We Will Know Them By Their

[mrissa]

Continuing the "M'ris is mentally twelve" theme, last night upon meeting one of you poor people, I blurted, "Oh, you're one of my friends!" Livejournal. Aiding my social gracelessness since...hmm, only since 2003 or so, I guess.

eileenlufkin has a livejournal name even more sneaky and hard to decipher than mine. But some of the rest of you are quite pseudonymous. Others have icons that are not even trying to look like you. (pameladean, for example, has no wings. Neither does fairmer. matociquala does not look like any television spy ever...although I might very well watch a spy show with her in it if they ever made such a thing.)

So what I want to know is, if I don't know you know, how will I know you if I meet you? For the people who don't know you, how will they? You will be the one who's wearing lime green tights? You will be the one who offers to let people pet your stuffed head cold virus? You will be the one who mutters clever jokes about jazz saxophonists when you think no one is listening? Which one is you?

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[carbonel]

We met last Saturday, but it was rather an odd experience to be introduced to someone, and realize that while I'd never me her, I'd seen her writings on LJ, and she might have seen mine, and that unless I told her my LJ nickname, she would never know this. I guess this is comparable to being introduced to a friend of a friend that you've heard stories about but not previously met.

In any case, it was very nice meeting you and getting a chance to chat.

And if you meet me again, I'll probably be the one in T-shirt and jeans. Very helpful, hmm? Unless it's a dress-up occasion. I enjoy dressing up, and don't get enough opportunity.

I'll also sometimes be the one who drops an unexpected pun into the conversation and tries to look innocent, with varying success.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

In this case, it was very comparable, since I think I had heard stories about you (and I know we hadn't previously met for anything that would actually qualify as meeting). Unless I'm conflating multiple people with your real world first name, in which case, oops.

It was nice meeting you, too.

Oh, puns, T-shirts, and jeans. It's a good thing I know what you look like now, because those things are so rare in geeky circles....