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bunnikins said to me on Friday night, "Why didn't anyone that was trying to persuade me to sign up to LJ just tell me that it was a BBS?" Didn't think much about it at the time, but I later realised, well, actually, the number of people kicking around from the BBS era is damned small, although there is a definite contingent. There's certainly an interesting level of similarity, and although there's more flexibility in community-structure on LJ than there ever was on BBSes, there's a similar feel...
As for my asociality... I seem to have fallen back into being social. At least, I'm now back in the set of Involveds (in an Iain M. Banks - Culture sense), as far as social-world foo is concerned. I've had serious talks withlirion and rickybuchanan about relationships, and I'm also now in a relationship with seedy_girl... I do tend to dither around for a while, but once I stop dithering, things move relatively rapidly.
Oh, and Carmina rehearsals are going well... In Taberna is always fun, and the first run-through always scares hell out of 90% of the male sections of the choir. This is because, well, the other 10% who've done it before have it basically memorised, and the MUCS conductor does the first run-through at slightly above normal speed, which results in 10% of the choir getting it bang on, and the rest of the men going, "ye gods", and being all over the place. :)
bunnikins said to me on Friday night, "Why didn't anyone that was trying to persuade me to sign up to LJ just tell me that it was a BBS?" Didn't think much about it at the time, but I later realised, well, actually, the number of people kicking around from the BBS era is damned small, although there is a definite contingent. There's certainly an interesting level of similarity, and although there's more flexibility in community-structure on LJ than there ever was on BBSes, there's a similar feel...As for my asociality... I seem to have fallen back into being social. At least, I'm now back in the set of Involveds (in an Iain M. Banks - Culture sense), as far as social-world foo is concerned. I've had serious talks with
lirion and rickybuchanan about relationships, and I'm also now in a relationship with seedy_girl... I do tend to dither around for a while, but once I stop dithering, things move relatively rapidly.Oh, and Carmina rehearsals are going well... In Taberna is always fun, and the first run-through always scares hell out of 90% of the male sections of the choir. This is because, well, the other 10% who've done it before have it basically memorised, and the MUCS conductor does the first run-through at slightly above normal speed, which results in 10% of the choir getting it bang on, and the rest of the men going, "ye gods", and being all over the place. :)
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Re: Self-defined communities
Date: 2002-09-06 05:33 (UTC)I try not to think about these people too much, which isn't too hard at all - not many of them want to buy science fiction, and they don't come to the parties I go to. I wouldn't let them worry you too much either - I'm fairly certain that whatever social group you've found in Canada is as full of geeks, gamers & goths as ever, right? Have they learnt not to say...that word that prompts you to take your trousers off, yet? I bet your workmates have. :)