A man cannot live by userpics alone.

I let my paid account lapse.

If I had the money, I would've grabbed it back, even though I post here once a month maybe and more frequently on ONTD. I'll probably snag the icons I'll want to emphasize my comments on ONTD.

Otherwise... I guess it's time to let those others go.

Ok, so maybe it's time I made a conscious effort to write more and maybe LJ is not the place to do it. Having averaged .5 posts a month for over a year, it's just not been happening.

Danielle left LJ and told me this past weekend that it was something she had to do to separate herself from the person who was writing the entries before. She and I have that in common--we look back and cringe. My solution for that has evidently been to lock all those posts and then completely fail to indicate any evolution of my own by posting recently.

But maybe it's time to acknowledge that LJ is functional for precisely 2 things: communities (ONTD and my music ones) and seeing those entries by people that currently post here. Those people are fast disappearing as well in the wake of facebook's 5-second catch-all of status updates. It's easier to post a quote or a song lyric that indicates how we feel or simply post what we're actually doing than a long drawn-out story.

I want to keep posting for Viktor on his blog, which must continue to happen if a) I want to maintain a sense of identity for the character and b) want to actually contribute something to the written word... ever again.

Often I see pictures and I think "userpic!" but those go often unused. I have 2 half-finished mood sets. I post on ONTD a lot, but otherwise am silent on LJ. I may need to leave this familiar place and try something else. Maybe there's just too much of what I've done and not enough of what I'm doing. Anyone who uses LJ to keep tabs on me must think I've either gone missing or that my life is a sawdust of dull, which is simply not true.

I just... don't know what to say on here anymore.