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May. 31st, 2009 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dani_the_girlAm finally cautiously hopeful that RL will stop eating me for a while! I now have a job sorted out for next academic year, which takes so much of the pressure off! I now just have to pass my final assessment at the end of June and I'll actually be a teacher. My class next year are going to be 10 & 11 so I totally plan to introduce them to DW! Not this account though :D
Have spent half term in Vegas for the annual LJ retreat - this year about half LJ, half DW people as it waszorkian and janinedogs wedding. It was totally awesome and I feel way more optimistic about the future of both services, particularly LJ as I was never particularly worried about DW. I actually think that competition and a little friendly rivalry will be good for both sites. One of LJs problems for a while has been a focus on developing features marketing want rather than ones users want IMO. Now that there's another viable, popular service out there threatening LJs walled garden tie-ins, they'll have to raise their game, which can only be good for both services.
Also there was a hot tub, which I can offically report is the BEST THING EVAR. Sitting around being back rubbed byaveleh, followed by a massage from synecdochic which was so good that I was literally a puddle by the end and had to be poured upstairs to bed was the highlight of my week!
Have spent half term in Vegas for the annual LJ retreat - this year about half LJ, half DW people as it was
zorkian and janinedogs wedding. It was totally awesome and I feel way more optimistic about the future of both services, particularly LJ as I was never particularly worried about DW. I actually think that competition and a little friendly rivalry will be good for both sites. One of LJs problems for a while has been a focus on developing features marketing want rather than ones users want IMO. Now that there's another viable, popular service out there threatening LJs walled garden tie-ins, they'll have to raise their game, which can only be good for both services.Also there was a hot tub, which I can offically report is the BEST THING EVAR. Sitting around being back rubbed by
aveleh, followed by a massage from synecdochic which was so good that I was literally a puddle by the end and had to be poured upstairs to bed was the highlight of my week!
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Date: 2009-05-31 09:14 pm (UTC)go you! congrats on the job and the future prospects. it all sounds so good.
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Date: 2009-05-31 09:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-31 09:59 pm (UTC)On the plane ride back home, there was someone in the seat in front of me that I swear sounded just like you!
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