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Frequently Asked Questions Welcome to my journal's FAQ, where I can answer some of the more common questions people ask me about my journal and my motivation behind it. I'll try to get to most of the questions I get, but if you have one and you don't find the answer here, then please mail me and I'll try to answer it as quickly as possible. Thanks for visiting and enjoy.

motivation...

So why do you write a journal? This one I get a lot. I write a journal because I see it as a form of self-therapy. I can get all my feelings off of my chest and look at them from an objective point of view. I can see where I am wrong, right or just plain confused and move on with my life accordingly. I get a great deal of satisfaction writing my day's events down. For one, I can use it as a cronology that I can look back at and see how far I've come over time. Also, it serves as a good way to structure myself. I can look at what I do on a day-to-day basis and see areas where I could improve, or things I don't do that I probably should. All in all, keeping a journal is my way of keeping me calm and collected. Ok, then why put it on the Internet for everyone to read? This is another one I get a lot. Here's how I look at it: I put my thoughts and feelings on the Internet because I feel that people can relate to me and thus get something out of reading my ramblings as well as I feel that my talents as a writer make my ho-hum life seem a little more interesting than, let's say, just posting my daily planner up on the net for people to read. One day I hope to make my writing a career so I need all the practice I can get. I also design webpages for a living so making sure I update at least one part of my site on a daily basis is good exercise for my HTML'n. So why the weird pictures of your eye or ultraman? Hehe, this one is easy. I'm fascinated with photography. I don't have the actual talent to be a professional photographer, however. So I just play amateur cameraman with my Connectix black and white Quickcam. I just line it up, click take picture and upload them! Maybe someday I'll take the time to learn how to take good pictures, but until that day I'll just snap pictures off at the waist. Do you tell everything through your journal? Not everything, no. I'm not a celebrity by any means, but I do realize that putting my life's details on the net makes me a public figure to some. Because of this, I don't disclose everything about myself in my journal. You'd never be able to tell by just reading it, but there are parts of my life and my day that don't go into my journal. Perhaps I'll do a shocking expose on my hidden life one day, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

content...

What goes into your journal on a daily basis? Well everyday I try to give a breakdown of what I did that day. In addition I'll also put in little rants here and there about certain events or subjects that I trip over during my day. Anything from welfare to elian falls into my rant catagory. Sometimes I get mail from people that disagree with me, and sometimes I get insults from people who disagree with me and sometimes I get nice letters from people who think my opinions are right on track. It all depends on the day, ya know? Does anyone ever get mad that you include them in your journal? Yes. I have gotten e-mails from people who were less than happy to see themselves or representations of themselves in my journal. However, because people are involved in my day-to-day doings they get tossed into my entry in an honest context. Because of this, toes get stepped on and I have to deal with that as it happens. Most of the time I apologize because I never mean to make anyone specifically angry though my journal. Other times I feel I am justified in my representation of them and stand behind my entry. Either way, people are going to get mad and I have accepted that. Do you ever make stuff up? Absolutely not. I'm not that sad and pathetic... yet.

composition...

so when do you actually do your journal? i normally do it somewhere between 9pm and midnight, sometimes earlier and sometimes later, although that's rare. I do my journal when my day is winding down. When I know I won't be doing much more and I'm in the mood to think about what my day taught and threw my way. When it's dark and moody, that's when. how do you write it anyway? notepad? frontpage? pico, a boy's best friend. i edit my page on the server using pico, a unix-based text editor. nothing fancy, just text and bold text and highlighted text and, oh you get the picture... anyway, i use a template that i designed as well as CSS, but the content is 100% original everyday. For navigation I use include files created beforehand, to save me time. But it's all me. HOW COME YOU SKIPPT DAYS as my custom 404 page says, i'm lazy :-)

contact...

who do i mail if i see something wrong or i disagree with you? mail me.