A Journal of Sorts

4 March 1999

I need a divider

I got e-mail about my journal! It was brief; it said simply, "I'm enjoying reading your journal. You write well." That was it. It put me on cloud nine. I printed it out and stuck it on the wall over my desk. Heck, it might even inspire me to put my pages out there every day instead of getting three or four at a time. I even put a hit counter on the main journal page. (I cheated and set it at 201 because it looked pitiful sitting there saying 1. Then I cheated and put Feb 1 because nobody would believe I had 200+ hits in a day.)

I caught Cricket doing his perch-on-the-chair-arms thing again today, but THIS time I had the camera. I wish he had been facing me instead of with his fanny my way, but I got the picture, such as it is. Right now, the chair on the right is mine. We sit in them every day unless it is raining really hard. They get moved around on the patio quite a bit. Just past the chair and the diggin' dog, are the birdbath and the hole. I'm still proud of the hole. It actually did run out of water sometime in the night . . .drained in probably twelve hours. Cricket is also the climbin' dog, but I like diggin' dog better. Climbin' dog just doesn't have the right iteration. He does climb though. I'm impressed. He is so tiny and I'm always surprised to find him way up on top of things, especially when I find him in the kitchen window.

I need to find or make a little divider thingie for when I completely change subjects in an entry. Willa used to have a little drawing of a sun looking thing, a circle with lines radiating out of it. Now, she has a little lizard. I like her new format, but then, I liked her old format ok, too. I look forward to reading Kymm's page. She is using some heart thing that matches her border design as a divider.

Al starts a new topic with a little symbol at the beginning of his paragraph. Vicki simply uses dot dividers. I look forward to her entries every day because I can relate to her study of strangers on the bus. The best journal of all is journal of a writing man. His is most delightful and I certainly enjoy his readings as well as his photography. He uses a few asterisks when he changes the subject. I suppose those are all the journals I've really bonded with so far. Of course, I've only been reading journals for a couple of months now. Anyway, I need a THING.

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