congrats Jengod!!!!
A ghost? What's the deal? Is every frat on this campus haunted? And if so, why do people keep coming to these parties, cause it's not the snacks.
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nora Deirdre - May 17, 2006 8:58:32 am PDT #7803 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Fred Pete - May 17, 2006 8:58:39 am PDT #7804 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Congrats, jengod!
Strega - May 17, 2006 8:59:13 am PDT #7805 of 10002
when have you met an online friend in face-space for the first time? In what circumstances?
The first online friends I met were players from a MUSE in... 1995, I think. There was a teeny tiny con-ish thing in Chicago; I'd joined the game with some friends, and they wanted to go, so I went along for the road-trip. I definitely knew some people there at the time, but the main thing I remember now is that one of the RL friends was an ass. Oh, and a few months later I ran into another guy on the MUSE who was local, so we met up a few times but didn't really click in person.
And then I got a job and stopped hanging out on the MUSE till all hours. The end.
...That's not a very good story, really. How disappointing.
Let's see, since then I met some people from a Hissyfit offshoot a few times. I went to Vegas and Toronto and NYC, and met most of the TWoP staff. I met a bunch of TWoP posters in DC and NYC. I went to the DC Journalcon because I knew 3 people there. I met Montykins in Vegas, and Allyson in LA. Yay me.
How did it work out? Did you keep in touch later?
I don't think it's ever failed to be a good time. Some online friendships are like the ones you make at work, where there are only a few overlapping interests, and when that's gone you don't stay in touch anymore. I can't recall any examples where meeting in person changed the relationship; it usually confirmed it. Which might mean "Hooray, I like you as much as I thought I would!" or, "Gosh, we have as little in common as I suspected." If we were in touch regularly before meeting, we stayed in touch afterwards. If it was more casusal, it stayed that way.
Ooh, and I think that technically, the first Buffista I met was meara, but that was just a wacky coincidence so it probably doesn't count.
Atropa - May 17, 2006 8:59:28 am PDT #7806 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
jengod! Congratulations!
Jessica - May 17, 2006 9:01:32 am PDT #7807 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Congratulations, jengod!!!
amych - May 17, 2006 9:01:45 am PDT #7808 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jengod! Yay! (and so nice to see you, too!)
Calli - May 17, 2006 9:04:16 am PDT #7809 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Congratulations, Jengod!
§ ita § - May 17, 2006 9:08:59 am PDT #7810 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jengod! Woot!
I lost touch with everyone from s.c.a.a--one or two posters made it to TT, and one made it from TT to WX, but I don't hang out in the common forum anymore.
Most of the online people I have meatspace interaction with are Buffistas, but there are some WX people too.
sj - May 17, 2006 9:09:57 am PDT #7811 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Congratulations, jengod!!!!!
beth b - May 17, 2006 9:13:43 am PDT #7812 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
happy birthday Vortex
hooray ,jengod!
I think the first time I met people was at the buffista tea in sf, but it also might have been at JZ's house. I honestly can't keep it straight...I do know the first couple of times I met people I reverted to my very shy , self - consious self - but that doesn't seem to be a real problem . a little strained when I met people one on one , but that's because my job is listener, not talker . ( even though I can talk you ear off - but only sometimes)