Okay, time *sigh* to remove friends.

[icarus]

I'm about as good at deleting people who've unfriended me as I am about throwing out old photos and letters from old lovers. That is to say, I'd prefer not to do it at all.

No matter what our disputes or how our interests have diverged, I still remember you fondly, if (in some cases) rather faintly. If we've disagreed I still probably respect you.

I have in my LJ career only unfriended a handful of people, one of whom I friended back less than a year later. Of the remaining two, one was a personal "unfriending me? Well, then -- so there. Pbblt." The other was a more general swearing-in-capslock irritation.

I hate unfriending.

But recently I haven't been able to friend people back.

LJ places a limit on the number of people you can friend. Thanks to prillalar and vermillion_moon's helpfulness, I'm now scanning the ever-depressing Joule and marking the bodies with yellow tags.

If I unfriend you and you don't want to be unfriended (I can't imagine why) just let me know. I'm assuming all of these who've removed me are gone for good.

*goes back to sorting old photos, feeling rather discouraged, but dutiful. There are new people to add after all.*

ETA: What I have learned -

1 - There are a lot of deleted journals in this world (and on my friendslist)
2 - What the hell did I say on January 13th? Because a whole lot of Stargate people friended me, and a hell of a lot of HP people dropped me
3 - That I still hate unfriending

Comments

[amalthia]

How do you find time to write when you are running all these lists/activities???/fests? :)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how I did it (I lived on the internet, that's for sure!). But I certainly can't do it now. But, you won't believe how many stories I wrote.

I just decided to count them. There are 98 stories written between October 2002 and now. Now 50 of those were drabbles, but that's still a lot.

Icarus

[amalthia]

that's a lot, I think I only have about 10 stories of my own, though they are each kind of longish....but yeah I'm also having a hard time finding time to write now that I have a full time job. One one hand it's great, I'm able to pay the bills but on the other I have to ration my time online. :(

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was really out of control for a while there. I had to cut back my online time, because it was really taking over, and it started getting harder and harder to find time to write -- especially when I was working full time. It was very frustrating. Sometimes I'd stay late at the office to write, just because by the time I got home I'd be too tired.

Icarus

[amalthia]

I played this online game that had me addicted for about a year, I don't think i wrote anything during that time. So now I'm kind of glad the game creators kept changing the game until I no longer enjoyed playing it anymore. :)

though as soon as I stopped playing I got a real job....sigh oh well to really write, I'd have to get rid of my internet connection. It takes more discipline than I have to split my time between emailing friends and writing.