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belenen:
Account type:        Permanent Account (w00t! Thanks flist! :D)
Date created:        2003-08-29 11:13:42
Journal entries:      1,237
Comments:           Posted: 21,044 - Received: 18,672

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I just spent a goodly pile of hours looking for cool new people (and have added a few people over the last week, just randomly), so welcome diepunyhuman, inangkor, justkat2, jzer, luisrico_1867, sylvanfae, underwatercolor! *waves* Feel free to fill out my get to know you survey (thanks Kat & Luis!) I seem to get the urge to make new connections whenever I'm feeling disconnected from my current people, which sucks because then the new people get the initial impression of me as a negative/down person, and that is so totally not me. But it's okay because first impressions never last, or so I firmly believe :D

bluebl00d, I've been listening to your last.fm radio for the last few days -- love it! (except for the classic/80's rock, sadly) and every time that Drinking In LA song comes on I get positively giddy. I love the Playing By Heart soundtrack so much. I need to buy it -- I only have the score. Anyway, my point was, you have awesome taste. ;-)

Happy Birthday synisterchyck! Hope you have a fabulous day!

The landscape drawing meme: click here and make/save your drawing before looking under the cut. ((Don't look at my drawing or the other comments first!)) Then post your drawing as a comment and I will analyze it for you! Comments are screened until I interpret them ;-)

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For me, I love comments, and they do help me feel more connected to those who make them. But I can feel connected simply through reading your journal (if you are fairly self-expressive), and I won't love you less if you don't comment (though I may poke you if I want your thoughts on a certain post). The one thing that I STRONGLY DESIRE is for people to fill out my polls. I get very very very disappointed when people don't take them. I pout to myself about it, heh.

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Top Commenters on belenen's LiveJournal

1	darkpool	284
2	sidhe_aingeal	267
3	kevloid2007	264
4	clown_frog	247
5	kmiotutsie	226
6	anar_anar	217
7	cethlynn	171
8	acid_burns	165
9	valynn	163
10	thesaj	149

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Poll #769289 comment or post
Open to: Friends, results viewable to: All

would you rather I:

Hopefully things will change to allow me more time after hannah's visit, but we'll seeeee... most likely I will continue commenting rarely. I actually comment fairly often, but it gets sprinkled around all 70+ of you and you all get small bits. If I can ever get past my perfectionism and spending soooooooo long on every comment, then I will be able to comment more. I hate thinking about how little I comment. I feel like I know so many of you so well, but of course YOU don't feel like that because I so rarely reply. :-( I'm sorry, but I think it's a flaw I am going to have to live with a while longer. I don't know the real root, though I'm sure it's fear of SOMETHING... I'll deal with it eventually.

also, THANK YOU WONDERFUL invisibleglue!!!!!!!!! I got the CD and photos and letter and it all made me so happy. ♥ ♥ ♥ You are so amazingly generous! I hope to write back sooooon. I love you gorgeous girl!

also, THIRTEEN DAYS. *screamfaint!* By the way, any mutual friends who feel like flying in for a day, feel free! But only for a day, greedy me wants hannah mostly to myself. *snatches her*

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There's a whole new set, everyone (except Aubrey) has shifted place! ;-D *feels loved*

Top Commenters on belenen's LiveJournal

1	aubkabob	379
2	jedibubbles	232
3	darkpool	228
4	kevloid2006	206
5	anar_anar	204
6	misemifein2	190
7	cethlynn	171
8	valynn	159
9	sidhe_aingeal	157
10	kmiotutsie	148

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hee hee, mine's all pretty and vivid violet. *preens*

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I feel rambly. So imonna ramble a bit. (yes that is a word, I use it all the time! 'imonna' means 'I am going to' in case you didn't get that)

Comments. I have been changing my views on them. When I first started LJ, I never replied to comments left in my journal. Then I happened upon a journal-rating community, and one of their rating criteria was 'does this person reply to comments?' and that got me thinking. When people say something to you in real life, you don't just act as if you didn't hear them, so why do that on LJ? Nowadays I respond to almost all of the comments I receive, because even if I have nothing to say, it's just polite to let them know that I read their comment and appreciate it. I know I usually respond days later -- I think that's because I want to wait until people are finished commenting and then reply all at once so that I don't miss any.

Also, I want people to reply back to my comments on their posts -- if the comment is a decent length. If it's short, I don't care, but if I took the time to write out a few paragraphs and then don't get a response, I feel ignored. And then since I feel ignored I stop commenting. Why bother?

I also used to not comment much at all; I've been changing that, slowly. Why? Because I realized that even when someone left me a short comment, it mattered to me, so it probably matters to other people. And how do you know that I read your journal if I don't comment? Still, I don't have enough time to comment as much as I'd like. Mainly because I'm too much of a perfectionist... I save all the posts I want to comment to into organized temporary folders, and then go back and comment when I have time and inclination.

I get most excited when people comment on my jewelry posts. Really, really excited. So if you wanna show me love, comment on my jewelry posts. And do my polls. ;-)

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by the way, aubkabob, I figured out how to take out ex-friends and deleted journals -- when you 'set username aliases,' just set all of them to give their comments to your journal, and of course exclude yourself from the rankings. I'm such a h4x0r. :-D

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For me, I really want lots of comments if I post about my races or my world; otherwise, I love them but never feel slighted if I don't get them (okay, maybe if you didn't tell me happy birthday I might have felt a little slighted). BUT -- I always want everyone to participate in my polls.

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Yesterday, Matthew (this highschooler cashier) was working at the next register over, and he told me his IPH (items scanned per hour) and wanted me to tell him mine, but I wouldn't. So he came over to my register as I was finishing with a customer, and was about to reach for the action code keys to get it anyway -- and I grabbed his hand and said, "Oh no you don't, buddy." He stepped back, and I gave my customers their receipt, smiled and wished them good day, then turned back to him. He told me I have 'man hands'; I asked what he meant by that and he said that I have a very strong grip. Without thinking, I said, "Yeah, well I'm able to stop people from doing things I don't want them to." He said, "really? You've needed to stop people?" or something like that -- I didn't quite catch it because he was walking back to his register. He was probably trying to be a smartass (like usual).

Anyway, that little incident made me realize that I am strong.
I am no longer a helpless child, and I don't need to feel like one.
I am able to defend myself.
I am able to say no.

I feel my strength awakening in my spirit; my shimmering white cobra is rearing her unutterably beautiful, dangerous head. It feels so good, so freeing.

What would I do without my paid account? (this is locked so only I can see the answers 'cause of the first question)

Poll #426165 real names / commenting
Open to: All, results viewable to: None

what's the name you go by in person (not online)?

what is your commenting method?

I try to respond to everything, even if I'm just typing *huggles*
14 (15.9%)

I comment whenever I'm intrigued by a post.
38 (43.2%)

I comment whenever I have something that simply must be said; I usually contemplate but don't comment.
36 (40.9%)

I only comment on picture posts.
0 (0.0%)

I never comment.
0 (0.0%)

I've been thinking on my own methods lately... I always read, often reflect, but rarely comment. Even if the post makes me stop and really consider, I might not comment. And then I realized that I love comments (except... the huggles ones) and probably everyone else does too, so even commenting that something made me laugh out loud would probably brighten someone's moment, at least, and is therefore worth doing. But I have yet to really implement this philosophy; I think the only way I'll be able to do it is if I determine that I will respond to every post, and then allow myself to make exceptions for some that I really have no thoughts on.

( who comments the most in my journal? whoooo could it be? )

Here's how to do it yourself.