najalaise

I've been revising my interests list, and I suspect I'm taking too much pleasure in it for it to be useful rather than self-absorbed wankery. I'm a mite too gleeful, perhaps, about strings such as, "self-education, self-realization, self-reliance, selfishness." (Maybe what I should do is just toss "self-absorption" into that list! Heh.)

So, this post makes sure I know exactly which side of that line I'm on, by indulging myself still further and asking... if you see anything I've missed, what is it?

As I left the house this morning, I saw that my scarlet runner beans are finally beginning to pop up. What gorgeous seedlings! I should try to remember to get a photo. They have a purplish cast to them, and fine veins already visible on the tiny tightly packed leaves.

I seem to be more attractive on days when I'm actively engaged in sorcery- people respond to me differently, anyhow.

I'm insufficiently motivated to swap to Dreamwidth if it will put a damper on discussions because folks are less likely to comment if they have to use OpenID. That looks to be the case at present. Splitting comments is unacceptable to me for the same reason: I am intent on herding all commenters into the same room and poking them until they interact.

So, I could post on Dreamwidth and have it copied over to LJ, but enable comments only on LJ (thus reading and posting on two different sites... suboptimal!); or I could periodically import my LJ posts and comments to Dreamwidth in order to have a full backup and switch smoothly if that decision ever makes sense (but what happens when you import a newer edition of your journal over an older one, anyhow? anyone know?); or I could delete the content that's currently here and basically park the username and the style I have set up. Or I could do some entirely different thing which is better than the not very appealing options I've mentioned: what is it?

Am I the only one who really doesn't want a user icon to appear more than once on my journal? Hmm. Do I really have to get in the habit of using several icons, to avoid repetition? (Yes, I'm an odd duck on this point.)

I realize most folks will never really notice, because you'll be reading entries on your reading page instead, but...

In other news, my color scheme is actually much more goff than you can even guess. Heh. Oops.

Okay, yes, I'm trying this out as well. The big question, of course: if you are a someone who comments on my livejournal entries, are you less likely to click over and comment on dreamwidth instead? I'm going to leave comments open in both places for this post; feel free to try it out before answering that.

Edit: I should maybe add a link in the lj version of this entry, so you can actually go easily to the dreamwidth version! Oops. This post is also at http://najalaise.dreamwidth.org/173975.html?mode=reply

Sometimes my desires to hurt people are specific to male-bodied or female-bodied people. Okay, yes, this makes sense- perhaps I want to do certain things to certain parts of the anatomy, or maybe it's an aesthetic thing. There are, after all, grey areas between what I find aesthetically pleasing and what I find arousing, and it can be hard to say exactly why some things are appealing.

But sometimes my desires to hurt people are specific to a gender or range of genders. What am I on about there? I am not very clear on this. There seems to be a difference in my head between daydreams of inflicting pain on masculine people and daydreams of inflicting pain on feminine people. My approach may even be different, at least internally. What am I on about?



In totally unrelated news, if you are a masculine person who enjoys other masculine people, Najalaises, and pain, you might should let me know.

Crazy survivalists in the audience, do you prioritize specialization or redundancy?

Alice and I were pondering earlier whether, if one is planning a nutty little compound, it's better to emphasize skill level- and therefore divide important skills in order to have someone who is quite good at whatever you've named crucial- or better to make sure each person has all the Absolutely Vital skills- and therefore make teamwork more viable, and make each person a more autonomous unit. I think my ideal is to make sure everybody is exposed to the core concepts, gets a little bit of practice, and has documentation on each of the Absolutely Vital things... but have experts emerge in each area. It seems important to ensure that, should someone need to, they'd be able to pick up a skill or task relatively smoothly.

( backstory )

me: am i round-dimpled, seedy, and less meaty or am i oval-dimpled, meaty, and less seedy?
Phil: good question!
me: is it "meat" as in "the meat of the argument" and what makes someone substantial, or does it signify the temporariness of the flesh while seeds are potential for the future?
is meat Works and seeds Faith?
what's the significance of round vs. oval?


Help me decide what my Eggplant Gender is!

I was thinking that I should get a little calendar book to log planting dates, harvests, and so forth, so that I'll have records in order to adjust my tactics where needed. It occurs to me, though, that if I posted all that here and tagged it thoroughly, it'd be easy to look up information, my records wouldn't be subject to the weaknesses of paper, I might get handy feedback, and it's possible that it'd be useful to someone. I'd put all but the shortest entries behind cuts, I think.

Would it be pleasant or useful to you to have access to my gardening notes? Do you see drawbacks or excellent features of this approach?