Transplant from LJ looking for DW friends

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NAME: Elise

AGE: 33
 

INTERESTS & HOBBIES: Reading, writing, watching TV, learning languages (fluent in French and English, different stages of learning Spanish, Italian and Irish, interested in Finnish and Korean; 1100+-day streak on Duoingo o/), Formula 1...
 

LOOKING FOR: What type of journals are you looking for? I think it'll be easier to say what I'm not looking for - what I've learned during my decade-and-a-half on LJ I don't care for:
- If you use your journal exclusively for book reviews (or any reviews) or fandom.
- If you post long detailed accounts of your daily life. Don't get me wrong, I love reading about other people's lives (I mean that's what we're all doing here, no?), but if all your entries only discuss what time you got up, what you ate at each meal, and a minute-by-minute account of your workout, I might get bored.
- If you post multiple times a day with nothing but like memes and things. That's what other social media is for.
Okay I realize this probably sounds like I'm really snobbish, but I swear I'm not! XD It's just that after 18 years on LJ, I've come to notice certain things that tend to make me unfriend eventually, so I might as well get ahead of it.
 

ANYTHING ELSE?: I'm disabled (spastic ataxia, if that means anything to you). I work from home as a (mostly in French) editor of (mostly) novels and books published in Quebec (where I live, by the way). And... I have a cat?
 

ALSO KNOWN AS: ellinou on LiveJournal, elisability on Twitter, and I have a public blog about my live with a disability, also called elisability.

Comments

[rafiwinters]

I checked out your profile. OMG someone as nuts about languages as I am. I think I love you. My bio on my profile page needs to be updated, but is reasonably descriptive. I have a couple of chronic conditions/illnesses/disabilities (they're all kind of mixed up together) and I write about these, about my life and relationships, about the cat and my wife and stuff like that. I'm a writer by hobby, hoping to go professional; and a copy editor by trade. I mostly work on academic books and journals. I studied French in college--that was a while ago as I'm 55 years old, but I'd love to actually use it to communicate with someone.

I'm going to run over and add you now. :-)

[sound_of_silence]

Yes we seem to have so much in common!! Adding you right back!

[rafiwinters]

Excellent. See you around the site!

We both have cats! Since we live far apart, I don't see how this can go wrong!

[claire_chan]

Hello, Elise!

I am a 32-y.o. disabled oboist. I am trying not to let the car accident from the final orchestra concert I performed in 14 years ago define me, but it does in awfully unfortunate ways, such as that I can mostly play on the recorder now instead.
To help my "brain plasticity" I have also used Duolingo, all the languages I don't know, such as Welsh and Italian.

What is your cat's name?

Re: We both have cats! Since we live far apart, I don't see how this can go wrong!

[sound_of_silence]

Her name is Kenji! I didn't choose it, she came with it when I adopted her in 2019 ^^ What's yours?

Friending you ^^

Re: We both have cats! Since we live far apart, I don't see how this can go wrong!

[claire_chan]

I don't choose any of my cats' names either.
They are always adoptions from other people who can't house them anymore for this reason or another. I currently have two cats from the SPCA: the older is Matilda, I think four years old (2018) and the younger Cora, three (2019).

Tilly is a tortoiseshell and Cora is a calico.

I probably could have renamed them if I wanted to but getting them to respond to something else would most likely take some time.
ETA: Nice to meet you!

[skye_writer]

Adding you! I think we might get along; you seem really interesting! Most of my journal is f'locked, but I usually post about the things I've been up to day-to-day. Not in minute detail (that's what my physical journal is for); mostly I cover the projects I've been working on (I write both fan- and original fiction; I also work in various fiber arts) and short thoughts on the media I've been consuming. Occasionally I get a little verbose in these thoughts, but those ramblings usually end up behind a cut. I also have a cat! Her name is Smokey, she is 18 years old, and she's my precious grouchy old lady.

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Looking forward to getting to know you and Smokey!

[gwendraith]

Hi, looking at your profile I can see we have lots in common, except age (I am much older than you but young at heart). I also like WW2 novels (very interested in WW1 too), I'm a big fan of F1 and have a music playlist every day and love all genres but I am partial to soft rock and classic rock. I dislike noisy crowded venues and need my quiet space but I do like people! I have two adorable cats! I'm disabled and I guess I can be described as a 'glass half full' type of person. I post once or twice a week on average, mostly about what's happened during the week, what I've watched on TV, where I've been and ancestry & DNA which is my passion. Would you like to friend?

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With pleasure!

[gwendraith]

Excellent. Added :)

[kyararose]

I'm also disabled and live in Canada. Add?

[sound_of_silence]

Absolutely! And I love your userpic by the way ;)

[kyararose]

Thanks! A friend made it for me

[anirrationalseason]

Hi, I think you and I might click based on shared interests in your profile. I am making more concerted efforts to learn different languages (Japanese, Spanish, and French; sadly, I lost a lot of my French five years after beating My French Coach and never picking the language back up ;A;). I also love Stephen King. My journal is 90 percent personal (I keep all the personal posts locked), but I would be happy to grant you access so you could see if it's the kind of journal you'd be interested in following.

[sound_of_silence]

Of course! Adding you right away :)

[d4rkfyr3]

Hi. I love Stephen King too. My name is Sammy. :) Added.

[d4rkfyr3]

Hey Elise, I am Sammy, and I'm from Ontario. :) Where abouts in Quebec do you live? I live in a small town north of Toronto. I love cats! What is his/her name? Added!

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I had a high school friend with the exact same name as you, haha!

I'm from the Greater Montreal Area, but I actually grew up in Toronto!

Her name is Kenji.

Adding back ^^

[d4rkfyr3]

Ahh!! The Big Smoke! :D Remember Honest Ed's? I used to go to school (hs) around Wellesley and I would go there occasionally... also the World's Biggest Bookstore? Kenji is so cute!!!

[beautifulsuffering]

Hey there, you seem really interesting and I'm interested to get to know you. Care to be friends?

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Of course!

[dandylover1]

I write about all sorts of things, and while I do sometimes include my posts from Facebook, they are not just links with no context, but things which can lead to interesting discussions. It is nice to meet a polyglot. I am interested in relearning French, as I took it in high school, but I haven't used it since I was graduated in 2002. However, I am not interested in apps and whatnot. I would rather use a book from the nineteenth century whose layout I love, as I am a grammar prescriptivist and believe that's the most important thing when learning a language. I am also totally blind.

[sound_of_silence]

Oh yes absolutely, you sound great! Plus this will give me a kick in the ass to add alt-text to my images :P I already do on Twitter and my public blong, but now I'll have an incentive to do it here too!