I used to keep a diary in year nine.
I found it the other day.
And read it.
That was my second mistake.
The first was writing it in the first place.
I was such a tosser.
So now its in shreds at the bottom of a dump somewhere in pristine rural Australia.
Glad I dont have to have a reminder.
It was like having a friend whose incredibly embarrassing.
But everybody knows youre friends with.
However.
I'd never rip up my friend.

I've kept a journal since elementary, and I've never wanted to share it with anyone.. not yet, anyways. Haha.
Probably not wanted to share it because its full of stupidity and silly things. Oh well.
Do you ever want to show anyone?

ferris bueller's day off it one of my all time favourite movies and cameron one of my all time favourite characters. it's amazing *lots of hearts*
as for diaries. i don't keep one, as such.
i have this notebook right, well actually my friend has it at the moment
and this friend will write in it like a diary, then he'll give it back to me for my next birthday
and then i'll write in it like a diary (although it's more like letters the the other person) and give it back to him at the next appropriate time.
and yes, i have wanted to show people things that i write in that book, because quite often they're somethings that i really want the people to know that i think about them, but don't have the balls to tell them myself.
good journal entry little lottie - and i also know exactly what you mean by having to take a break from being sociable. yuletide greetings and all that jazz.

^_^

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it's all about the jazz, baby

As annoying as having to get up early is, I don't know if it compares to sleeping in all the time. you get used to sleeping in, and never get anything done, never do anything, I hate that. Having a job makes it worse; well, I still get to sleep in, but it means my days seem even emptyer. I'm thinking I'll quit soon anyway, I need a change. If you're looking for a job, get one in a smaller store. You don't have to work quite as much. How often do you see people in small stores having something to eat or something to drink? I'm envious of that

I wish I could always be with my friends, but not be with them... in the sense that they are close, but I don't have to give up a heap of time and effort for them. of course, that rarely happens. Either I'm racing home to get to work on time, or wishing that my day didn't feel so wasted. Or that I felt more wasted. I don't know, something like that.

I've never kept a secret journal, I don't think it would benifit me. Then again, no one reads my public words. If I put a heap of horrific secrets in my DA journal or DL journal, I doubt anyone would know!

Happy timmuksmas 0_o

Yeah I used to keep diaries but then this one girl kept finding it and reading it -kinda pissed me off, so I just stopped.

Now I got dA journals and that's better.

I like that movie too

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"They call me a poet,
I wonder what they would say if
they saw me
from the inside?" -Saul Williams


~Jenn

i keep a couple livejournals... one private and one public. the private one may seem like it'd defeating the purpose of "live" journal but i have that one for when the thoughts come out too fast for me to put down in my third, hand-written journal.

i love writing to myself XD it's become a replacement for one of my little habits... TALKING to myself. sometimes it got disruptive... so i started writing instead. and i have a livejournal purposely for showing SOME of my thoughts. but there are still some other thoughts of mine that i just keep to myself. too embarrassing, too obsessive, too disturbing...

if someone ever wanted to read the most embarrassing and obsessive and disturbing things about me, they'd have to be my most trusted friend who i know would not ditch me over what i had said. but people are rarely that loyal these days, it seems... so i would have a hard time believing and trusting someone that much.

wow you got me talking X3 sorry i shuttup now. take care of yourself and happy winter celebration time!

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Lepers coiled 'neath the trees
Dying men in bewildered soliloquies
Perversions bloom round the bend
Seekers lost in their quest

Haha, yeah I've read some of my previous diaries...from year 6, 7 etc; they're awful, BUT I'm still glad I wrote them because I'd forget everything otherwise.

I think they're amusing

Sometimes, but then there's a random poem or something that I've written at 1 in the morning and I know it's too shameful to expose to anyone.

But you can't be as honest when writing in a journal that the whole world can see

I quite like that idea of having a shared diary, although there aren't many people I'd be comfortable sharing a diary with - I think I'd limit myself, and not be completely honest. You probably find you write a bit differently when you know you won't be the only one reading it.
and yes it's the idea of someone discovering something you couldn't say to their face which makes showing someone what you've written, appealing.

oh and I love adding 'and all that jazz' instead of etc