There is, for me, something delicious about even being able to sustain a journal, albeit intermittently and irregularly. For a long time I tried, sporadically, to do something of this sort, on paper and for myself, and failed every time. When I was, in 1994, diagnosed with ADD/H, and put on Ritalin, it didn't immediately occur to me to try again; but when I became involved in pottery toward the end of the following year, I found myself jotting some notes. I'm still jotting notes about the pottery, and I now have about 8 volumes of them. I have gone as long as two or three weeks without making an entry, which would have promptly put the kibosh on any attempt at this BDR ("before diagnosis and Ritalin), but which has very little effect now.
I also maintain a couple Web journals, which are even more intermittent and irregular, but such is life. My first one is more or less a research record (or at least will be a research record as this journal takes over the personal side of things). If you care, you can find it at this location.
I also maintain a presence on LiveJournal, where I am (no huge surprise) jonsinger.
Therein, however, lies the rub: what should I put here, and
what should I put there? For now, there is much more over there,
and most of what's here is repeated there. That may change in
the future; I am slowly and laboriously thinking things out.
For now, though, if you care to hear about what's up with me
and what I'm up to, LiveJournal may be a more profitable venue
than this.
Pseudo-mail-to: jon (at) joss (dot) com
Pseudo-phone-to: +1 240 604 4495
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