Your post filtering method sounds so effecient and...well, effective! I got this journal for purely fannish reasons, so when I started getting a flist I never knew what to do with the personal entries. Usually I just skipped them. But even when I get to know something through only fannish things, I begin to be interested in them as people...the thing is, I still never know what to comment on people's RL posts. I find so many of them interesting and sometimes they make me feel sympathetic or amused, but I never know what to say beyond: that's cool, that sucks, omg, and your cat did WHAT?

I do like the idea of having one journal for fannishness and one for everything. I know several other people who've done the same thing. I think if I ever did get to the point where I wanted to talk a whole lot more about my personal life than I do I might consider something like that.

And yeah, reading the flist . . . I've found myself just stalking journals recently too. Especially with being gone for a couple days, I've just gone to a couple journals I find interesting and commented on everything from the last week. They probably think I'm on crack.

try working with a keyboard that doesn't have these keys and where you actually have to type Alt60 and Alt62.

Oh dear god! I didn't even know there WERE keyboards like that. *pets you* The semagic thing is awesome.