I DON’T WANT TO BE // A PROLOGUE TO HISTORY

I’ve been maintaining a blog on LiveJournal since 13th January 2004. That’s more than two years. Since 8 February 2003, I’ve been posting on the fansite BridgetotheStars.net’s forum as user:jessia and now I have its highest post count at 10282 (as of 3:17 pm EDT). Talking to strangers (but they’re not total strangers anymore, except that they are) for more than three years- unhealthy? Probably. But hey, at least I don’t write Harry Potter fan fiction (that said, I shouldn’t pretend I haven’t read some). <does the shifty-eyed thing> Because blogging seemed to be an inescapable habit (I tried to return to ordinary diary-writing but it didn’t work), I figured I might as well write a “real life” blog (as if the internet isn’t ~real~)- but I like my LJ; it’s so well established. Said blog didn’t really say much actually though. There are a couple reasons I have to keep them apart. [1] Internet privacy + safety: God forbid that the sraffies could find me. [2] I’ve gotten into the habit of writing about people in my life and I don’t know if people should read that kind of stuff.

But it takes so much effort having to tell stories more than twice and having to change names. And really, I’m not one of those kids who go and post their full name, phone number, and address in random chatrooms (I can’t believe they actually exist, who’s teaching these kids?). So… screw it. RL kids (RL = real life) have found me anyways: Dan (the one that looks like Superman), then Nade (the goalianator), and Melly (the girl who used to dress punk rock) and Val (skinny girl)… Katie’s found me too. And WordPress is so much prettier than LJ and Blogspot.

Today I signed up for French lessons at Alliance Française. It was really more complicated than necessary. They don’t actually offer all the scheduled class times listed on their website. I hate when they do that. Then I accidently signed up for a class during my tentative driving lessons (it’s finally happening) and then freaked out ’cause there’s 50.00$ administration fee on the refund. I OMG-ed for a few minutes before figuring out (but the receptionist didn’t even suggest it, aie) that there was a downtown campus. So I start Intermediate 201 tomorrow morning. It’s adult classes so I’ll be with grown-ups. I’m hoping that doesn’t make for awkward, but even if it does I’ll be all right because I’m really good at awkward. You can’t go two months without talking to anyone without being good at awkward.