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kryptonitemonkey) wrote2008-04-06 12:50 pm
kryptonitemonkey) wrote2008-04-06 12:50 pm
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This hasn't actually happened yet, as such.
Every time I look at my list of people I have friended and been friended by here, I realize just how few of them actually regularly post (yet somehow still remain active; is there no expiration date on ljs?), if at all. It then, inevitably, strikes me that much time has passed since I have spoken with this or that person, for various reasons. It makes me sad, to be sure, but it also makes me think about how easy it is to forget about people. Not just forget about them really, but forget the facts about them. Things they like, things they've told me and I them, their history and such. It's a bizarre feeling when you realize that certain people you were, once, at least minor friends with, have become nearly complete strangers again. As I have only my own mind to work with, I do not know whether this is a common occurrence with most people, or whether this is yet another peculiar quirk of my mind (I swear I have a memory like a sieve some times). I suppose that it does happen to us all to some degree. We return for a school reunion years later and discover we barely remember half the people we used to know. Still...
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On an aside, I must say that I am having an on-going struggle with the use of semi-colons. I get the general gist of semi-colon use, but malheureusement (unfortunately), I do not quite have the same inherent, and natural, grasp of them as I have of most other english speech. Either I didn't read enough books with semi-colon usage to have picked up the how-to, or, uh, something. The problem I keep running into is that I very much feel that most of my sentences are not quite complete and need the semi-colon to continue, but I can't very well have nothing but semi-colons bounding about. Tisn't proper. I should get my hands on a copy of Pure Drivel again sometime. There's that one excerpt of Martin's where he uses only a single period in a rather large bit of writing, while still managing to keep the whole thing grammatically correct. Pure genius.
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On an aside, I must say that I am having an on-going struggle with the use of semi-colons. I get the general gist of semi-colon use, but malheureusement (unfortunately), I do not quite have the same inherent, and natural, grasp of them as I have of most other english speech. Either I didn't read enough books with semi-colon usage to have picked up the how-to, or, uh, something. The problem I keep running into is that I very much feel that most of my sentences are not quite complete and need the semi-colon to continue, but I can't very well have nothing but semi-colons bounding about. Tisn't proper. I should get my hands on a copy of Pure Drivel again sometime. There's that one excerpt of Martin's where he uses only a single period in a rather large bit of writing, while still managing to keep the whole thing grammatically correct. Pure genius.