I had the occasion to read through some of my old entries on my private LJ, and WOAH was I annoying in late 2004!
I'm actually taking it as a good sign that I find myself from six or so years ago to be completely insufferable. I talked about nothing but politics, and major news stories! I guess it's easy to see how I drifted into intense political blogging by early 2005.
I did post a few excerpts from the novel I was working on for
National Novel Writing Month, which eventually turned into BROKEN (see? It's useful!), and I'm amazed by how much both did and didn't make it into the final cut of the book. Of course, it's been six years and a bit, and my writing style and storytelling abilities have developed since. It was still kind of cool to go back there now and think,
wow, this is like 90% garbage. Thank goodness for a) maturity and b) my awesome editors.
In other news, my town's government got annoyed with a film series the library is showing, and instead of backing up their librarians or making constructive suggestions, they threw a fit and threatened to withhold funding unless the film they objected to ("Sicko" by Michael Moore) was dropped. Needless to say, as a librarian myself, this did not make me happy. You can see my response posted
at CT News Junkie, where it will hopefully reach a wide audience. I hope some of the librarians in my town see it.