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[sovay]

I just realized that I completely failed to observe or even notice the tenth anniversary of this journal when it came around. I got an account with LiveJournal—my first foray into social media—and posted my first entry on December 30th, 2004. On December 30th, 2014, apparently I was talking about movies.

Works for me.

Comments

[rosefox]

Happy anniversary!

[sovay]

Happy anniversary!

Thank you! It has been a very . . . change-filled ten years.

[genarti]

Happy anniversary! Blogiversary? LJversary? Uh, anyway. Yay for ten years of your LJ being awesome. :)

[sovay]

Yay for ten years of your LJ being awesome.

Heh. Thank you!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Happy Tin Anniversary!

Nine

[sovay]

Happy Tin Anniversary!

Thank you! Next year, according to Sandra Boynton, it's Synthetic Fibers. Maybe I could get Bertie Owen a scarf.

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your journal's tenth anniversary!

(Mine will hit its thirteenth anniversary on January 20th. I don't know where the time has gone.)

[sovay]

Congratulations on your journal's tenth anniversary!

Thank you!

(Mine will hit its thirteenth anniversary on January 20th. I don't know where the time has gone.)

(Looking back at the ten years this journal has covered is really, really weird. [edit] You should write a baker's dozen of poems for the years.)

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

(Ooh, and you could write a set of ten for your decade.)

I've read 2002-2004 over the past six weeks or so, and peering in on my undergraduate self has been...I don't know if "troubling" or "enlightening" would be the right word. Perhaps just "educational."

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Your first LJ entry is excellent. It's fun to see who responded!

I started my journal two years and 13 days later--but it wasn't until a year and eight months later that you and I became LJ friends, or so my archive tells me (here).

[sovay]

It's fun to see who responded!

And most of those people are no longer reliably on LJ! This journal has outlasted its strictest purpose! I regret nothing.

--but it wasn't until a year and eight months later that you and I became LJ friends, or so my archive tells me (here).

Hey. Hello.

[gwynnega]

Happy LJversary! I've been on LJ for twelve years as of December.

[sovay]

Happy LJversary! I've been on LJ for twelve years as of December.

Thank you! Congratulations on your dozen.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

It's fun to see the first pecks of your LJ egg-tooth, and you emerging (like a baby T-Rex) a miniature version of your future self. Happy anniversary!

[sovay]

Happy anniversary!

Thank you!

I liked a lot of things about where I was when I started this journal, and the trajectory I was on still feels like something painfully lost. But I read some of those early entries—or even some of those middle entries—and I like better what I write now.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

And by the time I joined, in March 2005, you seemed to have been here always.

[sovay]

And by the time I joined, in March 2005, you seemed to have been here always.

Thank you.