Practical reasons for subscribing to livejournal...

I've always bickered about online journals/diaries i.e. xanga, livejournal, myspace, thefacebook. Why post entries about your life when some things are too precious to let out of the bag? And who the hell really cares to read about other people's lives? It's pretty much equivalent to reality tv. Hm... that was a sinister comparison. Let me take that back. I guess online journals involve oneself a lot in terms of creating, writing your own entries, etc. However, the concept of letting others into your life - allowing them to peer into your thoughts, feelings i.e. "mood of the day", and other daily revelations - is obviously shared between the two (I know I've been dissing online journals for a long time now, and I'll get to my point). But, I realized this can actually be useful for myself and others as long as I write appropriately for public viewing.
First of all, I really love reading. I've been reading non stop all summer! Let's see... I've read~ This Side of Paradise (F.S. Fitzgerald), 1st volume of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way Within a Budding Grove, The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver), All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (Maya Angelou), Of Human Bondage (Somerset Maugham), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev), and I am currently working on The Count of Monte Cristo (A. Dumas)~ and NO I have not watched the Hollywood version of this novel although I wouldn't think it'd be so bad. The Count of Monte Cristo is plot-driven, adventurous, and very simple in meaning and interpretation. It would be rather fun to carry out the plot through a different media.
Anyways, now comes my point of subscribing to livejournal. I read ALOT, but I don't write about my thoughts regarding the book. Writing purges ideas, imagination, creativity, novel thoughts, and realizations. So, why not write entries in my online journal about what I'm reading, what is going on in the story, and what I think, in the unlimited space I am given for my site!?

Eh~ my writing tonight feels a bit awkward. I haven't wrote anything for all of summer~ haven't typed, picked up a pen... plus, i've been watching television for 11 hours straight today primarily to distract myself from boredom. I regret it though. I can tell I am not writing in complex or complete sentences. My vocabulary is lacking zing and precision. My conveyance of thought is all muttled. But this too is what gave me the impetus to start the online journal. What I am lacking, I am determined to work for or repair. Blah.

I will post when I rid of all the tv waves bouncing up and down into and out of my head... until then, ahn yung!