Because I clearly don't have enough projects that I'm slacking off on...

[mousme]

This is way too cool.

Did I mention that I have very cool friends? Utterly and massively geeky, but that just makes them even cooler in my books.

I want to write an encyclopedia now. I keep referring to things in my life like that.

Of course, I know nothing about writiing an encyclopedia, and doubtless I'd end up with something that had far too large a scope for the type of project that slipjig is describing. Still, it sounds like fun. In fact, it sounds like something forthright would come up with.

Okay, I'm going to attempt to go to bed now.

I have to go to work early tomorrow, because my boss is letting me leave early to get stuff done with the Régie des Rentes du Québec and stuff.

Gah.

Not. Enough. Time.

Comments

[swestrup]

It might be a fun project for you, but its not something I would do. An encyclopedia about me would be tres boring. I've never done much worth writing about.

Still, I can imagine setting up a wikipedia so that you could add entries whenever you wanted, and just seeing where it went.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Aw, shucks. *blush*

Seriously, the scope of the project doesn't have to be any more or less broad than you want it to be. The way I look at it is this: Imagine that you wanted to tell some stories about your life, to people who know nothing about you. What are the names and places and concepts that you would have to stop and briefly explain before you go on, or which would inspire you to go on a five-minute tangent? Now imagine that you had this reference book that these people could flip through and find all this information, so that you can go on without slowing.

That's the encyclopedia. It's not an autobiography, so much as an autobiography's appendix. Which is not to say that the appendix isn't going to approach book-length anyway, but still....

(Oh, and if you do write up some or all of such a project, I'd love to see it!)