March 1, 2025
Heya. My name's Lea. I live in the New York metro area, where I work as a software engineer. In my spare time, I enjoy going to conventions, listening to music, and messing around with computers.
There are three main reasons.
First, I want to clarify my own thoughts. Writing has always been a forcing function for me to refine my ideas. It lets me take the swirl of thoughts and feelings I have on a day-to-day basis, and distill them into something I can take with me. By offloading them onto a page, I get some sense of finality, and so can move on.
Second, I want a way to remember. Even periods of great happiness, like traveling to my first furry convention, or wearing a fursuit for the first time, I find I don't have any solid recollection. It's painful for me knowing these events genuinelly happened, but not being able to recall any of the specifics. I'd love to be able to revisit those memories, but since the past is gone, the best I can do is record my present experiences for the future.
Lastly, I want to share my thoughts. Short-form social media, which I view as the only other alternative, is not for me. I exist on Bluesky and Twitter, but I find it hard to justify posting anything. I often think to myself: why is this particular thought more worthy than any other? So in the end, I just bottle up.
Bluesky and Twitter also feel too engagement focused to me. I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy getting likes and follows, but I also find they're counterproductive—the topics that garner engagement just aren't the ones that I want to write about.
You probably shouldn't. I'm doing this for myself. Rather than putting this in a diary, I'm blogging because the mere thought that someone might stumble upon this, read it, judge me for it gives me the motivation to refine my writing.
Sitting here at my desk, on a lazy Saturday afternoon, here are some topics I could see myself posting about.