Sorry, just oozing back in here to leave an e-mail address...

I don't know you, but I think your writing is wonderful. If it keeps you sane then that's all the more reason to hang onto it. Besides, unless you're trying to do a *very* accurate first-person Grantaire, beer won't be very helpful to the writing process...

Anyvague. One of the side effects of the whole webjournal/personal site internet subculture (that sounds pretentious, but it's 3:30 and I can't think of a better word at the moment) that I've been noticing these past several months and find particularly ridiculous, and not in an amusing way, is that there are some people who assume that just because they've learned a few random details about someone else, or read their writing, that they have some sort of claim on that person. Because they've stumbled across what the person has published online for anyone to see, they form the delusion that they know them, and because they've never so much as even emailed them, some of them feel detached enough to pass judgement at will.

Bullshit. It doesn't work that way; a story or diary entry onscreen is not half a conversation - it's a story or diary entry. It's two dimensional, and unfortunately, when it comes to journals in particular, more often than not the writing is filtered through whatever perceptions or predjudices the reader may have about the writer.

....I tend to find it astoundingly pathetic when I see someone deluded in this fashion actually become angry enough at one of these strangers to lash out at them publicly. In this specific case that I'm writing in response to, I am also struck by the irony of someone so incredibly disconnected from reality as to lose perspective in the described fashion feeling qualified to recommend her version of the "real world" to others. Truthfully, it doesn't seem like something anyone firmly entrenched in the here-and-now would bother with.

This is somewhat longer and much, much wordier than I meant it to be (I temporarily slip into essay mode when I try to write something serious at this hour, and words pile up until I can't see the screen), and apologies if you didn't want Yet Another guestbook entry making reference to this idiocy. I suppose you can always delete this if it clutters the place up. But this mentality irks the hell out of me, and this was as good an example of it as anything I've seen.

Hmm. More in keeping with the purpose of a guestbook - the site's gorgeous. But you knew that already.

Lovely, lovely site. The background reminds me of sunshine through green leaves, and the design is just lovely. Beautiful.