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Clio, a vibrating mass of YES! ([personal profile] jlh) wrote2008-05-20 05:56 pm
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Candy. Or Iron. Or Wood, if you're very modern.

Send all your candy this way, it's my 6th LJ-versary! A date I now share with [livejournal.com profile] jm_cats, and how awesome is that?

Six years ago I was in the middle of posting Eight Ways from Sunday. HP book 5 wasn't out yet. I hadn't even met a single person in fandom! And now I have met so many of you out there, close friends, whether long distance or nearer to hand. And without all this I might not have come back to academia. So thank you, fandom, thank you live journal, thank you everyone.

In honor of that I shall use my default icon. Good old Seamus and Dean! I'll get back to you two by and by.

And what did I do to celebrate this momentous occasion? Why, I locked myself out of my flat, of course, in a sweater and a nightdress, no phone, no nothing, had to beg someone walking past to use their phone to call the locksmith who'd handily left their card in our outside door, got our bottom lock drilled out (and by the way, how anyone had broken into my apartment some years ago by drilling the lock with no one hearing I do NOT know) and bought a new lock that will not lock automatically thank goodness. And wow, I am living cheap here in Brooklyn, though now all that money has gone to the locksmith. At least in the twenty or so minutes that I was sitting on the stairs in our vestibule I put together a story. So there's that.

[identity profile] imaginarycircus.livejournal.com 2008-05-20 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
O_O At least it was a nice day? EEK!

HUZZA FOR SIX YEARS!

[identity profile] jlh.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It was cold and raining here actually! So I was very glad that I could hide out in the vestibule.

Huzza indeed! Thanks!

[identity profile] lillijulianne.livejournal.com 2008-05-20 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
all i can say is, selfishly, i am very glad you came to lj :)

[identity profile] jlh.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Right back atcha!
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[personal profile] misscake 2008-05-20 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy LJ-versary! Oh, EWFS and Swingers were two of my faves when I first discovered fandom - bet you didn't know that! LOL

I once locked myself out of my house, also in my nightdress, at 7am on a Sunday morning. None of my neighbors answered their door, but luckily some random person was walking their dog and let me use their phone. I hid in the backyard until my sister arrived with the spare key. Longest 30 minutes of my life.

[identity profile] jlh.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
omg, the lock out, all of it, just deeply sucks. feh!

Thank you! Oh my goodness, I didn't know that at all! I'm so flattered, thank you so much!

[identity profile] smilie117.livejournal.com 2008-05-20 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Anniversary! *\o/*

[identity profile] jlh.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! :D

[identity profile] sisterpandora.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
HAPPY LJ-BIRTHDAY TWINY!

Can't believe we held out till May! Go us! And how would have thought it would last so long, eh?

[identity profile] jlh.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
IIRC, I didn't get the point. I couldn't imagine having anything to say that could be that interesting to anyone else. I realize now that at the time I had friends who had a very performative attitude to their LJs that set a bar I could not reach. But by my own goals, I think I've done pretty well—and so have you!

[identity profile] jm-cats.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
Happy happy happy anniversary! I am the one who feels special knowing I share this day with you! I was just telling Ren the other day how I bow down to your writing skills so much right now because I just started truly reading "Radio Friendly" and I'm dying over its goodness.

[identity profile] lillijulianne.livejournal.com 2008-05-22 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
ee ee ee i will have to go read your comments so i can enjoy your enjoyment!

[identity profile] jlh.livejournal.com 2008-05-27 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, thanks so much! I'm super pleased you're enjoying it and I hope you'll let me know what you think (really!) when you've finished it, as [livejournal.com profile] ali_wildgoose wants me to expand it into original fiction.

Shared anniversaries are the awesome sauce!
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[identity profile] evil-erato.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't realize that you and Ely made yours before mine! :)) My LJ-versary is on Saturday, as dated from the first one I had. So long ago!!

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[identity profile] evil-erato.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait. Am moron. The 17th was last Saturday, not this Saturday. Clearly I am lost without my interwebs. *headdesk*

[identity profile] jlh.livejournal.com 2008-05-27 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I was like, wait, hers was around the same time! But I cannot find! alas!

But yes, I remember you nudging me right after you'd made yours!