty much going to be permanently behind on my flist and fandom its self.

You see, a couple of years ago when I had a job that bored me senseless, the only thing that really kept me going was you guys and fandom. I knew that even if the majority of my day was going to be one big nonevent, at least I had something to look forward to as I cruised around LJ, squeeing about cute boys and getting to know y'all as you shared your lives with me. But last year I suddenly found myself going from being a worker bee with little to do, to a semi-Queen Bee with more than enough to keep me occupied. As a result it is becoming harder and harder for me to keep up with LJ and, by extension, fandom and my flist. A good example is the boobie kerfuffle that's recently been going on. I have no idea what it's all about, who started it and why. I see these post about it, but if I stop to read each one I find myself missing out on other, more important stuff. I'd hop onto fandomwank where I might glean some pertinent information, but if I did that I'd soon get caught out sniggering over the outrage and fall even further behind with what's going on with everyone else.

I know that it's good to have a life outside of LJ, and after much angst over where my career was going it's nice to finally see some results from all those years of slogging through university and toiling away in dead-end jobs. But I miss you guys like crazy and feel like I'm never going to be able to emerge from this semi-lurker state that I've gotten myself into.

You know how we have those daily (or weekly) newsletters that condense the goings on of fandom into an easily accessible digest? The ones like spnnewsletter and sn_updates? Well, I need one for my flist, just so I don't constantly feel like I'm being left behind.

After spending three days in the old home town and today catching up on all the work that accumulated while I was away, I've come to the realisation that from now on I'm pretty much going to be permanently behind on my flist and fandom its self.

You see, a couple of years ago when I had a job that bored me senseless, the only thing that really kept me going was you guys and fandom. I knew that even if the majority of my day was going to be one big nonevent, at least I had something to look forward to as I cruised around LJ, squeeing about cute boys and getting to know y'all as you shared your lives with me. But last year I suddenly found myself going from being a worker bee with little to do, to a semi-Queen Bee with more than enough to keep me occupied. As a result it is becoming harder and harder for me to keep up with LJ and, by extension, fandom and my flist. A good example is the boobie kerfuffle that's recently been going on. I have no idea what it's all about, who started it and why. I see these post about it, but if I stop to read each one I find myself missing out on other, more important stuff. I'd hop onto fandomwank where I might glean some pertinent information, but if I did that I'd soon get caught out sniggering over the outrage and fall even further behind with what's going on with everyone else.

I know that it's good to have a life outside of LJ, and after much angst over where my career was going it's nice to finally see some results from all those years of slogging through university and toiling away in dead-end jobs. But I miss you guys like crazy and feel like I'm never going to be able to emerge from this semi-lurker state that I've gotten myself into.

You know how we have those daily (or weekly) newsletters that condense the goings on of fandom into an easily accessible digest? The ones like spnnewsletter and sn_updates? Well, I need one for my flist, just so I don't constantly feel like I'm being left behind.