It's hard being new. I kind of feel like I did when I was in Kindergarten, watching the other kids play together, and amazed at how they all seemed to know each other already. Thankfully, one of the things I've learned as the years have gone by is that if you just sit near the slide and wait for people to take notice of you, it's not going to happen. You have to actually move and put yourself out there a bit.
I think this is why people may threaten to leave a site like Open Diary, but never actually do. It's so much easier to stay where you know lots of people, where all of your friends are, where you know the system... as long as you can actually access the site. I'm no stranger to moving around (I've lived in seven places in the last ten years) so making a move like this is a bit familiar to me. Plus, Ninja Muse, Teffy, and lots of people I know are here! That makes it a lot easier. There's always Facebook for me to contact Shiny Ninja, Quizzical Ninja, Red Sox Ninja (the only Ninja that actually lives in our state), and YIM for talking to Imaginary Ninja.
I still don't know what I should say as an introduction though. What are the important things that people should know? What are the bits that are really only interesting to myself and that David's* good enough to feign interest in? The sheer amount of Ninja-isms and inside jokes that grew over the years at OD is massive.
The thing that most people know about me is that I write (I've written seven-ish novels), I make sock monkeys (I'm better at those than writing), I'll be working in a lab doing things with lots of blood** until December when the facility I work at is relocating. After that, I'm not sure. Hopefully it will be something without lots of blood.
I don't like the day job***. I much prefer writing and making monkeys. I'm incredibly attached to my sock monkeys, though more and more of them are going off into the world, where they can be loved by their own special people. I have a shop up on Etsy, but I'm not good at keeping it full because there's so many special orders.
For right now, I'm out of things to say. If anyone wants to know anything in particular, I'm happy to answer.
Um... could someone tell me how to respond to comments? I still haven't quite figured that out yet.
John
Holy super squee! I just figured out how to get things like italics, etc. This makes me Very Happy.
I was wondering how Teflon Superhero managed to get that video in there! *Makes note to tell Ninja Muse*
*David is my husband.
**Really not kidding about that.
*** I was almost gassed to death there and there are other bad things too.
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