I've been spying. I was checking
out some websites to see how other
people do their online journals.
Interesting, to say the least. Hey,
you need a passive color for a visited
link.
After reading other's
journals, I've noticed something about
my own journalizing. I'm anal. Well,
just like in the outside world, eh? I
need everything in a neat, ordered,
duplicate, straightforward, simple
format. Excess? Ditch it. Clean what
you can see and leave the rest hidden.
So what if it's crap. Hide it. Out of
sight, out of fucking mind. Cleanliness
is next to Glennliness.
And I support the
graphic-free site. The emphasis is on
the writing. Screw aesthetics. Gray
background, black background. Yellow
text, red link, pink visited link. Ok,
ok, I shouldn't gripe about other
people's colors when I'm using a pukey
pink.
But I do have way too many
paragraphs. I have a couple of
sentences and *boom*, that's it. Time
to move on.
(Of course, that brings up a
whole other issue of the Stand-Alone
Paragraph versus the Indent-Only
Paragraph. Should I leave space or
should I just indent? Maybe leave two spaces? Nah, one space is
good enough.)
(Unless the paragraph is a
killer single line.)
And something that I think
is really cool that I really lack is
mystery. Some of these journals are so
out-there, so funky, so
figure-it-out-yourself that I want to do
a little cut 'n' pasting (Note to Ftrain: I had the
lead-off with the cat face-scratching
before you did). I mean, for chrissakes,
I put out a whole goddamn introduction
telling everyone just who I am, what
languages I speak, and how many times a
day I think about string. I'm even
considering doing a cast list! Am I a
moron here or what? Do I have to explain
every little fucking detail so that the
off-chance that someone actually visits my journal, they'll know
exactly when I took my first unassisted
shit as a small child simply by reading
a single line of useless blather? Have I
forgotten that this journal is supposed
to be for me as well??
Um, speaking of which, just who am I
talking to right now?
It's definitely time for a new
paragraph……three spaces between.
