Clearing the decks

Ahhh, I feel good tonight.

For several years now, a big chunk of my existing social web has felt basically sterile. Not worthless, insofar as it's given me pleasure and company, but also not going anywhere, and repeated looping back to gnaw at the same old topics has bugged me more as my interests have turned to new things both inside and out.

Well, identifying as trans and making new contacts in my new identity offers a way out of the ruts. And tonight I took some of that fresh energy and took a notional axe to the rosters of LiveJournal and Twitter contacts and RSS feeds kept in my birth name. I pruned heavily: about half my LJ friends, maybe two-thirds of my Twitter friends, about the same fraction of RSS feeds. Then I went through and refreshed displays, and it felt like such a relief.

This'll be a gift that keeps on giving, I think.

I will not write this crossover

In e-mail tonight, I mentioned to a friend about how I picked up while very young several tastes from older siblings, including Marvel Comics, Yes, and Dr. Demento.

Someone else gets to explain what sort of crime it is that they fight.

Wistfulness

A whole cascade of romantic dreams last night. Nothing sexual that I can reminder, just vignettes of loving moments. Been a long time. Looks like a long time coming, too.

In practical terms, the right response is to keep at what I was already doing. But...well. Sometimes the yearning is strong. I'd like to be at more destinations, and on fewer roads.