Four years

Today is my four-year LiveJournal anniversary.

I originally thought I'd keep this thing for maybe a week and then delete it. I can't believe I've been posting here regularly for four years!

The first person to comment on my journal was the lovely harmonyfb. We hadn't even met in person at the time--this was before Vulkon Tampa or DragonCon '03 or the two WriterCons. How awesome is it that we're still in touch four years later? :)

My early posts are kind of lame and annoying. I guess I was trying to seem all cool and impartial as "the archivist of All About Spike." That sure didn't last long! Wank and emotional rants are more fun anyway, right? ;) Although I definitely put a lot more effort into my posts back then, before this journal just turned into "Laura rambling about whatever's on her mind today."

My writing was probably more honest and less self-conscious back when I kept a personal diary for my eyes only, but I think the trade-off (making good friends and having people to talk with about my interests) is more than worth it.


Couple of good links today; Kathy Freston on the Huffington Post:

Vegetarian is the New Prius
A Few More 'Inconvenient Truths'

Not that there's anything new here; vegans have been shouting this stuff from the rooftops for years. What's interesting is the mainstream left-leaning environmentally concerned demographic among whom this discourse is (finally!) starting to take place.

I don't even know what I'm babbling about in this entry

( this quiz is better than most - what's your dating persona? )

Hmmm, pretty accurate.

You'd absolutely refuse to date someone dumber than you, for instance.

Also, a link to Stephen Colbert cracking up. Because you can never have too much Stephen Colbert.

Also, what is this Atlanta Comics Expo in April? It's some spun-off part of DragonCon? Should I go? Thus far it seems that the only interesting guest is Voltaire, and I'm getting sick of stalking him. But I have been lamenting lately that DragonCon is so far away....

I like this article by Wil Wheaton about arcade video games. Reminds me of the Pizza Hut in Puerto Rico when I was nine; I'd get a mini-supreme pizza and a virgin pina colada and play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as long as my mom would let me, with my brother and whatever random kids happened to be there at the time. Or the old Star Wars game at Showbiz Pizza Place when I was ... eight? and I thought it was the coolest thing ever that you could fly through the trench and blow up the Death Star, and Obi-Wan would say "the Force will be with you, always." *sigh* Wil Wheaton columns always seem to bring up nostalgic memories.

Okay, one more quiz:

( this quiz is just silly - which classic dame are you? )