3 More + 16 Years: The Chronicles Of A Girl Online

Dear Internet, Pre-Tumblr (2007), pre-Twitter (2006), pre-Facebook (2004), pre-WordPress (2003),ย pre-Blogger (1999), pre-LiveJournal (1999), and even before the word “blog” (1999) became part of our everyday vocabulary, a twenty-something girl with lots of opinions and is an exhibitionist at heart started putting her life online in 1998 (1995). In those days, we did not style ourselves … Continue reading “3 More + 16 Years: The Chronicles Of A Girl Online”

Kalendae Januariae: teh interwebs

Dear Internet, When Kristin talked about getting off the internets, as it is “Another linchpin to bad times,” she wasn’t too off course on how I feel about it myself. I love what the Internets can give me, but on the same token, when I’m feeling an attack of The Sads, or a variation of … Continue reading “Kalendae Januariae: teh interwebs”

A Blog With An Identity Crisis

Dear Internet: I need your help. Seriously. The focus of this blog has had two major shifts of focus in the last few years. Forever and 10 days, it was all about me. Then I had the massive, emotional breakdown of a breakup with TheEx and felt it safer to blog about library school rather … Continue reading “A Blog With An Identity Crisis”

were most of your stars out? : a conspectus on writing part i

Writing, real writing, is done not from some seat of fussy moral judgment but with the eye and ear and heart; no American writer will ever have a more alert ear, a more attentive eye, or a more ardent heart than his. – Adam Gopnick on J.D. Salinger This has many beginnings. 12 years ago … Continue reading “were most of your stars out? : a conspectus on writing part i”

about:lisa, circa 2010

Hello, my name is Lisa. I’ve been keeping an online journal since 1996.1 You may know me from simunye.org, modgirl.net or from my LiveJournal. If you are interested in my lifestream, you can find that at [digital biblyotheke]. The original concept for shesgotplans.net was to discuss, in-depth, my sojourn into library and archival school, which … Continue reading “about:lisa, circa 2010”

Everything you wanted to know about lisa marie rabey, but were afraid to ask.

I’ve talked, almost incessantly, over the years how keeping an online journal has influenced my life professionally and personally. 1 And yet despite the fact at how times (and technologies) have changed in the last decade, I still get amazed when my own interests often parlay into new opportunities for myself. For example, recently I’ve … Continue reading “Everything you wanted to know about lisa marie rabey, but were afraid to ask.”

About: Lisa

Hello, my name is Lisa. I’ve been keeping an online journal since 1996.1 You may know me from simunye.org, modgirl.net, or from my LiveJournal. If you are interested in my lifestream, you can find that at [digital biblyotheke]. The original concept for shesgotplans.net was to discuss, in-depth, my sojourn into library and archival school, which … Continue reading “About: Lisa”

some people collect thimbles, i collect domain names

I’ve bought 2 more domains. if you are reading this now, you will now see that you are sitting at modgirl.net (or modgirl.org even though nothing points to that direction right now and probably will not in the future. however, for 10 dolla and fortytwo cents a year for registration, whose to bitch?). the domain … Continue reading “some people collect thimbles, i collect domain names”