audit + edit = aedit? does that have to do with aether?

[mercat]

So, do you ever just go back and read all your old entries, or go back and read/watch something again because you liked it and the mood struck you?

I was going through my old posts and I realized I like my tone a LOT more than I thought I did, which gave me an idea.

I have some good things to say, or at least, that I want to remember I said because they are my fundamental truths or very silly or somesuch. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to self-audit my journal. Go back and fix all my tags, and leave comments to myself and notes on what grammar errors I fixed and what the tag edits were.

So I will need a special auditing icon because I feel as though this should be a special event only done every five years or so as that is how long I've had this puppy. (Haha, I use that phrase too much. I am not a puppy person whatsoever, but it's my new word for "this thing right here".)

Officially, my first journal entry was January 4th, 2004. Which would mean January of 2009 would be my auditing time, but I want to do this over Christmas break (HAHA with a million other things). So... maybe I'll audit in base four or something just to be a dork. Lol, I don't think I really would--maybe I'll just do it every so often that I feel like it. I can see that being every few years and if they keep increasing the free icon space so I can put up an audit icon every time to commemorate, I'd be cool with that.

Also I think an audit should include the age-old self-centered internet-whored question "Who all is reading this?" Eh? Yeah? Raise your hands up high. =)


...And by January fourth I'm completely idiotic and meant the thirtieth. WUT

Comments

[wise-panther08.livejournal.com]

I've considered doing this many times.. only just going back and re-reading them. not fixing or leaving comments. Then I realized how many posts I have... and every time said "Oh hell to the nah!" and didn't attempt it.

Best of luck!

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Haha, thanks. =) I really enjoy seeing how I've changed, and my old thoughts.

And my first entries for a good long while are STUPID because I wasn't taking LJ too seriously. Blah.

[malanai.livejournal.com]

I am reading this!

I definitely want to go back through my LJ and tag all my entries, but not fix them...they're moments of time, and in that moment I was a bad speller or knew not of grammar ^_~

I also need to finish adding old entries from my former blog...but my task is daunting, for I have had this LJ since 2001 and I only started tagging a little over a year ago...

[wise-panther08.livejournal.com]

I have an idea! you could tag everything as random... since life is a random chance of events that one can only manipulate to a point. So, essentially by recording them you have recorded the randomness of life and thus each and everyone properly deserves such a tag.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess I never got to posting the whole "historical focus" thing (there's a lot to it), but I don't want to change it as much as explain it--which ones were on purpose and which ones were accidents. For some reason I have a good memory for knowing what I was thinking when I do things.

Like, my original entries--the grammar is atrocious, but it was because I was using the blog for a different purpose, not because I had bad grammar. Part of it was just the way I used the internet--mostly for chatting. Now I use it for journaling and reading. =)

The good thing is I started using tags pretty excessively as soon as they showed up, and I want to add memory tags to good posts and sort of make a "best of" collection for my userinfo or something. I want to do a sort of revamp--maybe add a banner of my own and redo the title and my userinfo and such. =)

Aaaaanyhoo. =) Yeah, not fixing as much as just relating the completely inane details and my current thoughts on them.