Livejournal still damages my self esteem by warning: "SKACOVER, you have only made two friends!" I know who one is, but I honestly can't remember the other; I think she works at a college somewhere.  I found her back when I was trying to meet people.  Haven't heard a peep since I added her, but that's fair enough I guess as I haven't sent her anything either.

I'm proud to declare publicly that my journal has entered mid-game with about a year's worth of entries (More than I can count!  Hundreds of them!)

I'm torn.  Awhile back for professional reasons I set all my entries to friends only, and made it so all new entries defaulted to friends only.  The advantage is that my girlfriend's mom doesn't see me using the word fuck.  And while I would like to be the sort of person who doesn't mind the word reading about my various sexual escapades, I am not the sort of person who wants the whole world to read about my sexual escapades (actually sometimes I write about being depressed or spew a profanity laced rant about something or other).  

The disadvantage is that I censor myself and don't really meet anyone here.  Not that I ... want to...

Tonight I was skimming through old entries and thought I'd declassify a few of them, but I quickly found out that it would take forever and I would end up leaving more than half set to friends only anyway.  Some things, while not really a scandal, do not need to be emailed to my mom or my co-workers.

So it wouldn't be a disaster if the journal was read but it would be moderately embarrassing, so it stays private.  I'm no longer considering the "professional reasons" though.  In the past year since I set posts to friends only, I hear more and more about people not being hired because of myspace or facebook (Old Media has not yet heard of livejournal).  I occasionally read tips articles while at work to pass the time, and they all say stuff about HR e-stalking applicants for "inappropriate behavior."  

Fuck that.  Hey, tell you what, if you're reading this because you somehow managed to track me down based on a job application, screw you.  If you can't laugh that off and focus on more important matters, then I no longer wish to consider you as a candidate occupation.  I'll pick someone else.  Lighten up.  Get out of the office and go live a little.  Stop drinking so much soda.  Brush your teeth and wear sun screen.  And don't bother to call me either, your silence is sufficient communication.