Touching lives online
Jan. 2nd, 2006 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpfSpent New Year's Eve online, chatting to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ankae, good friend of mine (truth be told, possibly rather something like my long lost twin sister - she even shares nearly the same birthday!), much missed since she moved literally halfway around the globe about two years ago. (Two years already? Yeah, I think so.) Was glad to discover she still has *some* geek tendencies. (The issue we kind of dance around when meeting/talking again after a long time: "... say, you still a geek?" Our very own Gretchenfrage. Always afraid the other might 'grow out of it', thus proving that *we're* just stuck in some sort of eternal adolescence, after all.) Just before midnight nager and Anduranova also popped up online, and I chatted with all three for a while, feeling oddly connected for all the distance (present, past and future; physical and other).
It was a good New Year's Eve, strange as it may sound.
And today I found out that my oldest online contact, a lovely woman by the name of Jean who copied the Methos eps for me, way back when I had just entered Highlander fandom, died recently. I lost contact with her after a few mails and letters at the time - I was still very uncertain about the whole fandom thing, and about online life and a lot of things, and painfully shy to boot. Now I regret I didn't keep in touch. I made her a bit of jewellery in return for her tapes. Strange to imagine that it may now be owned by some relative who probably doesn't know its history.
Rest in peace, Jean. Thank you for showing me the kindness of fandom.
Much love to everyone else out there, as well. Have a good 2006. Don't die, okay?
ankae, good friend of mine (truth be told, possibly rather something like my long lost twin sister - she even shares nearly the same birthday!), much missed since she moved literally halfway around the globe about two years ago. (Two years already? Yeah, I think so.) Was glad to discover she still has *some* geek tendencies. (The issue we kind of dance around when meeting/talking again after a long time: "... say, you still a geek?" Our very own Gretchenfrage. Always afraid the other might 'grow out of it', thus proving that *we're* just stuck in some sort of eternal adolescence, after all.) Just before midnight nager and Anduranova also popped up online, and I chatted with all three for a while, feeling oddly connected for all the distance (present, past and future; physical and other). It was a good New Year's Eve, strange as it may sound.
And today I found out that my oldest online contact, a lovely woman by the name of Jean who copied the Methos eps for me, way back when I had just entered Highlander fandom, died recently. I lost contact with her after a few mails and letters at the time - I was still very uncertain about the whole fandom thing, and about online life and a lot of things, and painfully shy to boot. Now I regret I didn't keep in touch. I made her a bit of jewellery in return for her tapes. Strange to imagine that it may now be owned by some relative who probably doesn't know its history.
Rest in peace, Jean. Thank you for showing me the kindness of fandom.
Much love to everyone else out there, as well. Have a good 2006. Don't die, okay?
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Date: 2006-01-02 02:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-02 08:08 am (UTC)Ich werde mich bemühen. ;o)
Ich wünsche Dir auch ein schönes 2006. Und ich sage, nachdem ich das letztes Jahr um diese Zeit noch so naiv getan habe, nicht, dass es eigentlich nur besser werden kann... Murphy's watching us. *grmpf*
Danke für den Tipp mit Nagers LJ. :o) Das wusste ich noch gar nicht. Wer verliert hier langsam aber sicher Kontakt?
Er postet dort sowieso nie.
Date: 2006-01-02 09:03 am (UTC)Re: Er postet dort sowieso nie.
Date: 2006-01-02 09:05 am (UTC)Re: Er postet dort sowieso nie.
Date: 2006-01-06 02:25 am (UTC)Nager
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Date: 2006-01-02 09:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-02 10:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-02 08:14 pm (UTC)I try my best not to die in 2006. I'm moving to Aussie in Feb, so do wish me luck with staying alive. *remembers all the scary animals she saw last year...and some car drivers...and some other Australians*
One positive thing about going to Australia: I'm coming closer! Then it'll be "almost" halfway around the globe. There are other positive things about Aussie but I do not dare to officially say something about that until I leave NZ's borders.
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Date: 2006-01-02 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-06 02:30 am (UTC)Nager