Hey, all. This is going to be a public post. I have just realized that, for whatever reason, Joule no longer reliably gives me a record of who has friended me. (The "friends of" list in my userinfo isn't useful on this account, either, because of a known LJ bug.)

So I'm just asking that if you have friended me and I haven't added you back within a day or so, comment here, and I'll fix it! You can also comment here with the request if you want me to friend you and you don't want to have to friend me back-- I'm fine with that (although as my list of friends reaches the cutoff of 750, I may drop you for a mutual friend...). I have a totally open friending policy, as you can read in my userinfo.

At this point I've retyped it so much that the word "friend" no longer makes sense.

orthoepy is looking for people with original, unpublished NaNoWriMo output:

I need unpublished novel text for work (for a massive federally-funded language project) and I'm looking to get it right from the source. Anyone who participates will influence the course of American English language study for YEARS. I'm not joking. So I'm looking to reach out to people who have just written 50K words each and want to know what to do with it. Novels do not need to be complete, authors maintain all rights to them, and they will be randomized to prevent wholesale reuse.

This is a small personal journal: friends-locked, but I'll friend you automatically if you ask-- email me. (I don't need reciprocity, but I might want to know, for academic reasons, who you are.)

-- eta 2005/01/16, I'm just going to copy the relevant paragraph from my updated userinfo:

I collect people on LiveJournal like pennies: if you're reading this because I friended you and you don't know why, it's because I came across you randomly and thought you seemed pretty cool. My journal is friendslocked not because I am paranoid about being outed in real life as a blogger but because I write mostly about the daily minutiae of my life and my teenagery meditations re. love and existence and the larger world (with the goal of posting once a day, though of course I don't nearly approach that). I add back everyone who adds me and I'll add you too if you want, whoever you are, even if you then decide not to add me back-- sample the goods before you commit! (Just email me.) I know some people are automatically dismissive of personal-content journals, so this broad and nondiscriminatory friendslock is my way of managing my own anxiety, my contradictory, simultaneous impulses towards both privacy and performance. The journal is not a private document; it is sentimental and public.