Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

On this final day of the Naughties before we head into the twenty-teens, an end-of-year meme: I was going to follow theweaselking's example and link to the entry that garnered the most comments each month, but (a) what with importing from both IJ and LJ into DW earlier this year, making counting up comments without counting any twice tricky, and (b) only a few of my entries getting all that many comments (I've said a few interesting things this year, whined a bunch more, and on the whole posted not very often, so few comments are expected), that's probably not worth doing. I'll just pick out a handful of much-commented entries for the year.

First sentences:

1. "Started writing long entry partly about why I haven't been posting much; got dizzy in middle, not going to finish it right now ... but it does serve as a partial example I guess."
2. "This is a day chock full of pain."
3. "Thursday: bad day, but somehow productive anyhow." (okay, there's a line before that: "grrrr... need line-eater food again")
4. "I give up."
5. "The big test: if I'm feeling well enough that I think I can drive safely as far as College Park in the morning, I can get a ride with bandmates the rest of the way to West Virginia to play with The Homespun Ceilidh Band this weekend."
6. "A Christian, active in his church as evidenced by the fact that he was an usher there, was murdered in cold blood yesterday right in his house of worship."
7. "While I do have a particular instance in mind, this little epistle is really in reaction to several comments, essays, loaded questions, and diatribes I've seen over the past three or four weeks in various places (though I hadn't seen it blow up into a shouting match anywhere until a couple of days ago)."
8. "A couple days ago I realized I had to wait until the entrance fee went down in order to be sure of having gas money to get home from Pennsic, and decided to wait."
9. "Last night on I-95, I passed a flatbed truck carrying two ambulances and an SUV."
10. "Some days my body works better than other days."
11. "From the end of a dream this morning, just before a loud noise outside woke me up -- a cell phone conversation between a lost driver in Upper Marlboro and someone trying to help: 'Have you managed to get onto Rt. 1 South?[*]' [...]"
12. "My computer crashed last night, so I reloaded a bunch of browser tabs I'd had open before the crash."

Lots of comments (though I'm not bothering to count up my own comments and subtract then from the totals, so threads where I responded a lot to other comments will be inflated):

• "A Terrorist Act; and, Thoughts About Fundamentalism" (11 comments at DW)
• "What's Up With Me, and User Interface Opinion Questions" (14: 13 at DW, 1 at LJ)
• "Too Sick For Just One Hospital, So I Had To Go To Two" (18: 16 at DW, 2 at LJ)
• "On Anonymous(ish) Comments That Needn't Be" (21: 17 via DW, 1 via IJ, 3 via LJ, but many comments are testing, or complaining about tests not working)
• "Transcription-Preference Survey" (22: 21 at DW 1 at IJ)
• "The Red-Handed Booby" (35: 30 via IJ, 5 via LJ)
• "Semantics, Gender, and 'Cis'" (74: 62 at DW where occasional new comments are still trickling in that I should get around to responding to, 12 at LJ)