You were very pretty! We're kind of used to that now, but I don't think you'd been so generous with pictures of yourself before people met you. You were making a case for spinsterhood, and it seemed at odds with your physical person.

And really? The shiny, fabulous hair. Because *every* time I see Anne, I am just amazed that she has managed to PhotoShop her hair in reality. Shiny, shiny, just really lovely hair.

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I'm home. It's so good to be home. Kristin and I are heading out for food and some shopping and fun today. She just needs to hop in the shower.

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That's...odd. Maybe it's just the circumstances you've met me in, but I don't think I've changed that drastically.

I don't expect it feels that different to you. I think I was one of the first Buffistas you met after tommyrot - so context has changed. Certainly your circumstances have changed, and I think some confidence has come out of that. Not just the job and move but your experiences in VM fandom.

It's so good to be home. Kristin and I are heading out for food and some shopping and fun today.

That's great! Glad you're back home.

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I don't expect it feels that different to you. I think I was one of the first Buffistas you met after tommyrot - so context has changed.

Well, I'd also met Aimee and vw and Miracleman and Emily and...maybe some others. Debet and Kalshane and, well, everyone in New York Nillytown. So...you lose!

Not just the job and move but your experiences in VM fandom.

Heh. I was entrenched in VM fandom for over a year before I first met you, and not much has changed about that since then.

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I've never met P-C, but I felt like after the SF F2F, people finally got to know the P-C I already knew he was from online.

I'm completely unsurprised at Erin's description of Teppy's voice.

I was completely surprised by how bubbly Nora is, in person. I was also going to say I was disarmed by Allyson in person, because there's a softness there, that doesn't always come across online, but then I remembered I'd talked to her on the phone a few times, quite some time before we met, and that's when I discovered the softness. Her voice is higher than I'd expect.

Hec, You talked faster and at a higher pitch than I expected

This surprises me. That is, I'd pegged Hec's voice as deliberately slow and low-key, and a teensy bit hipsterish, around the edges.

but your wicked but kind smile is just what I thought it would be. You also have a wonderful positive energy in person that is a pleasure to be around.

This does not surprise me.

Hey, Teppy...did you ever straighten out your ISP? What was their deal?

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So...you lose!

::hangs head in loserdom. throws ashes on head::

That is, I'd pegged Hec's voice as deliberately slow and low-key,

I think I do sound that way in the NPR interview (which is still online if you wanted to hear it). But that was through much conscious deliberation.

and a teensy bit hipsterish, around the edges.

I'm not sure how teensy my hipsterisms are. As Anne notes, I'm fairly animated. Voluble. My voice isn't exactly high or thin, but it is definitely reedy. In Vocalist, not much chest in my voice. Lot of head notes.

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I heard "Dag."...thought it was a shout-out. (My mother so loves my Wirefiend vocab. But then I remind her I could talk like Deadwood and "You feel me?" doesn't bother her any more.) Hey, Hec, you San Francisco cocksucker, how the hell are you? You've known me since I was polite.

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Sekret message for Aimee:

A) Mean to taunt.

B) Anything Natalie does is PERFECT.

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Hey, Hec, you San Francisco cocksucker, how the hell are you?

In a good writing groove. Worn down with cranky baby.

You've known me since I was polite.

Yeah, but I knew you were ready to throw off the oppression of Miss Manners.

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I'd pegged Hec's voice as deliberately slow

Hec might explode if he couldn't talk quickly. He's a barely-contained ball of energy, which I suspect he has to discharge by talking so fast.

Hey, Teppy...did you ever straighten out your ISP? What was their deal?

Heh. I got an Official Letter from them yesterday. It turns out that my IP address was identified as one that was uploading S60 episodes. Which I had totally forgotten about, because the show started annoying me about a month ago and I'm not even watching it anymore, despite my initial intense love for it.

Please note that the letter says *up*loading. Nowhere in the ToS, which they sent to me to re-read for my edification, does it say anything about having a problem with *down*loading, under any conceivable alterante definition/euphemism of "downloading." Just uploading.

The program I use is Azureus, which, like other torrent-based programs, will not let the user choose to *only* download but not upload. Hence, the problem.

If I send back the Official Letter indicating that I've removed the "offending material" from my computer, I should be good.

I feel like a criminal. Like, in an appealing "bad girl" kind of way. ("Hey, baby, I spit on the DMCA....wanna make out?")

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