I have to say that I think that the reason this on-line community is strong is because people have actually managed to meet face to face and continue to do so on a fairly regular basis.

Meanwhile, those of us, like me, who have been unable to attend most of those actual meetings do feel a bit on the outside.

I still have to explain how I can care so deeply for people I've "only met twice"

preens in the having met sumi corner

If memory doesn't fail me I met sumi while doing the Once More With Feeling sing a long in Chicago. It was only a few months after I found this group. Ok, getting all sentimental now.

Dear Future Cyberarchaeologists,

Yes. This is clear evidence of "grouping". Yes, we were aware of it.

Now get off our lawn.

Sumi, we'll have to make sure to coordinate with you better. We should do another Chicago F2F, maybe later in the summer?

Allyson - a shame it is too late to add this rant to your book. Maybe you can ping your editor Monday?

Happy Birthday, Frank!

Relationship trouble, again. She is a scientist. I have recently come down with the writing disease. Two people afflicted with long periods of catatonia punctuated by furious bouts of typing.

Not the stuff romantic comedies.

Of mine. But not the Sandra Bullock ones, no.

erikaj gets it. It is the whole now-we-are-in-our-heads, now-we-are-in-our-bodies thing.

I really wish the "Dancing about Architecture" thing was not just a discarded title.