A Moving Wednesday Post

Back during college, when I walked to campus every morning, I eventually learned that sticking dry socks in my backpack went a long way toward dry feet on drizzly (or worse) mornings.

Today's squishy socks were a potent reminder that there are a very few things I might miss about college.

Work started the Summer of Shifting this week. One group is swapping space with another company in the building this week, and during summer proper we'll be expanding again. R&D is promising some rollouts too, with a host of knock-on effects for everyone. I am doing my best to keep my head down and ask pertinent questions while project bosses and senior staff clump at impromptu hall meetings about where to put stuff next.

I've been feeling weirdly laid back this week, which I blame on getting enough sleep. 7-8 hours a night? When did that start? I've also been trying to be a little less insanely driven at work, because my forearms are killing me, and I need to rearrange the ergonomics at my lab bench, or I'm going to be banned from the computer after work.

Toward Some Sort of DW Posting & Circle Policy

My subscription policy can be lifted from LJ:
1.) Do you write interesting or amusing posts?

2.) Is your journal a low drama zone?

3.) Do I know you in real life?

4.) Do I have time to extend my reading list?

If the answers to all four questions are "yes", I'll probably subscribe. My access policy will be seat-of-the-pants, but at the moment is likely to be based on two more questions:

1.) If you showed up at my door, would I be happy to see you?

2.) Do I feel the need to barrage you with the details of my life?

Affirmative answers mean I inflict access on you. Unless you ask me not to, which I would understand. The non-public (not open?) posts are pretty uninteresting to people not me.

Since crossposting could get old, I'm also evolving the possibility of splitting LJ/DW posts by topic. In other words, where do I post amateur photo hour, and where do I post the condensed version of media trope analysis? (And by "analysis", I mean conversations like, "what the heck? John is River. Rodney is never River." And if you understood that, I am so, so sorry.) How much overlap will I have on the two sites? It's the nature of the beast that my reading/commenting communities are going to diverge; should my posts reflect that? LJ-style infodumps don't seem like actual blogging to me, but now that I have two locations to post to, should I try to write something more serious than the narrative of My Day With Squishy Socks once in a while? Or at least longer than 10 sentences at at time.