happy anniversary to me

[erilyn]

I've been on livejournal six years tonight. Six years since I gave in to this new-fangled fad and got a code from someone in IRC on Squidge.

Livejournal really changed the way I participated in fandom. While I'm not saying it is superior in every way to mailing lists and usenet, I've found myself far more personally involved and connected than I did on them (though how much of that is lj and how much is me is debateable, of course. IRC played quite a role in that before lj for me).

Of course, I've tracked good points in my life, and not so good (and overall, how little I've managed to progress my life in important ways, whoops).

I've been through a bunch of fandoms in those six years, though pop has been the dominant one, as I got into that in late 2002. (If you'd told me that six years ago, how important an RPF fandom would be for me, I wouldn't have believed you.)

But of course it's the people who've made lj special, the people I've gotten to know and the friends I've made, all around the world. ♥

Journal entries: 2,162
Comments - Posted: 26,848

[The only other time I've remembered to note the anniversary was after two years. At which point I was at 565 journal entries, and posted 3,599 comments.]

Gotta use this icon, it's been my default for about half the time I've had my journal - I made it in January 2005, and it became my default a little while after that. I've never had the heart to rotate it out :)

Comments

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I love you too! And Justin, but not as much :D

I hope everything goes as smooth as possible for the move. It's gonna be weird, all the time I've known you, glendaglamazon = NYC, and vice versa :)

[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. I think Justin would entirely understand that we love him less than we love our actual friends. ;)

It's been kind of freakishly smooth thus far! And there's only just over four hours left before I get on the plane.

glendaglamazon = NYC, and vice versa :)

Wow. As a New Yorker, I take that as an immense compliment! I don't think moving away from the city will cause me to cease being a New Yorker--it's about so much more than geography. And I think it might take a while for me to fully be an Angeleno. But I do hope to adapt quickly and not be too homesick.

And, to look on the bright side, I'll be 3,000 miles closer to you! And if you ever decide to visit New York, give me plenty of advance notice so I can come share the city with you!

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I have to visit NY someday, I do hope we can coincide things! But there are plenty of things I want to see in LA, my three days last time wasn't long enough, and it is indeed closer :D