Okay, I give.

I set up a Dreamwidth account ages ago and then ... drumroll, please, never used it.  Of course, this is partially/largely because I stopped using social media altogether because of the strange feedback cycle that since nobody seemed to be using the types I was using, I wouldn't use it, either - why put all that effort into a post nobody would read? Which in all likelihood reinforced other people's similar thought processes.  Silly.

As far as I can tell, the last time I bothered with Dreamwidth, it was August 14th, 2010.  A lot has happened since then.  (This is me tossing my hat into the ring for Understatement of the Year - a late entry, to be sure, but nevertheless a strong contender.)  Of course, since more-or-less the last time I posted to LJ was when the baby was born in November 2011 (with a few sad attempts to reassert my journal around Christmas and the last big surge of sexism in fandom), it's not like that was a severe disjuncture.  I'll try to synch the two - fear my mighty tech skills! - and probably fail, but from here on out, tabula rasa, because if I try to cover everything that's happened in between, I will never manage to post.

Last year, I had all of one resolution: be nice and patient.  For the first year of parenthood, it worked out pretty well.  I'm renewing it this year, I think.  But I'm also going to add some new ones - more shallow, maybe, but not necessarily less important.

One of them is to eliminate denim from my wardrobe.

Another is to resurrect some semblance of an online community. 

Here's to starting early ....

P.S. - If you have a DreamWidth account, possibly under another handle, and would like to friend me there, I will be very happy to rediscover you!