Eh. Just because we don't know where you live it doesn't mean we don't count.

No, very true. Hell I'd argue the opposite. I know the opposite. All your points are right. The friends I've made online are more numerous and just as dear as those in meatspace. It's more that those who can be my physical nearby backups and who... I tend to insulate them. I am not wholly honest with them. I think I blurt more to the ether than I do to the people I talk to everyday, or on the phone or...

Which also explains why Thanksgiving spent 24/7 with people from the internets is less stressful than a party of people I work with everyday thrown by a meatspace friend here.

But where I boggle at my oddities is the anonymity. I throw out stuff on the internet that I don't in my other lives. Anyone can see it. ANYONE. And yet, some stuff I'm hesitant to tell my dearests.

Because telling is harder than writing. Writing is so much easier. Text means distance.

And pthbpt! I know where sara lives.

The insulating thing - that's big, I think. If I'm freaking about something (not like, politics, but something personal), venting to people who are part of it or know the people involved - half of me is trying to protect or not upset them or not somehow implicate them in whatever the situation is. Here, it can be about me, and I can ask people to sympathize or teeth-grind on my behalf. Or they'll tell me I'm being a bonehead. Either way. It's both more personal and more distanced, if that makes any sense.

Text is... no less revealing, and hell, I do that a lot. It's still a weird distinction. I know, I know.

pthbpt yourself! Me calling is such a huge thing, as you know. Speaking of which...

If I'm freaking about something (not like, politics, but something personal), venting to people who are part of it or know the people involved - half of me is trying to protect or not upset them or not somehow implicate them in whatever the situation is.

That's so it. Plus, here? People can be on your side.

Hey, what's it like for people with significant others who are also buffistas?

I just turned the channel and spoiled myself for who gets auffed on Top Design. I can't believe I did that.

Formation flying: [link]

Spring break can wear you out: [link]

House: I thought the tickets Cuddy gave him at the end were to replace the vacation he didn't go on when she came to his door with test results. I also had the impression that he never was actually going to go anywhere, he just wanted everyone off to think he was gone so they wouldn't bother him.

Tough episode to watch

Eta: Aw, cute pics, dcp!

I never gave my parents much trouble... I was a quiet unrebellious A student and the biggest row I had with Mom was wearing comfy yet slovenly clothes in high school. They should thank their lucky stars that I waited to become a total slut until living on my own in my 20s, and that I didn't grow up as a felony courting devil-child the way Dad and his siblings did.

Hey, what's it like for people with significant others who are also buffistas?

Sometimes things go here first, because I am thinking about how to put it. Matt doesn't participate on line here, but he reads a lot. So I assume if i write here, he will see it.