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it seems like i'm the only person who's set up a journal so far, but i could be wrong. maybe the links just aren't working for me.
anyway, i guessed i should update at some point, but i wasn't all that sure what to talk about. so i decided to go with how i got started out on gaia.
i first heard about it through a friend on my friends list, and then a couple more people joined up--this was back when it first started. i was reminded of it by either visiting someone's journal or reading an entry where they mentioned it, and went "oh yeah..."
so i finally mosied on over and set up an account circa may of this year. the user in my sig was the first one to initiate a trade with me (which was a little embarrassing on my part; it was my first day and i had no freaking clue how these things worked, so i wound up not adding anything to trade with her sweatdrop ) but eventually the transaction was made.
i went as apeshit on the shopping as i could with my limited budget, then tooled about, voting in polls and clicking on links and engaging in the occasional discussion. eventually, though, i gave up on the general/extended discussion forums, because people could be real bastards, and truth be told sometimes i'd just get really worked up and forget that i need to respect other people's opinions, even if they are idiots.
i moved to the chatterbox then and became one of those dreaded bumpers. but a simple bumper; no fancy colors or text or images for me (plus, i'm on 56k, so i tend to hate it when there are 50 pages of nothing but image bumps >< wink i also hung out in the writers forum more, and started entering contests not only to try and win a little gold, but to try and force myself to write again. it worked, to some degree, and i did get a little gold out of it.
mostly nowadays i only bump in one thread known as the bumper's palace, maintained by fabu (a sweet little thread, people should check it out) and chill in the writers' forum. i don't have as much time to spend on gaia nowadays--for awhile over the summer i'd spend the entire day on it, which is probably going a little overboard. i'm a full time college student (currently a sophomore with junior standing) and plus, a lot of the things that used to get me gold, like voting in polls and clicking on ads, don't get me gold anymore.
but that doesn't really matter, i guess, because the gold thing isn't as important to me anymore. i'm happy with my little black outfit; everytime i've changed it i've always reverted back (the goggles are my favorite; i think they were my first event, a pink box).
i started donating a little bit to gaia since june, partly as an investment and partly because i want the special items whee i like last month's donation item, the little barette/earmuff things? i think they're going to become an outfit standard.
i guess there's more, but not really. one great thing gaia does for me sometimes is prevent me from online shopping--i can just do fake online shopping here. shopping can be a drug sometimes, particularly online shopping. an unhealthy addiction. gaia, then, is my anti-drug.
thank you, gaia.
anyway, there's the history of me on gaia in a nutshell. le fin.
eta: ok, yeah. i'm a moron and finally decided to click on journal listing. 900+ pages of people with journals, and i was all confused and wondering why i never saw another person's journal around. i'm a freaking moron domokun
 jenparakeet · Sat Oct 09, 2004 @ 08:37pm · 0 Comments |
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