Writer's Block: We met on LJ

[davegodfrey]

This is actually quite tricky. Most of the people on the f'list (innerbrat and steely_glint for instance) are either friends from uni, or have written interesting blogs so I follow them (e.g. tyrell). The others are mostly people I'm not actually likely to meet any time soon, what with living on the wrong continent an' all.

So actually there's only four more people than I thought who I've met via LJ that I can think of. snapesbabe, ms_entropy, corchen, I met karohemd before I knew him on LJ, but he knew everyone else via LJ, so I think he counts too. How could I forget nadrieland ginasketch? And rowanberries? Because I 'm a useless prat that's why.

Oddly, matgb doesn't count, because I'd at least heard of him via pinkshifter and invadergaz before I even knew what LJ was, and I've known her since she was at Brunel. So the chances are I'd have probably met him even without LJ.

ETA to add all the lovely people I forgot.

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's not just me who's forgetful.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

You have a man's brain my liege... :)

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I'll wager that brain has never had to do washing and ironing and shopping lists and feed children and walk dogs and say comforting things to a man to soothe his fragile ego all at the same time...

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

No. I don't have children or dogs, I don't think I've ever made a shopping list, and what is this thing called "ironing"?

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Something my mum keeps telling me to do. She bought us an iron for Christmas, and it's still in the box.

[matgb]

Um, methinks you have me mixed up with someone else, because I met pinkshifter in person last year and don't think I've actually met Gaz. I also met you through Debi, who I first met August 2005, by which time you already had an LJ.

Mine is a weird one--I met Debi in person before reading her LJ, but only because I'd been invited to SC via LJ, same I think applies to you, but pretty sure that was in the Head of Steam when I was up one weekend.

(any typos caused by SB's crappy teeny keyboard, honest)

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Anybody who has seen your typing before knows what an egregious slander this is.

I Are Confuzzled Then

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

I might be muddling you with barrysarll, because he's been mentioned outside of LJ as someone who existed IRL, but I don't know how he knows IB and the like. I could have sworn you were mentioned by these people beforehand. I'm probably making Lib-Dem connections before they existed in that case.

Gaz is the giant wrong German, who normally calls himself Bjorn.

Re: I Are Confuzzled Then

[matgb]

Ah, yes, I think I met Bjorn once, Kitty's birthday I think. Never got around to meeting Barry but have talked to him a few times online. Not that it really matters much.

[innerbrat]

*eyes list*

Those are people you've met through me...

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

But I wouldn't have met them if it wasn't for LJ though. I'd certainly seen their names around on your journal before I actually met them, even if they weren't on the f'list till after I'd met them in person.

[pinkshifter.livejournal.com]

erm I wasn't even at Brunel :) I quite possibly mentioned matgb on here long before we met last year - but then we knew each other on forums years back - methinks someone should do some kind of uber 7 degrees of separation chart one day - fuelled by much booze of course.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

That might well be it then.

Awfully sorry. Can't think why I thought you were at Brunel then. Possibly because I can't remember you being at UCL. Which, now I've mentioned it, means you were. (Its been that sort of entry, as you can tell...)

[pinkshifter.livejournal.com]

funnily enough I wasn't at UCL either :)

I could never get the hang of Thursdays