Yeah, friend-of-a-friend is definitely the go-to answer.

Back this spring when I was in Houston, my bosses thought it was the weirdest thing that I was gonna go meet someone in person that I had met online.

I kinda wanted to say, "Yeah, it was kinda' werid, the first time I did that fourteen years ago...."

Why people gotta ask that question?

Tim says I'm a friend he met through work. Which is kinda true, if you squint and spin around really fast.

Thanks, ita!

Yes, I'm home, finally. We got home Saturday night. I've been trying to make some progress on teh giant pile of crap in my house since we unloaded the car. I'm making slow progress - Ellie is not helping since apparently she does not nap now that we are home.

Tim says I'm a friend he met through work.

Yeah. You were a 'customer representative,' or something.

I cop to the internet, usually, and Tom and I go through it pretty reglarly. First I'll say something like we were friends for several years before we started dating, which is true, but then if folks are like, how did you become friends, I generally go through the whole shebang. I go out of my way to emphasize the nature of the internet community, though.

My agent met msbelle and Jesse and dropped me an email that read, "you really do know people everywhere!"

I was all, "duh! of course! the internets!"

So many people meet their partners online that that seems like it would be easier to slide by without a whole story.

Also, I think it's nice that all the "offical" people at the Serenity thing were describing you people as friends and not fans.

I go out of my way to emphasize the nature of the internet community, though.

See, now, Nora, if you buy 50 copies of my book, you can just hand that out instead. It would save time.

So many people meet their partners online that that seems like it would be easier to slide by without a whole story.

sometimes it is, sometimes it's not. I've never gotten a negative reaction though, so much of the explaining is from my own dumb head.