ownership

[Skunks]

I'm not big into new years resolutions. The idea is great, but the timing sucks. It's hard for me to get any sense of where I am or where I'm going when the skies are grey all the time and the days are short, nevermind the discontinuity of winter vacation, holiday season, etc. I think midyear resolutions work better, or more of a "state of the self" address. Deep into summer vacation, lots of time to reflect, long days, good sunsets.

About seven years ago Nic Name posted some hot pixx of a woman in body paint. I've been watching IOTD ever since. A few years ago, I stopped using aliases online. My cellar account predated that, and I've been slow to change since I post here so rarely.

I think, on the whole, having online aliases fostered a strong public/private split for me, in terms of thoughts and actions. It used to be that I'd avoid face conversations about technology and the internet just because it was so much work to explain things to people. That spread to encompass most things I involved myself in online, just for the sake of keeping up a base level of apparent 'normalcy.'

I'm starting to think that's all bullshit. Normal comes and normal goes, and the more you try to be something other than what you are, or to be interested in things for the sake of appearance, the more fucked you get in the head.

So, ownership. Own what I write, own who I am. I'm not posting this for converts, just trying to consolidate some personalities.

previously Skunks, presently George.