No work, anonymouse comments.

[slemslempike]

Maybe I won't do a phd after all. Because it turns out that I don't actually like doing revisions all that much, and in fact I simply just don't do them when I have to anyway. I've written rubbish, and I don't want to make it better, I just want it to be over. This is mostly just lazy whining. It could probably be fixed quite easily. I've had two weeks to do it, but I have written LITERALLY nothing in those two weeks. Bad idea, apparently.

I never post anonymous things, not least because whenever it occurs to me to do so someone else has already done it and I figure there wouldn't be any. But I haven't seen one for a bit. And I'm very bored. And I keep refreshing until there is something to see, and perhaps if there were occasionally comments I would do more work. So yes. Anonymous comments would be nice. Scandalous. Rude. Bitchy, oh, especially bitchy, or rambling, or just post whatever comes out with ctrl+v. I know this level of neediness is deeply unattractive, but I am past caring. I just want comments, so I have something to read that isn't the drivel I've written.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

like someone above some of the people on my flist shit me to tears. they just complain all the time! about boring things like their housemate being a grot! it's not my fault, when i started an lj i thought of it as a blog, i didn't know it was full of angsty teenagers (and angsty really-not-teenagers-anymore-and-should-grow-up people). i want to defriend them but i don't want to offend them as i do sometimes see them in real life.

also i actually want to split a feminist/activist group that i'm involved in because most of them are old and just don't get it and i'm fed up

and finally i don't want to walk against warming on saturday and maybe i don't care about the environment as much as i care about other things and i'm worried that makes me a Bad Person and my friend's grandchildren will die because of me. worse, my boss seems to think i'm this big greenie and i have a crush on her and feel i need to live up to her expectations/idea of me. (on that note i am also unable to make normal conversation when i see her and i fear she's starting to think i'm boring)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Aw! I like complaining, so I'm quite happy when my flist complain about things. But then I also like that lj isn't a blog. I like the community aspect of lj, and blogs seem to think of readers as an audience instead. I AM NOT AN AUDIENCE.

I have to lecture on postfeminism soon, and I'm wondering if the students will think of me as not getting it because I'm old(er), rather than it being me knowing BETTER because I am WISE AND EXPERIENCED.

I'm sorry you have to walk. I don't like walking very much. Also I don't do well at conversation and it's just as well I don't know anyone I fancy, because that would be unimaginably dire.

[(Anonymous)]

well, that depends on the blog i think. there are quite a few that i read that are almost obsessed with the 'community' thing (or maybe the real problem is they sometimes try and achieve it in fairly naff ways e.g. throwing a question at the end of the post but not shaping the rest of the post as if it were part of a conversation. the test is whether the bloggers or writers reply to comments i think)

funny you should mention age and feminism as i was just reading an article which argues that it's normal for feminists (across ye ages) to start off in the movement when middle aged and to stay relatively in it into old age - that the yoof are the exception. interesting.

yes. fancying is bad and should be avoided at all costs.