I know it's not an original forum question, but this is another chance to pimp your favorite diaries. You can do html links if you want, or else just post the URL.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2000

Answers

I like your diary, Jen. I started reading it back when you were still on the other side of the country, remember? Something about sanity in a journal attracts me...it's why my other big favorite is Lucy's "Aries Moon" (intaglio.org). Crazy, I'm all full up on here. Thanks for providing the other perspective.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2000

Yeah.. I agree with shonogan above... i stopped reading diaries because it started to seem like everyone was competing for the "Biggest Misanthrope" award. It's the same reason I've stopped buying novels on a whim... no one wants to write about anything other than why life is so hard for them. Jen, on the other hand, keeps her diary just plain interesting and manages to not get wrapped up in too much navel gazing.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2000

Some of the ones i read :

1) yours :P 2) http://www.inconsistent.org 3) http://deardiary.tsx.org 4) http://www.fresh-hell.com/journal/current.htm

lots of people stopped updating this year. I wonder why.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Well, my own, of course. (Hee hee.) http://abbycat.diaryland.com

These are the journals I currently read each morning, in order (more or less):

House of the Moon (http://www.lunesse.com/journal.htm) Rushing Into Something (http://dmoriarty.tripod.com/index.html) Toasted Spiral (http://www.toastedspiral.com/journal.html) Jellyfish (http://www.bway.net/~siobhan/jellyfish/) See Jane... (http://www.quirky.com/seejane/recent.html) (I was led to this one by Jen's account of her birthday party. Go, girl!) What Keeps Me Up At Night (http://sona.diaryland.com/)

There are a bunch more, but these are the ones I'm most faithful to.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

http://www.bway.net/~siobhan/jellyfish -- (excellent,excellent)
http://www.wannabejournals.com/~apathy (the whole wbj crew rocks, btw)
http://www.neoboheme.com/buddhafish
http://www.ohmessylife.com (like every other girl on the internet)
http://dmoriarty.tripod.com (because he is as sex obsessed as i am!)
and jen's diary of course. gotta give mad props to her, yo. --

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2000

I'm a huge fan of Blackberry Creek. You want sanity? This is a lovely, peaceful, country diary.

-- Anonymous, May 13, 2000

This one is the best I read!

http://www.xensei.com/users/jwade/deardiary.html

-- Anonymous, May 13, 2000

Jen, your diary is the only one I read with any regularity at all. (I pop in and check it out every month or so.) I keep coming back because it is well written, not overly stylistic, and interesting without being overly dramatic.

-- Anonymous, May 13, 2000

Gosh, you guys are embarrassing me with all this flattery!

But I guess this explains why I have 200 hits a day, but am still relatively unknown in the diary community--there appears to be hardly any overlap between my readers and people who read other diaries!

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2000

Yours, of course, Jen, and Kymm and Pamie and Rob and Stee and Patrick... man I am just a freaking wannabe, huh?

Oh well. My own (http://members.xoom.com/mildew/ : Mildew ) gets, oh, no hits ever, and I've been around since August 1996 with two moves and one semi-hiatus, and nobody knows who the fuck I am. It's a little frustrating, but what the hell ever.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2000

Jen, I guess I'm one of those fans lacking crossover. Oh, I read Gus too, but I kind of think he falls in the same category. You both write in a concise, simple style and rarely drone on about matters which would obviously be of no interest. Also, I think your journals show more intelligence than the rest. I'm not saying that other journalers aren't intelligent, just that they fail to convey it. Anyway Jen, I like your style a lot, and if you were fishing for compliments this was an effective, subtle way to draw them out.

-- Anonymous, May 17, 2000

Just foudn yours through Luny (she is one of my faves)

The only ones I read anymore are Luny Liralen Carolyn Burke Carey Ong

Used to read a good 20 some a day but burnt myself out

Tad http://www.willinet.net/~alc/journal.html

-- Anonymous, May 19, 2000

I hear so much about Jen's diary, but could someone tell me the address for it? If you could, email it to me, please, I don't know how often I'll check this.

-- Anonymous, August 14, 2001