Mixed feelings

[next_to_normal]

My parents were here this weekend - my mom took some time off from work and came down Thursday afternoon, so on Friday we went to the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. We went particularly to see the Normal Rockwell exhibit, but the whole place is pretty awesome. We ended up spending about five hours there. My dad arrived on Saturday, and we all went to Abbey Road on the River, which is a big Beatles tribute festival at the National Harbor. We got to see quite a few cover bands, but of course the best ones are always the ones who dress up in the Sgt. Pepper costumes. :)

Since it was a holiday weekend, my parents stayed until Monday. I have to confess to feeling somewhat overwhelmed, and like I don't have nearly enough time for myself. I was in New York Friday through Sunday, had one day to recover, and then classes started again, which meant not getting home until 9:30 pm Tuesday and Wednesday, and then Thursday my mother showed up, and I've been occupied ever since. I have class again tonight and tomorrow, and it feels like it takes so much effort to just keep going. It's immensely frustrating that work and school and homework demand so much of my time, and I have zero motivation to do anything about it, which doesn't bode well for my GPA.

Other than catching Mad Men (since my mother wanted to watch it, too, and I am very excited that she's so into it - finally, after me telling her to watch it about three times), I haven't had time to watch any TV, not the shows that are currently on or my Netflix project. I did manage to finish Dexter season 4 after my parents left last night, but who knows when I'll have time to write up a reaction post. Plus I still have reviews for A Little Night Music and In the Heights to post. I just want to watch TV and write blog posts, is that so much to ask?

I think that part of my frustration/anger/listlessness lately is a medication issue - which, incidentally, raises a new complication with this DW set-up. I'd like to talk about that kind of stuff here, but I want to be able to restrict access like I did on LJ. It's easy enough to create a personal filter on DW, and I'm pretty sure I can add OpenIDs to it (maybe stormwreath can help me experiment with that?). However, I know that a lot of people are reading my posts via RSS feed, which means that only my public posts will show up. So how will you know there's a personal post you can read if you can't see it? I suppose I could make a public post saying, "Hey, personal filter post ahoy," so you know to come to my journal and look for it, but that seems... awkward, not least of which because I'd be telling people who are not on the filter that there are posts I don't want them to read.

Any suggestions?

Comments

[rogin]

After the last Mad Men episode I had to start a rewatch and wow this show really rocked from the first minute on.

Unfortunately I have no idea what to do about the personal posts. Everything seems awkward, maybe linking people in from your old LJ?

[next_to_normal]

OMG I know! I was sort of a casual Mad Men fan for most of season 1, so I forget sometimes just how awesome it was. Like, I used to think that S3 was so much funnier than earlier seasons, and then I went back and rewatched and was like, "Hey, wait, it was always pretty hilarious."

Hmm, I dunno. I suppose I could make flocked posts on my LJ, though I still feel somewhat silly saying, "Hey, I am talking about myself over here. Please come talk about me, too!" lol

Or I suppose I could just leave everything public and bare my neuroses for the world. :)

[rogin]

Yes, it was brilliant from the first moment on. And I'm fascinated how they all have changed over the seasons now.

I guess you can always put up a cut and let people know they enter at own risk.

I really thought about a solution, but really nothing not somehow awkward came to mind.

Btw. I was wondering, are you going to do more huge posts too? because I continue to be fascinated by how right this show gets things.

[next_to_normal]

I guess you can always put up a cut and let people know they enter at own risk.

I'm not sure that helps, since it's actually more about me feeling a sense of privacy than other people not wanting to read it. I always pretty much assume that if you're not interested in a post, you scroll on by. But I don't really like the idea of talking about my mental health, body image, sexuality, etc. for all the world to see.

Btw. I was wondering, are you going to do more huge posts too? because I continue to be fascinated by how right this show gets things.

Well, this season of Huge is over, so I don't expect to have much to say unless it's renewed. I was planning to do a reaction post after the season finale last week, but like I said above, things have just completely gotten away from me. I can add it to the list of things I'm planning to post about eventually, lol, even if the moment has passed by the time I get around to it.

[rogin]

Yes, I also prefer to keep my personal posts under lock and key.

But maybe next week lj will finally sell our souls to the yakuza and another batch of people will migrate.

O.o That was the whole season? WHY?

It was so nice. I want another one instantly. I had figured it would have a full 22 ep run,I was looking for it just this morning.

[next_to_normal]

Yeah, summer shows and cable tend to have shortened seasons. I am very much hoping that it gets renewed. I think the fat camp premise might be hard to sustain long-term, but they could at least do another 10 episodes to show us the rest of this summer. *crosses fingers*

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

The Dreamwidth FAQ certainly says you can add OpenIDs to filters, as well as DW users.

I'm not sure I understand the FAQ on RSS feeds, though: it sounds like if I log onto the feed, it will check my authorisation to view your protected entries and show them to me if I'm allowed to, but that will only work if I'm using a web browser with cookies enabled. Or something like that.

Maybe you should create a locked post that just says "If you can read this please comment!" and see who replies? (Or do a poll. "Can you read this? Yes/No" *g*)

[next_to_normal]

Er, yeah... I read that, and I have no idea what it means, lol.

I'm thinking "if you can read this please comment" is the way to go...