I'm just saying.
So my current journal turned 1 yesterday. I know, I know, I have a blog - why do I need a journal? Trust me, people - they are very different things. Journal entries would ne-heh-HEHver find their way to blogger.
So far the new journal documents one of the most change-filled years of my life. I went from grad student in Georgia to working stooge in Arizona. An important person or two found their way into my life. Faith on a deeper level. Had to move away from two of my best friends. Did lots of traveling. Moved to a new city by myself (for the third time). Lost a grandmother. It's been quite the year, I tell you.
Anyway, I don't write in the journal all that often - maybe a couple times a month or so. More if there's an excessive buildup of the crazies in a given month. It helps me keep life in perspective when I can go back and read over the past few months or so. My first journal I wrote in for seven years. Then I ran out of pages. That's a year and a half of high school, all of college and the first year and a half of grad school. It's fun to go back in that journal and read some of the oldest entries...holy lord was I ever melodramatic. I used lots of underlining and CAPITAL LETTERS.
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What about italics?
What about emboldening the words?
!W!h!a!t! !a!b!o!u!t! !e!x!c!l!a!m!a!t!i!o!n! !p!o!i!n!t!s!? (wow that took a long time. feel special.)
can i read your old journal? i wann a see what you were like in high school. oh holy crap i'm laughing already and i haven't even read! it!.
lol - pat's funny. so are you. LOVE this post. I read through Claire and my notes from highschool when I cleaned my closet at Christmas . . . we were . . . uh . . . interesting people. SOOOO meloDRAMAtic. See what I did there? Capitalization? Elongating stressed words? emphasizing the important parts of words? oh lordy . . .
You know who else rocks the casbah?
The Shins. :D
they will change your life
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