I've been usurped!

Okay, not usurped, but voted out. I am not president of the Collingswood Shakespeare Company anymore. I'm just a wee disappointed. Not so much because I still wanted the job, but because I worry that I was voted out because they didn't think I was doing a good job. Just a paranoia thing, really. Mostly it's kind of a relief, because now I don't have to go to every board meeting, and really I'm not aggressive enough to be a president. Also, I wonder if I got voted out since I'm part of a group who, you know, actually gets things done, and they resent it slightly. Like we're hogging everything.

In a completely unrelated note, I'm trying to figure out this whole LJ strike thing.

I don't quite understand what LJ is doing. From what I understand, people still don't have to pay if they don't want to, they just have to agree to host ads.

I do think it would be stupid to expect people to shell out money right away. LJ is like a drug. You give it to them for free at first, and then they have to have more icon space, and cooler backgrounds, and you make them pay for that. That's what I did.

So is the strike about the fact there is no more basic accounts, or is it about how the LJ owners handled the announcement? I can't quite figure it out.

I love LJ, and I love that I'm here, and I love my friends I've met here, and I will be very sad if you all go away. I dispise the fact the owners of LJ seem to think this place has to be like My Space, just because My Space gets all the publicity. I can't figure out My Space to save my life. You can't have discussions there like you do here. It's all pictures and annoying songs and random people friending you just because they want to have 4 gazillion friends on their list.

Instead of shutting down our blogs for a day, everyone should post why they came to LJ in the first place, and why the owners should appreciate what they have here. Yeah, we don't have the coolness factor of My Space, but we're pretty darn awesome.

Oh, and while I'm being random, if you didn't already know, Match It For Pratchett is a website some smart person started to collect donations to match Terry Pratchett's $1 million ( £500,000 ) donation to Alzheimer's Research.

Pretty cool how well his name rhymed, huh?

I've been usurped!

Okay, not usurped, but voted out. I am not president of the Collingswood Shakespeare Company anymore. I'm just a wee disappointed. Not so much because I still wanted the job, but because I worry that I was voted out because they didn't think I was doing a good job. Just a paranoia thing, really. Mostly it's kind of a relief, because now I don't have to go to every board meeting, and really I'm not aggressive enough to be a president. Also, I wonder if I got voted out since I'm part of a group who, you know, actually gets things done, and they resent it slightly. Like we're hogging everything.

In a completely unrelated note, I'm trying to figure out this whole LJ strike thing.

I don't quite understand what LJ is doing. From what I understand, people still don't have to pay if they don't want to, they just have to agree to host ads.

I do think it would be stupid to expect people to shell out money right away. LJ is like a drug. You give it to them for free at first, and then they have to have more icon space, and cooler backgrounds, and you make them pay for that. That's what I did.

So is the strike about the fact there is no more basic accounts, or is it about how the LJ owners handled the announcement? I can't quite figure it out.

I love LJ, and I love that I'm here, and I love my friends I've met here, and I will be very sad if you all go away. I dispise the fact the owners of LJ seem to think this place has to be like My Space, just because My Space gets all the publicity. I can't figure out My Space to save my life. You can't have discussions there like you do here. It's all pictures and annoying songs and random people friending you just because they want to have 4 gazillion friends on their list.

Instead of shutting down our blogs for a day, everyone should post why they came to LJ in the first place, and why the owners should appreciate what they have here. Yeah, we don't have the coolness factor of My Space, but we're pretty darn awesome.

Oh, and while I'm being random, if you didn't already know, Match It For Pratchett is a website some smart person started to collect donations to match Terry Pratchett's $1 million ( £500,000 ) donation to Alzheimer's Research.

Pretty cool how well his name rhymed, huh?