On the LiveJournal community
Sep. 19th, 2003 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistI've made a couple of interesting observations about this recently, and I thought I'd pretend that they go together.
First, in the shower this morning, I thought about how European Sarah and I are when it comes to showering. In France, she got in the habit of only showering every couple of days. She still does, for the most part, and now I've picked up the same tendencies.
Which, for some reason, made me think of something one of my friends wrote, probably a couple of months ago, that was a dialogue between them and their husband or wife or roommate or whatever. So it went like this: "How long has it been since I bathed?" "Uh, since the last time I did." "When was that?" "Uh, Monday?" "What day is it now?" "Thursday." Or some such. The funny thing is that a bunch of people left comments saying "My boyfriend and I are like that, too!" Or "As long as you guys don't care, more power to ya!"
There are so many people on LiveJournal that, no matter how weird you think you are, there's bound to be other people who don't care about taking showers, or other women who don't care about having an orgasm during sex because it probably won't happen anyway, so it's dumb to worry about, espeically when you can do it yourself (I read that somewhere recently, too, though of course I cannot remember who wrote it now). Unless, of course, you're too busy eating graham crackers.
The point is, you are probably not as weird as you imagine. It's nice to know.
The other thing I noticed about LiveJournal today is that I learn the most interesting things from it (besides learning enough HTML to make my CSci webpage assignment a piece of cake). Last week, I inferred that Johnny Cash must have died after reading cryptic references in at least three or four journals as soon as I got up that morning (other people have coffee to wake up, or "Good Morning America"; I read my friends' page). Today, I learned about it being Talk Like a Pirate Day thanks to seeing many references to it on my friends page this morning. Like Johnny Cash, I didn't believe or even understand it until I read it from a couple of different people.
This point is, my LiveJournal friends keep me so well informed. It's nice to know.
First, in the shower this morning, I thought about how European Sarah and I are when it comes to showering. In France, she got in the habit of only showering every couple of days. She still does, for the most part, and now I've picked up the same tendencies.
Which, for some reason, made me think of something one of my friends wrote, probably a couple of months ago, that was a dialogue between them and their husband or wife or roommate or whatever. So it went like this: "How long has it been since I bathed?" "Uh, since the last time I did." "When was that?" "Uh, Monday?" "What day is it now?" "Thursday." Or some such. The funny thing is that a bunch of people left comments saying "My boyfriend and I are like that, too!" Or "As long as you guys don't care, more power to ya!"
There are so many people on LiveJournal that, no matter how weird you think you are, there's bound to be other people who don't care about taking showers, or other women who don't care about having an orgasm during sex because it probably won't happen anyway, so it's dumb to worry about, espeically when you can do it yourself (I read that somewhere recently, too, though of course I cannot remember who wrote it now). Unless, of course, you're too busy eating graham crackers.
The point is, you are probably not as weird as you imagine. It's nice to know.
The other thing I noticed about LiveJournal today is that I learn the most interesting things from it (besides learning enough HTML to make my CSci webpage assignment a piece of cake). Last week, I inferred that Johnny Cash must have died after reading cryptic references in at least three or four journals as soon as I got up that morning (other people have coffee to wake up, or "Good Morning America"; I read my friends' page). Today, I learned about it being Talk Like a Pirate Day thanks to seeing many references to it on my friends page this morning. Like Johnny Cash, I didn't believe or even understand it until I read it from a couple of different people.
This point is, my LiveJournal friends keep me so well informed. It's nice to know.
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Date: 2003-09-19 09:30 am (UTC)You mustn't wash too often! It will mess up your enzymes. I mean you're not anyway, but people are. My old housemate would often have 2 showers a day, sometimes for over an hour. And she always had Ladies Problems. The doctors couldnt find anything wrong, but i dont expect she was telling them about the baths.
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Date: 2003-09-19 10:44 am (UTC)No, I'm just kidding; I wore normal clothes. It's a good idea, though. Perhaps I can just pretend I'm in Sweden.
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Date: 2003-09-19 02:39 pm (UTC)