O.L.D. F.A.R.T.?

[Tabouli]

tcy:
> And while we're on the subject of old farts...whatever has happened to 
Tabouli?  Such a wiz (or should that be witch?) at coming up with 
great acronyms.  I've been here for nearly a year now and don't 
remember seeing posts by her since then...<

Oldtimer Long Distinguished For Acronyms Responds Tardily...

Hi tcy!  Most flattering, that my acronymic fame lives on in newbies who were never around in my heyday!  During said heyday, my HPFGU obsession was out of control.  I was receiving and reading digests from four or five HPFGU lists, and posting up to 6 long posts a day on the main list and OTC, including daily TBAY epistles (Long Live LOLLIPOPS!), lashings of acronyms, copious poetry defending the honour of Tom Bombadil, lengthy screeds on cross-cultural issues and so on and so on.  It couldn't go on ever, and it, well, didn't.

That said, I haven't vanished entirely.  I still skulk about on OTC (the only digests I get, these days), and I'm in touch with quite a few HPFGU friends behind the scenes.  Every now and then I vow to make a triumphal return, raise the LOLLIPOPS banner, submit brilliant discourses on OoP and so forth, but in all honesty, I think I've burnt myself out.  Time to pass on the torch, I say.

If you're *really* curious about the saladic psyche, I do have a livejournal these days at http://www.livejournal.com/users/tabouli/ , but it's regrettably empty of Harry Potter acronyms and other entertainments.  I've never been sure about LJ etiquette.  I'm careful to keep what I write real name-free and not too personal/incriminating, but then sometimes wonder whether this drains all the spice out of the concept.  This is also the first time I've posted my LJ url on a large public forum.  Eeg!  Feels all a bit narcissistic.  And risky.  How many people do I actually want to read my LJ, anyway?  The more the better?  Or an exclusive set of people I can keep track of just in case?  Hmmm...  any thoughts from other LJers?

Sinking back into obscurity,

Tabouli.




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