Monk

During my morning reading session, I was getting juiced to open a Twitter account. It's probably all the media attention that Twitter has enjoyed lately. Sugar's account doubtlessly helped to open me up to the idea, too.

The desire to use Twitter to keep notes on my reading was the first impetus, and after I opened up more to the idea of also including notes on my movies and meals and masturbatory fantasies, these all seemed like the kind of things for a twittery account, because I know that I wouldn't want to crowd my main blog with such minutiae, unless I wanted another try at treating my main blog as a stream of consciousness exercise and letting all the little detritus of my life show up on it, which I don't.

But then I thought: why not follow my first idea to open another, separate LJ account? One reason not to is that Twitter's 140-character rule would be a good, effective disciplinary device not to get carried away with my posts, and if I did not have that hard limit, I would only end up getting burned out on the whole idea and probably pretty quickly. But I was favoring the idea of sticking with LJ anyway and taking my chances.

One problem with using another LJ account, though, is that it promises to be tricky to keep two accounts live at once. Remember when I used to try to keep my Primus account live? I learned that my computer stresses out too easily when I try to run two windows at the same time. Maybe it is the multi-tabbing thing, that and my wonky hard drive.

Then I thought about Blurty. And I was happy with the prospect of putting my old Monkey-Knight account back to serious use. However, the hand of fate seemed to come down to give me additonal guidance. When I tried to open the Blurty page, I was slapped down when I found that the site is out of commission! Previously, it was working fine and swiftly, even if that was presumably because there are so few users taxing Blurty's servers. I had to laugh: it was the old Blurty problems all over again, which was why a lot of us left Blurty and moved to LiveJournal in the first place.

Maybe I shouldn't laugh too hard. I still want to retrieve my Blurty entries. I hope Cheever is still on top of the operation and will get Blurty back up and running, though I don't think I will be trusting him with another account.

In the end, I opened another LJ account. As for any problem that my computer may have about multiple windows, it could be that it's only if both windows are expanded to contain multiple tabs that causes the system to crash. We are now in the middle of testing that theory.

Late last night, about ten minutes before the midnight hour and the change of day, I struggled over what to twitter before I was content to just let the day go blank, and I thought it might be better to do that more often, instead of cluttering an already heavily loaded blog with more throw-away writing, in the same vein that I no longer want to cut and paste so many articles - as if to make my blog more quality.

I have some regrets the morning after. I favor more the sculptor's model for writing, that is, you throw up a lot of stuff and work and re-shape it from there.

The better course may be to stop leaving the day blank until evening in the faith that I will whip something up, especially since my memory is not so keen that it keeps the little pregnant moments lived through earlier in the day. Looking inside yourself and facing the blank emptiness in the black of night with the day dying around you is not a comfortable place to be.