Productivity, and the search for interesting communities

[flexagon]

I was ever so productive yesterday. Several loads of laundry, dishes, tae kwon do, mailing a Christmas package, grocery shopping, sweeping, some really random preparing-to-move-out stuff like washing the walls around light switches and buying boxes, and I still managed to hang out with mah pals. Oh, and in the evening I also spent about an hour putting together a poster to advertise our apartment... I listed all its good points, and drew the floor plan. I dunno whether it will work, and we most likely won't put it up until we get back from our vacation on Jan 8, but it at least made me feel like I was doing something (it also made me want to rent this place--we're moving, why, again?). Sigh. This is a good apartment. It's really too bad I'm going to have all these memories of infuriating conversations with landlords, and wanting to move out of it.

Today: more dishes and laundry folding, so far. I'm being kind of compulsively productive, actually. I'm experiencing feelings I don't like--feelings of having limited time, and of not belonging in the place where I'm living. Ugh. I'm looking forward to Christmas with HLM though, and to getting back on track at work, and of course the remainder of the condo dealings.

I did some reading on asexuality last night. Interesting. And strange. And rather fun to read right after polyamory. *grin* Then I tried to find an anorexia community, but I didn't find one as easily as I thought I would--perhaps LJ has been swept up in the whole "oh dear, don't let off-normal people talk to each other" thing? Hmmm... I'm just getting bored with the communities I usually read. The newlyweds especially are pretty insipid, and my few posts there don't get much response. *yawn* I do wonder where the rexies hang out, and the fat admirers, and the multiple personality people--not that I could post to those boards either, mind you, but at least they'd be interesting reading.

'kay, time to go lift weights.

Comments

[miyyu.livejournal.com]

I have always enjoyed lurking on the polyamory community. Very interesting stuff. I tried a bunch of the bi/queer communities and they all seemed teenage meatmarkets. Ick. I think childfree is interesting also cause some of the people are very funny. If you want to think, I recommend abstractthought.

[flexagon]

Oh, that's a pretty cool community! Thanks miyyu.

I agree childfree is often funny, but the high percentage of rants bug me--either the rant itself bugs me, or else it really IS an annoying incident that I wouldn't have been bothered by if I hadn't read the board. Still, a lot of interesting thoughts come up sometimes and I do expect to keep reading it.

I forgot to mention the other community I still like pretty well, saucydwellings. It's about decoration and interior design, with occasional discussions about real estate... most fun when people post before/after pictures. I hope to be doing some of that in a few months. :)

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Wow...talk about a whirling dervish. That is a great idea of including the floor plan in the poster...mind if we steal it?

We had fun over at your place, thanks for hosting :)

I didn't have any trouble finding eating disorder communities...and I need to not look at those. Ugh. Couldn't find a multiple personality one tho', which is a bummer as that'd be interesting. An asperger group was pretty good reading: [Unknown site tag]

'course I don't mind...

[flexagon]

indeed, if my poster does the job, I'd consider it a privilege to help you with your postering. :) I'll share whatever else I find out about advertising through the college housing offices and such... HLM really wants to get going on the advertising, so I put him on that job and told him we could put a few physical posters around the major squares this week if he wants. We'll have a lot higher chance of finding someone in January, and he knows that, but I guess it's all about the feeling of doing something. I understand that.

Your asperger link didn't work. Sigh. Where are you going to search for communities?

Re: 'course I don't mind...

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Erg, here: aspient

I'm just doing a search in the box up at the top of comment pages and the userinfo pages, using interest. I found anorexia groups with both anorexia and eating, found asperger groups (along with others) using OCD.